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strong emotions. such effects having
a mental cause obviously can be heal
ed mentally and Christian Science
teaches that an sin and disease. what
ever its name or nature, has a mental
origin and is y mental phenomenon. an
experience OF the mortal material hui
man mind which is healed by the
divine Mind.
In "RctroSpection and IntrOspec-
ton" Mrs. Eddy says:
During twenty years prior to my dis
coverN had been trying to trace all ply
steal effects to a mental cause: and in the
latter part of 1866 I gained the scientific
certainty that all causation was Mind,
and every effect mental phenomenon
Regarding Material Causation.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter and material existence are phe-
nomena of the mortal, material, finite
mind, Il concept of existence obtained
through the physical senses, a misap-
prehension of reality held by human
consciousness when uninstructed by
Science, an appearance instead of an
actually. 1t is simply an imitation
or counterfeit obtained from IL finite,
dimensional, mortal basis.
Now it is not the appearance but
only the original that has power, intel
ligence and substance. The manifesto
ton of growth, action or being in mat
ter is but 4 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 picture reproduces.
Similarly. life growth, action, power,
subSta law. ct cetera. are not in
matter. physical existence or the ma
terial- consciousness; but in divine
Mind, the only cause ana Principle of
being, and should be 50 thought Of
When we recognize God as the only
Mind, the only cause Truth is reflect
ed in consciousness and existence is
harmonious When We believe eau
sation to be material or in mortal
mind. we put our trust and dependence
n shadow, a false belief. and ex-
istenca, so called. is discordant liable
to disease, disaster. death IN order
to work out our salvation we there
fore need to understand causation.
Matter a Sense impress sion.
Everything that we know or see or
believe. all our thoughts. acts, or eX-
periences go To make up our universe
our sense Of existence. our conscious
ness
As We gain our concept of existence
largely through the physical senses, it
is very important that We be able to
weigh and sift their testimony. Veal
know how deceptive these senses are.
tn" distant house is not actually small
because ii seems to be so. neither does
the sun move because il appears to
Move. SO also hearing, taste, touch
and smell are all fallble. In fact, the
Impressions received by the senses and
recorded mentally require explanation
ard rcctificatiOn to make them coher-
ent and ntcliiSible
These senses bring to our conscious
ness only Impressions, from which we
form 4 concept OF things. If therefore
the testimony of the physical senses is
so unreliable and unsatisfactory it is
apparent that the consciousness gained
through these senses cannot be true
and reliable
What is the true nature of substance
or what is back Of these appearances,
material sense does not and cannot de-
termine only Il sense that can per-
ccivc truth and reality can declare this.
If We can see existence as mental in
stead OF physical. we have taken
great step onward. The next step is to
learn what is true and real and thus
correct our impressions and obtain a
true" consciousness of existence.
What is Mind?
The ordinary human concept of nina
is ;hat 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,
o3nipot"nt, omniscirnt, omniprc"rnt.
and all-incu%ive. eternal. unchanging
all-Wis" being, the only cause and Gre
ator
This is 4 very different Mind from