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mind can cure its own disease, or that which it causes,
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and the _sickness of matter_,-which is infidel in the one [1]
case, and anomalous in the other. It was said of old by Truth-traducers, that Jesus healed through Beelzebub; but the claim that one erring mind cures another one was at first gotten up to hinder his benign influence and to hide [5]
his divine power.
Our Master understood that Life, Truth, Love are the triune Principle of all pure theology; also, that this divine trinity is one infinite remedy for the opposite triad, sick- ness, sin, and death. [10]
_If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?_
If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Chris- tian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality?
Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the [15]
reality of the unreal; to save them from _this false belief_; that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality that concerns man, and understand the final fact,-that G.o.d is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, ”that the Lord He is G.o.d; there is none else beside Him,” as the Scrip- [20]
tures declare.
_If Christ was G.o.d, why did Jesus cry out, __”__My G.o.d,_ _why hast Thou forsaken me?__”_
Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou [25]
me? Jesus as the son of man was human: Christ as the Son of G.o.d was divine. This divinity was reaching humanity through the crucifixion of the human,-that momentous demonstration of G.o.d, in which Spirit proved its supremacy over matter. Jesus a.s.sumed for mortals the [30]
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weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found ”All-in-all.” [1]
Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle; thence, the way he made for mortals' escape. Our Master bore the cross to show his power over death; then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and dem- [5]
onstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death, and rose to his native estate, man's indestructible eternal life in G.o.d.
_What can prospective students of the College take for_ _preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of litera-_ [10]
_ture and languages as objectionable?_
Persons contemplating a course at the Ma.s.sachusetts Metaphysical College, can prepare for it through no books except the Bible, and ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” Man-made theories are nar- [15]
row, else extravagant, and are always materialistic.
The ethics which guide thought spiritually must bene- fit every one; for the only philosophy and religion that afford instruction are those which deal with facts and resist speculative opinions and fables. [20]
Works on science are profitable; for science is not human. It is spiritual, and not material. Literature and languages, to a limited extent, are aids to a student of the Bible and of Christian Science.
_Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition_ [25]
_of mortality?_
It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thus conditioned, as to be certain that he _is_ in a state of mortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor- tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30]
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from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]
Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.
We have no more proof of human discord,-sin, sickness, disease, or death,-than we have that the earth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]
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