0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 3 – No and Yes – Chpt 6 – Is Christian Science Pantheistic

  	              IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC? 

  	    Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither
21	in matter nor in the modes of mortal mind. It shows
  	that matter and mortal mind have neither origin nor ex-
  	istence in the eternal Mind. Thinking otherwise is what
24	estranges mortals from divine Life and Love. God is
  	All-in-all. He is Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Him-
  	self. Nothing that "worketh or maketh a lie" is to be
 
   
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 1	found in the divine consciousness. For God to know,
  	is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally
 3	exist. If He knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind,
  	then mortality and discord must be eternal. He is Mind;
   	and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be
 6	Truth. 
  	    If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge
  	would manifest evil in Him and proceeding from Him. 
 9	Christian Science shows that matter, evil, sin, sickness, and
  	death are but negations of Spirit, Truth, and Life, which
  	are positives that cannot be gainsaid. The subjective
12	states of evil, called mortal mind or matter, are negatives
  	destitute of time and space; for there is none beside God
  	or Spirit and the idea of Spirit. 
15	    This infinite logic is the infinite light, — uncompre-
  	hended, yet forever giving forth more light, because it
  	has no darkness to emit. Mortals do not understand the
18	All; hence their inference of some other existence beside
  	God and His true likeness, — of something unlike Him. 
  	He who is All, understands all. He can have no knowl-
21	edge or inference but His own consciousness, and can take
  	in no more than all. 
  	    The mists of matter — sin, sickness, and death — dis-
24	appear in proportion as mortals approach Spirit, which
  	is the reality of being. It is not enough to say that matter
  	is the substratum of evil, and that its highest attenuation is
27	mortal mind; for there is, strictly speaking, no mortal
  	mind. Mind is immortal. Death is the consequent of an
  
   
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1	antecedent false assumption of the realness of something
  	unreal, material, and mortal. If God knows the antece-
 3	dent, He must produce its consequences. From this logic
  	there is no escape. Matter, or evil, is the absence of Spirit
  	or good. Their nothingness is thus proven; for God is
 6	good, ever-present, and All. 
  	    "In Him we live, and move, and have our being;" con-
  	sequently it is impossible for the true man — who is a
 9	spiritual and individual being, created in the eternal
  	Science of being — to be conscious of aught but good. 
  	God's image and likeness can never be less than a good
12	man; and for man to be more than God's likeness is
  	impossible. Man is the climax of creation; and God is
  	not without an ever-present witness, testifying of Himself. 
15	Matter, or any mode of mortal mind, is neither part nor
  	parcel of divine consciousness and God's verity. 
  	    In Science there is no fallen state of being; for therein
18	is no inverted image of God, no escape from the focal
  	radiation of the infinite. Hence the unreality of error,
  	and the truth of the Scripture, that there is "none beside
21	Him." If mortals could grasp these two words all and
  	nothing, this mystery of a God who has no knowledge of
  	sin would disappear, and the eternal, infinite harmony
24	would be fathomed. If God could know a false claim,
  	false knowledge would be a part of His consciousness. 
  	Then evil would be as real as good, sickness as real as
27	health, death as real as Life; and sickness, sin, and death
  	would be as eternal as God. SHOW ALL