Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-10-13

smell. Innumerable illustrations could
be cited proving that the material eyes
do not see, nor the material organism
of the ear hear, etc. Hundreds OF
times daily you do not see what the
eyes are looking at. because the
thought has been distracted by some
thing else. Dreams are splendid IL
Illustrations to prove this. Eyeglasses,
which are carefully placed outside be-
fore the eyes, should be fitted to the |
thought, and not to senseless matter
Just SO with the hearing. A few min /
utes ago your ears did not hear that /
noise on the street. simply because |
your ears do not hear. Your thought |
or consciousness was on and hearing
this lecture. Many times while eating
a meal sometimes of many courses, if
your thought be distracted by absorb
ing conversation, you will taste little or
nothing you have eaten. Does not all
this prove that your consciousness of
sight, your consciousness of hearing,
taste, is the only sight and hearing
and taste that you have, and until you
learn the truth about sensation, this
consciousness is mortal mind and not
matter.
Mortal Mind
Mortal mind is nothing more or less
than the false belief that there is life,
| intelligence, and substance in matter.
What is left of mortal mind after all
| its false material beliefs have been ex-
posed and reversed? 1t will not have
foot left to stand upon. It's fraud
| ulent character will be laid bare to the
world. Its finite, limited, self -centered
| beliefs are without Principle, therefore
! constitute selfishness, and from these
| selfish, willful thoughts proceed the
! sins and evils of the world. And, in
turn, from these sins and errors pro-
coed all the discord, disease, and death
which afflict mortals. Did not st. Paul
call death the wages of sim? Jesus
denounced the devil, or evil, as a liar
and father of lies. A lie was never the
| truth, and can never reverse the truth
buth Truth uncovers lie and destroys
| it. Thus it is discovered that sin and
| evil, in other words mortal mind, never
had real origin or existence, is really
not mind, but is simply error of belief.
Now let it be understood that it is not
the painful sensations of this false
material sense which make it subtle or
dangerous, but rather its pleasant SEN
sations. But that kind of sensation
| which inevitably results by reason of
its falsity in mental discord and suffer-
ing, is not a permanent and satisfying
pleasure. Therefore it is not pleas
ure TO crafty the false, deceiving
senses, but it is pleasure to master
and overcome them.
The Reality
And so we turn from the falsity to
the reality. Dreams in sleep, no mat
ter how real or alluring they may
seem, do not get us anywhere. we
must awake and be quickened to make
progress. The only way to reason
} away error is to demonstrate the truth
} Human consciousness awakend to the
truth will cause error to fall back upon
and destroy itself. Jesus said, ut is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesf
J profiteth nothing" God is Spirit, az
the Bible teaches, and Christian Sci
ence reveals that He is the molly Spirit
S or Mind. But how TO be quickened by
S God, especially in the hour of trial, i!
the question. The Scriptures declare
| that God is too pure to behold iniquity
l and that a falsity cannot be heholde1
, by the divine Truth is now quite ap
D parent Then if God, Spirit, cannot b.
= seen or approached through the ma
= terial senses through what human av
S enue can He be reached and His in
e finite blessing be bestowed? The an
d swer to this preeminent question
= should now be more simple. If God
= the divine Mind, is to be reaches
s through thought only, as many believe
: what other channel of thought exist
S after the material has been eliminated
Il Spiritual Sense
e There is scarcely normally mindv
S mortal who holds not daily som
e thoughts of truthfulness, sincerity
IS faith, hope, courage, affection, purity
e honesty; in other words, some unset
: fish thoughts which cannot be Gale
: material, but which point though
1t higher to a universal good. Every on
It knows that these and kindred thought
: bring satisfaction and happiness an
d lead to better things. Turning ava
II from matter and self, moved by SON
d, motive for the universal good, is
touch the divine Principle of being, an
is to gain some sense of Spirit, or Co
= This sense, which all normal morta
er possess to some extent, even thong
:" they may be ignorant thereof, is know
l. in Christian Science as spiritual sens
i'll and it is the way through which ma
err knows God, and is known by Hir
D. Christian Science serves to awake
a. these thoughts and motives, and
r means of them to educate and encou
D. age until the spiritual sense of thinl
he is discerned and begins to be demon
no strated or proved by overcoming Il
he false evidence of the material sense
IS especially when that evidence is in Il
f. | nature of fear, sin, and disease. Spi
g: ituality, or spiritual sense may be thu
is. awakened and may become a We
H. common or general sense. In fact, Il
to true sense of Spirit is real comm,
-Iy sense, even as the sense of matter
re found to be nonsense and Christii
es. Science is but another name for tn
re common sense law of life. Mrs. Ed
ms defines Christian Science in her "Ruo
IN. mental Divine Science" (p. l, A No.
n. as "the law of God, the law of GOO
ial interpreting and demonstrating the {
,at vine Principle and rule of univers
to harmony"
a. Divine Principle
&c. The apostle John, than whom no di
ISIS cinle of Jesus made clear the spiritu
be rules of life, said, GOD is love; a
ut, he that dwelleth in love dwelleth
er. God and God in him." He that awe
las eth in love, purity, honesty, unselils
he ness, knoweth God and is expressl
ete God, whereas he whose thought is
his channel for 'the lust of the flesh,
zen the lust of the eyes, and the pride
lch life, is not of the Father" as John :
Ic- clares, but is of the world. Amidst
alf, world passeth away, and the lust thel
IN of: but he that doeth the will of g
zes abideth forever" This will of Cod
be known in Christian Science also as
six will of Principle, the will of the G
d I Mind, Truth, Life, and Love, for If
ar. will of matter or the flesh is proved
hat be an erring sense forcing mortals il
mic tormenting fears, incessant troubl
lad subtle sins, distressing disease, a
ely direful death, then the will of div