Arizona republican., 1921-11-14

I right. Christ Jesus. science, his the-l ology, his medicine. were spiritual | and therefore were true. Christian | Science. without the limitations of
 matter, was the Science of Christi i Jesus; Christian theology, without scholastic dogma, was the religion of | Christ Jesus; Christian healing, with
 out materia medica. was the medicine
 of Christ Jesus.
 It will be understood that Chris | tian Science does not come to destroy science, theology, and medicine, but 1 rather to Ieaven the human concept | of them. It comes to purge out the
 old lump. In the leavening, scienceI | is shorn of physical letters. theology l is cleansed of the misconcepts of l creed and dogma, and medicine is relieved of matter and properly re
 lated to Mind. Thus standardization l of thought raises the concepts of
 science, theology, and medicine to I 1 higher basis, reveals them to be In 1 truth modes of divine Mind. and | restores them in human conscious
 ness to their rightful place, from l which material theories have. debased l them.
 THE HEAVEN IN SCIENCE
 Physical science from the first has | been fettered to matter It does not pretend to deal with ultimate cause. | Rather it accepts matter as it's start I ing point, leaving to theology the ex- I planation or origin. Thus natural I science makes of matter an absurdity, I an effect without a cause. Matter I having no origin, the conclusion is | inevitable, though not admitted by I physics, that matter has no exis- | tat1Pa in StIeI hac ciS I this so-caEed science, with alto 1 gether n naterial Inconsistency, de- I clares matter to be indestructible I Now it is true that matter cannot I destroy matter. The destructI Il If II matter can never be accomplished by other taan the dissolution oe it's I seeming reality through the recogni-
 ton that Spirit is the only substance Matter and the human mind are like a Kaleidoscope. wherein the minute particles of myriad colored glass are
 seen to be going through a continu ous process of construction and de- struction of marvellous figures. a ceaseless alignment breaking up and I re- alignment. Contemplating the haleidoseopic history of humanity. its struggles, its unrest, its present state
 of fermentation, one is struck with
 this obvious fact: there has never
 been any real progress in matter.
 Always there has been change in
 matter, in inceSSant action and re-
 action, building up and tearing down.
 But these mutations are changes only
 of form. No essential progress oc-
 CUTS till the leaven of Spirit works 1 in human consciousness that funda
 mental change from the material to
 the spiritual. All permanent prog
 ress is mental, spiritual, not material. and is manifested humanly in the
 overcoming of matter. Thus mans
 true advancement has been recorded
 not in material history. but in spiri- tual development. The truth about
 anything begins to unfold to human
 consciousness at the vanishing point l of matter beliefs about it.
 The atomic theory was the founda-
 tion of physics, when Mrs. Eddy dis ] covered Christian Science. Briefly. this theory taught that in the process : of a subdivision of matter, a point must be reached at which no further sl division could be made. Physics , termed this irredueible particle of
 matter the atom and upon it raised
 the entire structure of natural science l including physical man. Instinctive- 5 ly felt the untruth of it. In college : and later in medical college, I aues- 5 tioned the atomic theory, and found g myself always reaching back of the t material toward primary cause. Now : I know that even then the leaver 7 was at work in human consciousness
 To me it never seemed logical that a | there could be an indivisible portion 5 of matter. Anything that could be n divided, I considered. could be di- : vided again, and so indefinitely. Be /: fore my college course was com I plete, the atomic theory began tc s crumble. The atom was split in two h and not only in two, but was di- ) vided many times until at last mat |, ter as matter disappeared. Freed e from the limitations of the atomic : theory, thought began to expand anG
 the conquest of matter received al l. impetus. Chemistry, physics, tht : arts, gained the benefit of libera : thought and many useful invention: . came, giving evidence of mans do n minion over all the earth. The dis k proving Of the atomic theory to b' ei the final statement of matter necessi e tated further explanation and so phy h sicists have been advancing from on If theory to another, until they hav' Il concluded that matter is energy, O Il force, or to be down to the very min = ute, matter is just ''holes in tn e ether" More than fifty years ago
 
 e amounts to very nearly that whel
 she declared matter to be nothing
 more than a phase of false belief
 1 Physical science, under the infiu t ence of the leavening, is slowly, b, e devious paths, approaching the poin d where Mrs. Eddy began, namely tn $ identity of matter and the human n mind. Mrs. Eddy needed not to b e a pedant to conclude that the es e sence of matter Is mortal mind, flo S hers was divinely inspired cours el which passed unerringly over the in t tervening steps necessarily taken b ,- human reason and research. Tn 10 ancient philosophers taught tha o matter is but the subjective state o '- human consciousness, that in tn Is words of Mrs. Eddy, Mortal min r. sees what it believes as certainly a Is it believes what it sees. It feels 1t hears, and sees it's own thoughts. s- (S&H, p S6, 29-31) But Christian l. Science alone reveals the fact tha ,- neither matter nor the human min g have existence save as the mlsstate l. ment of cause and effect, the misuF 'e derstanding of God and His spiritua y creation. Mrs. Eddy's revelation ( le Truth was ultimate. Sho declare ,e cause and effect to be the divln ], Mind and it's idea. thus revealiu h man and Science to be not humani1 le1 but divinely mental
 fe The human mind Is an secretion C ,e mortal education, and that IS Illus Id trated in the case of the newborn III e. fant. Mortal man comes into tn T. world without tLe consciousness ( l. identity. without experience, withou 'yi intelligence. Nothing in animal lii l ia