five physical senses do not
cognize it.

Who, then, dares define Soul as something within man? As well might you
declare some old castle to be peopled with demons or angels, though never a
light or form was discerned therein, and not a spectre had ever been seen
going in or coming out.

The common hypotheses about souls are even more vague than ordinary
material conjectures, and have less basis; because material theories are
built on the evidence of the material senses.

Soul must be God; since we learn Soul only as we learn God, by
spiritualization. As the five senses take no cognizance of Soul, so they
take no cognizance of God. Whatever cannot be taken in by mortal mind--by
human reflection, reason, or belief--must be the unfathomable Mind, which
"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." Soul stands in this relation to every
hypothesis as to its human character.

If Soul sins, it is a sinner, and Jewish law condemned the sinner to
death,--as does all criminal law, to a certain extent.

Spirit never sins, because Spirit is God. Hence, as Spirit, Soul is
sinless, and is God. Therefore there is, there can be, no spiritual death.

Transcending the evidence of the material senses, Science declares God to
be the Soul of all being, the only Mind and intelligence in the universe.
There is but one God, one Soul, or Mind, and that one is infinite,
supplying all that is absolutely immutable and eternal,--Truth, Life, Love.

Science reveals Soul as that which the senses cannot define from any
standpoint of their own. What the physical senses miscall soul, Christian
Science defines as material sense; and herein lies the discrepancy between
the true Science of Soul and that material sense of a soul which that very
sense declares can never be seen or measured or weighed or touched by
physicality.

Often we can elucidate the deep meaning of the Scriptures by reading
_sense_ instead of _soul_, as in the Forty-second Psalm: "Why art thou cast
down, O my soul [sense]?... Hope thou in God [Soul]: for I shall yet praise
Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God [my Soul,
immortality]."

The Virgin-mother's sense being uplifted to behold Spirit as the sole
origin of man, she exclaimed, "My soul [spiritual sense] doth magnify the
Lord."

Human language constantly uses the word _soul_ for _sense_. This it does
under the delusion that the senses can reverse the spiritual facts of
Science, whereas Science reverses the testimo