Evening star., 1925-01-09

not a material, finite, fallen being.
He Is spiritual now, and must be
so considered. Here Is strange
thing. Religionists have dealt harsh
ly with Christian Science for ac-
cepting as the present fact the spirit
uality OF man, when that very spirit
ual status is the Christians hope of
salvation.
Let US see just what there Is to
this world Of matter including ma
terlal man. Have you ever attended
trial in court and heard a hypo-
thetical question put 10 a witness?
The elaboration OF the hypothesis
often tends Ito, confuse the. witness
INTO accepting the conclusion, regard
less OF the purely suppositional basis
OF the question. So the elaborate de-
tail of the hypothesis ofyIif in mat
ter contuses thought into accepting
the entire round Of materjality, with
all Its abnormalities, as real. Whereas
the truth is that matter, with all it's
compleXes, mental and physical is
based on the following false hspGthe-
SIS: suppose there is more than, all;
suppose in6nite Spirit. sod has an
opposite, matter; suppose, Infinite
good, has an. opposite. +eHil. Then the
hypothesis goes further ana says: If
the one good, or eVer-lving Mind
the one evil, or devil, mortal mind.
ana so the lie arrays itself against
the truth, because the 'carnal mind
Is enmity against Cod and eventual
~ comes to be accepted as true Thus
1t comes TO have in human belief a
sort or counterfeit existence-a vast
elaboration of lies claiming to be
truth. OF this counterfeit existence
the Spanish poet, Calderon, wrote:
What is life? 'Tis bat a madness.
" hat is life2 A mere Illusion,
Fleeing pleasure. fond delusion
shortlired Joy, thst ends in Sadness
Whose most constant substances seems
But the dream Of other dreams
But, you say. who or what is it
that becomes confused into miscon-
STRUNG the facts of real life and
man? Does man. the expression of
the divine Intelligence, become con-
fused and a dreamer? Does man ar
que or reason enormously and reach
false conclusions? No. The believer
and belief are one says Mrs Eddy
(Science and Health, p. 4S7) and that
one is the dream-the belief of self
hood apart from God. Matter and all
It's forms, whether claiming to be
thoughts, things, or man, is a mis-
statement, or MISUNDERSTANDING, Of
the infinite substance, Spirit-which
alone includes all that is real
whether thought, thing or man. The
entire range of the erroneous hy-
pothesis of lie in matter is, after all,
reducible to a false argument, a
dream. deserving neither recognition
nor credence.
Christian Science is the truth, and
therefore, as system of religion
and ethics, II Is so finely balanced
that the slightest deviation from it's
perfect statement and practice be-
comes a travesty. There is an idea
back Of every natural. normal thing
in the world The human mind mis-
construes these ideas and calls
misconceptions material things
lies. these counterfeits. with their
multiplication and self-division. make
up the suppostional world of matter
The distortions or abnormal func-
tioning of these counterfsits consti-
tute disease and dlscord. But in re-
verse of every lie. however remote,
however distorted, however abnormal.
there is true statement which re-
veals a right idea OF the one Mind.
Cod. This idea is found to be spir-
itual and TO have the qualities of
Spirit, God. Shall man be less pure
than his Maker?"