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The "branches" are type of individual life, substance
and intelligence, expression of the Universal. "Man is the
expression of God." -- Science and Health. This is the living, active soul; Image of God.
The "fruit" is type of the visible universe; the earth;
the spoken word; the true "body." "The "fruit" is the
inner Life and Substance, made visible; it is the third
and last step in the Divine process. It has come from
within Spirit; it is the "likeness" of God.
Hence the soul which is Man's individuality, is the
Image of God, and the body is the likeness of God.
There is but one life, and one substance for vine, branch
and fruit; so there is but One Life and One Substance for
Spirit, soul and body.
As the Vine, branch and fruit make one perfect and
complete vine, so do spirit, soul and body make one perfect and complete Spirit.
Spirit is creator of the living soul, and soul is maker
of the body, not of its own power, but by the Power back
of the soul -- even Divine Spirit.
One says, "Our natural bodies begin to form as soon
our souls exist, and because they exist. The soul's life
is the power that forms the body."
"For of the soul, the body form doth take,
For soul is form, and doth the body make."
"The mind of man is God," -- (Science and Healt),
for All Mind is God, there is but One Mind. Man, as Divine Being, is eternally in and of that Mind; as an individual, man expresses that Mind; thinks its thoughts,
and then speaks these Divine thoughts into words, so
the thought and word unfold from within Divine Mind;
are contained within Divine Mind before they are
thought or spoken.
We can learn from this the method or law by which
