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

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disease. that you are suffering and
may shortly die? Why does ons
20 to a DOCTOR To have diseass
made unreal and destroyed. Z dis.
ease actually exists a. a reality
~hat could anyone do about IL
Z II disease were real. neither Chris
tan Science nor any other method
o. healing would be o. any avail
We would be hopeless II disess,
be fact. can medicine or surgery
destroy it
When ne say that disease exists
only as belief. we understand tina;
Il is primarily mental Without
some kind Of thought. there would
be no consciousness Of disease OF
pain. In other words. sickness, sin
or discord Of any nature appear,
and can only appear. as false men,
tai pictures in what is termed
human consciousness. We call
sickness a claim. but il Is a false
claim to reality. II il had actual
entity. IL would be eternal. and
all that we call scientific thinking
would have no basis All sickness
Is. OF course. the belief that man
IL separated from God. the source
% his well-being and harmony. The
reason why disease and discord
disappear under Christian Science
prayer or treatment In because
they never did have actual exist
enee. The unreality Of sickness
and disease IL based on the scien-
tific and logical knowledge that a
self-existent and wholly good
cause could not possibly be their
origin. and that therefore they
have no existence in God or in
man, His perfect creation. In order
to demonstrate the truth Of these
statements, you are asked to turn
away from the material picture
and physical symptoms. You are
asked to maintain, both audibly
and mentally, what you perceive
must be the spiritual fact about
yourself and all being. your in
separability from Love. from Life
and all that means perfection. You
are asked to cast your net on the
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instead of error. Develop the
habit Of thinking correctly about
yourself. You say. 81 am i'll" Now
what is this I, that talks for you
and me when ii says, Il have a
headache; have a pain in my
side; / have rheumatism" 4? Mortal
mind or false personal sense. And
what is personal sense? 1t is the
mesmeric suggestion that you and
I are corporeal entities, instead of
divine, spiritual ideas of Mind.
Corporal sense is the belief that
you have a material existence sep
arate from God. realize that il
takes certain amount OF cour-
age, perception. and even charac-
ter TO reject the suggestion of cor
poreality and to refuse to let per-
sonal sense speak for us and say,
Il am this. or I am that" But as
a matter of fact, what is the i
that you or l am? In Science and
Health Up. 2s1) Mrs. Eddy gives
this definition of the Ego: The
Ego-man is the reflection of the
Bgo-God; the Ego-man is the
image and likeness of perfect
Mind, Spirit, divine Principle"
Then the / or Ego that you are
and the I that I am, is the indi-
vidual reflection or manifestation
of the one and only Ego, and on
that basis we can and must de-
clare: 81 am perfectly well, be-
cause am the expression OF omni-
active divine Mind. l am the en-
bodiment Of perfect Being Of
Spirit"
Suppose someone were TO ask
you the question. How do you
know that you are alive" What
would you answer? You would
probably say: why. I know I am
alive, because I am conscious. l
exist. I know l exist II is through
consciousness that l arrive at my
perception of being. am con-
scious Of life. I am positively
aware Of being. I think. therefore
I am" Then does IL not follow
that your awareness of life Is
mental?
Life, as revealed by Christian
Science, is not something that is
here today and gone tomorrow.
something from which you and /
can be separated. Life is as inf
mite and all-inclusive as Mind, in
deed Life is Mind. And if you and
I have no life but God. does 1t not
follow that God is our very life
and being? Naturally. a distant
God might imply distant, sep
arated source of life, but a pres
ent God means for us a very pres
ent. unending Life an eternal
continuity Of being. Now in the
same way that We learn TO claim
our inseparability from Mind, so
We perceive that we can and must
positively assert and maintain our
oneness with the infinity OF Life.
II Life is infinite. how much have
you gotf All. Then claim IL. in
sist upon II. And IL is everyone's
Life, just because II Is infinite.
We are the very expression Of
Life. Life in evidence. Even hu-
manly our consciousness OF one
another is the indisputRhle evil
dence OF Life. Our oneness with
Life is not theoretical: IL is prac-
tical: nor is our eternslity or con-
tinuity OF being to be accepted
only as a theory. Eternity is not
something you will experience
some years from now. II we are
ever to experience eternity, we are
experiencing IL right now. Eter-
nifty is not something that begins