CHAPTER XXV.

THE SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY OF CHRIST.

The Necessity of Signs and Wonders.--Christ's Work was for All-Time.--His Consummate Wisdom.--Signs and Wonders as Evidence.--His Perception of Spiritual Laws.--The Perceptive Powers of the Soul.--Propositions.--Presumptive Evidence of His Knowledge of Spiritual Laws.--Condition precedent to Immortality.--Faith the Essential Condition.--The Declarations of Christ.--He meant just what He said.--The Doctrines of the Church.--Literal Extinction of the Soul through Unbelief.--Belief essential to Salvation.--Belief will not avert the Consequences of Sin.--Inherent Probabilities.--The Conscious Existence of the Soul.--The Law of Suggestion applied.--Scepticism constitutes a Fatal Suggestion.--Phenomena of Hypnotism illustrative.--Souls of Animals have no Conscious Existence; hence not Immortal.--Christ as a Saviour of Souls.--His Doctrine new to the World, but scientifically correct 374