The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-10


a. ali. instead Il explains the true
nature o. God and His creation.
II God II the one immeasurable
Mind and hence the Mind Of man.
Il follows that man cannot have
failing and incapable Mind.
Failure could never originate in
nor emanate from the divine
Mind. God never made a failure
could not make a failure. never
knew a failure. because His uni
verse. including man. IL a COM
plete success. finished. and very
good.
In demonstrating Christian Sci
ence. It u important to understand
that we are not two kinds % man.
II you have perceived your true
identity as an individual spiritual
consciousness, then stick 10 IL. We
cannot work successfully from two
opposite standpoints. There Is no
duality in divine metaphysics. and
all successful demonstration Is
from the standpoint Of absolute
truth. II you are a divine being. and
you are. then you are not really
a human being becoming divine.
or a sick man becoming well. even
II the testimony of the senses de
clares that to be the case. Spir-
itual thinking is not based on sense
testimony. but on divine facts.
II is important. therefore. to I'M
derstand the value OF spiritual af-
firmation. The Apostle John tells
us that one night. shortly follow
ing the resurrection Of Jesus, Peter
and several of the other disciples
had taken a fishing boat out on
the Sea of Tiberias and. although
they had labored the entire night,
their toll had been fruitless. John
relates that in the morning Jesus
appeared on the shore and ques-
TONED them regarding their catch.
They replied that they had caught
nothing. The Bible then tells us
the Masters reply. Cast the net"
he said. ION the right side of the
ship. and We shall find. They cast
therefore. and now they were not
able to draw IL for the multitude
of fishes" Mrs. Eddy points out
in her textbook an important les
son to be drawn from this In
cident. Have you ever considered
how. from the time you wake in
the morning until night. you are
continuously casting your net?
Every one OF us Is always cast
ing his net on the right or wrong
side OF thought. We are either |
and recognizing that /
which is true, or we are casting
our net on the side of materially.
giving recognition to a false sense |
Of being. To be sure. humanity |
there In every aggressive induce
ment to accept the picture that |
the material senses present
picture Of disease and inharmony
Shall we cast our net on that
side7 Shall we accept and admit
its reality. or shall we affirm what
We spiritually know TO be the abb
solute fact-the perfection OF God
and His infinite being?
Mrs. Eddy says (Science and
Health. p. 149). I'VE need to un-
derstand the affirmations of di- |
vine Science, and demonstrate
truth according to Christ" So we
see in Christian Science that the |
whole spirit of its teaching is af-
that is, we assert and |
establish that which is true. As
we learn to be ever conscious of |
good. of God, we are m a king
right thinking hsbitual. We are /
learning to cast our net on the af-
side, on the side of /
Truth. instead of error. II is. of /
course. the experience of everyone |
that the negative. discordant argu-
ment tries to present itself. But let /
us not be discouraged. God has en-
dowed us with divine power to re-
ject that which is untrue and af- |
firm that which is the fact about |
and all being. I'VE must
realize" as Mrs. Eddy says in Sci |
ence and Health Up. 42s), the
ability OF mental might to offset
human misconceptions and to re-
place them with the life which is
spiritual, not material" That |
mental might" is. of course, your |
mental might, as you reflect the
divine Mind, which is the Mind of .
every man.
But someone may say: Yes,
but is there no human mind? Does |
not Mrs. Eddy refer to the human /
mind in her writings" Yes, she
does. Mrs. Eddy frequently speaks
of the human mind. but never
from the standpoint Of absolute
reality. Her use OF the term thu |
man mind" refers solely to the
relative. material, and unreal pic |
ture which Christian Science seeks
to dispel. On page 151 of Science
and Health. Mrs. Eddy says. THE /
human mind is opposed to God"
and on the following page in the
same book. she declares this So
called mortal or human mind TO
be a myth. To be sure. she indi-
Gates that, rs thinking improves.
IL is evidenced in states and stages
OF belief. which. for lack Of bet F.
ter term, she calls the human
mind; but. first and last. all So
called thinking that is not the ex-
preston Of absolute Truth or God
must be part and parcel of that
false. unreal mental state which
is ephemeral or human, and which
eventually disappears into nothing
ness, as divine facts are perceived,
established. and maintained. OBJ
viously. then. for right results. we
do not work from two bases: that
Is. We cannot claim two minds,
one divine and the other human.
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