Part 73 (2/2)

Scholastic dogma has made men blind. Christ's _logos_ gives sight to these blind, ears to these deaf, feet to these lame,-physically, morally, spiritually. Theologians [10]

make the mortal mistake of believing that G.o.d, having made _all_, made evil; but the Scriptures declare that all that He made was good. Then, was evil part and parcel of His creation?

Philosophy hypothetically regards creation as its own [15]

creator, puts cause into effect, and out of nothing would create something, whose noumenon is mortal mind, with its phenomenon matter,-an evil mind already doomed, whose modes are material manifestations of evil, and that continually, until self-extinguished by [20]

suffering!

Here revelation must come to the rescue of mortals, to remove this mental millstone that is dragging them downward, and refute erring reason with the spiritual cosmos and Science of Soul. We all must find shelter [25]

from the storm and tempest in the tabernacle of Spirit.

Truth is won through Science or suffering: O vain mor- tals! which shall it be? And suffering has no reward, except when it is necessary to prevent sin or reform the sinner. And pleasure is no crime except when it [30]

strengthens the influence of bad inclinations or lessens the activities of virtue. The more nearly an erring so-

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called mind approaches purity, the more conscious it [1]

becomes of its own unreality, and of the great reality of divine Mind and true happiness.

The ”ego” that claims selfhood in error, and pa.s.ses from molecule and monkey up to man, is no ego, but is [5]

simply the supposition that the absence of good is mind and makes men,-when its greatest flatterer, identifica- tion, is piqued by Him who compensateth vanity with nothingness, dust with dust!

The mythology of evil and mortality is but the ma- [10]

terial mode of a suppositional mind; while the immortal modes of Mind are spiritual, and pa.s.s through none of the changes of matter, or evil. Truth said, and said from the beginning, ”Let us [Spirit] make man perfect;” and there is no other Maker: a perfect man would not desire [15]

to make himself imperfect, and G.o.d is not chargeable with imperfection. His modes declare the beauty of holi- ness, and His manifold wisdom s.h.i.+nes through the visible world in glimpses of the eternal verities. Even through the mists of mortality is seen the brightness of His [20]

coming.

We must avoid the shoals of a sensual religion or philosophy that misguides reason and affection, and hold fast to the Principle of Christian Science as the Word that _is_ G.o.d, Spirit, and Truth. This Word cor- [25]

rects the philosopher, confutes the astronomer, exposes the subtle sophist, and drives diviners mad. The Bible is the learned man's masterpiece, the ignorant man's dictionary, the wise man's directory.

I foresee and foresay that every advancing epoch of so [30]

Truth will be characterized by a more spiritual appre- hension of the Scriptures, that will show their marked

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consonance with the textbook of Christian Science Mind- [1]

healing, ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”

Interpreting the Word in the ”new tongue,” whereby the sick are healed, naturally evokes new paraphrase from the world of letters. ”Wait patiently on the Lord, [5]

and He will renew your strength.” In return for indi- vidual sacrifice, what a recompense to have healed, through Truth, the sick and sinful, made the public your friend, and posterity your familiar!

Christian Science refutes everything that is not a [10]

postulate of the divine Principle, G.o.d. It is the soul of divine philosophy, and there is no other philosophy. It is not a search after wisdom, it _is_ wisdom: it is G.o.d's right hand grasping the universe,-all time, s.p.a.ce, immortality, thought, extension, cause, and effect; con- [15]

st.i.tuting and governing all ident.i.ty, individuality, law, and power. It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing apart from this Mind, one G.o.d, is self-created or evolves [20]

the universe.

Human hypotheses predicate matter of Spirit and evil of good; hence these opposites must either cooperate or quarrel throughout time and eternity,-or until this impossible partners.h.i.+p is dissolved. If Spirit is the [25]

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