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Our physical insensibility to Spirit

The physical senses can obtain no proof of God. They can neither see Spirit through the eye nor hear it through the ear, nor can they feel, taste, or smell Spirit. Even the more subtile and misnamed ma- terial elements are beyond the cognizance of these senses, and are known only by the effects com- monly attributed to them.

According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind. The in- tercommunication is always from God to His idea, man.

Matter is not sentient and cannot be cognizant of good or of evil, of pleasure or of pain. Man's individu- ality is not material. This Science of being obtains not alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here and now; it is the great fact of being for time and eternity.