Part 30 (2/2)

Does G.o.d send sickness, giving the mother her child for the brief s.p.a.ce of a few years and then taking it away 206:21 by death? Is G.o.d creating anew what He has already created? The Scriptures are defi- nite on this point, declaring that His work was_ finished_, 206:24 nothing is new to G.o.d, and that it was _good_.

Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual image and likeness of G.o.d? Instead of G.o.d sending 206:27 sickness and death, He destroys them, and brings to light immortality. Omnipotent and infinite Mind made all and includes all. This Mind does not make mistakes 206:30 and subsequently correct them. G.o.d does not cause man to sin, to be sick, or to die.

No evil in Spirit

There are evil beliefs, often called evil spirits; but 207:1 these evils are not Spirit, for there is no evil in Spirit.

Because G.o.d is Spirit, evil becomes more apparent and 207:3 obnoxious proportionately as we advance spir- itually, until it disappears from our lives.

This fact proves our position, for every scientific state- 207:6 ment in Christianity has its proof. Error of statement leads to error in action.

Subordination of evil

G.o.d is not the creator of an evil mind. Indeed, evil 207:9 is not Mind. We must learn that evil is the awful decep- tion and unreality of existence. Evil is not supreme; good is not helpless; nor are the 207:12 so-called laws of matter primary, and the law of Spirit secondary. Without this lesson, we lose sight of the per- fect Father, or the divine Principle of man.

Evident impossibilities

207:15 Body is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than good. The Science of being repudiates self- evident impossibilities, such as the amalgama- 207:18 tion of Truth and error in cause or effect. Science sepa- rates the tares and wheat in time of harvest.

One primal cause

There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can 207:21 be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause. Sin, sickness, dis- 207:24 ease, and death belong not to the Science of being. They are the errors, which presuppose the absence of Truth, Life, or Love.

207:27 The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things.

The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious and is the ideal of Truth.

207:30 Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite discord, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, is not real.

The only evidence of this inversion is obtained from 208:1 suppositional error, which affords no proof of G.o.d, Spirit, or of the spiritual creation. Material sense de- 208:3 fines all things materially, and has a finite sense of the infinite.

Seemingly independent authority

The Scriptures say, ”In Him we live, and move, and 208:6 have our being.” What then is this seeming power, in- dependent of G.o.d, which causes disease and cures it? What is it but an error of belief, - 208:9 a law of mortal mind, wrong in every sense, embracing sin, sickness, and death? It is the very anti- pode of immortal Mind, of Truth, and of spiritual law.

208:12 It is not in accordance with the goodness of G.o.d's char- acter that He should make man sick, then leave man to heal himself; it is absurd to suppose that matter can both 208:15 cause and cure disease, or that Spirit, G.o.d, produces disease and leaves the remedy to matter.

John Young of Edinburgh writes: ”G.o.d is the father 208:18 of mind, and of nothing else.” Such an utterance is ”the voice of one crying in the wilderness” of human beliefs and preparing the way of Science. Let us learn 208:21 of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, - the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain 208:24 forever unseen.

Sickness as only thought

Mind, not matter, is causation. A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal 208:27 man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace 208:30 your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness. You should banish all thoughts of disease and sin and of other beliefs 209:1 included in matter. Man, being immortal, has a perfect indestructible life. It is the mortal belief which makes 209:3 the body discordant and diseased in proportion as igno- rance, _fear_, or human will governs mortals.

Allness of Truth

Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing 209:6 them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind. The 209:9 material and mortal body or mind is not the man.

The world would collapse without Mind, without the in- telligence which holds the winds in its grasp. Neither 209:12 philosophy nor skepticism can hinder the march of the Science which reveals the supremacy of Mind. The im- manent sense of Mind-power enhances the glory of Mind.

209:15 Nearness, not distance, lends enchantment to this view.

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