And with what exhaustive exactness your choice and arrangement of words confirm and establish what you have claimed for the powers and functions of the Third Degree.

The Second could probably produce only temporary absence of mind; it is reserved to the Third to make it permanent.

A sentence framed under the auspices of the Second could have a kind of meaning--a sort of deceptive semblance of it--whereas it is only under the magic of the Third that that defect would disappear.

Also, without doubt, it is the Third Degree that contributes another remarkable specialty to Christian Science--viz., ease and flow and lavishness of words, and rhythm and swing and smoothness.

There must be a special reason for this ?" "Yes--God--all, all--God, good God, non-Matter, Matteration, Spirit, Bones, Truth." "That explains it." "There is nothing in Christian Science that is not explicable; for God is one, Time is one, Individuality is one, and may be one of a series, one of many, as an individual man, individual horse; whereas God is one, not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal." "These are noble thoughts.