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Earth's pressure of evil beliefs may seem to force the pilgrim to a crucial point of experience, as a phantom frightens into swooning the timid child, and this human crisis in the way heavenward may seem to the unspiritual to be death; but as to God there is no death; so in Science to man there is none.  What seems to be death is apparent only to the lookers-on.  The individual who knows and loves God, in the transition supposed to be dying may be more than ever living, living more in mind and less in matter.  Where the so-called dead have passed the Rubicon of suffering which is supposed to kill them, and to human sense they are seen to be dead, they are not dead; and, as to the Artic [[Arctic]] explorer who has reached the Pole, or the point on the earth's surface farthest north, there is no north and he can only look everywhere South, so the to-our-sense dead, having passed the highest point of possible human suffering, find that there is no death, but instead only the dawning of a new and divinely forced sense of Life.

At the pinacle of belief in death, death itself vanishes, and the new sense that only Life is, or can be, appears.  Death is not something that can destroy Life.  Death can only destroy itself, that life may more than ever appear. Not darkness, but light is real; and the light is not ever conscious of the darkness it dispels. Whatever really is can be found in the light; and seeming death no more disrupts life and its unfolding