Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

Not to be SllenCeQ, however, lile
older lion challenged the younger
to follow him to a nearby pool
of water in which he could see
his reflection and thereby learn
what he really was. Accepting the
challenge. the one followed the 9TH
er to the pool. Looking in again
and again, the young lion, at first
incredulous, was eventually COM
PEELED to admit that he was not a
sheep, but a lion. Once convinced,
he went back to bid fond farewell
to his friends the sheep, and then
disappeared into the jungle, new
er to reappear. The moral was that
man is never what belief says he
is, but always what he is; namely,
spiritual. Godlike, perfect.
Enlightenment that Heals
Similarly, owing to mans supposed
separation from the Father-Mother
Principle, or true source of being,
which is omnipresent Spirit, man.
kind are ignorantly believing that
Gods ideas, or children, are NOR
tails, living in a material world,
and subject to material law. But,
thanks to Mary Baker Eddy, we
now have the mirror of Christian
Science, into which we may look
and learn what Gods man really is
not a mortal, but an immortal;
not the subject, object. or victim
of material sense, but the carefree
idea. of divine Mind God.
The healing power which ac-
companies this spiritual enlighten-
ment was beautifully illustrated in
recent case. 1t was that of an
elderly woman who for thirty-five
years had been suffering from n
particular bodily ailment. She said
that she had spent fortune in her
search for healing by material
means. But, instead of getting bet
ter. she said that she grew steadily
worse. While listening to lecture
on Christian Science, however, she
was suddenly and completed healed.
When asked what specific truth it
was that accomplished the healing,
she said it was at that point in
the lecture when she realized clear
ly for the first time that man is
not a mortal, either sick or we'll,
with or without pain, but-in the
likeness of God-incorporeal, in
organic, spiritual
MOdus Operandi Illustrated
Many years ago obviously, be-
fore I knew anything about Chris
tan Science). I attended the public
exhibition of a professional hypno-
tist. Most of the persons who ap-
peared on the stage as prospective
subjects, could not be controlled by
the mental manipulation, simply be-
cause, as he explained, they refused
to think about nothing" On the
other hand. a young man of my
acquaintance, who willingly yielded
his mentality to the hypnotist's sug-
gestions, suddenly found himself
believing that he was trying to
save himself from drowning. AL
though physically safe on the
stage, he manifested all the evi-
dences of person in grave danger.
BY observing only the subjects
struggle to save himself, one might
have been deceived into trying to
rescue drowning man. Obviously,
however, one would soon realize
that no man needed to be rescued
from water, for there was no such
water and no such man. Human
consciousness needed merely to be
awakened from the hypnotic spell
which was causing the man to be-
lieve that he was what and where
he1swaS not. Once released or
awaked from the hypnotic delusion,
he would find himself restored to
mental self-control and freedom.
Daydream of Material Sense
Similarly, because the world at
tai, living in a material universe,
and subject to material law, Christ
ian Science reveals that it is only
from this hypnotic belief, this day
dream of material sense, and not
from supposed realities calling
themselves sickness and unhappi-
ness, unemployment and poverty,
encouragement and failure, disaster
and death, that human conscious
ness needs to be saved The basic
error is never person, place or
thing, but always mesmeric sug-
gestion appearing as such in order
mentally to deceive and mislead
mankind. Accordingly, the axe of
Truth must always be aimed at the
root of the tree: that is, this sup
posed malicious mind or basic claim
to existence apart from infinite
Spirit or Mind called God, must be
cut down by divine Science, If one
is to enjoy harmonious sense of
things in human experience.
Therefore, instead of trying to
change matter that cannot see into
matter that can see, and matter that
cannot hear into matter that can
hear; instead Of trying to change
matter that has malignant growth
into matter that has not malig-
nant growth, and matter that Is
unemployed into matter that is en-
ployed, Christian Science aims pri-
marily TO dispel the dream
of organized matter 1t accom-
plishes this by stimulating human
obedience to the law of infinite
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