Evening star., 1921-01-16
The Second Con@ Of Christ the Son of God Is Immner

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I The eyer-present, eternal, ideal
Imam, Christ. Truth. meets many to-
day at the material well, the belief
of life and intelligence IN matter
and material generation, and finds
Them drinking Of its. material
waters, as their. fathers did before
them. He speaks to them mentally,
| as he spoke to the woman audibly,
i"Ye worship ye know not what
for not in the mountain or mortal
thought, nor in the belief of life and
intelligence in matter, do ye hnd the
Father. but in Spirit. or ia the un-
ierstanding that man is spiritual. an
emanation' of Life and Love. the
creative Principle of being, God
1made man "in His own image" and
gave him dominion -. over all
the earth" Genesis l., 26).
4 For generations mortals have
lived in the material senses, the be-
lief that sight is in the eye, hearing
in the ear, sensation in nerve, and
intelligence in brain. gray matter.
They have continued TO evolve a
/ material generation which ends in
! death. They have accepted the tes-
timony of the material senses, be-
llieving in errors illusions, expressed
in the phenomena of sin, sickness
land death, which represent NOR
tai as foam-crested wave that
Irises for moment, and then is for
ever gone-lost in the immensity of
the great unknown. While the war
ring, mental elements of the So
called carnal senses have furiously
ragged, as expressed by the Psalm
ist why do the heather rage, and
the people imagine vain thing -
humanity has suffered. from con-
slant care and ineessant watch, lest
life be destroyed. Mortals have
agonized with doubts and uncertain
tiles, that fill them with dismay, from
the moment they enter upon the
stage of human responsibility to the
hour when they make their exit,
having had nothing to satisfy their
immortal yearnings for the love.
rest and peace, in the infinite Faith
erhood of God. who is Life and
Love, the source of mans eternal
sonship.
This has been the condition Of 'hu-
manity, since the so-called lying,
talking serpent, Satan, first de-
ceived, with the illusion that matter
was sentient substance. possessing
life and intelligence. This theory
has been preached for ages by the
protesting diciples of Christ, who
have themselves been deceived by
the siren, mental argument Of the
subtle lie, the so-called carnal mind,
until these blind disciples have iulled
! all into the deep sleep of Adam.
For as in Adam material senseI
all die. even SO in Christ spiritual
sense1 shall all be made alive" q.
| Corinthians XIV, 22)s This error in
premise has. resulted in erroneous
conclusions. =
Instead Of Recognizing the real,
the mental, or the: spiritual man,
who was made in Gods own image"
and likeness" Spirit, "the same
yesterday, and today, and forever" !"
mortals have been governed by the
opposite of Truth-tfe so-cal1ed
earnal mind. which testihes that
Adam is the real man. Mind, Spirit,
4 God, is causation, the creative DOW
er, and there is but one creator and
one real creation, God and His spir-
itual universe, composed of spiritu-
Al ideas, which are, governed by
Principle, the source of all phe-
nomena that are real. and eternal
Man is not material He is mental,
spiritual. substsnce-idea, the reaec-
ttion of eternal Life and Love, named
,rGod. -,
i Christ Jesus recognized the real,
or the spiritual, mental man, who
was made in Gods own image and
likeness" .ISpirit]y ".the same yester-
day, and today and forever" In
this age, Mary Baker Eddy dis
cerned the spiritual fact Of scientific
being as taught and demonstrated
by Christ Jesus. and recorded the
eternal Truth in her book, Science
aud Health With Key to the Scrip.
tures. the textbook of Christian
Science. She says on page l07:
In the year 1866 I discovered
the Christ Science or divine laws
7 of Lite, Truth, and Love, and
named my discovery Christian
Science. God Had been gracious
ly preparing me during many
years for the reception of this
final revelation of the absolute
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