od made me,
and I make man and the material universe."

Spirit is the only creator, and man, including the universe, is His
spiritual concept. By matter is commonly meant mind,--not the highest Mind,
but a false form of mind. This so-called mind and matter cannot be
separated in origin and action.

What is this mind? It is not the Mind of Spirit; for spiritualization of
thought destroys all sense of matter as substance, Life, or intelligence,
and enthrones God in the eternal qualities of His being.

This lower, misnamed mind is a false claim, a suppositional mind, which I
prefer to call _mortal mind_. True Mind is immortal. This mortal mind
declares itself material, in sin, sickness, and death, virtually saying, "I
am the opposite of Spirit, of holiness, harmony, and Life."

To this declaration Christian Science responds, even as did our Master:
"You were a murderer from the beginning. The truth abode not in you. You
are a liar, and the father of it." Here it appears that a _liar_ was in the
neuter gender,--neither masculine nor feminine. Hence it was not man (the
image of God) who lied, but the false claim to personality, which I call
_mortal mind_; a claim which Christian Science uncovers, in order to
demonstrate the falsity of the claim.

There are lesser arguments which prove matter to be identical with mortal
mind, and this mind a lie.

The physical senses (matter really having no sense) give the only pretended
testimony there can be as to the existence of a substance called _matter_.
Now these senses, being material, can only testify from their own evidence,
and concerning themselves; yet we have it on divine authority: "If I bear
witness of myself, my witness is not true." (John v. 31.)

In other words: matter testifies of itself, "I am matter;" but unless
matter is mind, it cannot talk or testify; and if it is mind, it is
certainly not the Mind of Christ, not the Mind that is identical with
Truth.

Brain, thus assuming to testify, is only matter within the skull, and is
believed to be mind only through error and delusion. Examine that form of
matter called _brains_, and you find no mind therein. Hence the logical
sequence, that there is in reality neither matter nor mortal mind, but that
the self-testimony of the physical senses is false.

Examine these witnesses for error, or falsity, and observe the foundations
of their testimony, and you will find them divided in evidence, mocking the
Scripture (Mat