The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-11

lecture was as follows: believed to be known to God, and therefore were thought to exist as realities.
 Mrs. Eddy was deeply impressed by the necessity to bring back to the Christian church an understanding of the primal order of the first great cause, this establishing the divine. nature of Science as constituting the exact knowledge of God, who is the one infinite cause. She discov- cred and proved that Science and Christianity are identical in actual demonstration. She saw and de- clared in her textbook (p. D. we reach the Science of Christianity through demonstration of the di- vine nature"
 This brings us to the all-impor- tant question, What is this nature? Each one, at some time in his indi- vidual experience, must ask himself this question. In other words, how do we find God to our own con- SciouSness? Does our concept of God bring. us a sense of His near ness? Do we love or fear Him? Does His law seem available to meet our everyday needs? When we de- clare Gods omnipotence, do we really mean that God, is All in-all?
 Christian Science is based firmly on the Scriptural declarations of Gods nature. In the light of this Science we see that Moses virtually declared God as Mind when he was inspired with the revelation that God is the great I AM, or infinite divine consciousness. We also see that the First Commandment, to acknowledge and serve the one and only God, attests the infinitude and, therefore, the ever-presence of God. Centuries later Christ Jesus said, There is none good but one. that Is, God" He revealed and demon strated the divine nature in the oneness and allness of good. Still more definite was his declaration that God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" This assures us that all truth, or exact knowledge, must consist in the knowledge of God, and is spiritual. A grasp of this concept of Science above matter or basic fact enables us to lift our speculative hypotheses into Spirit, or Truth, and to demonstrate the uninterrupted operation of divine law.
 Mrs. Eddy reached the conclusion, through revelation, that all Scrip tural revealments and records of Gods nature proved Him to be di- vine Principle. This led finally to the unalterable conclusion that spir- itual causation is the law governing all that actually exists. She wrote in her textbook (p. 275): "To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckon ing God as the divine Principle of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, combine as one-and are the Scriptural names for God. All sub- stance, intelligence, wisdom, being. immortality. cause, and effect be- long to God. These are His attri- buteS, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love-"
 Why is it of such vital importance for us to understand the divine na- ture as Mind? Because this under standing enables us to gain a clear comprehension of what true con- sciousness is. It shows us how to differentiate between the false be- liefs or suggestions of the carnal, mortal mind, so called, and the true ideas and facts emanating from the divine Mind. In this way Christian Science proves to us that true con- sciousness is the reflection or ex- precision of the divine nature, the expression of the one infinite Mind.
 Consciousness is defined briefly by Webster as knowledge of ones own existence" Christian Science shows mans real existence to be spiritually mental. and the understanding of this fact is true self knowledge. Until this fundamental truth is per-. ceived in Science, it is not possible for one to realize his real, indestruc- tible identity.
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 Since the great primal cause is Mind, the. only .begotten of that cause is idea. When once it is seen and acknowledged that the divine nature is infinite Mind, it follows that mans existence is wholly rep resentative of that nature-that he is mental, not physical. But how is this to be realized and made prac- tical in the midst of our human experience? Only in the way the Master taught and proved to his followers. By adhering faithfully to the divine realities of being, Jesus overcame all the erroneous claims of the carnal mind, or physical sense of existence, and demonstrated mans perfection and true sonship with God. He became the Saviour of mankind by first saving himself from the false beliefs of material sense, sin. disease, and death. This demonstration Of the Science or truth of being shows that the spir- itual effect about anything Is the redemptive power. All that ever will vt ctH hMNu ID 4toil tHo tttFektgo VT perverted images and illusions Of the carnal mind Is the spiritual fact or truth. This Science does not teach us as spiritualize matter; on the contrary, it reveals the allneBs of Spirit, Mind. and therefore the unrealIty Of matter. ft teaches that mortal mind and matter are one and the same thing, fn this way it shows us the prooess by which through righteous or right thlnks ing. We elyo np the false or nensu0lM concept and realize moro and moro Of those divine realities wherein "all things hfo become now" nois elne and ileallh tells ua on page ~! A "qenseleMsnaNs M een4lrueh . 2