We shall never understand the science of being while we believe that Soul sins, or is in the body; and when we do understand that science we shall be a law of Life to our bodies, even as the higher law of Soul that prevails over sense and gives harmony and immortality to man. The so-called laws of matter can never make man healthy, harmonious, or immortal: hence the importance of understanding the spiritual law of being, that brings out the perfection and immortality of thoughts that we name things. Belief hath sought out many inventions; but not one of them can solve a problem without its Principle. No more can we make the body harmonious without understanding Soul sufficiently to know that it governs the body, and that the governor is not within the governed. The body is like numbers that are harmonious governed by their principle; the intelligence, not in the number, but made manifest by it.
—From Science and Health.
The eternal, permanent side of nature is always unseen; all force is spiritual; causal, creative, enduring power resides only in abstract things; in truth, virtue, emotions, thought.—
