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The first five chapters enable the
student to participate in an orderly way in what Mrs Eddy describes as God's
gracious preparation of the heart and the mind and the life before the
discovery of spiritual reality makes sense to us. What really makes sense is
this fact that God operates through divine laws, not haphazardly.
The method by which the falsity of
material evidence is changed to that of spiritual reality, as we have already
seen, is by translation.
At this point the book shows that the
divine laws are beginning to pour into our consciousness, leavening,
translating and transforming everything. The Science of God and man comes to us
as a true theology — "I and my Father are one," as Jesus defined it —
and that conviction medicines or heals the human condition of apparent
separation from our Father. Science gives us the Christ view, which heals and
changes and resurrects everything in the human. We see evidence of this in the
next chapter.
Chapter seven, PHYSIOLOGY, deals first
with the physiological sense of body, which we tend to think of as the working
of organs and as being subject to disease and death. But as we let that Christ
translation come into consciousness and overturn our false conceptions, we
experience body, not as organic or physiological, but as the embodying of the
activities and faculties and powers of God. This chapter shows us a
transitional stage where the five physical senses yield to God; we learn that
Mind, not brain, controls the body. The famous pianist, Ashkenazy, was once
asked how it was that he reached the pitch of being able to play music so
supremely well. His answer was, 'I practise, and practise, and practise until
it is no longer me playing the music but the music playing me.' So you might
say that the physiology of Ashkenazy is transformed; it is not him sitting
there consciously telling his fingers to do this and that, but the music is
pouring through him, as him, translating the personal physical sense of
himself. We've all experienced this from time to time in some degree.
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