inator of the lie
of materiality. He showed matter to be but the manifestation of the
false belief that creation is material. He showed it to be but a
sense-impression, without life, without stability, without existence,
except the pseudo-existence which it has in the false thought of
which the human or carnal consciousness is formed. But the lack of
understanding of the real nature of matter, and the persistent belief in
the stability of its so-called laws, has resulted in centuries of
attempts to discredit the Bible records of his spiritual demonstrations
of God's omnipotence and immanence, and so has prevented the human mind
from accepting the proofs which it so eagerly sought. And now, after
nineteen centuries of so-called Christian teaching, the human mind
remains still deeply embedded in matter, and subject to the
consentaneous human beliefs which it calls material laws. Jesus
showed that it was the communal mortal mind, with its false beliefs
in matter, sin, disease, and death, that constituted 'the flesh'; he
showed that mortals are begotten of such false beliefs; he showed
that the material universe is but manifested human belief. And we
know from our own reasoning that we see not things, but our _thoughts_
of things; that we deal not with matter, but with material mental
concepts only. We know that the preachers have woefully missed the
mark, and that the medicines of the doctors have destroyed more lives
than wars and famine, and yet will we not learn of the Master? To reach
God through material thinking is utterly impossible, for He is spirit,
and He can be cognized only by a spiritual consciousness. Yet such a
consciousness is ours, if we will but have it.

"Ah, friends, God said: Let US make man in OUR image and likeness--let
Life, Love, Spirit make its spiritual reflection. But where is that
man to-day? Buried deep beneath the dogma and the crystallized human
beliefs of mortals--buried beneath 'the lie' which mankind accept
about truth. Nothing but _scientific_ religion will meet humanity's
dire needs and reveal that man. And scientific religion admits of
actual, practical proof. Christianity is as scientific as mathematics,
and quite as capable of demonstration. Its proofs lie in doing the
works of the Master. He is a Christian who does these works; he who
does not is none. Christianity is not a failure, but organized
ecclesiasticism, which always collapses before a world crisis, has
failed utterly. The