from happiness, and was a spark from goodness, from light and happiness, and that their souls or spirits were like diamonds in the meteoric iron spoken of by Sir William Thompson. The soul of man, which was only restored to consciousness and life when after years his body had evolved from the lowest animal life then understood when this was so that God existed and that mankind had at some distant time fallen from heaven, which he called Eden. Christ has told us that God is a Spirit ; therefore, when we say man was made in the image of God, we should understand man's spirit and not his human body—those who wrote Genesis understood this, as they say God breathed upon man and man became (then) a living soul.

Satan means Sin. If Adam and Eve were banished from Heaven (Eden), Satan, or Sin, is within us—that is, in our flesh, which we get from Adam. The image of God can not be our bodies of clay, which die, for nothing of God can die. Jesus took upon him our body of clay, and as He had a double nature, spiritual and material, the temptation was the struggle between these two; the race of Adam banished to this planet, and reduced to mere atoms of life, rose from one stage to another, until they became capable of seeking to return to God. Then Christ came to help them and to show them the

way, and to show that the spiritual, God's image within us, or Souls, can by suffering overcome the material of which our bodies are made. Satan, sin,

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is within us the same as Christ said the kingdom of Heaven is within us. The seeking of self caused the fall of Adam from Eden-the seeking of self runs all through his race on this earth; be they civilized, or be they barbarians, the seeking of self was the Sin of Satan-other words only for Adam and Eve. Jesus did not “humiliate the Divinity to the devil" by the temptation in the wilderness, for it was in the glorious strength of his Divine nature, in the knowledge of the power to overcome evil, that He met for us the temptation.

Sin was driven from Heaven, banished to this earth; hence sin has been always on this earth, and 'will be on this earth as long as this earth is alive.

We who are born on this earth, are born on an earth, or star, or planet, of sin. The prince of this earth is sin or Self.

Jesus said: "I beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from heaven." This He said when the seventy said to Him, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name." "Devils" means evils of all sorts. These seventy had healed the sick; the illness, and the evil which caused the illness, they could banish through the name of Jesus.

Sin, then, came to this earth when repulsed from Heaven, and will always be here, and will always fight the good that is in the world. We think it is best for mankind to be ignorant of some things. Sin will, through ignorance, cause mankind to sin. If we think it best to grow in knowledge, Sin will cause us to sin through knowledge. What then must we do? We must watch, and by knowledge by intelligence, rise above sin.

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When I say that our human nature we get from Satan-that is, our flesh and blood nature,--do not misunderstand me to say that God did not make this world. God made all things, and He made this planet with all other planets, the sun, and moon, stars. Do you know the history of the moon? We are told that it is dead, yet it follows on God's lawand those who may have lived on it are alive no more yet the moon revolves, and reflects light.

That the race of mankind are on this earth does not affect this earth, the laws of this planet go on the same, we have nothing to do with these laws, we cannot change them in the least. Sin, or Satan, as you wish to call it, was driven to this earth from Heaven, and that life which must die came here in that way. Pray do not misunderstand me! In our flesh and blood body we are not, we can not be of the Image of God-for God is a Spirit.