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In working out our salvation we must
first see that salvation or deliverance
from evil is mental process, takes
place in mind that it is transforma-
tion through Mind and is both ethical
and philosophical.
The Bible declares that ''to be car
nally minded is death; but to be spiritu
ally minded is life and peace"
Christian Science teaches that matter
and material existence are phenomena
of the mortal, material, finite mind, a
concept of existence obtained through
the physical senses, a misapprehension
of reality held by human consciousness
when uninstructed by Science, an APP
pearance instead of an actuality. 1t is
simply an imitation or counterfeit OBJ
tained from a finite, dimensional, NOR
tai basis.
| Now it is not the appearance but only
the origina that has power, intelligence
and substance. The manifestation of
growth, action or being in matter is but
a material concept of spiritual facts.
The objects, action and power ex-
pressed in a moving picture are not
in the picture and we do not associate
them with the picture. but with the
original which the pi ture reproduces.
Similarly, life, growth, action, power,
substance, law, ct cetera, are not in
matter, physical existence or the mate
| rial consciousness; but in divine Mind,
the only cause and Principle of being
and should be so thought of.
When we recognize God as the only
Mind, the only cause, Truth is reflected
in consciousness and existence is har-
monious. When we believe causation
to be material or in mortal mind, we
put our trust and dependence in a
shadow, a false belief, and existence,
so called, is discordant, liable to dis
ease, disaster, death. In order to work
out our salvation we therefore need to
understand causation.
The ordinary human concept of mind
is that which thinks, feels or wills, the
intellect, or the activity of the gray
matter called brain. Christian Science
reveals the fact that Mind is divine
Principle, the infinite Life, Truth, Love,
omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent,
the all-inclusive, eternal, unchanging,
all-wise being, the only cause and Gre
. tor.
Christian Science makes it clear that
tation of this divine Mind, but the phe-
nomenon of the counterfeit, called NOR.
tai mind.
1t is this false concept of existence
), that does all the wrong thinking; that
. believes in sin, disease and death; that
i claims there is life and intelligence il
!, Matter.
The difference between the method Of
healing through mental suggestion, o.
hypnotism, and that OF the divine Mind
, the Christ healing, must be clearl,
= : seen.
: When the effort is made to heal b,
! suggestion, the operator endeavors b.
means of mental manipulation to max,
the patient believe that he is not sick
u He attempts to change the belief, bu
" the cause of disease remains and il
time manifests itself even in wors
forms. The patient is no better off, h
has not risen in the scale of being, h
|
= and does not know any more about Co
and His Christ than before.
- The true Christian Scientist reflect
the divine Mind, stands on the basis o
!. God, man and the universe as Spiri
y and spiritual, as Love and its manifes
tation, as Mind and its ideas -perfec
- and harmonious. Hence he understand
~ the unreality of matter and evil an
- knows that man is not sick but thu
~ the patient is simply suffering from
- false mesmeric belief. From tn;
- standpoint he-proceeds to correct tt
;" errors of belief with the Truth of bein
" and thus establishes harmony on
spiritual, scientific basis.
= 1t is not to be wondered at, indeed
- is inevitable, that Christian Scients
= - should love Mrs. Eddy for havir
brought to the world this Science
Salvation, the true knowledge of &c
~ and man, the spiritual understandir
~ ~ of the Holy Scriptures which enabl
90 them to know themselves and to demo
= strate that saving faith" which alol
:, leads to heaven.
~ Mrs. Eddy did not simply state h
discovery to the world; she first der
ons.rated it and then offered it as
is demonstrable Science for all mankil
"a to profit by. This Science overcom
m evil, by giving true knowledge
he God and His Christ; it enables all h
M manity to work out their own salvati
of and reach that pure consciousness
ID which Jesus called the Kingdom
"a heaven"
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