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Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy
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"The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep
sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence
proceeded from and passed into matter. This pantheistic error, or
so-called _serpent_, insists still upon the opposite of Truth,
saying, 'Ye shall be as gods;' that is, I will make error as real
and eternal as Truth.... 'I will put spirit into what I call
matter, and matter shall seem to have life as much as God, Spirit,
who _is_ the only Life.' This error has proved itself to be error.
Its life is found to be not Life, but only a transient, false
sense of an existence which ends in death" (pp. 306, 307).

"When will the error of believing that there is life in matter,
and that sin, sickness, and death are creations of God, be
unmasked? When will it be understood that matter has no
intelligence, life, nor sensation, and that the opposite belief is
the prolific source of all suffering? God created all through
Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. Where then is the
necessity for recreation or procreation?" (p. 205).

"Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth
still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou?
Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that
evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and
can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'" (pp. 307,
308). "Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal
names and natures upon its own misconceptions. Ignorant of the
origin and operations of mortal mind,--that is, ignorant of
itself,--this so-called mind puts forth its own qualities, and
claims God as their author;... usurps the deific prerogatives and
is an attempted infringement on infinity" (pp. 512, 513).
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