0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 6 – Retrospection and Introspection – Chpt 23 – The Great Revelation

                     THE GREAT REVELATION 

 1	    Christian Science reveals the grand verity, that
  	to believe man has a finite and erring mind, and
 3	consequently a mortal mind and soul and life, is error. 
  	Scientific terms have no contradictory significations. 
  	    In Science, Life is not temporal, but eternal, without
 6	beginning or ending. The word Life never means that
  	which is the source of death, and of good and evil. Such
  	an inference is unscientific. It is like saying that addition
 9	means subtraction in one instance and addition in an-
  	other, and then applying this rule to a demonstration of
  	the science of numbers; even as mortals apply finite terms
12	to God, in demonstration of infinity. Life is a term used
  	to indicate Deity; and every other name for the Supreme
  	Being, if properly employed, has the signification of
15	Life. Whatever errs is mortal, and is the antipodes of
  	Life, or God, and of health and holiness, both in idea
  	and demonstration. 
18	     Christian Science reveals Mind, the only living and true
  	God, and all that is made by Him, Mind, as harmonious,
  	immortal, and spiritual:  the five material senses define
21	Mind and matter as distinct, but mutually dependent,
  	each on the other, for intelligence and existence. Science
  	defines man as immortal, as coexistent and coeternal with
24	God, as made in His own image and likeness; material
 
  
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 1	sense defines life as something apart from God, beginning
  	and ending, and man as very far from the divine likeness. 
 3	Science reveals Life as a complete sphere, as eternal, self-
  	existent Mind; material sense defines life as a broken
  	sphere, as organized matter, and mind as something sep-
 6	arate from God. Science reveals Spirit as All, averring
  	that there is nothing beside God; material sense says that
  	matter, His antipode, is something besides God. Material
 9	sense adds that the divine Spirit created matter, and that
  	matter and evil are as real as Spirit and good. 
  	    Christian Science reveals God and His idea as the All
12	and Only. It declares that evil is the absence of good;
  	whereas, good is God ever-present, and therefore evil is
  	unreal and good is all that is real. Christian Science saith
15	to the wave and storm, "Be still," and there is a great
  	calm. Material sense asks, in its ignorance of Science,
  	"When will the raging of the material elements cease?" 
18	Science saith to all manner of disease, "Know that God
  	is all-power and all-presence, and there is nothing beside
  	Him;" and the sick are healed. Material sense saith,
21	"Oh, when will my sufferings cease?  Where is God?  
  	Sickness is something besides Him, which He cannot, or
  	does not, heal." 
24	    Christian Science is the only sure basis of harmony. 
  	Material sense contradicts Science, for matter and its
  	so-called organizations take no cognizance of the spir-
27	itual facts of the universe, or of the real man and God. 
  	Christian Science declares that there is but one Truth,
  	Life, Love, but one Spirit, Mind, Soul. Any attempt
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 1	mortal man's ignorance, from enmity to God and divine
  	Science. 
 3	    Christian Science declares that sickness is a belief, a
  	latent fear, made manifest on the body in different forms
  	of fear or disease. This fear is formed unconsciously in
 6	the silent thought, as when you awaken from sleep and
  	feel ill, experiencing the effect of a fear whose existence
  	you do not realize; but if you fall asleep, actually con-
 9	scious of the truth of Christian Science, — namely, that
  	man's harmony is no more to be invaded than the rhythm
  	of the universe, — you cannot awake in fear or suffering
12	of any sort. 
  	    Science saith to fear, "You are the cause of all sick-
  	ness; but you are a self-constituted falsity, — you are
15	darkness, nothingness.  You are without 'hope, and with-
  	out God in the world.' You do not exist, and have no
  	right to exist, for 'perfect Love casteth out fear.'" 
18	    God is everywhere. "There is no speech nor language,
  	where their voice is not heard;" and this voice is Truth
  	that destroys error and Love that casts out fear. 
21	    Christian Science reveals the fact that, if suffering exists,
  	it is in the mortal mind only, for matter has no sensation
  	and cannot suffer. 
24	    If you rule out every sense of disease and suffering from
  	mortal mind, it cannot be found in the body. 
  	    Posterity will have the right to demand that Christian
27	Science be stated and demonstrated in its godliness and
  	grandeur, — that however little be taught or learned, that
  	little shall be right. Let there be milk for babes, but let
30	not the milk be adulterated. Unless this method be pur-
 
  
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 1	sued, the Science of Christian healing will again be lost,
  	and human suffering will increase. 
 3	    Test Christian Science by its effect on society, and you
  	will find that the views here set forth — as to the illusion
  	of sin, sickness, and death — bring forth better fruits of
 6	health, righteousness, and Life, than a belief in their reality
  	has ever done. A demonstration of the unreality of evil
  	destroys evil.SHOW ALL