Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-20


the first and only Cause"
Returning to the consideration OF the
atom, In extending Its area Of action
we note that, according to human be-
lief, as the atom moves more and more
freely material limitations disappear
and additional dimensions are brought
to light Nevertheless, though this
process OF subtracting material limita-
ton, or matter and adding freedom
were to be continued indefinitely, in
finite freedom could never be attained
thereby, since infinity can be attained
only as the atom, all matter, disap-
pears. But matter cannot lay off it
self. 1t can no more be metamorphosed
or transfused into Spirit than can
darkness into light. We find the
fourth dimension" the freedom of
Spirit, only as material sense with all
its diminutives disappear; hence, in
the search for freedom sense testimony
must be dropped,
This view of the incompability of
matter and mind is not held by Chris
tian Scientists alone. Many of the most
profound thinkers and philosophers are
accepting this idea. Coleridge said, LAS
soon as a thing becomes ineligible, it
ceases to be material" When the
mathematician shall have grasped the
reality which has actuated the search
of the idealists since the time of Plato,
then he will have grasped "the fourth
dimension" Many of the worlds great
thinkers have paved the way for the
modern idealists, who hold that things
exist merely as ideas, that matter is but
a mode of human thinking.
When the mathematician shall have
perceived this and shall have become
conscious that matter must be excluded
from the reasoning; when he shall
have discerned the fundamental distinc-
ton between right and wrong think
ing, namely, that right thinking reflects
God, who is infinite A1Ind, and that
wrong thinking, because 1t is wrong or
evil does not emanate from Mind, and
therefore cannot express inhnity, but
must be finite and false-then and then
only will he have gained that which he
has sought as a fourth dimension"
Every one who has spiritually per-
ceived the truth Mrs. Eddy has given
to the world in her writings, under
stands this. From Gods thought spa
cial dimension must be excluded.
We may say that the fourth dimen-
sion, as revealed through Christian
Science, is the embodiment to human
of the unqualified supre-
macy, the allness of Mind and its ideas,
and the consequent nothingness of mat
ter or mortal sense. This is not merely
an admission of Minds infinitude, It is
the understanding and demonstration
thereof. The third dimension repre-
sents the limit of human reasoning in
this line. The fourth dimension trans
cends human reasoning, the sense of
1t refutes the humiliation
of individuality and declares that all
true thoughts come from God
and return to Him-and untruths be-
long not to His creation, therefore these
are null and void" miscellaneous
Writings, p. 22). Since the idea is the
exact reflection of infinite Spirit, it pos
sesses infinite freedom, as it acts in
infinite understanding
of the divine Principle Love. More
over the idea is mot shall be)) free.
Behold, now is the accepted time"
AS all this unfolds, human thought
rises in the scale of being to larger
advances toward freedom,
and comes at length to the grandeur of
that unlimited outlook upon infinity, to
which dimension does not pertain
Thought has assembled above the quail
fication of measurement to understand
ing.
1t is necessary that all human reas-
oning yield to revelation-the glorified
vision, the Mind (which was also in
Christ Jesus Then faith may be
proved by works, even as the humble
Nazarene proved his faith in going
about his Fathers business,-preach-
ing the gospel healing the sick, bring
ing deliverance to the captive. When
even one bound by sin, sickness, death,
FEAR, sorrow, want. or hatred was set
free by the Master, the infinitude of
Spirit was proven.
Reign of Mind at Hand
The opening of the prison for Peter
and the other apostles was in demon
stration of the Enthusiastically of
matter. 1t was Mind that liberated
them, setting aside every obstruction.
The walls, ceiling, and floor could not
bind the freedom of those who knew
the power of Mind. In the same way,
after the resurrection, when his So
called material body appeared and dis
appeared through closed doors, the
Master proved that law lay not in ma
terial forces, but in spiritual might,
and he demonstrated this divine law
of omnipotent and omnipresent Mind.
AS in the time of Jesus, so today
every case Of healing through Chris
tian Science demonstrates this Prin-
ciple. Christian Science stands before
the world with the same injunctions
which the Master gave to his disciples
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise
the dead, cast out devils; "By their
fruits we shall know them" We are
his disciples in proportion as we obey
his commands. 1t Is only the clear
spiritual thought. apprehending the
true individual man as ideal, the gen.
eric man as unity Of ideas, the father
hood of God as creator of idea, and
the motherhood of God as the allness
of Mind, which is able to obey all the
injunctions of Jesus the Christ.
The work of Jesus earthly career
was so to grasp mans Immaculate con-
ception as to prove the oneness of Christ
with the Father 1t Is our work,
spiritual activity, to have part
in the resurrection, which proves flesh
or matter to be nothing, no one and no
Mind as infinite, omnipo-
tent, omniscient, omnipresent, and-all.
The earthly, material sense of dimen-
sion is overcome, transcribed only as
one comes out from among them (na-
teria1 beliefs) and is separate; only as
one arrays oneself in the white robe
of righteousness; only as one stands
Him day and night in his temple"
(consciousness); only as one drinks
from the water of the river of Life.
The reign of Mind, made discernible
Christian Science, is the new
heaven which st. John saw in the
vision. Mrs. Eddy says the new
heaven is the New Jerusalem. This is
Identical with Johns perception, where
in the angel showed that great city,
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God" This grand realiza-
ton of the infinitude of Spirit wipes
out all sense of material being, all sor-
row, all sickness, sin, and death, all
to conscious, constant COM
munion with God, good, The divine un-
wherein the earthly sense
with its human reasoning and personal
opinion is wiped away, reveals the all
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