Part 51 (2/2)

Love.

G.o.d's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine definition of Deity differs essentially from the human.

It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains [30]

the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning,

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when ”all things were made by Him; and without Him [1]

was not any thing made.”

Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the nature of G.o.d, is not law, but is what Jesus declared it, ”a liar, and the father of it.” G.o.d is the law of Life, [5]

not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim.

The consciousness of good has no consciousness or knowl- edge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or [10]

eliminated by good: while iniquity, too evil to conceive of good as being unlike itself, declares that G.o.d knows iniquity!

When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, free- dom reigned, and was the heritage of man; but this [15]

freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it was divine Science, in which G.o.d is supreme, and the only law of being. In this eternal harmony of Science, man is not fallen: he is governed in the same rhythm that the Scripture describes, when ”the morning stars [20]

sang together, and all the sons of G.o.d shouted for joy.”

Truth-Healing

The spiritual elevator of the human race, physically, morally, and Christianly, is the truism that Truth dem- onstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil, [25]

is really non-existent, and must have produced its own illusion,-for it belongs not to nature nor to G.o.d. Truth is the power of G.o.d which heals the sick and the sinner, and is applicable to all the needs of man. It is the uni-

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versal, intelligent Christ-idea ill.u.s.trated by the life of [1]

Jesus, through whose ”stripes we are healed.” By con- flicts, defeats, and triumphs, Christian Science has been reduced to the understanding of mortals, and found able to heal them. [5]

Pagan mysticism, Grecian philosophy, or Jewish reli- gion, never entered into the line of Jesus' thought or action. His faith partook not of drugs, matter, nor of the travesties of mortal mind. The divine Mind was his only instrumentality and potency, in religion or medi- [10]

cine. The Principle of his cure was G.o.d, in the laws of Spirit, not of matter; and these laws annulled all other laws.

Jesus knew that erring mortal thought holds only in itself the supposition of evil, and that sin, sickness, and [15]

death are its subjective states; also, that pure Mind is the truth of being that subjugates and destroys any sup- positional or elementary opposite to Him who is All.

Truth is supreme and omnipotent. Then, whatever else seemeth to be intelligence or power is false, delud- [20]

ing reason and denying revelation, and seeking to dethrone Deity. The truth of Mind-healing uplifts mankind, by acknowledging pure Mind as absolute and entire, and that evil is naught, although it seems to be.

Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and [25]

saves. Words are not always the auxiliaries of Truth.

The spirit, and not the letter, performs the vital func- tions of Truth and Love. Mind, imbued with this Science of healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives, [30]

and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the race, is the highest attenuation of evil.

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