thew xviii. 16), "In the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established."

_Sight._ Mortal mind declares that matter sees through the organizations of
matter, or that mind sees by means of matter. Disorganize the so-called
material structure, and then mortal mind says, "I cannot see;" and declares
that matter is the master of mind, and that non-intelligence governs.
Mortal mind admits that it sees only material images, pictured on the eye's
retina.

What then is the line of the syllogism? It must be this: That matter is not
seen; that mortal mind cannot see without matter; and therefore that the
whole function of material sight is an illusion, a lie.

Here comes in the summary of the whole matter, wherewith we started: that
God is All, and God is Spirit; therefore there is nothing but Spirit; and
consequently there is no matter.

_Touch_. Take another train of reasoning. Mortal mind says that matter
cannot feel matter; yet put your finger on a burning coal, and the nerves,
material nerves, _do_ feel matter.

Again I ask: What evidence does mortal mind afford that matter is
substantial, is hot or cold? Take away mortal mind, and matter could not
feel what it calls _substance_. Take away matter, and mortal mind could not
cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no
identity. Nothing would remain to be seen or felt.

What is substance? What is the reality of God and the universe? Immortal
Mind is the real substance,--Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love.

_Taste._ Mortal mind says, "I taste; and this is sweet, this is sour." Let
mortal mind change, and say that sour is sweet, and so it would be. If
every mortal mind believed sweet to be sour, it would be so; for the
qualities of matter are but qualities of mortal mind. Change the mind, and
the quality changes. Destroy the belief, and the quality disappears.

The so-called material senses are found, upon examination, to be mortally
mental, instead of material. Reduced to its proper denomination, matter is
mortal mind; yet, strictly speaking, there is no mortal mind, for Mind is
immortal, and is not matter, but Spirit.

_Force._ What is gravitation? Mortal mind says gravitation is a material
power, or force. I ask, Which was first, matter or power? That which was
first was God, immortal Mind, the Parent of _all_. But God is Truth, and
the forces of Truth are moral and spiritual, not physical. They are not the
merciless force