The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
LIKE unreal DREAM
DECLARE SCIENTISTS
Christian Scienc. Monitor Outlines
Spiritual Awakening"

IN a recent editorial utterance In the
Christian Science Monitor, under the cap
ton, Spiritual Awakening. the writer
says:
9TH. h,,r,., r,i,5 objects 10 the conn
prehensive statement of Christian Science
that life in matter Is a dream and Is
therefore entirely unreal. Yet this same
mind naively admits that some OF its
experiences such as the enjoyment or
misery OF the night dream. are illusions,
quite oblivious Of the hint contained In
this admission that mind which can at
any time fan into state Of Illusion may
never be wholly minute from deception
Certain of ths faculties are said to be
quiescent during sleep, and those faculties
which remain active, lacking co-ordina-
ton and judgment. are capable, 1t Is ex-
planned, Of devising only imaginative, in
coherent experiences
Conceptions OF time, space, distance,
locomotion, human relationships, all ap-
pear in the night dream. shorn OF the
limitations placed upon these concepts by
the so-called waking Judgment Who
shall say that the dream concepts which
are less fettered are for that reason
farther from reality than are those same
concepts bound by waking limitations?
Are not the different disposals which mor-
tails agree are waking facts, simply vary
Ing manifestations of one great deception?
At all events, Christian Science shows
that one demonstration Of the fact OF
exclusive spiritual reality, proves the
foundation Of mortal Judgment to have
only the Substance Of a dream, and that
the superstructure of mortal existence
arising from this false foundation IL
therefore likewise unreal. 1t Is imros-
sfple, then. to accept as final the human
minds classification Of its own faculties,
as operating illusively in sleep and ae-
pretending reality when awake, when
that mind is itself unreal from which
mortal judgment and its terms OF COM
parison arise.
The Truth of Mind.
1T is because Christian Science is the
truth Of Mind, that it is able to show
that the faculties OF the human mind are
at all times operating illusively just so
long as its perceptions and judgments are
allowed to rest upon the belief that there
are two kinds OF life, one spiritual and
the other material The sleeping and
waking experiences which arise from
fundamentally false estimate of being
must necessarily comprise, with their
varying denseness, the whole Of one Illus
sive existence. When 1t Is once seen in
this way that experiences Of mortal wax
ing hours are as unreal as are the more
fanciful fights Of sleep, the difference
being principally one OF degree OF solidi-
fication, then the position Of Christian
Science is grasped that another awaken
ing into a spiritual state Of conscious
ness is necessary in order to judge truly
of the actual and real Sin. sickness,
death, sorrow, poverty, monopoly, all
that makes up the mortal existence, seem
real only so long as thought rests upon
the belief of life in matter. But II sick
ness and sin are Illusions. Mrs. Eddy
says on page 80 Of Science and Health.
the awakening from this mortal dream.
or illusion. will bring US into health. holi-
ness. and Immortality. This awakening
is the forever coming of Christ. the ad-
vaneed appearing Of Truth, which casts
out error and heals the sick. This is the
salvation which comes through God, the
divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated
by Jesus
The spiritual realities of being are
brought into focus through spiritual un-
derstanding, and they actually displace
the false appearances of mortal disCOrds.
That Is To say, the dreamer and its dream
disappear in just the ratio that carnal-
nlindedness, which Paul designated as
death. gives place to the Mind of the
Christ. the Observation-Disclosures which
reflects Life. This is the awakening from
mortality into clear spiritual perception
10 which the Apostle referred when he
urged in another epistIe, Awake thou
that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light
The Beauty of Awakening.
The nearer the human consciousness
approaches this Point OF spiritual awaken
ing, the more sensitive it is to the wrongs
and the inequalities OF mortal experience
Injustice and oppression which, in the
deeper sleep OF materialism, may be
dunn ~ LgcrI,.
human consciousness will oppose, though
it may be with material weapons. This
contest with the material is analogous to
the struggle OF the sleeper with the night
mare Illusion. it is the struggle in which
mortality destroys itself, or else it Is one
dream merging into another dream
Whether the dreamer be taken as an in
dividual. a nation. or all mankind, the
consciousness that frets in the dream
from the Science of Mind throws the
light OF reality upon the struggle and the
stTusgler, the uureality of both is dis
closed, and human consciousness rises
into at least 4 partial realization that the
equities, the health, the happiness, for
which il has battled, are facts Of spiritual
existence which have never been taken
away from man in the image of God.
1T is in this way that Christian
science SHOWS That the tortures OF dis
ease. the blOodshed of nations. are moth
ing more real than pictorial tapestries OF
dreams, which shall be displaced by
spiritual manifestations when it is un-
derstoOd that the power which holds the
spindle is divine. In the absolute reality
there is no dreamer and no dream. But
in the relative human experience, ths
awakening to- reality requires constant,
patient effort to understand and to reflect
the divine Mind, that is, to be the image
of God"