reflect and manifest
it, must die, necessarily, because the so-called mind from which they
evolve is not based upon the eternal, immortal principle, God. And so
it and they miss the mark, and always have done so. You must cease to
say, Whose sin? Remember that the sin is inherent in the so-called
mind that is expressed by things material. The absence of the
principle which is God is sin, according to the Aramaic word,
translated '_hamartio_,' which Jesus used. The most lowly cell that
swam in the primeval seas manifested the communal mortal mind's sin,
and died as a consequence."

"In other words, it manifested a supposition, as opposed to truth?"

"Its existence was quite suppositional," replied Hitt. "It did not
manifest life, but a material sense of existence. The subjective
always determines the objective. And so the communal mortal mind,
so-called, determined these first lowly material and objective forms
of existence. They were its phenomena, and they manifested it.
Different types now manifest it, after long ages. But all are equally
without basis of principle, all are subject to the mortal law that
everything material contains within itself the elements for its own
destruction, and all must pass away. In our day we are dealing with
the highest type of mortal mind so far evolved, the human man. He,
too, knows but one life, human life, the mortal-mind sense of
existence. His human life is demonstrably only a series of states of
material consciousness, states of thought-activity. The classification
and placing of these states of consciousness give him his sense of
time. The positing of his mental concepts give him his sense of space.
His consciousness is a thought-activity, externalizing human opinions,
ideas, and beliefs, not based on truth. This consciousness--or
supposititious human mind--is very finite in nature, and so is
essentially self-centered. It attributes its fleshly existence to
material things. It believes that its life depends upon its fleshly
body; and so it thinks itself in constant peril of losing it. It goes
further, and believes that there are multitudes of other human minds,
each having its own human, fleshly existence, or life, and each
capable of doing it and one another mortal injury. It believes that it
can be deprived by its neighboring mortal minds of all that it needs
for its sustenance, and that it can improve its own status at their
expense, and vice versa. It is filled with fears--n