Evening star., 1922-01-22

CP1RITUAL man, created by God, eternal
~ Life and Love, is without beginning of
days, nor end of life" ~ Christ Jesus dis
cerned this spiritual fact, and recorded it in
the following words: Before Abraham was
I am" ts' Of the eternal children of God.
as they appear-for spiritual generation is the
only reality of man-Mary Baker Eddy asks,
GLOW old is he?" and answers, "Of his days
there is no beginning and no ending" She
continues her celloquy in regard to the Off
spring of God. or spiritual generation (and
there is in reality no otl,er) and questions:
Is he wonderful?
His works thus prove him. He giveth
power, peace and holiness; he exalteth
the lowly; he giveth liberty to the captive,
health to the sick. salvation from sin to
the sinner-and overcometh the world!
Go. and tell what things ye shall see
and hear; how the blind. spiritually and
physically. receive sight; how the lame.
those hating between two opinions or
hobbling on crutches, walk; how the
physical and moral lepers are cieansed;
how the deaf-those who. having ears.
hear not. and are afflicted with "tympa-
those buried in dogmas and physical all
rnents, are raised; that to the poor--the
lowly, in Christ the gospel is
preached
60. voice from heaven seems to
The shepherds shout, I'VE behold the
appearing of the star!"
miscellaneous Writings, pt. 167-16S)
Spiritual man was heralded to the prophet
shepherds in the symbol of star; and the
light which is dawning upon the world today
is the illumination of spiritual generation, or
man in the image and likeness of Life and
Love. The above quotation from the writings
of Mary Baker Eddy is an explanation of
spiritual generation, or the definition of
birth CONTROL" under the law of God. Birth
control is spiritual; but the birth to which /
refer partakes not of the physical. 1t is
wholly spiritual and mental, the revelation of
mans true selfhood, as Gods child. This
birth is the dawning of the light of spiritual
Life, or the real man. rejecting the Principle
of eternal being. Mind, Spirit, which dis
solves the material concept and reveals spirit
ual man, as en,anating from eternal Life and
Love- The unfolding of spiritual sense, or
the process of capitalization of thought, is
arresting the attention of the advanced think
ers of the twentieth century, and Jesus
words, +'Ye must be born again. 81 which
have reyerberated down the ages, are being
apprehended and demonstrated There is no
reality in so-called mortal mind, and ma
terial time-universe, or drean-world, for eter-
nal Life and Love, the creative Principle of
being, or great First cause, is infinite, and
nothing exists beyond the range of all-in-
elusive in6nity." " Infinite Spirit, Life and
Love, our Father Mother God, the one and
only creator, controls the birth of Her infinite
ideas, and there is no other creator and no
other birth; for God, being infinite, is onnnip-
otent, on,niscient and omnipresent, and His
infinite ideas compose the spiritual universe.
There is no other man and no other universe,
but the spiritual. In Genesis l., 26, we read,
"God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness" Life and Love, the di-
vine "Us," Our Father-Mother God, who
made man in His-Her likeness, is the only
creator, and is mans source and supply of
existence. Man cannot be separated from
God, eternal Life, since effect cannot be sep
arated from cause. Christ Jesus words, i
and my Father are one," confirm this spiritual
fact.
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