Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-18


 makes it necessary for Christian Sc.. enee to explain how it is possible for man to be wholly spiritual when We seem to see him as flesh and blood with our actual physical eyes. Chris tian Science does this, and makes it perfectly clear by showing that the material man is nothing more or less than the carnal minds false concept of man.
 The carnal mind is entirely mate rial, hence. it ''is enmity against God. 1" ; because God is Spirit and Spirit and matter are opposite. The carnal mind Is composed of the aggregated beliefs founded upon the testimony of the five physical senses, which senses are wholly material, hence the carnal mind being material cannot compre- bend nor cognize the things of Spirit. 1 It Is these material elements enter ing into the human mind that causes 1t to see everything as material and to think in terms of matter By an inevitable reversal it reduces every thing to the dead level of matter in order to comprehend it.
 It is due to this materlality that the human mind does not think of God wholly as Spirit. and therefore, in its , material belief, it reverses the nature and character of God, and converts Him into material man. Likewise. be- cause of this same material element. the human mind does not think of the kingdom of God as spiritual state of consciousness, which Jesus declared IS within you,' and transforms it in belief into material place some where in the sky, with trappings of material spleRdor such as one would expect to find in the places of men.
 Since the human mind is prevented by its own materiality from compre- hending God as Spirit and the king dom of heaven as spiritual state of consciousness, it is equally prevented from thinking of man as spiritual. By reason of the same inevitable reversal it thinks of man as material, and hence sees him as such.
 The Adara-Man
 But no matter how sincerely people may believe that God is a magnified man, seatel upon Q material throne and having a material habitation in a material place called heaven, such belief does not make it true. God is Spirit, and His universe is wholly spiritual. There is not one material element in Him nor in anything that He created. He did not create matter n any form, nor did He create a ma terial man. God created everything spiritually and not materially, and the only kind of man created by Him is the perfect spiritual man, made in His own image and likeness. precisely as described in the first chapter of Genesis.
 The Adam-man is not the image of God, and in the second account of the creation in the second chapter of Gen esis it is nowhere stated that the Adam-man was made in Gods image and likeness, or that he was made per feet. These statements are to he found in the first chapter, and are used in relation to the real man. But In spite of this, people have gone on believing that the Bible taught that Adam was made in Gods image.
 Christian Science is the only system of teaching that I know anythins about that even makes an attempt to explain the difference between man and the Adam-man. ana it does ex- plain 1t and makes the fact perfectly pialH. by pointing out, as has already been said. that the Adam-man is mere " the false, material mis-concept of man. It Is as though one were to look through green eyeglasses. As long as ne did so, everything would appear to De green. If he were to try to remove the green from an object, he could not do so, for the reason that the green was not in the object, though appear. ing to be there. but was i'm the lens through which he looked at it. The only thlng necessary for him to do in oruer to translate the entire green uni verse back into its normal aspect would be merely to take off the green lenses.
 In precisely the same way the mate. rial universe and material man are translated back into the spiritual. where in fact they have always been' by merely taking off tn material eve glasses through which we have looked at them. If it were conceivable that one could now rid himself of every ma. serial element in his menrality. and of every sin and false belief. so that nothing remained in his consciousness
  except the spirituahzed thought. he would not then see his fellow man as material, but would see him for what ne really Is. namely, the perfect spirit. ual child of God.
 From the foregoing consideration of the subject of man, and of the differ. enee between spiritual man and the So-called material man, it is obvious that there are certain questions con, corning the nature and character of matter that may be examined with much profit.
 Matter Since the material man is only the caFnal minds mis-concept of man. it follows that matter has no entity. ani IS Tn every case nothing but material thought objectified. Christian Sci, ence shows that there is no life, truth, intelligence. nor substance in matter" Science and Health. page 46S, lines and 10. and that. Matter has no