Part 12 (2/2)

Scientific foreseeing

84:3 The ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing evil and mistaking fact for fiction, - predict- 84:6 ing the future from a groundwork of corpo- reality and human belief. When sufficiently advanced in Science to be in harmony with the truth of being, men 84:9 become seers and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spirits, or demiG.o.ds, but by the one Spirit.

It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and 84:12 of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future.

Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to 84:15 commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired, - yea, to reach the range of fetter- 84:18 less Mind.

The Mind unbounded

To understand that Mind is infinite, not bounded by corporeality, not dependent upon the ear and eye for 84:21 sound or sight nor upon muscles and bones for locomotion, is a step towards the Mind- science by which we discern man's nature and existence.

84:24 This true conception of being destroys the belief of spirit- ualism at its very inception, for without the concession of material personalities called spirits, spiritualism has no 84:27 basis upon which to build.

Scientific foreknowing

All we correctly know of Spirit comes from G.o.d, divine Principle, and is learned through Christ and Christian 84:30 Science. If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read 85:1 the stars or calculate an eclipse. This Mind-reading is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of 85:3 the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the ca- pacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the 85:6 divine Mind.

Value of intuition

Such intuitions reveal whatever const.i.tutes and per- petuates harmony, enabling one to do good, but not 85:9 evil. You will reach the perfect Science of healing when you are able to read the human mind after this manner and discern the error you would 85:12 destroy. The Samaritan woman said: ”Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”

85:15 It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his students, ”knew their thoughts,” - read them scientifi- cally. In like manner he discerned disease and healed 85:18 the sick. After the same method, events of great mo- ment were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our Master rebuked the lack of this power when he said: 85:21 ”O ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Hypocrisy condemned

Both Jew and Gentile may have had acute corporeal 85:24 senses, but mortals need spiritual sense. Jesus knew the generation to be wicked and adulterous, seek- ing the material more than the spiritual. His 85:27 thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needed. He never spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said: ”These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other 85:30 undone.” The great Teacher knew both cause and effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never imparts error.

Mental contact

86:1 Jesus once asked, ”Who touched me?” Supposing this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact alone, 86:3 his disciples answered, ”The mult.i.tude throng thee.” Jesus knew, as others did not, that it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called 86:6 for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this mental call ill.u.s.trated his spirituality. The disciples'

86:9 misconception of it uncovered their materiality. Jesus possessed more spiritual susceptibility than the disciples.

Opposites come from contrary directions, and produce 86:12 unlike results.

Images of thought

Mortals evolve images of thought. These may appear to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are myste- 86:15 rious only because it is unusual to see thoughts, though we can always feel their influence. Haunted houses, ghostly voices, unusual 86:18 noises, and apparitions brought out in dark seances either involve feats by tricksters, or they are images and sounds evolved involuntarily by mortal mind. Seeing 86:21 is no less a quality of physical sense than feeling. Then why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel one?

Education alone determines the difference. In reality 86:24 there is none.

Phenomena explained

Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penman- s.h.i.+p, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, 86:27 can all be taken from pictorial thought and memory as readily as from objects cognizable by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes as 86:30 certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts. Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas. So is it 87:1 with all material conceptions. Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce 87:3 them, even when they are lost to the memory of the mind in which they are discoverable.

Mental environment

It is needless for the thought or for the person hold- 87:6 ing the transferred picture to be individually and con- sciously present. Though individuals have pa.s.sed away, their mental environment re- 87:9 mains to be discerned, described, and transmitted. Though bodies are leagues apart and their a.s.sociations forgotten, their a.s.sociations float in the general atmosphere of human 87:12 mind.

Second sight

The Scotch call such vision ”second sight”, when really it is first sight instead of second, for it presents 87:15 primal facts to mortal mind. Science enables one to read the human mind, but not as a clairvoyant. It enables one to heal through Mind, but 87:18 not as a mesmerist.

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