Part 74 (1/2)
lawgiver to matter, and good has the same power or modes as evil, it has the same consciousness, and there is no absolute good. This error, carried to its ultimate, would either extinguish G.o.d and His modes, or give reality and power to evil _ad infinitum_. [30]
Christian Science rends this veil of the temple of G.o.ds, and reproduces the divine philosophy of Jesus and Paul.
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This philosophy alone will bear the strain of time and [1]
bring out the glories of eternity; for ”other founda- tion can no man lay than that is laid,” which is Christ, Truth.
Human theories weighed in the balances of G.o.d are [5]
found wanting; and their highest endeavors are to Science what a child's love of pictures is to art. The school whose schoolmaster is not Christ, gets things wrong, and is ignorant thereof.
If Christian Science lacked the proof of its goodness [10]
and utility, it would destroy itself; for it rests alone on demonstration. Its genius is right thinking and right acting, physical and moral harmony; and the secret of its success lies in supplying the universal need of better health and better men. [15]
Good health and a more spiritual religion form the common want, and this want has worked out a moral result; namely, that mortal mind is calling for what im- mortal Mind alone can supply. If the uniform moral and spiritual, as well as physical, effects of divine Science [20]
were lacking, the demand would diminish; but it con- tinues, and increases, which shows the real value of Christian Science to the race. Even doctors agree that infidelity, bigotry, or sham has never met the growing wants of humanity. [25]
As a literature, Christian metaphysics is hampered by lack of proper terms in which to express what it means.
As a Science, it is held back by the common ignorance of what it is and of what it does,-and more than all else, by the impostors that come in its name. To be [30]
appreciated, it must be conscientiously understood and introduced.
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If the Bible and ”Science and Health with Key to the [1]
Scriptures” had in our schools the time or attention that human hypotheses consume, they would advance the world. True, it requires more study to understand and demonstrate what they teach than to learn the doctrine [5]
of theology, philosophy, or physics, because they con- tain and offer Science, with fixed Principle, given rule, and unmistakable proof.
The Scriptures give the keynote of Christian Science from Genesis to Revelation, and this is the prolonged [10]
tone: ”For the Lord He is G.o.d, and there is _none beside Him_.” And because He is All-in-all, He is in nothing unlike Himself; and nothing that worketh or maketh a lie is in Him, or can be divine con- sciousness. [15]
At this date, poor jaded humanity needs to get her eyes open to a new style of imposition in the field of medicine and of religion, and to ”beware of the leaven of the scribes and Pharisees,” the doctrines of men, even as Jesus admonished. From first to last, evil insists on [20]
the unity of good and evil as the purpose of G.o.d; and on drugs, electricity, and animal magnetism as modes of medicine. To a greater or less extent, all mortal conclusions start from this false premise, and they necessarily culminate in sickness, sin, disease, and death. [25]
Erroneous doctrines never have abated and never will abate dishonesty, self-will, envy, and l.u.s.t. To destroy sin and its sequence, is the office of Christ, Truth,-ac- cording to His mode of Christian Science; and this is being done daily. [30]
The false theories whose names are legion, gilded with sophistry and what Jesus had not, namely, mere book-
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learning,-letter without law, gospel, or demonstration, [1]
-have no place in Christian Science. This Science re- quires man to be honest, just, pure; to love his neighbor as himself, and to love G.o.d supremely.
Matter and evil are subjective states of error or mortal [5]
mind. But Mind is immortal; and the fact of there being no mortal mind, exposes the lie of suppositional evil, showing that error is not Mind, substance, or Life. Thus, whatever is wrongfully-minded will dis- appear in the proportion that Science is understood, [10]
and the reality of being-goodness and harmony-is demonstrated.
Error says that knowing all things implies the neces- sity of knowing evil, that it dishonors G.o.d to claim that He is ignorant of anything; but G.o.d says of this fruit [15]
of the tree of knowledge of _both_ good and evil, ”In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” If G.o.d is infinite good, He knows nothing but good; if He did know aught else, He would not be infinite. Infinite Mind knows nothing beyond Himself or Herself. To [20]