Part 73 (1/2)

Peter's impetuosity was rebuked. He had to learn from experience; so have we. The methods of our [20]

Master were in advance of the period in which he per- sonally appeared; but his example was right, and is available at the right time. The _way_ is absolute divine Science: walk ye in it; but remember that Science is demonstrated by degrees, and our demonstration rises [25]

only as we rise in the scale of being.

Science And Philosophy

Men give counsel; but they give not the wisdom to profit by it. To ask wisdom of G.o.d, is the beginning of wisdom. [30]

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Meekness, moderating human desire, inspires wisdom [1]

and procures divine power. Human lives are yet un- carved,-in the rough marble, enc.u.mbered with crude, rude fragments, and awaiting the hammering, chiselling, and transfiguration from His hand. [5]

Great only as good, because fas.h.i.+oned divinely, were those unpretentious yet colossal characters, Paul and Jesus. Theirs were modes of mind cast in the moulds of Christian Science: Paul's, by the supremely natural transforming power of Truth; and the character of [10]

Jesus, by his original scientific sons.h.i.+p with G.o.d. Phi- losophy never has produced, nor can it reproduce, these stars of the first magnitude-fixed stars in the heavens of Soul. When shall earth be crowned with the true knowledge of Christ? [15]

When Christian Science has melted away the cloud of false witnesses; and the dews of divine grace, fall- ing upon the blighted flowers of fleeting joys, shall lift every thought-leaflet Spiritward; and ”Israel after the flesh,” who partaketh of its own altars, shall be [20]

no more,-then, ”the Israel according to Spirit”

shall fill earth with the divine energies, understanding, and ever-flowing tides of spiritual sensation and consciousness.

When mortal mind is silenced by the ”still, small voice” [25]

of Truth that regenerates philosophy and logic; and Jesus, as the true idea of Him, is heard as of yore saying to sensitive ears and dark disciples, ”I came from the Father,” ”Before Abraham was, I am,” coexistent and coeternal with G.o.d,-and this idea is understood,- [30]

then will the earth be filled with the true knowledge of Christ. No advancing modes of human mind made

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Jesus; rather was it their subjugation, and the pure [1]

heart that sees G.o.d.

When the belief in material origin, mortal mind, sen- sual conception, dissolves through self-imposed suffering, and its substances are found substanceless,-then its [5]

miscalled life ends in death, and death itself is swallowed up in Life,-spiritual Life, whose myriad forms are neither material nor mortal.

When every form and mode of evil disappear to hu- man thought, and mollusk and radiate are spiritual con- [10]

cepts testifying to one creator,-then, earth is full of His glory, and Christian Science has overshadowed all human philosophy, and being is understood in startling contradiction of human hypotheses; and Socrates, Plato, Kant, Locke, Berkeley, Tyndall, Darwin, and Spencer [15]

sit at the feet of Jesus.

To this great end, Paul admonished, ”Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our [20]

faith.” So shall mortals soar to final freedom, and rest from the subtlety of speculative wisdom and human woe.

G.o.d is the only Mind, and His manifestation is the spiritual universe, including man and all eternal indi- [25]

viduality. G.o.d, the only substance and divine Principle of creation, is by no means a creative partner in the firm of error, named matter, or mortal mind. He elucidates His own idea, wherein Principle and idea, G.o.d and man, are not one, but are inseparable as cause and effect. If [30]

one, who could say which that ”one” was?

His ways are not as our ways. The divine modes

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and manifestations are not those of the material senses; [1]

for instance, intelligent matter, or mortal mind, material birth, growth, and decay: they are the forever-existing realities of divine Science; wherein G.o.d and man are perfect, and man's reason is at rest in G.o.d's wisdom,- [5]

who comprehends and reflects all real mode, form, indi- viduality, ident.i.ty.