Evening star., 1921-01-09

Solomon obeyed the spiritual divine
guidance he continued to increase in
wisdom and riches, peace, plenty,
honor and power.
Infinite Mind governs all ideas
which compose the spiritual uni
verse, and there is no other real
universe, for God and all that He
created was pronounced good"
Jesus said. ''The kingdom of God is
within you," Mind evolves mental
pictures, from the landscape of liv-
ing green to the mountains tower
ing against the sky of purest blue,
over which float pearly clouds.
Thought evolves the tint of pink,
purple, silver, pearl, etc, together
with the setting of the sun in red
and amber. Thought is expressed
in fowers-in their multitudinous
form, color, and perfume. All that
we have called nature is but Mind
manifest in objects, from the in
fnitesimaf to the infinite. The seed
is in itself only as the divine Mind
is Ali" (Science and Health, p. 50S),
and produces all phenomena. Hu-
man belief reverses all things.
Mrs. Eddy declares, Mind is the
multiplier, and Minds infinite idea,
man and the universe, is the prod
uct. The only intelligence or sub
stance of a thought, a seed, or a
flower is God, the creator of it"
(Science and Health, p. 508). Mind
had brought to Solomon all his
eye witnessed. At times he had
risen to the pinnacle of his human
receptivity of Truth. Another step
had to be taken toward his spirit
ual dominion under the law of God,
which required more humility. Per-
sonal sense. pride of acquisition and
vanity of his marvellous possessions
had dazed him, and he turned from
his reliance upon God to material
sense, which prevented the greater
Illumination of Mind and its posi-
bilities. Divine Love, represented in
the Scripture as the Queen of She
ba, came to his consciousness to re-
veal her infinite riches and power,
beyond all that Solomon had here
tofore conceived. But, weighed in
the balance, Solomon was found
wanting and She vanished from his
presence. He was tempted by pride
of place and power and dropped
back into the world of material
sense. Divine wisdom fed, leaving
him with his material carnal senses
to create their false Elusive phe-
nomena, which should turn to dust
and ashes at his touch. The So
called carnal mind is composed of
fears, a spectral band-of doubts,
anxiety, sickness, sorrow and death.
All its conceptions are phantoms,
unreal and feeting. Humanity must
turn from the mortal sense of life
in matter to the understanding of
life in Mind and there abide, if it
would continue to receive Gods
blessings. If cause is right the right
effect will follow. Mortals must dis
continue false thinking. which
evolves discord and death. These
are dreams which, as mortals awake
to Truth, wisdom and understand
ing destroy.
At first, Solomon asked for wis
dom to judge between good and bad,
and God governed his thought. A.
harmonious cause produces a har-
monious effect. Thought is force.
Spiritual thought is dynamic force
carrying life and love into human
hearts. Mind is the creative Prin-
ciple, the supreme, divine intelli-
gence. There is but one Mind, or
cause, God. This is the fountain of
eternal Life.
Wisdom and understanding pro-
ceed from the Christ-mind, and spir-
ituaf man is a reflection of God,
made in His own image and like
ness with dominion over all things.
Jesus the Christ realized his one
ness with the Father, and said of
his disciples that they may be one
with the Father], as we are" He
exercised his God thought and knew
that there was no intelligence, life
or power in matter. He took do
minion over the lie, and destroyed
the works of error-sin, sickness
and death.
As wisdom or spiritual thought
appeared to Solomon with her
riches of infinite beauty, power and
glory, which were diviner concep.
tions than had yet been revealed to
him, so she appeared to Jesus, and
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