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The fourth chapter is CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
VERSUS SPIRITUALISM and it handles the belief of mediumship in any form. If you
think of God working through a person He is requiring a medium, but if you
think of God operating as what is called you and me, that is what is meant by
the term Christian Science. We are not persons who have to take the ideas of
God and do something with them, rather we are the direct operating of these
ideas of God. Just as when we are honest, or intelligent, or loving, these
qualities operate as you and me, not through us as persons. A Christian is not
someone with a will of his own, he is a spiritual Scientist. There is not
really a person in the picture; there is only the direct operation of God. It
is this that uncovers or unmasks the lie or false influence.
The fifth chapter is ANIMAL MAGNETISM
UNMASKED. Animal magnetism is the term used in Christian Science to denote all
error, but essentially the error of personal sense, personal will. It is this
that keeps all humanity in bondage. Christian Science unmasks this attempted
personal despotic control of man and shows that animal magnetism has no power
of its own and no authority. Unmasking this error at the same time reveals the
truth in our hearts and lives that "man is properly self-governed only when he
is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love" (106:9).
This is God's man. This is a real Christian Scientist.
Chapter six, SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE,
is such an encouraging confirmation of this point, for it begins: "In the year
1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love"
(107:1). It was Mary Baker Eddy who, in making this discovery, named it
Christian Science and wrote the textbook. But we can never act with conviction
if we merely accept something we have been told, therefore the I that makes the
discovery of the divine laws is not only Mary Baker Eddy but is also any
student who has been prepared through the steps of the five previous chapters.
Unless we make discoveries ourselves, we do not really understand.
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