Christian Science by Mark Twain
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4. Life, God, omnipotent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease.
"There--now you see." It seemed nebulous; it did not seem to say anything about the difficulty in hand--how non-existent matter can propagate illusions I said, with some hesitancy: "Does--does it explain?" "Doesn't it? Even if read backward it will do it." With a budding hope, I asked her to do it backwards. "Very well. Disease sin evil death deny Good omnipotent God life matter is nothing all being Spirit God Mind is Good good is God all in All is God. There do you understand now? "It--it--well, it is plainer than it was before; still--" "Well?" "Could you try it some more ways?" "As many as you like; it always means the same. Interchanged in any way you please it cannot be made to mean anything different from what it means when put in any other way. Because it is perfect. You can jumble it all up, and it makes no difference: it always comes out the way it was before. It was a marvelous mind that produced it. As a mental tour de force it is without a mate, it defies alike the simple, the concrete, and |
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