with God" (John 1: 1, 2). That is, in the beginning the Word-Christ existed as the reality and the life of the Father and was with God and possessed all the spiritual nature, spiritual attributes, spiritual life, spiritual light, and spiritual perfection of God the Father. The same was in the beginning with God. In the beginning the Christthe Word existed as life in the Father-for Spirit is eternal, and before the material creation, Christ the Son was with the Father and in perfect harmony with the Father's spiritual kingdom, spiritual laws, spiritual nature; and possessed all the spiritual attributes of God the Father. The Christ was what He claimed to be, Divine, the Son of God. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:16, 17). "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand" (John 3: 35, 36). Here we see that the Scripture treats the Christ as the Son of God, and as a separate and distinct individuality from the Father; and that the Father committed all things into the hands of the Son. On the Cross Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here the Son treats the Father as a spearate and distinct individuality. The Christ was God in that He possessed the spiritual nature and spiritual attributes and spiritual mind of God, His Father. And He was the Son, because He was begotten by the Father and existed from all eternity in the Father, and before the material creation and before the beginning of all time. He was what the Father called Him, His Son, and He was what He claimed to be, Divine and the Son of God. God as the only reality, life, spirit and mind in the universe is the source of all life. He as the Father expresses Himself through the Son as life, and He manifests Himself through the Son as the Holy Spirit, quickening the dead soul to life-removing the death sting of the serpent from the soul-and restoring the soul to the Holy Lifeto His image. But He is the One God-the all life and mind. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, is a dual consciousness-the Father-Mother God; and all Spiritual Creation is within this the dual consciousness of the Godhead as one. HOW TO PREVENT PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, SICKNESS AND DEATH. The orthodox Jew, who lived up to the Mosiac law needed no insane asylums and hospitals; and neither did the Early Christian of real and true christianity. He was taught by revelation that the lust and the carnal mind of the physical man meant physical weakness, sickness and death. To indulge the lust of the flesh, is not only to kill the spiritual life of the spiritual man-the soulbut to destroy the physical life of material man. The lust of the physical man is both physical and spiritual death. Thus the Mosaic law and the Prophets taught the Jews and, the Apostles, the Early Christians, that to indulge in the carnal mind and the lust of the material man was to weaken the physical man and produce physical death, and spiritual death to the soul. The orthodox Jew under the Mosaic dispensation was taught to differentiate between the material man and the spiritual man, and the nature of each, and the Apostles taught the same truth to the early Christian. He was taught that to indulge the law of the flesh and the carnal mind of the material man, was to destroy the human body, the mind, and to produce mental and physical weakness and spiritual death. This accounts for the fact that the orthodox Jews in the noonday of their glory, as a race, were the princes of the world morally, physically, intellectually and spiritually. When the Jew confounded and confused the physical man with spiritual man, the physical birth with the spiritual birth, the carnal mind with the spiritual mind, God sounded aloud His protest in Israel through the voices of the Prophets; and when the Christian church, departed from the True Faith, it lost its power to heal the sick. For this sin of transgression God punished His people. He punishes today, and has in every age, and will until the end of time, every spiritual child of His whom He created in His own image, that confuses the physical man with the spiritual man and the carnal mind with the spiritual mind, and indulges the physical and lust senses of the material man. The Jew, every time he transgressed the law that differentiates the physical man from the spiritual man, was punished by Jehovah, and so has the Christian been punished by the Father for his sin of the flesh. The children of men, in all generations, have been punished and will be punished by God for indulging the law of lust and the flesh. When man indulges the carnal mind and his lustful nature, he pays the penalty mentally and physically and spiritually. God's punishment of His people for transgressing this law is visible and tangible in that He punishes not only the physical man, but the spiritual man also. By indulging the law of lust, the life forces which produce life in the physical man, are destroyed. A man is as strong physically, as the generative power of his brain which conducts the life current of God's life giving force over the nerve system into the material body. This life current to be effective, and produce material life, has to be conducted over the nervous system. The brain and the nervous system are the means of co-ordination between the material body of physical man and the spiritual body of the spiritual man. They are the twilight zone between the material man and the spiritual man, between matter and Spirit; by indulging in lustful thoughts and acts, the brain and nervous system undergoes shocks and transformations which weakens and destroys the power of the brain to generate the vital current and send the life giving force over the nervous system, and weakens the nervous system and its capacity to carry the vital force into the physical body of the material man. By indulging the carnal mind and the lust of the physical man, the mind, and the body of the physical man are weakened-sickness is produced and death is the result. Man-made theology, in attempting to spiritualize the natural birth and to make it holy, indorsed and encouraged the indulgence of the carnal mind and the lust of the physical man; with the result that Chris tendom is filled with imbeciles and physical wrecks. And the scholastic theologian points to those afflicted with all kinds and nature of physical and mental diseases, as God's punishment of man, in order to bring man to God. Asylums are everywhere sanitariums and hospitals are thick and erected throughout Christendom. And the scholastic theologian points to these institutions with pride as a product of Christianity-whereas, as a matter of fact, they are the product of indulging in the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind. One generation hands down to the other generation, and generation to generation, mental weakness, physical ills and diseases produced by indulging the carnal mind and the lust of the physical man, until suffering and sorrow, torture and pain, both mentally and physically, rage throughout Christendom. The Death Sting of the Serpent is everywhere in evidence the blind, the deaf, the lame, the imbecile, idiot are with us as the result of Lust and Sensuality. Lust is the father of private diseases; and private diseases are the sources of the ills of the race. This is the result of the fundamental error of manmade theology, which attempts to spiritualize the natural conception and birth of the physical man. Priestcraft and theologians teach, that if the carnal mind and the lust of the physical man, are united to the opposite sex by a priestly ceremony, that God sanctions the indulgence of the lust of the flesh and the carnal mind of the physical man. The physical man lives for lust, and scholastic theology therefore, wishing to please his physical senses and gratify his carnal mind, has preached the doctrine, if the opposite sexes unite under priestly ceremonies, that God will bless the indulgence of their lust. This has been the crime of the scholastic-both Catholic and Protestant. The Temple of Jerusalem represented the body of the Christ. It was as near perfect as the mind could make it. It was the wonder of the ages. The Spirit of the Son of God dwelt in His body, and was manifested in the flesh without lust. God was supposed to be in the Temple ever present, i. e.. the Spirit of the Son of the living God was manifested in the flesh and the human body, and was ever present in the fleshly body. Christ's material body was con |