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Human frailty
Human birth, growth, maturity, and decay are as the grass springing from the soil with beautiful green blades, afterwards to wither and return to its native nothingness. This mortal seeming is temporal; it never merges into immortal being, but finally disap- pears, and immortal man, spiritual and eternal, is found to be the real man.
The Hebrew bard, swayed by mortal thoughts, thus swept his lyre with saddening strains on human existence:
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
When hope rose higher in the human heart, he sang:
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.
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For with Thee is the fountain of life;
In Thy light shall we see light.
The brain can give no idea of God's man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infi- nite Mind.
As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God's likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element.
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