Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-11

devil or evil god; or shall we follow
the Mosaic command, Thou shalt
have no other gods before me"
Christ Jesus speaking of evil said,
He is a liar, and the father of it, =
the lie that evil is real. God-bestowed
and God-created. A lie-that was the
only name he had for devil or Satan.
CREATION
The all-wise, the all-seeing, the all
acting, and ALLOWING cause could origi
nate and conceive of creation only as
like itself, perfect, eternal, and good.
Creation, then, the universe including
man, is the intelligent orderly effect
of a supreme mental cause, and this
infinite cause is self-existent Mind,
piritual and eternal, The activity of
Mind is thinking, and the product OF
thinking is thoughts, and Christian
Science declares that the divine Mind
or God is revealed in thoughts or
ideas of Truth, indestructible and i'm
mutable. What is the nature of true
thought, or to put it another way, an
idea of Truth? Is it not to enlighten,
to free from ignorance or error? Jesus
said that we should know the truth
(true IDEAS and that these true or
right ideas would make us free. In
other words the true idea is the saw
ior from error or ignorance. Truth is
the redeemer of consciousness, re-
Sdeeming, saving us from ignorant,
dark, and erroneous thinking.
Can we conceive of a universe with
out order, precision, or law, universe
devoid of thought or ideas? When
thinking ceases does not consciousness
also cease? What becomes of man
without Mind and ideas? A nonentity,
or nonexistence. AS man thinketh,
so is he, and Mrs. Eddy says in
Science and Health, on page 1O9,
Christian Science reveals incontrO-
vertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that
the only realities are the divine Mind
and idea
Modern psychology, of course, will
tell you that the brain is. the seat of
our intelligence, that thoughts or ideas
have their origin inside our heads
How inspiringi How reasonable! Con-
slider for moment our thinking even
on a human plane since we rose this
morning. What has been going on?
Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts in rapid
succession so fast so many, and so
varied that we cannot begin to calcu-
late or number them. Where do they
come from? Where is their origin? A
piece of gray pulpy matter inside a
skull? Does spiritual Truth and inspir
alton find it's beginning in a cerebrum
or cerebellum? And again, if truth or
ideas originate in one mans skull or
brain what. shall the remainder of us
do? Shall we be deprived of those
ideas? How shall we get them? Shall
we not have truth too?
Christian Science teaches that Truth
OF true ideas are in their very nature
ornnipresent and ever available, and
denominates as superstition the notio1
that the majesty of Mind and its in
finite manifestation should find its be-
ginning in a piece of gray matter.
Who ever saw a thought in brain !?
No one, and no one ever will, for it
isn't there Mrs Eddy in what she has
exactly termed "the scientific state
ment of being" says in Science and
Health (p.468.) There is no life,
truth, intelligence, nor substance in
matter All is infinite Mind and its
infinite manifestation, for God is ALL
mall. Spirit is immortal Truth; mat
ter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit
is God, and man is His image and like
ness. Therefore man is not material;
he is spiritual
Man spiritual-the exact and COM
plete image of God in accordance with
the first chapter of Genesis, $50 God
created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male
and female created he them" so is
man declared to be in Christian
Science. Let us consider this man for
a moment. If God is infinite Mind,
then man, His likeness, is the spirit
ual reflection or image of infinite
Mind God becomes Immediately avail
able to us as intelligence, wisdom, and
perception, infinitely manifested. If
God is cause or the Life of all being,
and man is tn exact image or likeness
of Life, God becomes available to us
as our very life and being, the energy
and intelligence back of all our move
ments and action. Again, since God is
good or Love, then man is the COM
plete image or reflection of infinite
good or Love. God becomes available
to us as substance, supply, purity, and
righteousness, infinitely manifested
What does it mean to be son OF
God, real man? Does it not mean
the perception and establishment of
our unity with God, realization that
we are the exact and perfect image
and likeness of Life, Truth, and Love,
the Father-Mother God? Christ Jesus