To deny the existence or reality of matter, and yet admit the reality of moral evil, sin, or to say that the divine Mind is conscious of evil, yet is not conscious of matter, is erroneous.  This error stultifies the logic of divine Science, and must interfere with its practical demonstration.

Is There no Death?

Jesus not only declared himself “the way” and “the truth,” but also “the life.”  God is Life; and as there is but one God, there can be but one Life.  Must man die, then, in order to inherit eternal life and enter heaven?

Our Master said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”  Then God and heaven, or Life, are present, and death is not the real stepping-stone to Life and happiness.  They are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being.  Because God is ever present, no boundary of time can separate us from Him and the heaven of His presence; and because God is Life, all Life is eternal.

Is it unchristian to believe there is no death?  Not unless it be a sin to believe that God is Life and All-in-all.  Evil and disease do not testify of Life and God.

Human beings are physically mortal, but spiritually immortal.  The evil accompanying physical personality is illusive and mortal; but the good attendant upon spiritual individuality is immortal.  Existing here and now, this unseen individuality is real and eternal.  The so-called material senses, and the mortal mind which is misnamed man, take no cognizance of spiritual individuality, which manifests immortality, whose Principle is God.

To God alone belong the indisputable realities of being.  Death is a contradiction of Life, or God; therefore it is not in accordance with His law, but antagonistic thereto.

Death, then, is error, opposed to Truth,—­even the unreality of mortal mind, not the reality of that Mind which is Life.  Error has no life, and is virtually without existence.  Life is real; and all is real which proceeds from Life and is inseparable from it.

It is unchristian to believe in the transition called material death, since matter has no life, and such misbelief must enthrone another power, an imaginary life, above the living and true God.  A material sense of life robs God, by declaring that not He alone is Life, but that something else also is life,—­thus affirming the existence and rulership of more gods than one.  This idolatrous and false sense of life is all that dies, or appears to die.

The opposite understanding of God brings to light Life and immortality.  Death has no quality of Life; and no divine fiat commands us to believe in aught which is unlike God, or to deny that He is Life eternal.

Life as God, moral and spiritual good, is not seen in the mineral, vegetable, or animal kingdoms.  Hence the inevitable conclusion that Life is not in these kingdoms, and that the popular views to this effect are not up to the Christian standard of Life, or equal to the reality of being, whose Principle is God.