Arizona republican., 1917-10-31

these qualities is no part of Truth, not real Hence, matter, mortal mind and all the phenomena of material sense, being unlike this divine reality, are unreal. On this basis of infinllo i Truth we are enabled to distinguish at any time between what is )solote, divine, real; and what is relative. i human, unreal.
 Truth and Error Distinguished Rightly experimenting the disunc ton between the real and the unreal, we are in position to grasp the fact l that all discord, disease, disaster ard death are the products of false sense, and that they are to be healed, do Jesus said, by knowing the ruth. They certainly can not be healed spiritually so long as they are be lleveu 10 be physical CT mental retli 1 lies. We cannot correct a mistake ontil it is recognized as such. Even IS We are accustomed to d. i'll physi cal science, SD we must do in meta i phys.cai science for only in this way 1 can we begin to separate the wheat ! II Cm the tares, distinguish between the actual and the seeming, the real and the unreal, in human conscious ] ness, without which step, Christian healing cannot be scientifically o. sue ceSSIulIy -dcIlleNeQ.
 | The Christian Scientist recognizes l and knows the unreality of the ap pearance called sick man, as well as of any other discord, ,--in precisely the same way as a mathematician hu0Ns that two times two do not make five, even though he sees it written out; for he knows they make i four, regardless of the appearance. It l ic hic h1lc o mathematician. So the Christian Scientist knows that there is really mo sick man there to be healed, but merely an erroneous concept CT state ! of cCnsciouness to oe cOrrected and 1 it is his business to know this as a Christian Scientist, for Jesus said 1 very plainly: Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" which means the Juds ment of Truth. Christian Science makes it possible for us to begin to do this, and we have never been able to do it before; for until Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science, we did not know the nature of the divine reality and of the human conscious ness that we might differentiate ac- curately between the appearance and the actuality. Christian Scientists are
 
 all they see. They happen to know l better, even as the astronomer who does not believe in all celestial ap- pearGEces since he knows better
 Because of their limitations, Truth cannot be perceived through the five rhHs!Cal senses. Truth is discerned only through the understanding which is a faculty entirely apart from physical sense. To illustrate: We do Lot see the truth of a mathematical problem through the sense of sight, 1 IT by merely looking at the figures used. The truth lies back of the figures and is discernible only through mathematical understanding. So too 1 the real God, the real man, the real universe are perceived only through spiritual understanding. This under standing, the perception and appre- hension. of divine Truth, Christian Science now makes possible to all.
 Healing By Right Mental Action Since Christian healing is accom- plished through transformation or change of consciousness, it must be l done mentally and must require some action of thought Therefore, we need to consider what thinking is, in order that we may think alright, for we know that d wrong belief cannot be corrected with wrong thought Truth alone corrects error, and we must learn to think truth if We wish to heal spiritually for God is Truth and is Spirit, hence Truth is Spiri, and spiritual.
 All will admit that thinking is tho exercise of intelligence or mind. and T that real thinking is the activity oi real Mind. Real Mind, as we have seen is the divine consciousness, the infin- ite intelligence or Truth. Therefore real thinking is the activity of divine Truth in consciousness, the activity involved in being conscious of the truth. in other words in knowing the Truth; consequently real thinking is right knowing, the knowing of Truth Obviously we can know only Truth we can never know error For eX- ample: We can never know that two tunes two make five, because they dt not; We can only believe that they do. Thus we can never know any thing that is wrong, evil or material we can never know sin, disease death; we can only believe them.
 Since disease is an untrue expert ence in the human mind, in ordei that it may be healed, the erroneous concept must be corrected, and to dc this divine Truth must be brought tt bear upon the error in consciousness How is this to be done? Whenever we think rightly of any truth, that truth is present with us in conscious ness, becomes active in thought by virtue of that thinking. For example when we think rightly of the multi plication table. the truth of mathe matics is present with us in oul thought and becomes active there ir consequence This is not the case however, when we do not thinl , rightly of it. In a similar way wheI we think rightly of divine Truth is present with US in consciousness and becomes active there
 You will recall that St Paul, ir writing to the Ephesians regarding the one God and Father, said: He is through all, and in you all,' whicf means everywhere present. Beins . infinite God is infinitely present present in His infinity everywhere , Thus He is already present, "a yer. present help in trouble" He ha. only to be known. We have but tC become conscious of Him. As bN knowing any truth we reflect tha truth and become conscious of it, st by knowing God, we reflect Him ant become conscious of Him. Thus i is through the right knowing of God : which Christian Science makes possi- , ble today, that divine Truth and Love !, are reflected in the human conscious ness, brought into action there and st i. are brought to bear upon our hu- l