The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-26


manifestations Of the universe as known
to u.s. Well. if the best thai is in us.
that which distinguishes Us from the
orders below, proceeds from God, can
the fountain rise higher than its Source,
And is not the Source of all the Gov
ernor Of all and, therefore, the prin-
ciple Of alp. Accordingly, III the most
important sense, Principle IS infinite
Person.
So strongly are the words 'person3
and personality saturated BY usage
with the ideas Of consciousness and
self-consciousness that TO deny the per
sonality Of God has the effect upon
popular thought of denying that God
lis conscious or living, and is equiya-
Elent to affirming that God is mere dead
Ilaw. In such teaching. the phrase the
living God, is meaningless.
| HE correct teaching regarding the
personally Of God is correctly summed
Iup BY Mrs. Eddy in the two following
passages from Science and Health |:
AS the words person and per
sonal'' are commonly and ignorantly
employed. they often lead, when ap-
Iplied TO Deity. to confused and errone-
Gus conceptions of divinity and its dis
functions from humanity. If the term
d personality, T" as applied to God. means
infinite personality, then God is infin-
lite PERSON-in the sense of infinite
personality, but not in the lower sense.
: An infinite mind in finite form is an
absolute impossibility" (p. 1867. God
lis Love. He is therefore the divine, In
finite Principle. called Person or God
MANS true consciousness is in the mem
tai, not in any bodily or personal like
: ness to Spirit. Indeed, the body pre-
sents no proper likeness of divinity
though mortal sense would fain have
US So believe" p. 1922.
Since practically all up-to-date stu
dents of Truth believe and expect thai
the end Of human attainment is gain
! ing unity with God, it is far more in.
, spring, and therefore far more NOR.
ally and spiritually energizing prospect
to look forward to finally becoming
: identified with infinite Consciousness
: infinite Self-Consciousness, infinite
a Consciousness of Self as All, than tc
: look forward to finally attaining unity
: and identity with dead, unconsciou.
-lLaw-as the statement that There i
! nothing but Law" would imply.
l This infinite Consciousness sets, ane
! IS, the Standard Of Perfection for hui
! mans, and thus is to humans Law, I'm
e varying and inflexible; and those hu
i mans who look to God for special pro
: vidences,' or who expect God to inter
: fere in their affairs, because they beE
r IFIim-EIer to do SO by prayer, will finc
themselves sadly mistaken and disap
g pointed except that earnest prayer
f even the prayer Of petition, often ha
S remarkable effect in turning a dark
: ened mentality toward the Light, which
Z. is God, and thus may rightly relate t,
$ God, Good, a mentality which was for
+ merly wrongly related. IF SO, won
derful change in any or all department
= of a humans life may be wrought b
= even the prayer of petition-not be
e cause Law or infinite Consciousness
+ has changed, but because the petition
g er has changed his relations theret
a and Herewith.
Mrs. Wilmans says: Long before
i attended Christian Science lecture
i" had reasoned myself into what SD
n consider the true conception of God.
re was surprised when | found that Chr;
e. tan Science had the same conception
ID God is Being; the forever unseen tn
" moving power in every manifestation {
Or life; in the animals, the plants, tn
t. stones and the stars.
h Though in this paragraph, Mrs. Wi
mans says that this Being is God an
as corresponds to what she considers II
l. true conception Of God. four par;
he graphs later she declares: This might
tn Life Principle we do not call God, b
n cause the word implies limitations, ar
us We recognize no limitations to it. II
word God means man.
r. On the principle that people who Ii
n in glass houses should not throw stone
If Mrs. Wilmans will do well not to chars
m Christian Science with inconsistencies
re First. she tells US that the central B
If ing of the universe corresponds to Il
nm true conception of God" which she !
NJ cognizes as her own. and then she te
lily us that it is not proper to call this B
re- ing God.
M She asserts that her idea of God
IA Identical with that taught in Christi!