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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.
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The phrase, Science of being, is always spelt with a capital S for Science because it is God's Science, and with a little b for being, because, you might say, it is our being. (The textbook always reserves the capitalized letter for God and the uncapitalized for man as the activity of God.) If Science is the truth of our being and all comes from God, this is the Science of our being God's Being. God's Being is our very being. This is a long chapter full of beautiful details of how the divine comes with Christ power to illuminate, and to transform, and to redeem all the details of our human sense of being. It finishes with thirty-two numbered sections, called "the platform." Mrs Eddy introduces this by saying, "When the following platform is understood and the letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated" (330:8). The word platform is derived from two words, plat and form, and plat is an interweaving. So the platform offers us interwoven spiritual precepts about the nature of God, the nature of Christ, the nature of the human, and the resolving of the problem of evil. This therefore must be something on which we can safely stand. ~ DISSOLVING BARRIERS, The Healing Work of Christian Science by John L. MorganSHOW ALL
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1 | 0b | 268 | Intro Quote 2 ~ Martin Luther | Intro Quote 2 ~ Martin Luther | Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me God! Amen! — MARTIN LUTHER. | ||
2 | 0a | 268 | Into Quote 1 ~ John | Into Quote 1 ~ John | That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life, . . . That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. — JOHN, First Epistle. |
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Materialistic challenge | 1 In the material world, thought has brought to light with great rapidity many useful wonders. With 3 like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual Materialistic cause of those lower things which give im- challenge 6 pulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from 9 matter to Mind as the cause of every effect. Material- istic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shep- 12 herd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with Goliath. |
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Confusion confounded | In this final struggle for supremacy, semi-metaphysi- 15 cal systems afford no substantial aid to scientific meta- physics, for their arguments are based on Confusion the false testimony of the material senses as confounded 18 well as on the facts of Mind. These semi-metaphysical 1 systems are one and all pantheistic, and savor of Pan- demonium, a house divided against itself. 3 From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind and matter and the mingling of good and evil have re- sulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus' demon- 6 strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the unity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing- ness, of evil. |
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Divine metaphysics | 9 Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter is truth. Metaphysics is above physics, and Divine 12 matter does not enter into metaphysical prem- metaphysics ises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves 15 things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul. These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual 18 consciousness, and they have this advantage over the ob- jects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal. |
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Biblical foundations | 21 The testimony of the material senses is neither abso- lute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of Biblical 24 the prophets, and on the testimony of the foundations Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none. All other systems — systems based wholly or partly on 27 knowledge gained through the material senses — are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock. |
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Rejected theories | The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter; 30 (2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as Rejected real as Mind, possessing intelligence and life. theories The first theory, that matter is everything, is quite as 1 reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist and cooperate. One only of the following statements can 3 be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that every- thing is Mind. Which one is it? Matter and Mind are opposites. One is contrary to 6 the other in its very nature and essence; hence both can- not be real. If one is real, the other must be unreal. Only by understanding that there is but one power, — not two 9 powers, matter and Mind, — are scientific and logical conclusions reached. Few deny the hypothesis that in- telligence, apart from man and matter, governs the uni- 12 verse; and it is generally admitted that this intelligence is the eternal Mind or divine Principle, Love. |
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Prophetic ignorance | The prophets of old looked for something higher than 15 the systems of their times; hence their fore- Prophetic sight of the new dispensation of Truth. But ignorance they knew not what would be the precise nature of the 18 teaching and demonstration of God, divine Mind, in His more infinite meanings, — the demonstration which was to destroy sin, sickness, and death, establish the definition 21 of omnipotence, and maintain the Science of Spirit. The pride of priesthood is the prince of this world. It has nothing in Christ. Meekness and charity have divine 24 authority. Mortals think wickedly; consequently they are wicked. They think sickly thoughts, and so become sick. If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love alone can 27 unmake them. If a sense of disease produces suffering and a sense of ease antidotes suffering, disease is mental, not material. Hence the fact that the human mind alone 30 suffers, is sick, and that the divine Mind alone heals. The life of Christ Jesus was not miraculous, but it was indigenous to his spirituality, — the good soil wherein the 1 seed of Truth springs up and bears much fruit. Christ's Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing 3 in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God. Neither emasculation, illusion, nor insubordination 6 exists in divine Science. Jesus instructed his disciples whereby to heal the sick through Mind instead of matter. He knew that the phi- 9 losophy, Science, and proof of Christianity were in Truth, casting out all inharmony. |
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Studious disciples | In Latin the word rendered disciple signifies student; 12 and the word indicates that the power of healing was not a supernatural gift to those learners, but the Studious result of their cultivated spiritual understand- disciples 15 ing of the divine Science, which their Master demonstrated by healing the sick and sinning. Hence the universal ap- plication of his saying: "Neither pray I for these alone, 18 but for them also which shall believe on me [understand me] through their word." |
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New Testament basis | Our Master said, "But the Comforter . . . shall 21 teach you all things." When the Science of Christianity appears, it will lead you into all truth. The New Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this Testament 24 Science, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is basis its outcome. |
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Modern evangel | Those, who are willing to leave their nets or to cast 27 them on the right side for Truth, have the opportunity now, as aforetime, to learn and to practise Modern Christian healing. The Scriptures contain it. evangel 30 The spiritual import of the Word imparts this power. But, as Paul says, "How shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be 1 sent?" If sent, how shall they preach, convert, and heal multitudes, except the people hear? |
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Spirituality of Scripture | 3 The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before Truth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only as we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek. Spirituality 6 In the soil of an "honest and good heart" the of Scripture seed must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the swinish element in human nature uproots it. Jesus said: 9 "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." The spiritual sense of the Scriptures brings out the scientific sense, and is the new tongue referred to in the last chapter of Mark's 12 Gospel. Jesus' parable of "the sower" shows the care our Master took not to impart to dull ears and gross hearts 15 the spiritual teachings which dulness and grossness could not accept. Reading the thoughts of the people, he said: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast 18 ye your pearls before swine." |
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Unspiritual contrasts | It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce 21 of material existence; it is chastity and purity, Unspiritual in contrast with the downward tendencies contrasts and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, 24 which really attest the divine origin and operation of Chris- tian Science. The triumphs of Christian Science are re- corded in the destruction of error and evil, from which are 27 propagated the dismal beliefs of sin, sickness, and death. |
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God the Principle of all | The divine Principle of the universe must interpret the universe. God is the divine Principle of all that repre- 30 sents Him and of all that really exists. Chris- God the tian Science, as demonstrated by Jesus, alone Principle of all reveals the natural, divine Principle of Science. 1 Matter and its claims of sin, sickness, and death are contrary to God, and cannot emanate from Him. There 3 is no material truth. The physical senses can take no cognizance of God and spiritual Truth. Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them 6 can solve the problem of being without the divine Prin- ciple of divine Science. Deductions from material hy- potheses are not scientific. They differ from real Science 9 because they are not based on the divine law. |
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Science versus sense | Divine Science reverses the false testimony of the ma- terial senses, and thus tears away the foun- Science 12 dations of error. Hence the enmity between versus Science and the senses, and the impossibility sense of attaining perfect understanding till the errors of sense 15 are eliminated. The so-called laws of matter and of medical science have never made mortals whole, harmonious, and immortal. 18 Man is harmonious when governed by Soul. Hence the importance of understanding the truth of being, which reveals the laws of spiritual existence. |
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Spiritual law the only law | 21 God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the Spiritual law 24 wisdom of the creator. Jesus walked on the the only law waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were 27 the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law. |
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Material knowledge illusive | Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opin- 30 ions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to morals and health when it is opposed promptly and per- 1 sistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain ex- 3 istence. Unnecessary knowledge gained from Material the five senses is only temporal, — the concep- knowledge tion of mortal mind, the offspring of sense, not illusive 6 of Soul, Spirit, — and symbolizes all that is evil and perishable. Natural science, as it is commonly called, is not really natural nor scientific, because it is deduced from 9 the evidence of the material senses. Ideas, on the con- trary, are born of Spirit, and are not mere inferences drawn from material premises. |
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Five senses deceptive | 12 The senses of Spirit abide in Love, and they demon- strate Truth and Life. Hence Christianity and the Sci- ence which expounds it are based on spiritual Five senses 15 understanding, and they supersede the so- deceptive called laws of matter. Jesus demonstrated this great verity. When what we erroneously term the five physical 18 senses are misdirected, they are simply the manifested beliefs of mortal mind, which affirm that life, substance, and intelligence are material, instead of spiritual. These 21 false beliefs and their products constitute the flesh, and the flesh wars against Spirit. |
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Impossible partnership | Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way 24 position in learning its Principle and rule — establishing it by demonstration. The conventional firm, Impossible called matter and mind, God never formed. partnership 27 Science and understanding, governed by the unerring and eternal Mind, destroy the imaginary copartnership, matter and mind, formed only to be destroyed in a manner and 30 at a period as yet unknown. This suppositional partner- ship is already obsolete, for matter, examined in the light of divine metaphysics, disappears. |
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Spirit the starting-point | 1 Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipres- 3 ent and omnipotent Mind. This shows that Spirit the matter did not originate in God, Spirit, and is starting-point not eternal. Therefore matter is neither substantial, living, 6 nor intelligent. The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He 9 is divine Principle. |
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Divine synonyms | To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle 12 of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, Divine combine as one, — and are the Scriptural names synonyms for God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im- 15 mortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His 18 wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows. |
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The divine completeness | Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand- 21 ing, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, The divine — that is, all power, all presence, all Science. completeness 24 Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind. Our material human theories are destitute of Science. The true understanding of God is spiritual. It robs the 27 grave of victory. It destroys the false evidence that mis- leads thought and points to other gods, or other so-called powers, such as matter, disease, sin, and death, superior 30 or contrary to the one Spirit. |
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Universal brotherhood | Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood. It casts out error and heals the sick. 1 Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of Scripture, "I 3 am the Lord that healeth thee," and "I have Universal found a ransom." When the divine precepts brotherhood are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, 6 in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: "Let this Mind be in you, 9 which was also in Christ Jesus." Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and real consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God. 12 The realization that all inharmony is unreal brings objects and thoughts into human view in their true light, and presents them as beautiful and immortal. Harmony 15 in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is unreal and mortal. |
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Perfection requisite | If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life, 18 there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death. When we learn in Science how to be perfect Perfection even as our Father in heaven is perfect, requisite 21 thought is turned into new and healthy channels, — towards the contemplation of things immortal and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, includ- 24 ing harmonious man. Material beliefs and spiritual understanding never mingle. The latter destroys the former. Discord is the 27 nothingness named error. Harmony is the somethingness named Truth. |
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Like evolving like | Nature and revelation inform us that like produces 30 like. Divine Science does not gather grapes Like evolving from thorns nor figs from thistles. Intelli- like gence never produces non-intelligence; but matter is 1 ever non-intelligent and therefore cannot spring from intelligence. To all that is unlike unerring and eternal 3 Mind, this Mind saith, "Thou shalt surely die;" and else- where the Scripture says that dust returns to dust. The non-intelligent relapses into its own unreality. Matter 6 never produces mind. The immortal never produces the mortal. Good cannot result in evil. As God Himself is good and is Spirit, goodness and spirituality must be im- 9 mortal. Their opposites, evil and matter, are mortal error, and error has no creator. If goodness and spirit- uality are real, evil and materiality are unreal and can- 12 not be the outcome of an infinite God, good. Natural history presents vegetables and animals as preserving their original species, — like reproducing like. 15 A mineral is not produced by a vegetable nor the man by the brute. In reproduction, the order of genus and species is preserved throughout the entire round of nature. 18 This points to the spiritual truth and Science of being. Error relies upon a reversal of this order, asserts that Spirit produces matter and matter produces all the ills 21 of flesh, and therefore that good is the origin of evil. These suppositions contradict even the order of material so-called science. |
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Material error | 24 The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, — it is a human concept. Matter is an error of state- Material 27 ment. This error in the premise leads to errors error in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immor- 30 tal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phe- nomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous. |
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Substance versus supposition | 1 Is Spirit the source or creator of matter? Science re- veals nothing in Spirit out of which to create matter. 3 Divine metaphysics explains away matter. Substance Spirit is the only substance and consciousness versus recognized by divine Science. The material supposition 6 senses oppose this, but there are no material senses, for matter has no mind. In Spirit there is no matter, even as in Truth there is no error, and in good no evil. It is 9 a false supposition, the notion that there is real substance- matter, the opposite of Spirit. Spirit, God, is infinite, all. Spirit can have no opposite. |
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One cause supreme | 12 That matter is substantial or has life and sensation, is one of the false beliefs of mortals, and exists only in a supposititious mortal consciousness. Hence, One cause 15 as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the supreme consciousness of matter. The admission that there can be material substance requires another admission, — 18 namely, that Spirit is not infinite and that matter is self- creative, self-existent, and eternal. From this it would follow that there are two eternal causes, warring forever 21 with each other; and yet we say that Spirit is supreme and all-presence. The belief of the eternity of matter contradicts the 24 demonstration of life as Spirit, and leads to the conclu- sion that if man is material, he originated in matter and must return to dust, — logic which would prove his an- 27 nihilation. |
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Substance is Spirit | All that we term sin, sickness, and death is a mortal belief. We define matter as error, because it is the oppo- 30 site of life, substance, and intelligence. Mat- Substance ter, with its mortality, cannot be substantial is Spirit if Spirit is substantial and eternal. Which ought to 1 be substance to us, — the erring, changing, and dying, the mutable and mortal, or the unerring, immutable, 3 and immortal? A New Testament writer plainly de- scribes faith, a quality of mind, as "the substance of things hoped for." |
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Material mortality | 6 The doom of matter establishes the conclusion that matter, slime, or protoplasm never originated Material in the immortal Mind, and is therefore not mortality 9 eternal. Matter is neither created by Mind nor for the manifestation and support of Mind. | ||
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Spiritual tangibility | Ideas are tangible and real to immortal consciousness, 12 and they have the advantage of being eternal. Spiritual Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor co- tangibility operate, and one can no more create the other than 15 Truth can create error, or vice versa. In proportion as the belief disappears that life and in- telligence are in or of matter, the immortal facts of 18 being are seen, and their only idea or intelligence is in God. Spirit is reached only through the understand- ing and demonstration of eternal Life and Truth and 21 Love. |
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Pantheistic tendencies | Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic 24 belief that there is mind in matter; but this Pantheistic belief contradicts alike revelation and right tendencies reasoning. A logical and scientific conclusion is reached 27 only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of being, matter and mind, but one alone, — Mind. 30 Pantheism, starting from a material sense of God, seeks cause in effect, Principle in its idea, and life and intelligence in matter. |
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The things of God are beautiful | 1 In the infinitude of Mind, matter must be unknown. Symbols and elements of discord and decay are not prod- 3 ucts of the infinite, perfect, and eternal All. The things From Love and from the light and harmony of God are which are the abode of Spirit, only reflections beautiful 6 of good can come. All things beautiful and harmless are ideas of Mind. Mind creates and multiplies them, and the product must be mental. 9 Finite belief can never do justice to Truth in any direc- tion. Finite belief limits all things, and would compress Mind, which is infinite, beneath a skull bone. Such be- 12 lief can neither apprehend nor worship the infinite; and to accommodate its finite sense of the divisibility of Soul and substance, it seeks to divide the one Spirit into per- 15 sons and souls. |
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Belief in many gods | Through this error, human belief comes to have "gods many and lords many." Moses declared as Jehovah's 18 first command of the Ten: "Thou shalt have Belief in no other gods before me!" But behold the many gods zeal of belief to establish the opposite error of many 21 minds. The argument of the serpent in the allegory, "Ye shall be as gods," urges through every avenue the belief that Soul is in body, and that infinite Spirit, and Life, is 24 in finite forms. |
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Senstionless body | Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient material form, man has a sensationless body; and God, 27 the Soul of man and of all existence, being Sensationless perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, body and immortality, imparts and perpetuates these qualities 30 in man, — through Mind, not matter. The only excuse for entertaining human opinions and rejecting the Science of being is our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance 1 which yields only to the understanding of divine Science, the understanding by which we enter into the kingdom 3 of Truth on earth and learn that Spirit is infinite and supreme. Spirit and matter no more commingle than light and darkness. When one appears, the other dis- 6 appears. |
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God and His image | Error presupposes man to be both mind and matter. Divine Science contradicts the corporeal senses, rebukes 9 mortal belief, and asks: What is the Ego, God and whence its origin and what its destiny? The His image Ego-man is the reflection of the Ego-God; the Ego-man 12 is the image and likeness of perfect Mind, Spirit, divine Principle. The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is 15 infinite individuality, which supplies all form and come- liness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things. 18 The mind supposed to exist in matter or beneath a skull bone is a myth, a misconceived sense and false conception as to man and Mind. When we put off the 21 false sense for the true, and see that sin and mortality have neither Principle nor permanency, we shall learn that sin and mortality are without actual origin or right- 24 ful existence. They are native nothingness, out of which error would simulate creation through a man formed from dust. |
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The true new idea | 27 Divine Science does not put new wine into old bottles, Soul into matter, nor the infinite into the finite. Our false views of matter perish as we grasp The true 30 the facts of Spirit. The old belief must be new idea cast out or the new idea will be spilled, and the in- spiration, which is to change our standpoint, will be 1 lost. Now, as of old, Truth casts out evils and heals the sick. |
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Figures of being | 3 The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight Figures of 6 line. The circle represents the infinite with- being out beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere 9 represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal 12 Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact. |
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Opposite symbols | A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a 15 curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. Similarly, matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has Opposite no place in matter. Truth has no home in symbols 18 error, and error has no foothold in Truth. Mind cannot pass into non-intelligence and matter, nor can non-intel- ligence become Soul. At no point can these opposites 21 mingle or unite. Even though they seem to touch, one is still a curve and the other a straight line. There is no inherent power in matter; for all that is 24 material is a material, human, mortal thought, always governing itself erroneously. Truth is the intelligence of immortal Mind. Error is 27 the so-called intelligence of mortal mind. |
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Truth is not inverted | Whatever indicates the fall of man or the opposite of God or God's absence, is the Adam-dream, which is neither 30 Mind nor man, for it is not begotten of the Truth is not Father. The rule of inversion infers from inverted error its opposite, Truth; but Truth is the light which 1 dispels error. As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence 3 apart from God. |
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Source of all life and action | Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious 6 action. Mind is the same Life, Love, and wis- Source of dom "yesterday, and to-day, and forever." all life and Matter and its effects — sin, sickness, and action 9 death — are states of mortal mind which act, react, and then come to a stop. They are not facts of Mind. They are not ideas, but illusions. Principle is absolute. It 12 admits of no error, but rests upon understanding. But what say prevalent theories? They insist that Life, or God, is one and the same with material life so- 15 called. They speak of both Truth and error as mind, and of good and evil as spirit. They claim that to be life which is but the objective state of material sense, — 18 such as the structural life of the tree and of material man, — and deem this the manifestation of the one Life, God. |
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Spiritual structure | 21 This false belief as to what really constitutes life so detracts from God's character and nature, that the true sense of His power is lost to all who cling to Spiritual 24 this falsity. The divine Principle, or Life, can- structure not be practically demonstrated in length of days, as it was by the patriarchs, unless its Science be accurately 27 stated. We must receive the divine Principle in the under- standing, and live it in daily life; and unless we so do, we can no more demonstrate Science, than we can teach and 30 illustrate geometry by calling a curve a straight line or a straight line a sphere. Are mentality, immortality, consciousness, resident in 1 matter? It is not rational to say that Mind is infinite, but dwells in finiteness, — in matter, — or that matter is 3 infinite and the medium of Mind. |
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Mind never limited | If God were limited to man or matter, or if the infinite could be circumscribed within the finite, God would be 6 corporeal, and unlimited Mind would seem Mind never to spring from a limited body; but this is an limited impossibility. Infinite Mind can have no starting-point, 9 and can return to no limit. It can never be in bonds, nor be fully manifested through corporeality. |
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material recognition impossible | Is God's image or likeness matter, or a mortal, sin, 12 sickness, and death? Can matter recognize Mind? Can infinite Mind recognize matter? Can the Material infinite dwell in the finite or know aught un- recognition 15 like the infinite? Can Deity be known through impossible the material senses? Can the material senses, which re- ceive no direct evidence of Spirit, give correct testimony 18 as to spiritual life, truth, and love? The answer to all these questions must forever be in the negative. |
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Our physical insensibility to Spirit | 21 The physical senses can obtain no proof of God. They can neither see Spirit through the eye nor hear it through the ear, nor can they feel, taste, or smell Spirit. Our physical 24 Even the more subtile and misnamed ma- insensibility terial elements are beyond the cognizance to Spirit of these senses, and are known only by the effects com- 27 monly attributed to them. According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. 30 Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind. The in- tercommunication is always from God to His idea, man. 1 Matter is not sentient and cannot be cognizant of good or of evil, of pleasure or of pain. Man's individu- 3 ality is not material. This Science of being obtains not alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here and now; it is the great fact of being for time and 6 eternity. |
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The human counterfeit | What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness 9 of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted The human likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, counterfeit and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is 12 the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite na- tures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence. |
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Material misconceptions | 15 Is God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical. The belief that a material body is man is a false con- ception of man. The time has come for a Material 18 finite conception of the infinite and of a ma- misconceptions terial body as the seat of Mind to give place to a diviner sense of intelligence and its manifestations, — 21 to the better understanding that Science gives of the Supreme Being, or divine Principle, and idea. |
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Salvation is through reform | By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as 24 the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue to seek salvation through pardon and not Salvation through reform, and resort to matter instead is through 27 of Spirit for the cure of the sick. As mortals reform reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from 30 the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power. It is essential to understand, instead of believe, what 1 relates most nearly to the happiness of being. To seek Truth through belief in a human doctrine is not to un- 3 derstand the infinite. We must not seek the immutable and immortal through the finite, mutable, and mortal, and so depend upon belief instead of demonstration, for 6 this is fatal to a knowledge of Science. The understand- ing of Truth gives full faith in Truth, and spiritual un- derstanding is better than all burnt offerings. 9 The Master said, "No man cometh unto the Father [the divine Principle of being] but by me," Christ, Life, Truth, Love; for Christ says, "I am the way." 12 Physical causation was put aside from first to last by this original man, Jesus. He knew that the divine Principle, Love, creates and governs all that 15 is real. |
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Goodness a portion of God | In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term for God. The Scriptures declare all that He Goodness 18 made to be good, like Himself, — good in a portion Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual of God universe is good, and reflects God as He is. |
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Spiritual thoughts | 21 God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human, involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the Spiritual 24 only cause, they lack a divine cause. The thoughts temporal and material are not then creations of Spirit. They are but counterfeits of the spiritual and eternal. 27 Transitory thoughts are the antipodes of everlasting Truth, though (by the supposition of opposite qualities) error must also say, "I am true." But by this saying 30 error, the lie, destroys itself. Sin, sickness, and death are comprised in human ma- terial belief, and belong not to the divine Mind. They 1 are without a real origin or existence. They have neither Principle nor permanence, but belong, with all that is 3 material and temporal, to the nothingness of error, which simulates the creations of Truth. All creations of Spirit are eternal; but creations of matter must return to dust. 6 Error supposes man to be both mental and material. Divine Science contradicts this postulate and maintains man's spiritual identity. |
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Divine allness | 9 We call the absence of Truth, error. Truth and error are unlike. In Science, Truth is divine, and the infinite God can have no unlikeness. Did God, Truth, Divine 12 create error? No! "Doth a fountain send allness forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent 15 or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all? |
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Error unveiled | Neither understanding nor truth accompanies error, 18 nor is error the offshoot of Mind. Evil calls itself some- thing, when it is nothing. It saith, "I am man, but I am not the image and likeness of God;" whereas the Scrip- 21 tures declare that man was made in God's likeness. Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spir- itual identity or foundation, and it has no real existence. 24 The supposition that life, substance, and in- Error telligence are in matter, or of it, is an error. unveiled Matter is neither a thing nor a person, but merely the 27 objective supposition of Spirit's opposite. The five mate- rial senses testify to truth and error as united in a mind both good and evil. Their false evidence will finally 30 yield to Truth, — to the recognition of Spirit and of the spiritual creation. |
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The great conflict | Truth cannot be contaminated by error. The state- 1 ment that Truth is real necessarily includes the correlated statement, that error, Truth's unlikeness, is unreal. 3 The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spir- itual senses and the testimony of the material The great 6 senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and conflict flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the un- derstanding of divine Love. 9 Superstition and understanding can never combine. When the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth 12 and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign. The 15 lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the distance. Then the raindrops of divinity refresh the 18 earth. As St. Paul says: "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God" (of Spirit). |
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The chief stones in the temple | The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are 21 to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not The chief to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and stones in 24 cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject the temple to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no ma- terial life, and no death. |
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The Christ-element | 27 Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses. The Christ- The Christ-element in the Messiah made him element 30 the Way-shower, Truth and Life. The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man's real existence as a child 1 of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal debris 3 of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensa- tion are in the body should be overcome by the under- 6 standing of what constitutes man as the image of God. Then Spirit will have overcome the flesh. |
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Wickedness is not man | A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little 9 else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life Wickedness abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life is not man 12 and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal. |
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Death but an illusion | The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still 15 overcomes death proves the "king of terrors" to be but a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys Death but with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this an illusion 18 shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe there is no death-process. 21 The belief that matter has life results, by the universal law of mortal mind, in a belief in death. So man, tree, and flower are supposed to die; but the fact remains, 24 that God's universe is spiritual and immortal. |
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Spiritual offspring | The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the 27 material must be untrue. Life is not in matter. Spiritual Therefore it cannot be said to pass out of mat- offspring ter. Matter and death are mortal illusions. Spirit and 30 all things spiritual are the real and eternal. Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be 1 eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I AM, the Be- ing who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase. |
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Death no advantage | 3 If the Principle, rule, and demonstration of man's being are not in the least understood before what is termed death overtakes mortals, they will rise no higher spir- Death no 6 itually in the scale of existence on account of advantage that single experience, but will remain as material as be- fore the transition, still seeking happiness through a ma- 9 terial, instead of through a spiritual sense of life, and from selfish and inferior motives. That Life or Mind is finite and physical or is manifested through brain and nerves, 12 is false. Hence Truth comes to destroy this error and its effects, — sickness, sin, and death. To the spiritual class, relates the Scripture: "On such the second death 15 hath no power." |
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Future purification | If the change called death destroyed the belief in sin, sickness, and death, happiness would be won at the mo- 18 ment of dissolution, and be forever permanent; Future but this is not so. Perfection is gained only purification by perfection. They who are unrighteous shall be un- 21 righteous still, until in divine Science Christ, Truth, re- moves all ignorance and sin. |
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Sin is punished | The sin and error which possess us at the instant of 24 death do not cease at that moment, but endure until the death of these errors. To be wholly spiritual, Sin is man must be sinless, and he becomes thus only punished 27 when he reaches perfection. The murderer, though slain in the act, does not thereby forsake sin. He is no more spiritual for believing that his body died and learning that 30 his cruel mind died not. His thoughts are no purer until evil is disarmed by good. His body is as material as his mind, and vice versa. 1 The suppositions that sin is pardoned while unfor- saken, that happiness can be genuine in the midst of 3 sin, that the so-called death of the body frees from sin, and that God's pardon is aught but the destruction of sin, — these are grave mistakes. We know that all will 6 be changed "in the twinkling of an eye," when the last trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call 9 in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken them to glorified being. |
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Salvation and probation | 12 Universal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a local- ity, but a divine state of Mind in which all the Salvation 15 manifestations of Mind are harmonious and and immortal, because sin is not there and man is probation found having no righteousness of his own, but in posses- 18 sion of "the mind of the Lord," as the Scripture says. "In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." So we read in Ecclesiastes. This text has been 21 transformed into the popular proverb, "As the tree falls, so it must lie." As man falleth asleep, so shall he awake. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be 24 after death, until probation and growth shall effect the needed change. Mind never becomes dust. No resur- rection from the grave awaits Mind or Life, for the grave 27 has no power over either. |
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Day of judgment | No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment- day of wisdom comes hourly and continually, Day of 30 even the judgment by which mortal man is di- judgment vested of all material error. As for spiritual error there is none. 1 When the last mortal fault is destroyed, then the final trump will sound which will end the battle of Truth with 3 error and mortality; "but of that day and hour, knoweth no man." Here prophecy pauses. Divine Science alone can compass the heights and depths of being and reveal 6 the infinite. |
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Primitive error | Truth will be to us "the resurrection and the life" only as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only 9 immortality of man, can be fettered by the Primitive body, and Life be controlled by death. A sin- error ful, sick, and dying mortal is not the likeness of God, the 12 perfect and eternal. Matter is the primitive belief of mortal mind, because this so-called mind has no cognizance of Spirit. To 15 mortal mind, matter is substantial, and evil is real. The so-called senses of mortals are material. Hence the so-called life of mortals is dependent on 18 matter. Explaining the origin of material man and mortal mind, Jesus said: "Why do ye not understand my speech? 21 Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil [evil], and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 24 not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." |
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Immortal man | 27 This carnal material mentality, misnamed mind, is mortal. Therefore man would be annihilated, were it not for the spiritual real man's indissoluble Immortal 30 connection with his God, which Jesus brought man to light. In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood, and 1 that this unreal material mortality disappears in presence of the reality. |
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Elementary electricity | 3 Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness, — the material mindless- ness, which forms no link between matter and Elementary 6 Mind, and which destroys itself. Matter and electricity mortal mind are but different strata of human belief. The grosser substratum is named matter or body; the more 9 ethereal is called mind. This so-called mind and body is the illusion called a mortal, a mind in matter. In reality and in Science, both strata, mortal mind and mortal body, 12 are false representatives of man. The material so-called gases and forces are counter- feits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency 15 is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being. Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which coun- 18 terfeits the true essence of spirituality or truth, — the great difference being that electricity is not intelligent, while spiritual truth is Mind. |
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The counterfeit forces | 21 There is no vapid fury of mortal mind — expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity — and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. The counterfeit 24 The manifestations of evil, which counterfeit forces divine justice, are called in the Scriptures, "The anger of the Lord." In reality, they show the self-destruction 27 of error or matter and point to matter's opposite, the strength and permanency of Spirit. Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal har- 30 mony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil. |
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Instruments of error | The five physical senses are the avenues and instru- 1 ments of human error, and they correspond with error. These senses indicate the common human belief, that life, 3 substance, and intelligence are a unison of Instruments matter with Spirit. This is pantheism, and of error carries within itself the seeds of all error. 6 If man is both mind and matter, the loss of one finger would take away some quality and quantity of the man, for matter and man would be one. |
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Mortal verdict | 9 The belief that matter thinks, sees, or feels is not more real than the belief that matter enjoys and suffers. This mortal belief, misnamed man, is error, saying: Mortal 12 "Matter has intelligence and sensation. Nerves verdict feel. Brain thinks and sins. The stomach can make a man cross. Injury can cripple and matter can kill man." 15 This verdict of the so-called material senses victimizes mortals, taught, as they are by physiology and pathology, to revere false testimony, even the errors that are destroyed 18 by Truth through spiritual sense and Science. |
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Mythical pleasure | The lines of demarcation between immortal man, repre- senting Spirit, and mortal man, representing the error that 21 life and intelligence are in matter, show the Mythical pleasures and pains of matter to be myths, and pleasure human belief in them to be the father of mythology, in 24 which matter is represented as divided into intelligent gods. Man's genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true. Man is neither self-made nor made by 27 mortals. God created man. The inebriate believes that there is pleasure in intoxica- tion. The thief believes that he gains something by steal- 30 ing, and the hypocrite that he is hiding himself. The Science of Mind corrects such mistakes, for Truth demon- strates the falsity of error. |
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Severed members | 1 The belief that a severed limb is aching in the old loca- tion, the sensation seeming to be in nerves which Severed 3 are no longer there, is an added proof of the un- members reliability of physical testimony. | ||
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Mortals unlike immortals | God creates and governs the universe, including man. 6 The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind Mortals that makes them. Mortal mind would trans- unlike 9 form the spiritual into the material, and then immortals recover man's original self in order to escape from the mortality of this error. Mortals are not like immortals, 12 created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and 15 forever intact, will appear. |
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Goodness transparent | The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the 18 glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass Goodness is less opaque than the walls. The mortal transparent mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that 21 one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides 24 the sun. |
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Brainology a myth | All that is called mortal thought is made up of error. The theoretical mind is matter, named brain, or mate- 27 rial consciousness, the exact opposite of real Brainology Mind, or Spirit. Brainology teaches that a myth mortals are created to suffer and die. It further 30 teaches that when man is dead, his immortal soul is resurrected from death and mortality. Thus error the- orizes that spirit is born of matter and returns to mat- 1 ter, and that man has a resurrection from dust; whereas Science unfolds the eternal verity, that man is the spiritual, 3 eternal reflection of God. |
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Scientific purgation | Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for 6 the immortal. Either here or hereafter, suf- Scientific fering or Science must destroy all illusions purgation regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense 9 and self. The old man with his deeds must be put off. Nothing sensual or sinful is immortal. The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic 12 matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal. The so-called pleasures and pains of matter perish, 15 and they must go out under the blaze of Truth, spiritual sense, and the actuality of being. Mortal belief must lose all satisfaction in error and sin in order to part with 18 them. Whether mortals will learn this sooner or later, and how long they will suffer the pangs of destruction, de- 21 pends upon the tenacity of error. |
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Mixed testimony | The knowledge obtained from the corporeal senses leads to sin and death. When the evidence of Spirit 24 and matter, Truth and error, seems to com- Mixed mingle, it rests upon foundations which time testimony is wearing away. Mortal mind judges by the testimony 27 of the material senses, until Science obliterates this false testimony. An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in taking the next step and in understanding 30 the situation in Christian Science. |
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Belief an autocrat | Mortal belief is a liar from the beginning, not deserving power. It says to mortals, "You are wretched!" and they 1 think they are so; and nothing can change this state, until the belief changes. Mortal belief says, "You are happy!" 3 and mortals are so; and no circumstance can Belief an alter the situation, until the belief on this sub- autocrat ject changes. Human belief says to mortals, "You are 6 sick!" and this testimony manifests itself on the body as sickness. It is as necessary for a health-illusion, as for an illusion of sickness, to be instructed out of itself into 9 the understanding of what constitutes health; for a change in either a health-belief or a belief in sickness affects the physical condition. |
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Self-improvement | 12 Erroneous belief is destroyed by truth. Change the evidence, and that disappears which before seemed real to this false belief, and the human conscious- Self- 15 ness rises higher. Thus the reality of being improvement is attained and man found to be immortal. The only fact concerning any material concept is, that it is neither 18 scientific nor eternal, but subject to change and dis- solution. |
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Faith higher than belief | Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is 21 a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual evidence, contradicting the testimony of mate- Faith higher rial sense, begins to appear, and Truth, the than belief 24 ever-present, is becoming understood. Human thoughts have their degrees of comparison. Some thoughts are better than others. A belief in Truth is better than a 27 belief in error, but no mortal testimony is founded on the divine rock. Mortal testimony can be shaken. Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual under- 30 standing, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine. A mortal belief fulfils its own conditions. Sickness, 1 sin, and death are the vague realities of human conclu- sions. Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine 3 Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in spiritual understanding. As a cloud hides the sun it cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the 6 voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot de- stroy Science armed with faith, hope, and fruition. |
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Truth’s witness | What is termed material sense can report only a mor- 9 tal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth. To material sense, Truth's the unreal is the real until this sense is corrected witness 12 by Christian Science. Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, in- volves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, real- 15 ity. Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never 18 reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal. When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spirit- 21 ual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle, and admit no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense 24 of being. |
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Thought-angels | Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial 27 visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, Thought- pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, angels winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their indi- 30 vidualism may be. Human conjecture confers upon angels its own forms of thought, marked with superstitious out- lines, making them human creatures with suggestive 1 feathers; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves 3 his "Statue of Liberty," which embodies his concep- tion of an unseen quality or condition, but which has no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's own ob- 6 servation and "chambers of imagery." |
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Our angelic messengers | My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried 9 its fondest earthly hopes. With white fin- Our angelic gers they point upward to a new and glo- messengers rified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels 12 are God's representatives. These upward-soaring beings never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi- 15 viduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain "angels unawares." |
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Knowledge and Truth | 18 Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then Knowledge 21 to judge the knowledge thus obtained to be and Truth untrue and dangerous, since "the tree is known by his fruit"? 24 Truth never destroys God's idea. Truth is spiritual, eternal substance, which cannot destroy the right reflec- tion. Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, 27 health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial 30 peaks. |
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Old and new man | If man were solely a creature of the material senses, he would have no eternal Principle and would be mutable 1 and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts to draw correct spiritual conclusions regarding life from 3 matter. Finite sense has no true apprecia- Old and tion of infinite Principle, God, or of His infi- new man nite image or reflection, man. The mirage, which makes 6 trees and cities seem to be where they are not, illustrates the illusion of material man, who cannot be the image of God. 9 So far as the scientific statement as to man is under- stood, it can be proved and will bring to light the true reflection of God — the real man, or the new man (as 12 St. Paul has it). |
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The tares and wheat | The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the im- 15 mutable and perfect. The inharmonious and The tares self-destructive never touch the harmonious and wheat and self-existent. These opposite qualities are the tares 18 and wheat, which never really mingle, though (to mortal sight) they grow side by side until the harvest; then, Sci- ence separates the wheat from the tares, through the real- 21 ization of God as ever present and of man as reflecting the divine likeness. |
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The divine reflection | Spirit is God, Soul; therefore Soul is not in matter. If 24 Spirit were in matter, God would have no representative, and matter would be identical with God. The divine The theory that soul, spirit, intelligence, in- reflection 27 habits matter is taught by the schools. This theory is unscientific. The universe reflects and expresses the di- vine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the 30 spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is re- vealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love, — 1 yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats 3 the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror. Few persons comprehend what Christian Science 6 means by the word reflection. To himself, mortal and material man seems to be substance, but his sense of substance involves error and therefore is material, 9 temporal. On the other hand, the immortal, spiritual man is really substantial, and reflects the eternal substance, or Spirit, 12 which mortals hope for. He reflects the divine, which constitutes the only real and eternal entity. This reflection seems to mortal sense transcendental, because the spiritual 15 man's substantiality transcends mortal vision and is re- vealed only through divine Science. |
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Inverted images and ideas | As God is substance and man is the divine image and 18 likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only the substance of good, the substance of Spirit, Inverted not matter. The belief that man has any other images 21 substance, or mind, is not spiritual and breaks and ideas the First Commandment, Thou shalt have one God, one Mind. Mortal man seems to himself to be material sub- 24 stance, while man is "image" (idea). Delusion, sin, dis- ease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the 27 focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down. 30 This falsity presupposes soul to be an unsubstantial dweller in material forms, and man to be material instead of spiritual. Immortality is not bounded by mortality. 1 Soul is not compassed by finiteness. Principle is not to be found in fragmentary ideas. |
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Identity not lost | 3 The material body and mind are temporal, but the real man is spiritual and eternal. The identity of the real man is not lost, but found through this Identity 6 explanation; for the conscious infinitude of not lost existence and of all identity is thereby discerned and re- mains unchanged. It is impossible that man should lose 9 aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his. The notion that mind is in matter, and that the so-called pleas- ures and pains, the birth, sin, sickness, and death of 12 matter, are real, is a mortal belief; and this belief is all that will ever be lost. |
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Definition of man | Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that 15 harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and is always beyond and above the mortal illu- Definition sion of any life, substance, and intelligence of man 18 as existent in matter. This statement is based on fact, not fable. The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind, 21 of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all being, and because this real man is governed by Soul instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called 24 laws of matter. God is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Prin- ciple, called Person or God. Man's true consciousness 27 is in the mental, not in any bodily or personal likeness to Spirit. Indeed, the body presents no proper likeness of divinity, though mortal sense would fain have us so 30 believe. |
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Mental propagation | Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's individual ideas is but the reflection of the creative power 1 of the divine Principle of those ideas. The reflection, through mental manifestation, of the multitudinous 3 forms of Mind which people the realm of Mental the real is controlled by Mind, the Principle propagation governing the reflection. Multiplication of God's chil- 6 dren comes from no power of propagation in matter, it is the reflection of Spirit. The minutiae of lesser individualities reflect the one di- 9 vine individuality and are comprehended in and formed by Spirit, not by material sensation. Whatever reflects Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and 12 brought forth; but the statement that man is conceived and evolved both spiritually and materially, or by both God and man, contradicts this eternal truth. All the 15 vanity of the ages can never make both these contraries true. Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illu- sion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material 18 body, and Science will eventually destroy this illusion through the self-destruction of all error and the beatified understanding of the Science of Life. |
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Error defined | 21 The belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holi- ness and unholiness, mingle in man, — that Error mortal, material man is the likeness of God defined 24 and is himself a creator, — is a fatal error. | ||
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Man’s entity spiritual | God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would be a nonentity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be 27 without a witness or proof of His own na- Man's entity ture. Spiritual man is the image or idea of spiritual God, an idea which cannot be lost nor sep- 30 arated from its divine Principle. When the evidence before the material senses yielded to spiritual sense, the apostle declared that nothing could alienate him from 1 God, from the sweet sense and presence of Life and Truth. |
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Man inseparable from Love | 3 It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and good- ness. Understanding this, Paul said: "Nei- Man 6 ther death, nor life, . . . nor things present, inseparable nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor from Love any other creature, shall be able to separate us from 9 the love of God." This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into 12 sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man — governed 15 by God, his perfect Principle — is sinless and eternal. |
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Harmony natural | Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life 18 of man. Man's happiness is not, therefore, at Harmony the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not natural contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful 21 as in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal. The science of music governs tones. If mortals caught harmony through material sense, they would lose har- 24 mony, if time or accident robbed them of material sense. To be master of chords and discords, the science of music must be understood. Left to the decisions 27 of material sense, music is liable to be misappre- hended and lost in confusion. Controlled by belief, instead of understanding, music is, must be, imper- 30 fectly expressed. So man, not understanding the Sci- ence of being, — thrusting aside his divine Principle as incomprehensible, — is abandoned to conjectures, left in 1 the hands of ignorance, placed at the disposal of illusions, subjected to material sense which is discord. A discon- 3 tented, discordant mortal is no more a man than discord is music. |
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Human reflection | A picture in the camera or a face reflected in the mirror 6 is not the original, though resembling it. Man, in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light Human of being, the invisible God. As there is no cor- reflection 9 poreality in the mirrored form, which is but a reflection, so man, like all things real, reflects God, his divine Prin- ciple, not in a mortal body. 12 Gender also is a quality, not of God, but a character- istic of mortal mind. The verity that God's image is not a creator, though he reflects the creation of Mind, God, 15 constitutes the underlying reality of reflection. "Then answered Jesus and said unto them: Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he 18 seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." |
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Inverted images | The inverted images presented by the senses, the de- 21 flections of matter as opposed to the Science of spirit- ual reflection, are all unlike Spirit, God. In Inverted the illusion of life that is here to-day and images 24 gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in divine Science, destroys all error and brings immor- 27 tality to light. Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, de- cay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not 30 divine. |
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Jewish traditions | The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrec- tion, but not so blindly as the Pharisees, who believed 1 error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought that they could raise the spiritual from the material. They 3 would first make life result in death, and then Jewish resort to death to reproduce spiritual life. traditions Jesus taught them how death was to be overcome by 6 spiritual Life, and demonstrated this beyond cavil. |
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Divinity not childless | Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes man immortal. If God, who is Life, were parted for a 9 moment from His reflection, man, during that Divinity not moment there would be no divinity reflected. childless The Ego would be unexpressed, and the Father would be 12 childless, — no Father. If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for a period and then are separated as by a law of divorce to 15 be brought together again at some uncertain future time and in a manner unknown, — and this is the general religious opinion of mankind, — we are left without a 18 rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be sep- arated for an instant from God, if man reflects God. Thus Science proves man's existence to be intact. |
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Thought-forms | 21 The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest as matter, are not more distinct nor real to the mate- rial senses than are the Soul-created forms Thought- 24 to spiritual sense, which cognizes Life as per- forms manent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding 27 to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, — is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal. 30 God's man, spiritually created, is not material and mortal. |
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The serpent’s whisper | The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, 1 the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. 3 This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, in- The serpent's sists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying, whisper "Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real 6 and eternal as Truth. Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that there is more than one intelligence or God. It says: 9 "There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God makes evil minds and evil spirits, and that I aid Him. Truth shall change sides and be unlike Spirit. I will 12 put spirit into what I call matter, and matter shall seem to have life as much as God, Spirit, who is the only Life." |
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Bad results from error | This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found 15 to be not Life, but only a transient, false sense of an ex- istence which ends in death. Error charges Bad results its lie to Truth and says: "The Lord knows from error 18 it. He has made man mortal and material, out of mat- ter instead of Spirit." Thus error partakes of its own nature and utters its own falsities. If we regard matter 21 as intelligent, and Mind as both good and evil, every sin or supposed material pain and pleasure seems normal, a part of God's creation, and so weighs against our course 24 Spiritward. |
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Higher statutes | Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man 27 was not created from a material basis, nor Higher bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never statutes made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher 30 law of Mind. |
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The great question | Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: "Adam, where art thou? Conscious- 1 ness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou 3 in the living faith that there is and can be but The great one God, and keeping His commandment?" question Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind gov- 6 erning man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the beginning, and will hide from the demand, "Where art thou?" This awful demand, "Adam, where art thou?" 9 is met by the admission from the head, heart, stomach, blood, nerves, etc.: "Lo, here I am, looking for happiness and life in the body, but finding only an illusion, a blend- 12 ing of false claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and death." The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, 15 and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man. |
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Wrestling of Jacob | Jacob was alone, wrestling with error, — struggling with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence 18 as existent in matter with its false pleasures Wrestling and pains, — when an angel, a message from of Jacob Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew, 21 or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality; and Truth, being thereby understood, gave him spiritual strength in this Peniel of divine Science. Then said 24 the spiritual evangel: "Let me go, for the day breaketh;" that is, the light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee. But the patriarch, perceiving his error and his need 27 of help, did not loosen his hold upon this glorious light until his nature was transformed. When Jacob was asked, "What is thy name?" he straightway answered; 30 and then his name was changed to Israel, for "as a prince" had he prevailed and had "power with God and with men." Then Jacob questioned his deliverer, "Tell me, 1 I pray thee, thy name;" but this appellation was withheld, for the messenger was not a corporeal being, but a name- 3 less, incorporeal impartation of divine Love to man, which, to use the word of the Psalmist, restored his Soul, — gave him the spiritual sense of being and rebuked his material 6 sense. |
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Israel the new name | The result of Jacob's struggle thus appeared. He had conquered material error with the understanding of Spirit 9 and of spiritual power. This changed the man. Israel the He was no longer called Jacob, but Israel, — new name a prince of God, or a soldier of God, who had fought 12 a good fight. He was to become the father of those, who through earnest striving followed his demonstration of the power of Spirit over the material senses; and the children 15 of earth who followed his example were to be called the children of Israel, until the Messiah should rename them. If these children should go astray, and forget that Life 18 is God, good, and that good is not in elements which are not spiritual, — thus losing the divine power which heals the sick and sinning, — they were to be brought back 21 through great tribulation, to be renamed in Christian Science and led to deny material sense, or mind in matter, even as the gospel teaches. |
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Life never structural | 24 The Science of being shows it to be impossible for in- finite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to have an intelligence separate from his Maker. Life never 27 It is a self-evident error to suppose that there structural can be such a reality as organic animal or vegetable life, when such so-called life always ends in death. Life is 30 never for a moment extinct. Therefore it is never struc- tural nor organic, and is never absorbed nor limited by its own formations. |
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Thought seen as substance | 1 The artist is not in his painting. The picture is the artist's thought objectified. The human belief fancies 3 that it delineates thought on matter, but what Thought seen is matter? Did it exist prior to thought? as substance Matter is made up of supposititious mortal mind-force; 6 but all might is divine Mind. Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments. The potter is not in 9 the clay; else the clay would have power over the potter. God is His own infinite Mind, and expresses all. |
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The central intelligence | Day may decline and shadows fall, but darkness flees 12 when the earth has again turned upon its axis. The sun is not affected by the revolution of the earth. The central So Science reveals Soul as God, untouched intelligence 15 by sin and death, — as the central Life and intelligence around which circle harmoniously all things in the sys- tems of Mind. |
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Soul imperishable | 18 Soul changeth not. We are commonly taught that there is a human soul which sins and is spiritually lost, — that soul may be lost, and yet be immortal. If Soul 21 Soul could sin, Spirit, Soul, would be flesh in- imperishable stead of Spirit. It is the belief of the flesh and of mate- rial sense which sins. If Soul sinned, Soul would die. 24 Sin is the element of self-destruction, and spiritual death is oblivion. If there was sin in Soul, the annihilation of Spirit would be inevitable. The only Life is Spirit, and 27 if Spirit should lose Life as God, good, then Spirit, which has no other existence, would be annihilated. Mind is God, and God is not seen by material sense, 30 because Mind is Spirit, which material sense cannot dis- cern. There is neither growth, maturity, nor decay in Soul. These changes are the mutations of material sense, 1 the varying clouds of mortal belief, which hide the truth of being. 3 What we term mortal mind or carnal mind, dependent on matter for manifestation, is not Mind. God is Mind: all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He 6 made all. Hence evil is not made and is not real. |
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Sin only of the flesh | Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele- ment of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No, 9 he can only lose a sense material. All sin is Sin only of of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists the flesh here or hereafter only so long as the illusion of mind in 12 matter remains. It is a sense of sin, and not a sinful soul, which is lost. Evil is destroyed by the sense of good. |
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Soul impeccable | Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense 15 and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spir- Soul itual truth. This state of error is the mortal impeccable 18 dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. So long as we believe that soul can sin or that immortal Soul is in 21 mortal body, we can never understand the Science of be- ing. When humanity does understand this Science, it will become the law of Life to man, — even the higher law 24 of Soul, which prevails over material sense through har- mony and immortality. The objects cognized by the physical senses have not 27 the reality of substance. They are only what mortal belief calls them. Matter, sin, and mortality lose all supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as 30 mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelli- gence. But the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by these phases of mortality. |
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Sense-dreams | 1 How true it is that whatever is learned through material sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is 3 reversed by the spiritual facts of being in Sense- Science. That which material sense calls dreams intangible, is found to be substance. What to material 6 sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense- dream vanishes and reality appears. The senses regard a corpse, not as man, but simply as 9 matter. People say, "Man is dead;" but this death is the departure of a mortal's mind, not of matter. The matter is still there. The belief of that mortal that he 12 must die occasioned his departure; yet you say that matter has caused his death. |
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Vain ecstasies | People go into ecstasies over the sense of a corporeal 15 Jehovah, though with scarcely a spark of love in their hearts; yet God is Love, and without Love, Vain God, immortality cannot appear. Mortals try ecstasies 18 to believe without understanding Truth; yet God is Truth. Mortals claim that death is inevitable; but man's eternal Principle is ever-present Life. Mortals believe in 21 a finite personal God; while God is infinite Love, which must be unlimited. |
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Man-made theories | Our theories are based on finite premises, which can- 24 not penetrate beyond matter. A personal sense of God and of man's capabilities necessarily limits Man-made faith and hinders spiritual understanding. It theories 27 divides faith and understanding between matter and Spirit, the finite and the infinite, and so turns away from the intelligent and divine healing Principle to the inanimate 30 drug. |
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The one anointed | Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship 1 in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and 3 proper translation of the Greek), may be ren- The one dered "Jesus the anointed," Jesus the God- anointed crowned or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in 6 the first chapter of Hebrews: — Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 9 With this agrees another passage in the same chapter, which refers to the Son as "the brightness of His [God's] glory, and the express [expressed] image of His person 12 [infinite Mind]." It is noteworthy that the phrase "ex- press image" in the Common Version is, in the Greek Testament, character. Using this word in its higher mean- 15 ing, we may assume that the author of this remarkable epistle regarded Christ as the Son of God, the royal reflection of the infinite; and the cause given for the ex- 18 altation of Jesus, Mary's son, was that he "loved right- eousness and hated iniquity." The passage is made even clearer in the translation of the late George R. 21 Noyes, D.D.: "Who, being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His being." |
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Jesus the Scientist | Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that 24 ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual Jesus the cause. To accommodate himself to imma- Scientist 27 ture ideas of spiritual power, — for spirituality was pos- sessed only in a limited degree even by his disciples, — Jesus called the body, which by spiritual power he 30 raised from the grave, "flesh and bones." To show that the substance of himself was Spirit and the body 1 no more perfect because of death and no less material until the ascension (his further spiritual exaltation), 3 Jesus waited until the mortal or fleshly sense had re- linquished the belief of substance-matter, and spiritual sense had quenched all earthly yearnings. Thus he found 6 the eternal Ego, and proved that he and the Father were inseparable as God and His reflection or spiritual man. Our Master gained the solution of being, demonstrating 9 the existence of but one Mind without a second or equal. |
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The bodily resurrection | The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed plainly that their material views were the parents of their 12 wicked deeds. When Jesus spoke of repro- The bodily ducing his body, — knowing, as he did, that resurrection Mind was the builder, — and said, "Destroy this temple, 15 and in three days I will raise it up," they thought that he meant their material temple instead of his body. To such materialists, the real man seemed a spectre, unseen and 18 unfamiliar, and the body, which they laid in a sepulchre, seemed to be substance. This materialism lost sight of the true Jesus; but the faithful Mary saw him, and he 21 presented to her, more than ever before, the true idea of Life and substance. |
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Opposition of materialists | Because of mortals' material and sinful belief, the 24 spiritual Jesus was imperceptible to them. The higher his demonstration of divine Science carried Opposition of the problem of being, and the more dis- materialists 27 tinctly he uttered the demands of its divine Principle, Truth and Love, the more odious he became to sinners and to those who, depending on doctrines and material 30 laws to save them from sin and sickness, were submis- sive to death as being in supposed accord with the inevitable law of life. Jesus proved them wrong by 1 his resurrection, and said: "Whosoever liveth and be- lieveth in me shall never die." |
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Hebrew theology | 3 That saying of our Master, "I and my Father are one," separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis. His better understanding of God was a rebuke Hebrew 6 to them. He knew of but one Mind and laid theology no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind instead of body and that matter, sin, and evil were not 9 Mind; and his understanding of this divine Science brought upon him the anathemas of the age. |
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The true sonship | The opposite and false views of the people hid from 12 their sense Christ's sonship with God. They could not discern his spiritual existence. Their carnal The true minds were at enmity with it. Their thoughts sonship 15 were filled with mortal error, instead of with God's spirit- ual idea as presented by Christ Jesus. The likeness of God we lose sight of through sin, which beclouds the spir- 18 itual sense of Truth; and we realize this likeness only when we subdue sin and prove man's heritage, the liberty of the sons of God. |
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Immaculate conception | 21 Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him to demonstrate the facts of being, — to prove irrefutably how spiritual Truth destroys material error, Immaculate 24 heals sickness, and overcomes death. The conception divine conception of Jesus pointed to this truth and pre- sented an illustration of creation. The history of Jesus 27 shows him to have been more spiritual than all other earthly personalities. |
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Jesus as mediator | Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed 30 to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother, Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrat- 1 ing the way of divine Science, he became the way of salvation to all who accepted his word. From him mor- 3 tals may learn how to escape from evil. The Jesus as real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mediator mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal 6 selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship. Christ, Truth, was demonstrated through Jesus to prove the power of 9 Spirit over the flesh, — to show that Truth is made manifest by its effects upon the human mind and body, healing sickness and destroying sin. |
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Spiritual government | 12 Jesus represented Christ, the true idea of God. Hence the warfare between this spiritual idea and perfunctory religion, between spiritual clear-sightedness Spiritual 15 and the blindness of popular belief, which led government to the conclusion that the spiritual idea could be killed by crucifying the flesh. The Christ-idea, or the Christ- 18 man, rose higher to human view because of the crucifixion, and thus proved that Truth was the master of death. Christ presents the indestructible man, whom Spirit cre- 21 ates, constitutes, and governs. Christ illustrates that blending with God, his divine Principle, which gives man dominion over all the earth. |
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Deadness in sin | 24 The spiritual idea of God, as presented by Jesus, was scourged in person, and its Principle was rejected. That man was accounted a criminal who could Deadness 27 prove God's divine power by healing the in sin sick, casting out evils, spiritualizing materialistic beliefs, and raising the dead, — those dead in trespasses and 30 sins, satisfied with the flesh, resting on the basis of mat- ter, blind to the possibilities of Spirit and its correla- tive truth. 1 Jesus uttered things which had been "secret from the foundation of the world," — since material knowledge 3 usurped the throne of the creative divine Principle, insisted on the might of matter, the force of falsity, the insignifi- cance of spirit, and proclaimed an anthropomorphic God. |
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The cup of Jesus | 6 Whosoever lives most the life of Jesus in this age and declares best the power of Christian Science, will drink of his Master's cup. Resistance to The cup 9 Truth will haunt his steps, and he will in- of Jesus cur the hatred of sinners, till "wisdom is justified of her children." These blessed benedictions rest upon 12 Jesus' followers: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you;" "Lo, I am with you alway," — that is, not only in all time, but in all ways 15 and conditions. The individuality of man is no less tangible because it is spiritual and because his life is not at the mercy of 18 matter. The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and en- ables him to conquer sin, disease, and death. Our Lord 21 and Master presented himself to his disciples after his resurrection from the grave, as the self-same Jesus whom they had loved before the tragedy on Calvary. |
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Material skepticism | 24 To the materialistic Thomas, looking for the ideal Saviour in matter instead of in Spirit and to the testi- mony of the material senses and the body, Material 27 more than to Soul, for an earnest of immor- skepticism tality, — to him Jesus furnished the proof that he was unchanged by the crucifixion. To this dull and doubt- 30 ing disciple Jesus remained a fleshly reality, so long as the Master remained an inhabitant of the earth. Noth- ing but a display of matter could make existence real 1 to Thomas. For him to believe in matter was no task, but for him to conceive of the substantiality of Spirit — 3 to know that nothing can efface Mind and immortality, in which Spirit reigns — was more difficult. |
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What the senses originate | Corporeal senses define diseases as realities; but the 6 Scriptures declare that God made all, even while the cor- poreal senses are saying that matter causes What disease and the divine Mind cannot or will the senses 9 not heal it. The material senses originate and originate support all that is material, untrue, selfish, or debased. They would put soul into soil, life into limbo, and doom 12 all things to decay. We must silence this lie of material sense with the truth of spiritual sense. We must cause the error to cease that brought the belief of sin and death 15 and would efface the pure sense of omnipotence. |
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Sickness as discord | Is the sick man sinful above all others? No! but so far as he is discordant, he is not the image of God. 18 Weary of their material beliefs, from which Sickness comes so much suffering, invalids grow more as discord spiritual, as the error — or belief that life is in matter — 21 yields to the reality of spiritual Life. The Science of Mind denies the error of sensation in matter, and heals with Truth. Medical science treats 24 disease as though disease were real, therefore right, and attempts to heal it with matter. If disease is right it is wrong to heal it. Material methods are temporary, and 27 are not adapted to elevate mankind. The governor is not subjected to the governed. In Science man is governed by God, divine Principle, as 30 numbers are controlled and proved by His laws. Intelli- gence does not originate in numbers, but is manifested through them. The body does not include soul, but man- 1 ifests mortality, a false sense of soul. The delusion that there is life in matter has no kinship with the Life supernal. |
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Unscientific introspection | 3 Science depicts disease as error, as matter versus Mind, and error reversed as subserving the facts of health. To calculate one's life-prospects Unscientific 6 from a material basis, would infringe upon introspection spiritual law and misguide human hope. Having faith in the divine Principle of health and spiritually under- 9 standing God, sustains man under all circumstances; whereas the lower appeal to the general faith in material means (commonly called nature) must yield to the all- 12 might of infinite Spirit. Throughout the infinite cycles of eternal existence, Spirit and matter neither concur in man nor in the universe. |
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God the only Mind | 15 The varied doctrines and theories which presuppose life and intelligence to exist in matter are so many ancient and modern mythologies. Mystery, miracle, God the 18 sin, and death will disappear when it becomes only Mind fairly understood that the divine Mind controls man and man has no Mind but God. |
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Scriptures misinterpreted | 21 The divine Science taught in the original language of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs inspi- ration to be understood. Hence the misappre- Scriptures 24 hension of the spiritual meaning of the Bible, misinterpreted and the misinterpretation of the Word in some instances by uninspired writers, who only wrote 27 down what an inspired teacher had said. A misplaced word changes the sense and misstates the Science of the Scriptures, as, for instance, to name Love as merely 30 an attribute of God; but we can by special and proper capitalization speak of the love of Love, meaning by that what the beloved disciple meant in one of his epistles, 1 when he said, "God is love." Likewise we can speak of the truth of Truth and of the life of Life, for Christ plainly 3 declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." |
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Interior meaning | Metaphors abound in the Bible, and names are often expressive of spiritual ideas. The most distinguished 6 theologians in Europe and America agree that Interior the Scriptures have both a spiritual and lit- meaning eral meaning. In Smith's Bible Dictionary it is said: 9 "The spiritual interpretation of Scripture must rest upon both the literal and moral;" and in the learned article on Noah in the same work, the familiar text, 12 Genesis vi. 3, "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh," is quoted as follows, from the original Hebrew: "And Jehovah 15 said, My spirit shall not forever rule [or be humbled] in men, seeing that they are [or, in their error they are] but flesh." Here the original text declares plainly the 18 spiritual fact of being, even man's eternal and harmo- nious existence as image, idea, instead of matter (how- ever transcendental such a thought appears), and avers 21 that this fact is not forever to be humbled by the belief that man is flesh and matter, for according to that error man is mortal. |
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Job, on the resurrection | 24 The one important interpretation of Scripture is the spiritual. For example, the text, "In my flesh shall I see God," gives a profound idea of the di- Job, on the 27 vine power to heal the ills of the flesh, and resurrection encourages mortals to hope in Him who healeth all our diseases; whereas this passage is continually quoted 30 as if Job intended to declare that even if disease and worms destroyed his body, yet in the latter days he should stand in celestial perfection before Elohim, still clad 1 in material flesh, — an interpretation which is just the op- posite of the true, as may be seen by studying the book 3 of Job. As Paul says, in his first epistle to the Corin- thians, "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." |
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Fear of the serpent overcome | 6 The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of making the people understand what should be revealed to him. When, led by wisdom to cast down his Fear of the 9 rod, he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled be- serpent fore it; but wisdom bade him come back and overcome handle the serpent, and then Moses' fear departed. In 12 this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter was shown to be a belief only. The serpent, evil, under wisdom's bidding, was destroyed through understanding 15 divine Science, and this proof was a staff upon which to lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really 18 but a phase of mortal belief. |
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Leprosy healed | It was scientifically demonstrated that leprosy was a creation of mortal mind and not a condition of matter, 21 when Moses first put his hand into his bosom Leprosy and drew it forth white as snow with the dread healed disease, and presently restored his hand to its natural con- 24 dition by the same simple process. God had lessened Moses' fear by this proof in divine Science, and the in- ward voice became to him the voice of God, which said: 27 "It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign." And so it was in the coming 30 centuries, when the Science of being was demonstrated by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind by changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle 1 serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and cast out evils in proof of the supremacy of Mind. |
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Standpoints changed | 3 When understanding changes the standpoints of life and intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over Standpoints 6 sense, and we shall perceive Christianity, or changed Truth, in its divine Principle. This must be the climax before harmonious and immortal man is obtained and his 9 capabilities revealed. It is highly important — in view of the immense work to be accomplished before this recog- nition of divine Science can come — to turn our thoughts 12 towards divine Principle, that finite belief may be pre- pared to relinquish its error. |
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Saving the inebriate | Man's wisdom finds no satisfaction in sin, since God 15 has sentenced sin to suffer. The necromancy of yester- day foreshadowed the mesmerism and hypno- Saving the tism of to-day. The drunkard thinks he enjoys inebriate 18 drunkenness, and you cannot make the inebriate leave his besottedness, until his physical sense of pleasure yields to a higher sense. Then he turns from his cups, as 21 the startled dreamer who wakens from an incubus in- curred through the pains of distorted sense. A man who likes to do wrong — finding pleasure in it and refraining 24 from it only through fear of consequences — is neither a temperate man nor a reliable religionist. |
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Uses of suffering | The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life 27 of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms Uses of of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life suffering 30 in divine Science. Without this process of weaning, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" It is easier to desire Truth than to rid one's self of error. Mortals 1 may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts 3 of being without striving for them. This strife consists in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to pos- sess no other consciousness but good. |
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A bright outlook | 6 Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks A bright 9 of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of outlook truth, we pause, — wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and concep- 12 tion unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory. |
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Need and supply | In order to apprehend more, we must put into prac- tice what we already know. We must recollect that 15 Truth is demonstrable when understood, and Need and that good is not understood until demonstrated. supply If "faithful over a few things," we shall be made rulers 18 over many; but the one unused talent decays and is lost. When the sick or the sinning awake to realize their need of what they have not, they will be receptive of divine 21 Science, which gravitates towards Soul and away from material sense, removes thought from the body, and ele- vates even mortal mind to the contemplation of some- 24 thing better than disease or sin. The true idea of God gives the true understanding of Life and Love, robs the grave of victory, takes away all sin and the delusion that 27 there are other minds, and destroys mortality. |
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Childlike receptivity | The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen as felt. It is the "still, small voice" of Truth Childlike 30 uttering itself. We are either turning away receptivity from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going up higher. Willingness to become as a little child and 1 to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks 3 and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. "Blessed are the 6 pure in heart: for they shall see God." |
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Narrow pathway | Unless the harmony and immortality of man are be- coming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea 9 of God; and the body will reflect what gov- Narrow erns it, whether it be Truth or error, pathway understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore 12 "acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace." Be watchful, sober, and vigilant. The way is straight and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God 15 is the only Life. It is a warfare with the flesh, in which we must conquer sin, sickness, and death, either here or hereafter, — certainly before we can reach the goal 18 of Spirit, or life in God. |
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Pauls enlightenment | Paul was not at first a disciple of Jesus but a perse- cutor of Jesus' followers. When the truth first appeared 21 to him in Science, Paul was made blind, Paul's and his blindness was felt; but spiritual enlightenment light soon enabled him to follow the example and teach- 24 ings of Jesus, healing the sick and preaching Christian- ity throughout Asia Minor, Greece, and even in imperial Rome. 27 Paul writes, "If Christ [Truth] be not risen, then is our preaching vain." That is, if the idea of the suprem- acy of Spirit, which is the true conception of being, 30 come not to your thought, you cannot be benefited by what I say. |
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Abiding in Life | Jesus said substantially, "He that believeth in me 1 shall not see death." That is, he who perceives the true idea of Life loses his belief in death. He who has 3 the true idea of good loses all sense of evil, Abiding and by reason of this is being ushered into the in Life undying realities of Spirit. Such a one abideth in Life, — 6 life obtained not of the body incapable of supporting life, but of Truth, unfolding its own immortal idea. Jesus gave the true idea of being, which results in infinite bless- 9 ings to mortals. |
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Indestructible being | In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also 12 appear [be manifested] with him in glory." Indestructible When spiritual being is understood in all its being perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found 15 in God's image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness, perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, "hid with 18 Christ in God," — with Truth in divine Love, where human sense hath not seen man. |
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Consecration required | Paul had a clear sense of the demands of Truth upon 21 mortals physically and spiritually, when he said: "Pre- sent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac- Consecration ceptable unto God, which is your reasonable required 24 service." But he, who is begotten of the beliefs of the flesh and serves them, can never reach in this world the divine heights of our Lord. The time cometh when 27 the spiritual origin of man, the divine Science which ushered Jesus into human presence, will be understood and demonstrated. 30 When first spoken in any age, Truth, like the light, "shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." A false sense of life, substance, and mind 1 hides the divine possibilities, and conceals scientific demonstration. |
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Loving God supremely | 3 If we wish to follow Christ, Truth, it must be in the way of God's appointing. Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Loving God 6 He, who would reach the source and find the supremely divine remedy for every ill, must not try to climb the hill of Science by some other road. All nature teaches God's 9 love to man, but man cannot love God supremely and set his whole affections on spiritual things, while loving the material or trusting in it more than in the spiritual. 12 We must forsake the foundation of material systems, however time-honored, if we would gain the Christ as our only Saviour. Not partially, but fully, the great 15 healer of mortal mind is the healer of the body. The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained now. This point won, you have started as you should. 18 You have begun at the numeration-table of Christian Science, and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your advancement. Working and praying with true motives, 21 your Father will open the way. "Who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth?" |
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Conversion of Saul | Saul of Tarsus beheld the way — the Christ, or Truth 24 — only when his uncertain sense of right yielded to a spiritual sense, which is always right. Then Conversion the man was changed. Thought assumed a of Saul 27 nobler outlook, and his life became more spiritual. He learned the wrong that he had done in persecuting Chris- tians, whose religion he had not understood, and in hu- 30 mility he took the new name of Paul. He beheld for the first time the true idea of Love, and learned a lesson in divine Science. 1 Reform comes by understanding that there is no abid- ing pleasure in evil, and also by gaining an affection for 3 good according to Science, which reveals the immortal fact that neither pleasure nor pain, appetite nor passion, can exist in or of matter, while divine Mind can and does 6 destroy the false beliefs of pleasure, pain, or fear and all the sinful appetites of the human mind. |
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Image of the beast | What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in re- 9 venge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger. Image of Then he loses pleasure in wickedness, and it the beast 12 becomes his torment. The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. Sin is the image of the beast to be effaced by the sweat of agony. 15 It is a moral madness which rushes forth to clamor with midnight and tempest. |
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Peremptory demands | To the physical senses, the strict demands of Christian 18 Science seem peremptory; but mortals are has- Peremptory tening to learn that Life is God, good, and that demands evil has in reality neither place nor power in the human or 21 the divine economy. | ||
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Moral courage | Fear of punishment never made man truly honest. Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to 24 proclaim the right. But how shall we re- Moral form the man who has more animal than courage moral courage, and who has not the true idea of good? 27 Through human consciousness, convince the mortal of his mistake in seeking material means for gaining hap- piness. Reason is the most active human faculty. Let 30 that inform the sentiments and awaken the man's dor- mant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense 1 and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will 3 be saved, but is saved. |
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Final destruction of error | Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness, when God is good and the only real Life. What is the 6 result? Understanding little about the divine Final destruction Principle which saves and heals, mortals get of error rid of sin, sickness, and death only in belief. These errors 9 are not thus really destroyed, and must therefore cling to mortals until, here or hereafter, they gain the true un- derstanding of God in the Science which destroys human 12 delusions about Him and reveals the grand realities of His allness. |
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Promise perpetual | This understanding of man's power, when he is 15 equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian history. For centuries it has been dormant, a Promise lost element of Christianity. Our missionaries perpetual 18 carry the Bible to India, but can it be said that they explain it practically, as Jesus did, when hundreds of persons die there annually from serpent-bites? Under- 21 standing spiritual law and knowing that there is no mate- rial law, Jesus said: "These signs shall follow them that believe, . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they 24 drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." It were well had Christendom believed and obeyed this 27 sacred saying. Jesus' promise is perpetual. Had it been given only to his immediate disciples, the Scriptural passage would 30 read you, not they. The purpose of his great life-work extends through time and includes universal humanity. Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a 1 single period or of a limited following. As time moves on, the healing elements of pure Christianity will be fairly 3 dealt with; they will be sought and taught, and will glow in all the grandeur of universal goodness. |
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Imitation of Jesus | A little leaven leavens the whole lump. A little under- 6 standing of Christian Science proves the truth of all that I say of it. Because you cannot walk on the Imitation water and raise the dead, you have no right to of Jesus 9 question the great might of divine Science in these direc- tions. Be thankful that Jesus, who was the true demon- strator of Science, did these things, and left his example for 12 us. In Science we can use only what we understand. We must prove our faith by demonstration. One should not tarry in the storm if the body is freez- 15 ing, nor should he remain in the devouring flames. Un- til one is able to prevent bad results, he should avoid their occasion. To be discouraged, is to resemble a pupil in 18 addition, who attempts to solve a problem of Euclid, and denies the rule of the problem because he fails in his first effort. |
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Error destroyed not pardoned | 21 There is no hypocrisy in Science. Principle is impera- tive. You cannot mock it by human will. Science is a divine demand, not a human. Always right, Error 24 its divine Principle never repents, but main- destroyed, tains the claim of Truth by quenching error. not pardoned The pardon of divine mercy is the destruction of error. If 27 men understood their real spiritual source to be all bless- edness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mor- 30 tal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to spirituality, till error yields to Truth. |
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The hopeful outlook | Human resistance to divine Science weakens in pro- 1 portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un- derstanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until the 3 author of this book learned the vastness of The hopeful Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illu- outlook sions, and the human hatred of Truth, she cherished 6 sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with immediate and universal acceptance. |