The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31

] h'H'9l-' IS IoI HldltLldl. bii Spit itual consciousness; not evil but good not mortal. but immortal. Thus we see that all reality, every expres, sion of the divine activity is in. destruCtible. unchanging perfect, har monious, spiritual consequently what ever has not these qualities and at tributes is not real Hence. matter mortal mind, and all the phenomena of material sense, being unlike this divine reality. are unreal
 Because of their limitations Truth cannot be perceived through the five physical senses. Truth is dis cerned only through the understand ing. which is faculty entirely apart from physical sense. To il- lustrate: We do not see the truth of mathematical problem through the sense of sight or by merely 'o1king at the figures used. The truth lies back of the figures and is discernible only through mathe- nautical understanding So. too. the real God, the real man, the real uni verse are perceived only through spiritual understanding. This under standing the perception and appre- hension of divine Truth, Christian Science now makes possible to all
 Rightly apprehending the distinc ton between the real and the un- real, we are in position to grasp the fact that all diSCord. disease disaster and death are the products of false sense, and that they are to be healed as Jesus said by knowing; the truth. They certainly cannot be healed spiritually so long as they are believed to be physical or men tai realities. We cannot correct mistake until it is recognized as such Even as we are accustomed to do in physical science, so we must do in metaphysical Science for only in this way can We begin to separate the wheat from the tares, the actual from the seeming the real from the unreal, in human consciousness, without which step Christian healing cannot be scientifi cally or successfully achieved.
 Healing by Right Mental Action
 Since Christian Science healing is accomplished through transfOrma, tion or change of consciousness, it must be done mentally and must re quire some action of thought There fore We need to consider what thinking is, i'll order that We may think alright, for We know that a wrong belief cannot be corrected with a wrong thought. Truth alone corrects error and We must learn spiritually.
 All will admit that thinking is the exercise of intelligence or mind and that real thinking is the activi- ty of real Mind. Real Mind, as we have seen, is the divine conscious ness, that which expresses itself in ideas, the basis of all manifesto tion, the infinite intelligence or Truth. Therefore real thinking is the activity of divine Truth in con sciousness, the activity involved In being conscious of the truth, in sequently real thinking is right know ing, the knowing of Truth. Obvi- ously we can know only Truth, we can never know error. For exam pie: We can never know that two times two make five, because they do not; we can only believe that they do. Thus we can never know anything that is wrong, evil or ma terial, we can never know sin, dis them.
 Since disease is an untrue eXperi, ence in the human mind, in order that it may be healed the erroneous concept must be corrected, and 10 do this divine Truth must be brought to bear upon the error in conscious ness. How is this to be done? When ever we think rightly of any truth, that truth is present with us in consciousness, becomes active in thought. For example, when we think rightly of the multiplication table, the truth of mathematics is present with us in our thought and becomes active there. This is not the case however, when We do not think rightly of it. In similar way, when we think rightly of di- vine Truth,-Life, Spirit. Love. God, this Truth is present with us in consciousness and becomes active there.
 You will recall that St. Paul. in writing to the Ephesians regarding the one God and Father, said: He is through all and in you all" which means everywhere present Being infinite, God is infinitely pres ent, present in His infinity every, where Thus He is already present, "a very present help in trouble" ," | Ha has only to he known We have