cskit-shkts 1.0.0
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{"number":"260","lines":[{"text":"tion instead of perfection, one can no more arrive at the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"true conception or understanding of man, and make him-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"self like it, than the sculptor can perfect his outlines from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"an imperfect model, or the painter can depict the form","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and face of Jesus, while holding in thought the character","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of Judas.","flyout_text":"Spiritual discovery","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"many generations human beliefs will be attain-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing diviner conceptions, and the immortal and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the only true conception of being.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"desired and to bring out better and higher results, often","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"outset.","flyout_text":"Requisite change of our ideals","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"their models. A sick body is evolved from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sick thoughts. Sickness, disease, and death","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"proceed from fear. Sensualism evolves bad","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"physical and moral conditions.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Selfishness and sensualism are educated in mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"mind by the thoughts ever recurring to one's self, by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"conversation about the body, and by the expectation of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"perpetual pleasure or pain from it; and this education","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is at the expense of spiritual growth. If we array","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"nature.","flyout_text":"Thoughts are things","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"261","lines":[{"text":"we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Look away from the body into Truth and Love,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the endur-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing, the good, and the true, and you will bring these","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"into your experience proportionably to their occupancy","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of your thoughts.","flyout_text":"Unreality of pain","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The effect of mortal mind on health and happiness is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"seen in this: If one turns away from the body with such","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"absorbed interest as to forget it, the body","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"experiences no pain. Under the strong im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pulse of a desire to perform his part, a noted actor was","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"accustomed night after night to go upon the stage and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sustain his appointed task, walking about as actively","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as the youngest member of the company. This old man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"was so lame that he hobbled every day to the theatre, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sat aching in his chair till his cue was spoken, - a signal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which made him as oblivious of physical infirmity as if","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"he had inhaled chloroform, though he was in the full pos-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"session of his so-called senses.","flyout_text":"Immutable identity of man","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of God, or good, and the nature of the immu-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"table and immortal. Breaking away from the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mutations of time and sense, you will neither","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own iden-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"skyward flight.","flyout_text":"Forgetfulness of self","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"We should forget our bodies in remembering good and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the human race. Good demands of man every hour, in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"264","lines":[{"text":"terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"They have their day before the permanent facts and their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"perfection in Spirit appear. The crude crea-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tions of mortal thought must finally give place","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spir-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"itual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have our being.","flyout_text":"Self-completeness","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"multitudinous objects of creation, which before were","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"invisible, will become visible. When we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter, this understanding will expand into self-com-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"consciousness.","flyout_text":"Spiritual proofs of existence","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit. Sin","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is unsustained by Truth, and sickness and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"death were overcome by Jesus, who proved","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"them to be forms of error. Spiritual living","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"When we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ognize man's spiritual being, we shall behold and under-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stand God's creation, - all the glories of earth and heaven","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and man.","flyout_text":"Godward gravitation","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true}]}
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{"number":"266","lines":[{"text":"from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"rejoicing the heart.\" Such is the sword of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science, with which Truth decapitates error,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"materiality giving place to man's higher individuality and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"destiny.","flyout_text":"Uses of adversity","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Would existence without personal friends be to you","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"a blank? Then the time will come when you will be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"solitary, left without sympathy; but this","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"seeming vacuum is already filled with divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Love. When this hour of development comes, even if","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"force you to accept what best promotes your growth.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"lesson is sufficient to exalt you; for \"man's extremity","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is God's opportunity.\" The author has experienced the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"foregoing prophecy and its blessings. Thus He teaches","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"This is done through self-abnegation. Universal Love","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is the divine way in Christian Science.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"saint his own heaven by doing right. The opposite per-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"secutions of material sense, aiding evil with evil, would","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"deceive the very elect.","flyout_text":"Beatific presence","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mortals must follow Jesus' sayings and his demonstra-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"tions, which dominate the flesh. Perfect and infinite","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mind enthroned is heaven. The evil beliefs","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which originate in mortals are hell. Man is the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the universe with light. Man is deathless, spiritual. He","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"God and the universe.","flyout_text":"The infinitude of God","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"267","lines":[{"text":"Every object in material thought will be destroyed, but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the spiritual idea, whose substance is in Mind, is eternal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The offspring of God start not from matter","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or ephemeral dust. They are in and of Spirit,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"divine Mind, and so forever continue. God is one. The","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"allness of Deity is His oneness. Generically man is one,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and specifically man means all men.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"It is generally conceded that God is Father, eternal, self-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"created, infinite. If this is so, the forever Father must","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have had children prior to Adam. The great I AM made","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all \"that was made.\" Hence man and the spiritual uni-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"verse coexist with God.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christian Scientists understand that, in a religious","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"sense, they have the same authority for the appellative","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mother, as for that of brother and sister. Jesus said:","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mother.\"","flyout_text":"Waymarks to eternal Truth","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"When examined in the light of divine Science, mortals","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"present more than is detected upon the surface, since","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"inverted thoughts and erroneous beliefs must","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"be counterfeits of Truth. Thought is bor-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rowed from a higher source than matter, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by reversal, errors serve as waymarks to the one Mind,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in which all error disappears in celestial Truth. The","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"robes of Spirit are \"white and glistering,\" like the raiment","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of Christ. Even in this world, therefore, \"let thy gar-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ments be always white.\" \"Blessed is the man that en-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"dureth [overcometh] temptation: for when he is tried,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"[proved faithful], he shall receive the crown of life,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"(James i. 12.)","flyout_text":"Materialistic challenge","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"268","lines":[{"text":"In the material world, thought has brought to light","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"with great rapidity many useful wonders. With","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cause of those lower things which give im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter to Mind as the cause of every effect. Material-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"istic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shep-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"herd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Goliath.","flyout_text":"Confusion confounded","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"In this final struggle for supremacy, semi-metaphysi-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"cal systems afford no substantial aid to scientific meta-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"physics, for their arguments are based on","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the false testimony of the material senses as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"well as on the facts of Mind. These semi-metaphysical","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"269","lines":[{"text":"systems are one and all pantheistic, and savor of Pan-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"demonium, a house divided against itself.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"and matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus' demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"unity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ness, of evil.","flyout_text":"Divine metaphysics","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is truth. Metaphysics is above physics, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter does not enter into metaphysical prem-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"for the ideas of Soul.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"consciousness, and they have this advantage over the ob-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"jects and thoughts of material sense, - they are good and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"eternal.","flyout_text":"Biblical foundations","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The testimony of the material senses is neither abso-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"lute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the prophets, and on the testimony of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"All other systems - systems based wholly or partly on","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"knowledge gained through the material senses - are reeds","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.","flyout_text":"Rejected theories","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"(2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"real as Mind, possessing intelligence and life.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The first theory, that matter is everything, is quite as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"270","lines":[{"text":"reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and cooperate. One only of the following statements can","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that every-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thing is Mind. Which one is it?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Matter and Mind are opposites. One is contrary to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the other in its very nature and essence; hence both can-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not be real. If one is real, the other must be unreal. Only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by understanding that there is but one power, - not two","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"powers, matter and Mind, - are scientific and logical","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"conclusions reached. Few deny the hypothesis that in-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"telligence, apart from man and matter, governs the uni-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"verse; and it is generally admitted that this intelligence","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is the eternal Mind or divine principle, Love.","flyout_text":"Prophetic ignorance","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The prophets of old looked for something higher than","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the systems of their times; hence their fore-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sight of the new dispensation of Truth. But","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"they knew not what would be the precise nature of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"teaching and demonstration of God, divine Mind, in His","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"more infinite meanings, - the demonstration which was","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to destroy sin, sickness, and death, establish the definition","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of omnipotence, and maintain the Science of Spirit.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The pride of priesthood is the prince of this world. It","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"has nothing in Christ. Meekness and charity have divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"authority. Mortals think wickedly; consequently they","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"are wicked. They think sickly thoughts, and so become","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sick. If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love alone can","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"unmake them. If a sense of disease produces suffering","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and a sense of ease antidotes suffering, disease is mental,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not material. Hence the fact that the human mind alone","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"suffers, is sick, and that the divine Mind alone heals.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The life of Christ Jesus was not miraculous, but it was","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"indigenous to his spirituality, - the good soil wherein the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"289","lines":[{"text":"of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal _debris_","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensa-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tion are in the body should be overcome by the under-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"standing of what constitutes man as the image of God.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Then Spirit will have overcome the flesh.","flyout_text":"Wickedness is not man","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sick, sinful, or mortal.","flyout_text":"Death but an illusion","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"overcomes death proves the \"king of terrors\" to be but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"there is no death-process.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The belief that matter has life results, by the universal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"law of mortal mind, in a belief in death. So man, tree,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and flower are supposed to die; but the fact remains,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that God's universe is spiritual and immortal.","flyout_text":"Spiritual offspring","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material must be untrue. Life is not in matter.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Therefore it cannot be said to pass out of mat-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ter. Matter and death are mortal illusions. Spirit and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all things spiritual are the real and eternal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, - of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"290","lines":[{"text":"eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I AM, the Be-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.","flyout_text":"Death no advantage","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If the Principle, rule, and demonstration of man's being","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"are not in the least understood before what is termed death","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"overtakes mortals, they will rise no higher spir-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"itually in the scale of existence on account of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that single experience, but will remain as material as be-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"fore the transition, still seeking happiness through a ma-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"terial, instead of through a spiritual sense of life, and from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"selfish and inferior motives. That Life or Mind is finite","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and physical or is manifested through brain and nerves,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is false. Hence Truth comes to destroy this error and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"its effects, - sickness, sin, and death. To the spiritual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"class, relates the Scripture: \"On such the second death","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"hath no power.\"","flyout_text":"Future purification","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If the change called _death_ destroyed the belief in sin,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"sickness, and death, happiness would be won at the mo-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ment of dissolution, and be forever permanent;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"but this is not so. Perfection is gained only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by perfection. They who are unrighteous shall be un-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"righteous still, until in divine Science Christ, Truth, re-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"moves all ignorance and sin.","flyout_text":"Sin is punished","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The sin and error which possess us at the instant of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"death do not cease at that moment, but endure until the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"death of these errors. To be wholly spiritual,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man must be sinless, and he becomes thus only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"when he reaches perfection. The murderer, though slain","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the act, does not thereby forsake sin. He is no more","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"spiritual for believing that his body died and learning that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"his cruel mind died not. His thoughts are no purer until","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"evil is disarmed by good. His body is as material as his","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mind, and _vice versa_.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"292","lines":[{"text":"When the last mortal fault is destroyed, then the final","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"trump will sound which will end the battle of Truth with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"error and mortality; \"but of that day and hour, knoweth","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"no man.\" Here prophecy pauses. Divine Science alone","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"can compass the heights and depths of being and reveal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the infinite.","flyout_text":"Primitive error","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Truth will be to us \"the resurrection and the life\" only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"immortality of man, can be fettered by the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"body, and Life be controlled by death. A sin-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ful, sick, and dying mortal is not the likeness of God, the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"perfect and eternal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Matter is the primitive belief of mortal mind, because","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"this so-called mind has no cognizance of Spirit. To","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal mind, matter is substantial, and evil is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"real. The so-called senses of mortals are material.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Hence the so-called life of mortals is dependent on","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Explaining the origin of material man and mortal mind,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Jesus said: \"Why do ye not understand my speech?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"father, the devil [evil], and the lusts of your father ye will","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and the father of it.\"","flyout_text":"Immortal man","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"This carnal material mentality, misnamed _mind_, is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"mortal. Therefore man would be annihilated, were it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not for the spiritual real man's indissoluble","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"connection with his God, which Jesus brought","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to light. In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"308","lines":[{"text":"ness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the living faith that there is and can be but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"one God, and keeping His commandment?\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind gov-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"erning man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"beginning, and will hide from the demand, \"Where art","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thou?\" This awful demand, \"Adam, where art thou?\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is met by the admission from the head, heart, stomach,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"blood, nerves, etc.: \"Lo, here I am, looking for happiness","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and life in the body, but finding only an illusion, a blend-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing of false claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"death.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man.","flyout_text":"Wrestling of Jacob","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jacob was _alone_, wrestling with error, - struggling","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as existent in matter with its false pleasures","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and pains, - when an angel, a message from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality; and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Truth, being thereby understood, gave him spiritual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"strength in this Peniel of divine Science. Then said","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the spiritual evangel: \"Let me go, for the day breaketh;\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that is, the light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"But the patriarch, perceiving his error and his need","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of help, did not loosen his hold upon this glorious light","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"until his nature was transformed. When Jacob was","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"asked, \"What is thy name?\" he straightway answered;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and then his name was changed to Israel, for \"as a prince\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"had he prevailed and had \"power with God and with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"men.\" Then Jacob questioned his deliverer, \"Tell me,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"309","lines":[{"text":"I pray thee, _thy_ name;\" but this appellation was withheld,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"for the messenger was not a corporeal being, but a name-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"less, incorporeal impartation of divine Love to man, which,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to use the word of the Psalmist, _restored _his Soul, - gave","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"him the spiritual sense of being and rebuked his material","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sense.","flyout_text":"Israel the new name","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The result of Jacob's struggle thus appeared. He had","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"conquered material error with the understanding of Spirit","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and of spiritual power. This changed the man.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"He was no longer called Jacob, but Israel, -","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a prince of God, or a soldier of God, who had fought","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a good fight. He was to become the father of those, who","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"through earnest striving followed his demonstration of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"power of Spirit over the material senses; and the children","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of earth who followed his example were to be called the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"children of Israel, until the Messiah should rename them.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If these children should go astray, and forget that Life","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is God, good, and that good is not in elements which are","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not spiritual, - thus losing the divine power which heals","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the sick and sinning, - they were to be brought back","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"through great tribulation, to be renamed in Christian","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science and led to deny material sense, or mind in matter,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"even as the gospel teaches.","flyout_text":"Life never structural","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The Science of being shows it to be impossible for in-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"finite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have an intelligence separate from his Maker.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"It is a self-evident error to suppose that there","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"can be such a reality as organic animal or vegetable life,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"when such so-called life always ends in death. Life is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"never for a moment extinct. Therefore it is never struc-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tural nor organic, and is never absorbed nor limited by its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"own formations.","flyout_text":"Thought seen as substance","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"31","lines":[{"text":"preaching the gospel to the poor. Pride and fear are unfit","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"it in such hands.","flyout_text":"Fleshly ties temporal","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. He said: \"Call","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which is in heaven.\" Again he asked: \"Who","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is my mother, and who are my brethren,\" im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"plying that it is they who do the will of his Father. We","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have no record of his calling any man by the name of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"_father_. He recognized Spirit, God, as the only creator, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"therefore as the Father of all.","flyout_text":"Healing primary","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his fol-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"lowers the healing power of Truth and Love. He attached","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"no importance to dead ceremonies. It is the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"living Christ, the practical Truth, which makes","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus \"the resurrection and the life\" to all who follow him","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in deed. Obeying his precious precepts, - following his","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"demonstration so far as we apprehend it, - we drink of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"his cup, partake of his bread, are baptized with his pu-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rity; and at last we shall rest, sit down with him, in a full","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"understanding of the divine Principle which triumphs","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"over death. For what says Paul? \"As often as ye eat","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"death till he come.\"","flyout_text":"Painful prospect","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said:","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"\"The hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"shippers shall worship the Father in spirit","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and in truth.\" Again, foreseeing the perse-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cution which would attend the Science of Spirit, Jesus","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"said: \"They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that he doeth God service; and these things will they","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"310","lines":[{"text":"The artist is not in his painting. The picture is the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"artist's thought objectified. The human belief fancies","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that it delineates thought on matter, but what","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is matter? Did it exist prior to thought?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Matter is made up of supposititious mortal mind-force;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"but all might is divine Mind. Thought will finally be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"without material accompaniments. The potter is not in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the clay; else the clay would have power over the potter.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"God is His own infinite Mind, and expresses all.","flyout_text":"The central intelligence","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Day may decline and shadows fall, but darkness flees","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"when the earth has again turned upon its axis. The sun","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is not affected by the revolution of the earth.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"So Science reveals Soul as God, untouched","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by sin and death, - as the central life and intelligence","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"around which circle harmoniously all things in the sys-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tems of Mind.","flyout_text":"Soul imperishable","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Soul changeth not. We are commonly taught that there","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"is a human soul which sins and is spiritually lost, - that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"soul may be lost, and yet be immortal. If","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Soul could sin, Spirit, Soul, would be flesh in-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stead of Spirit. It is the belief of the flesh and of mate-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rial sense which sins. If Soul sinned, Soul would die.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Sin is the element of self-destruction, and spiritual death","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is oblivion. If there was sin in Soul, the annihilation of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Spirit would be inevitable. The only Life is Spirit, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"if Spirit should lose Life as God, good, then Spirit, which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"has no other existence, would be annihilated.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mind is God, and God is not seen by material sense,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"because Mind is Spirit, which material sense cannot dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cern. There is neither growth, maturity, nor decay in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Soul. These changes are the mutations of material sense,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"311","lines":[{"text":"the varying clouds of mortal belief, which hide the truth","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of being.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"What we term mortal mind or carnal mind, dependent","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"on matter for manifestation, is not Mind. God is Mind:","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"made all. Hence evil is not made and is not real.","flyout_text":"Sin only of the flesh","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ment of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"he can only lose a sense material. All sin is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of the flesh. It cannot be spiritual. Sin exists","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"here or hereafter only so long as the illusion of mind in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter remains. It is a sense of sin, and not a sinful soul,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which is lost. Evil is destroyed by the sense of good.","flyout_text":"Soul impeccable","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spir-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"itual truth. This state of error is the mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"directly opposite to the immortal reality of being. So long","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as we believe that soul can sin or that immortal Soul is in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal body, we can never understand the Science of be-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing. When humanity does understand this Science, it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"will become the law of Life to man, - even the higher law","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of Soul, which prevails over material sense through har-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mony and immortality.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The objects cognized by the physical senses have not","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the reality of substance. They are only what mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"belief calls them. Matter, sin, and mortality lose all","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelli-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"gence, but the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"these phases of mortality.","flyout_text":"Sense-dreams","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"332","lines":[{"text":"tial nature of the infinite. They also indicate the divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to man and the universe.","flyout_text":"Father-Mother","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"VIII. Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which in-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"dicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"As the apostle expressed it in words which he","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"quoted with approbation from a classic poet:","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"For we are also His offspring.\"","flyout_text":"The Son of God","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"IX. Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing to the human consciousness. The Christ","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is incorporeal, spiritual, - yea, the divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death. As","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Paul says: \"There is one God, and one mediator between","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"God and men, the man Christ Jesus.\" The corporeal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man Jesus was human.","flyout_text":"Holy Ghost or Comforter","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"X. Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"is the divine idea of God - the Holy Ghost,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Love, and leading into all truth.","flyout_text":"Christ Jesus","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XI. Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"to speak God's word and to appear to mortals in such","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a form of humanity as they could understand","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as well as perceive. Mary's conception of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"him was spiritual, for only purity could reflect Truth","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and Love, which were plainly incarnate in the good and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest type of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"337","lines":[{"text":"sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense. Therefore","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man, reflecting God, cannot lose his individuality; but as","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material sensation, or a soul in the body, blind","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortals do lose sight of spiritual individuality.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Material personality is not realism; it is not","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the reflection or likeness of Spirit, the perfect God. Sen-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sualism is not bliss, but bondage. For true happiness,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man must harmonize with his Principle, divine Love; the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christ. According to divine Science, man is in a degree","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as perfect as the Mind that forms him. The truth of be-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing makes man harmonious and immortal, while error is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal and discordant.","flyout_text":"Purity the path to perfection","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXVI. Christian Science demonstrates that none but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"teaches. In proportion to his purity is man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life's spiritual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ideal.","flyout_text":"True idea of man","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXVII. The true idea of man, as the reflection of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as is man's infinite Principle. The visible uni-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"verse and material man are the poor counter-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"feits of the invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the oppo-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"site of the real or the spiritual and eternal.","flyout_text":"Truth demonstrated","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXVIII. Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"of health and holiness in Christian Science,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and you ascertain that this Science is demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"strably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"338","lines":[{"text":"other system can. Christian Science, rightly under-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stood, leads to eternal harmony. It brings to light the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"only living and true God and man as made in His like-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ness; whereas the opposite belief - that man originates","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in matter and has beginning and end, that he is both","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"soul and body, both good and evil, both spiritual and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material - terminates in discord and mortality, in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"error which must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of material man proves that error has been ingrafted","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"into the premises and conclusions of material and mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"humanity.","flyout_text":"Adam not ideal man","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXIX. The word _Adam_ is from the Hebrew _adamah_,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"signifying the _red color of the ground, dust, nothingness_.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Divide the name Adam into two syllables,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and it reads, _a dam_, or obstruction. This","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in solution. It further suggests the thought of that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"darkness . . . upon the face of the deep,\" when mat-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ter or dust was deemed the agent of Deity in creating","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man, - when matter, as that which is accursed, stood","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"opposed to Spirit. Here _a dam_ is not a mere play upon","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"words; it stands for obstruction, error, even the sup-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"posed separation of man from God, and the obstacle","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which the serpent, sin, would impose between man and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"his creator. The dissection and definition of words,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"aside from their metaphysical derivation, is not scien-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tific. Jehovah declared the ground was accursed; and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"from this ground, or matter, sprang Adam, notwith-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"standing God had blessed the earth \"for man's sake.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"revealed in due time, and was known as Christ Jesus.","flyout_text":"Divine pardon","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"339","lines":[{"text":"XXX. The destruction of sin is the divine method of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"error, and Love destroys hate. Being de-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Does not God's pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and involve the final destruction of all sin?","flyout_text":"Evil not produced by God","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXXI. Since God is All, there is no room for His","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is unreal, and cannot be the product of God.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"A sinner can receive no encouragement from the fact that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science demonstrates the unreality of evil, for the sinner","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"would make a reality of sin, - would make that real","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which is unreal, and thus heap up \"wrath against the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"day of wrath.\" He is joining in a conspiracy against","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"himself, - against his own awakening to the awful un-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"reality by which he has been deceived. Only those, who","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the unreality of evil.","flyout_text":"Basis of health and immortality","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"XXXII. As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"gives place to the infinite, sickness to health,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sin to holiness, and God's kingdom comes \"in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"earth, as it is in heaven.\" The basis of all health, sin-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"lessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the only Mind; and this Mind must be not merely be-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"lieved, but it must be understood. To get rid of sin","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or reality, and never to admit that sin can have intelli-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"gence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"34","lines":[{"text":"truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspira-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tion to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"error and making the body \"holy, acceptable unto God,\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that Truth has come to the understanding? If Christ,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other com-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"memoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or _God with us_; and if a friend be with us, why need we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"memorials of that friend?","flyout_text":"Millennial glory","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If all who ever partook of the sacrament had really","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"commemorated the sufferings of Jesus and drunk of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"his cup, they would have revolutionized the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"world. If all who seek his commemoration","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"through material symbols will take up the cross, heal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the sick, cast out evils, and preach Christ, or Truth,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to the poor, - the receptive thought, - they will bring","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the millennium.","flyout_text":"Fellowship with Christ","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Through all the disciples experienced, they became more","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"spiritual and understood better what the Master had","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"taught. His resurrection was also their resur-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rection. It helped them to raise themselves and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the perception of infinite possibilities. They needed this","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"quickening, for soon their dear Master would rise again","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the spiritual realm of reality, and ascend far above","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"their apprehension. As the reward for his faithfulness,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"he would disappear to material sense in that change which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"has since been called the ascension.","flyout_text":"The last breakfast","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"What a contrast between our Lord's last supper and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the bright morning hours at the joyful","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea! His gloom","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"340","lines":[{"text":"their imaginary power for good or evil, until we lose our","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and God.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"This text in the book of Ecclesiastes conveys the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Christian Science thought, especially when the word","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"_duty_, which is not in the original, is omitted: \"Let","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and keep His commandments: for this is the whole","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"duty of man.\" In other words: Let us hear the con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"clusion of the whole matter: love God and keep His","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"commandments: for this is the whole of man in His","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"image and likeness. Divine Love is infinite. Therefore","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"love.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"Thou shalt have no other gods before me.\" (Exodus","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"xx. 3.) The First Commandment is my favorite text.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the tri-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"unity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that man shall","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal good, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that all men shall have one Mind. The divine Principle","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Scripture, \"Love thy neighbor as thyself;\" annihilates","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pagan and Christian idolatry, - whatever is wrong in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes;","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"341","lines":[{"text":"THE strictures on this volume would condemn to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"oblivion the truth, which is raising up thousands","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"from helplessness to strength and elevating them from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a theoretical to a practical Christianity. These criticisms","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"are generally based on detached sentences or clauses sep-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"arated from their context. Even the Scriptures, which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"grow in beauty and consistency from one grand root, ap-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pear contradictory when subjected to such usage. Jesus","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"said, \"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"God\" [Truth].","flyout_text":"Supported by facts","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"In Christian Science mere opinion is valueless. Proof","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"is essential to a due estimate of this subject. Sneers at","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the application of the word_ Science _to Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tianity cannot prevent that from being scien-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tific which is based on divine Principle, demonstrated ac-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cording to a divine given rule, and subjected to proof.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The facts are so absolute and numerous in support of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christian Science, that misrepresentation and denuncia-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"342","lines":[{"text":"tion cannot overthrow it. Paul alludes to \"doubtful dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"putations.\" The hour has struck when proof and demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stration, instead of opinion and dogma, are summoned to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the support of Christianity, \"making wise the simple.\"","flyout_text":"Commands of Jesus","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"In the result of some unqualified condemnations of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"scientific Mind-healing, one may see with sorrow the sad","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"effects on the sick of denying Truth. He that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"decries this Science does it presumptuously,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the face of Bible history and in defiance of the direct","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"command of Jesus, \"Go ye into all the world, and preach","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the gospel,\" to which command was added the promise","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that his students should cast out evils and heal the sick.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"He bade the seventy disciples, as well as the twelve,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"heal the sick in any town where they should be hospitably","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"received.","flyout_text":"Christianity scientific","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"an accident. Shall it be denied that a system","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which works according to the Scriptures has","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Scriptural authority?","flyout_text":"Argument of good works","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"invalid. It speaks to the dumb the words of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Truth, and they answer with rejoicing. It","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"causes the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the blind","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to see. Who would be the first to disown the Christli-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ness of good works, when our Master says, \"By their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"fruits ye shall know them\"?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If Christian Scientists were teaching or practising","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"pharmacy or obstetrics according to the common theo-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ries, no denunciations would follow them, even if their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"treatment resulted in the death of a patient. The people","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"348","lines":[{"text":"naming nothing and which we desire neither to honor","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"nor to fear.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Medical theories virtually admit the nothingness of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"hallucinations, even while treating them as disease; and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"who objects to this? Ought we not, then, to approve","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"any cure, which is effected by making the disease appear","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to be - what it really is - an illusion?","flyout_text":"All disease a delusion","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Here is the difficulty: it is not generally understood how","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"one disease can be just as much a delusion as another. It","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is a pity that the medical faculty and clergy","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have not learned this, for Jesus established","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this foundational fact, when devils, delusions, were cast","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"out and the dumb spake.","flyout_text":"Elimination of sickness","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Are we irreverent towards sin, or imputing too much","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"power to God, when we ascribe to Him almighty Life","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and Love? I deny His cooperation with evil,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"because I desire to have no faith in evil or in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"any power but God, good. Is it not well to eliminate from","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"so-called mortal mind that which, so long as it remains in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal mind, will show itself in forms of sin, sickness, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"death? Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ease brings, would it not be well to abandon the defence,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"especially when by so doing our own condition can be im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"proved and that of other persons as well?","flyout_text":"Full fruitage yet to come","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"I have never supposed the world would immediately","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"witness the full fruitage of Christian Science, or that sin,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"disease, and death would not be believed for","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"an indefinite time; but this I do aver, that,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as a result of teaching Christian Science, ethics and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"temperance have received all impulse, health has been","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"restored, and longevity increased. If such are the pres-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"349","lines":[{"text":"ent fruits, what will the harvest be, when this Science is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"more generally understood?","flyout_text":"Law and gospel","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"As Paul asked of the unfaithful in ancient days, so","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the rabbis of the present day ask concerning our heal-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing and teaching, \"Through breaking the law,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"dishonorest thou God?\" We have the gospel,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"however, and our Master annulled material law by heal-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing contrary to it. We propose to follow the Master's","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"example. We should subordinate material law to spirit-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ual law. Two essential points of Christian Science are,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that neither Life nor man dies, and that God is not the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"author of sickness.","flyout_text":"Language inadequate","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The chief difficulty in conveying the teachings of divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Science accurately to human thought lies in this, that like","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all other languages, English is inadequate to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the expression of spiritual conceptions and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"propositions, because one is obliged to use material terms","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in dealing with spiritual ideas. The elucidation of Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tian Science lies in its spiritual sense, and this sense must","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"be gained by its disciples in order to grasp the meaning of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this Science. Out of this condition grew the prophecy","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"concerning the Christian apostles, \"They shall speak with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"new tongues.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Speaking of the things of Spirit while dwelling on","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"a material plane, material terms must be generally em-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ployed. Mortal thought does not at once catch the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"higher meaning, and can do so only as thought is edu-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cated up to spiritual apprehension. To a certain extent","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this is equally true of all learning, even that which is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"wholly material.","flyout_text":"Substance spiritual","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"In Christian Science, substance is understood to be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Spirit, while the opponents of Christian Science believe","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"354","lines":[{"text":"Are the protests of Christian Science against the notion","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"that there can be material life, substance, or mind \"utter","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"falsities and absurdities,\" as some aver? Why","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"then do Christians try to obey the Scriptures","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and war against \"the world, the flesh, and the devil\"?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Why do they invoke the divine aid to enable them to leave","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all for Christ, Truth? Why do they use this phraseology,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and yet deny Christian Science, when it teaches precisely","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this thought? The words of divine Science find their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"immortality in deeds, for their Principle heals the sick","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and spiritualizes humanity.","flyout_text":"Healing omitted","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"On the other hand, the Christian opponents of Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"tian Science neither give nor offer any proofs that their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Master's religion can heal the sick. Surely","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"it is not enough to cleave to barren and desul-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tory dogmas, derived from the traditions of the elders who","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thereunto have set their seals.","flyout_text":"Scientific consistency","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Consistency is seen in example more than in precept.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Inconsistency is shown by words without deeds, which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"are like clouds without rain. If our words","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"fail to express our deeds, God will redeem that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"weakness, and out of the mouth of babes He will perfect","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"praise. The night of materiality is far spent, and with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the dawn Truth will waken men spiritually to hear and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to speak the new tongue.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Sin should become unreal to every one. It is in itself","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"inconsistent, a divided kingdom. Its supposed realism","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"has no divine authority, and I rejoice in the apprehension","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of this grand verity.","flyout_text":"Spiritual meaning","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The opponents of divine Science must be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"charitable, if they would be Christian. If the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"letter of Christian Science appears inconsistent, they should","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"355","lines":[{"text":"gain the spiritual meaning of Christian Science, and then","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the ambiguity will vanish.","flyout_text":"Practical arguments","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The charge of inconsistency in Christianly scientific","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"methods of dealing with sin and disease is met by some-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"thing practical, - namely, the proof of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"utility of these methods; and proofs are better","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"than mere verbal arguments or prayers which evince no","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"spiritual power to heal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"As for sin and disease, Christian Science says, in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"language of the Master, \"Follow me; and let the dead","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"bury their dead.\" Let discord of every name and nature","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of Life and being take possession of human consciousness.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"What is the relative value of the two conflicting the-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ories regarding Christian healing? One, according to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the commands of our Master, heals the sick. The other,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"popular religion, declines to admit that Christ's religion","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"has exercised any systematic healing power since the first","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"century.","flyout_text":"Conditions of criticism","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The statement that the teachings of Christian Sci-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ence in this work are \"absolutely false, and the most","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"egregious fallacies ever offered for accept-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ance,\" is an opinion wholly due to a misap-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"prehension both of the divine Principle and practice of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christian Science and to a consequent inability to demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"strate this Science. Without this understanding, no one","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is capable of impartial or correct criticism, because demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stration and spiritual understanding are God's immortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"keynotes, proved to be such by our Master and evidenced","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by the sick who are cured and by the sinners who are","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"reformed.","flyout_text":"Weakness of material theories","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Strangely enough, we ask for material theories in sup-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true}]}
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{"number":"356","lines":[{"text":"port of spiritual and eternal truths, when the two are so","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"antagonistic that the material thought must become spir-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"itualized before the spiritual fact is attained.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"So-called material existence affords no evidence","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of spiritual existence and immortality. Sin,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sickness, and death do not prove man's entity or immor-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tality. Discord can never establish the facts of harmony.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit.","flyout_text":"Irreconciliable differences","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus reasoned on this subject practically, and con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"trolled sickness, sin, and death on the basis of his spir-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ituality. Understanding the nothingness of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material things, he spoke of flesh and Spirit","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as the two opposites, - as error and Truth, not contrib-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"uting in any way to each other's happiness and existence.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus knew, \"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"profiteth nothing.\"","flyout_text":"Copartnership impossible","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"There is neither a present nor an eternal copartner-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ship between error and Truth, between flesh and Spirit.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"God is as incapable of producing sin, sick-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ness, and death as He is of experiencing these","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"errors. How then is it possible for Him to create man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"subject to this triad of errors, - man who is made in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"divine likeness?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Does God create a material man out of Himself, Spirit?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Does evil proceed from good? Does divine Love com-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mit a fraud on humanity by making man inclined to sin,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and then punishing him for it? Would any one call it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"wise and good to create the primitive, and then punish its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"derivative?","flyout_text":"Two infinite creators absurd","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Does subsequent follow its antecedent? It does.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Was there original self-creative sin? Then there must","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have been more than one creator, more than one God.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"357","lines":[{"text":"In common justice, we must admit that God will not","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"punish man for doing what He created man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"capable of doing, and knew from the outset","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that man would do. God is \"of purer eyes","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"than to behold evil.\" We sustain Truth, not by accept-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ing, but by rejecting a lie.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus said of personified evil, that it was \"a liar, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the father of it.\" Truth creates neither a lie, a capacity","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to lie, nor a liar. If mankind would relinquish the belief","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that God makes sickness, sin, and death, or makes man","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"capable of suffering on account of this malevolent triad,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the foundations of error would be sapped and error's de-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"struction ensured; but if we theoretically endow mortals","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"with the creativeness and authority of Deity, how dare we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"attempt to destroy what He hath made, or even to deny","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that God made man evil and made evil good?","flyout_text":"Anthropomorphism","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"History teaches that the popular and false notions","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"about the Divine Being and character have originated","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in the human mind. As there is in reality but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"one God, one Mind, wrong notions about God","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"must have originated in a false supposition, not in im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal Truth, and they are fading out. They are false","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"claims, which will eventually disappear, according to the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"vision of St. John in the Apocalypse.","flyout_text":"One supremacy","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"If what opposes God is real, there must be two","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"powers, and God is not supreme and infinite. Can","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Deity be almighty, if another mighty and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"self-creative cause exists and sways man-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"kind? Has the Father \"Life in Himself,\" as the Scrip-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tures say, and, if so, can Life, or God, dwell in evil and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"create it? Can matter drive Life, Spirit, hence, and so","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"defeat omnipotence?","flyout_text":"Matter impotent","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"358","lines":[{"text":"Is the woodman's axe, which destroys a tree's so-called","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"life, superior to omnipotence? Can a leaden bullet de-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"prive a man of Life, - that is, of God, who is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"man's Life? If God is at the mercy of matter,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"then matter is omnipotent. Such doctrines are \"confu-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sion worse confounded.\" If two statements directly con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tradict each other and one is true, the other must be false.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Is Science thus contradictory?","flyout_text":"Scientific and Biblical facts","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christian Science, understood, coincides with the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Scriptures, and sustains logically and demonstratively","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"every point it presents. Otherwise it would","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not be Science, and could not present its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"proofs. Christian Science is neither made up of contra-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"dictory aphorisms nor of the inventions of those who scoff","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"at God. It presents the calm and clear verdict of Truth","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"against error, uttered and illustrated by the prophets,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by Jesus, by his apostles, as is recorded throughout the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Scriptures.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Why are the words of Jesus more frequently cited","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"for our instruction than are his remarkable works? Is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"it not because there are few who have gained a true","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"knowledge of the great import to Christianity of those","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"works?","flyout_text":"Personal confidence","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Sometimes it is said; \"Rest assured that whatever","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"effect Christian Scientists may have on the sick, comes","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"through rousing within the sick a belief","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that in the removal of disease these healers","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"have wonderful power, derived from the Holy Ghost.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Is it likely that church-members have more faith in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"some Christian Scientist, whom they have perhaps","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"never seen and against whom they have been warned,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"than they have in their own accredited and orthodox","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"360","lines":[{"text":"know that these ideals are real and eternal because drawn","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"from Truth, - they will find that nothing is lost, and all","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is won, by a right estimate of what is real.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The other artist replies: \"You wrong my experience.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"I have no mind-ideals except those which are both mental","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and material. It is true that materiality renders these","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ideals imperfect and destructible; yet I would not ex-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"change mine for thine, for mine give me such personal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"pleasure, and they are not so shockingly transcendental.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"They require less self-abnegation, and keep Soul well out","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of sight. Moreover, I have no notion of losing my old","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"doctrines or human opinions.\"","flyout_text":"Choose ye to-day","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"shall be real to you, - the material or the spiritual?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Both you cannot have. You are bringing out","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"try to have two models, then you practically have none.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"real and the unreal.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Hear the wisdom of Job, as given in the excellent trans-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"lation of the late Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D.: -","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Shall mortal man be more just than God?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Shall man be more pure than his Maker?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Behold, He putteth no trust in His ministering spirits,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"And His angels He chargeth with frailty.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Of old, the Jews put to death the Galilean Prophet,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the best Christian on earth, for the truth he spoke and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"demonstrated, while to-day, Jew and Christian can unite","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in doctrine and denomination on the very basis of Jesus'","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"words and works. The Jew believes that the Messiah or","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"368","lines":[{"text":"counterpoise of nothingness. The greatest wrong is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"but a supposititious opposite of the highest right. The","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and truth will become still clearer as error is self-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"destroyed.","flyout_text":"Results of faith in Truth","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Against the fatal beliefs that error is as real as Truth,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"that evil is equal in power to good if not superior, and that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"discord is as normal as harmony, even the hope","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of freedom from the bondage of sickness and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor. When we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the sick and destroying error.","flyout_text":"Life independent of matter","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"That Life is not contingent on bodily conditions is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"proved, when we learn that life and man survive this","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"body. Neither evil, disease, nor death can be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"spiritual, and the material belief in them dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"appears in the ratio of one's spiritual growth. Because","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter has no consciousness or Ego, it cannot act; its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"source of all seeming sickness. Admit the existence of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter, and you admit that mortality (and therefore dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ease) has a foundation in fact. Deny the existence of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"matter, and you can destroy the belief in material con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ditions. When fear disappears, the foundation of disease","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is gone. Once let the mental physician believe in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"369","lines":[{"text":"reality of matter, and he is liable to admit also the reality","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of all discordant conditions, and this hinders his de-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stroying them. Thus he is unfitted for the successful","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"treatment of disease.","flyout_text":"Man's entity","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"In proportion as matter loses to human sense all en-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"tity as man, in that proportion does man become its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"master. He enters into a diviner sense of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"facts, and comprehends the theology of Jesus","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as demonstrated in healing the sick, raising the dead,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and walking over the wave. All these deeds manifested","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus' control over the belief that matter is substance,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"form of existence.","flyout_text":"The Christ treatment","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"We never read that Luke or Paul made a reality of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"disease in order to discover some means of healing it.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Jesus never asked if disease were acute or","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"chronic, and he never recommended atten-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tion to laws of health, never gave drugs, never prayed","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to know if God were willing that a man should live. He","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"understood man, whose life is God, to be immortal, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"knew that man has not two lives, one to be destroyed and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the other to be made indestructible.","flyout_text":"Matter not medicine","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the prevent-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"ive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Unscientific methods are finding their dead level. Lim-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ited to matter by their own law, what have they of the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"advantages of Mind and immortality?","flyout_text":"No healing in sin","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"No man is physically healed in wilful error or by it,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"any more than he is morally saved in or by sin. It is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"error even to murmur or to be angry over sin. To be","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"37","lines":[{"text":"stroys the belief called sin? Does not Science show that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sin brings suffering as much to-day as yesterday? They","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"who sin must suffer. \"With what measure ye mete, it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"shall be measured to you again.\"","flyout_text":"Martyrs inevitable","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"History is full of records of suffering. \"The blood of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"the martyrs is the seed of the Church.\" Mortals try in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"vain to slay Truth with the steel or the stake,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"but error falls only before the sword of Spirit.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Martyrs are the human links which connect one stage with","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"another in the history of religion. They are earth's lumi-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"naries, which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material sense and to permeate humanity with purer ideals.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Consciousness of right-doing brings its own reward; but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"not amid the smoke of battle is merit seen and appreciated","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"by lookers-on.","flyout_text":"Complete emulation","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"When will Jesus' professed followers learn to emulate","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"him in _all_ his ways and to imitate his mighty works?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Those who procured the martyrdom of that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"righteous man would gladly have turned his","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sacred career into a mutilated doctrinal platform. May","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the Christians of to-day take up the more practical im-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"port of that career! It is possible, - yea, it is the duty","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and privilege of every child, man, and woman, - to follow","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in some degree the example of the Master by the demon-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness. Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tians claim to be his followers, but do they follow him in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the way that he commanded? Hear these imperative com-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mands: \"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"which is in heaven is perfect!\" \"Go ye into all the world,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and preach the gospel to every creature!\" \"_Heal the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sick_!\"","flyout_text":"Jesus' teaching belittled","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Why has this Christian demand so little inspiration","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true}]}
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{"number":"370","lines":[{"text":"every whit whole, man must be better spiritually as well","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"as physically. To be immortal, we must forsake the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"from the divine Mind. The body improves under the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"same regimen which spiritualizes the thought; and if","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"health is not made manifest under this regimen, this","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"proves that fear is governing the body. This is the law","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of cause and effect, or like producing like.","flyout_text":"Like curing like","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Homoeopathy furnishes the evidence to the senses, that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"symptoms, which might be produced by a certain drug,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"are removed by using the same drug which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"might cause the symptoms. This confirms","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"my theory that faith in the drug is the sole factor in the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cure. The effect, which mortal mind produces through","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"one belief, it removes through an opposite belief, but it","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"uses the same medicine in both cases.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The moral and spiritual facts of health, whispered","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"into thought, produce very direct and marked effects on","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the body. A physical diagnosis of disease - since mor-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tal mind must be the cause of disease - tends to induce","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"disease.","flyout_text":"Transient potency of drugs","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"According to both medical testimony and individual","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"experience, a drug may eventually lose its supposed power","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and do no more for the patient. Hygienic","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"treatment also loses its efficacy. Quackery","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"likewise fails at length to inspire the credulity","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of the sick, and then they cease to improve. These les-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sons are useful. They should naturally and genuinely","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"change our basis from sensation to Christian Science,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"from error to Truth, from matter to Spirit.","flyout_text":"Diagnosis of matter","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Physicians examine the pulse, tongue, lungs, to dis-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true}]}
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{"number":"371","lines":[{"text":"cover the condition of matter, when in fact all is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mind. The body is the substratum of mortal mind,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and this so-called mind must finally yield","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to the mandate of immortal Mind.","flyout_text":"Ghost-stories inducing fear","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Disquisitions on disease have a mental effect similar","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"to that produced on children by telling ghost-stories in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the dark. By those uninstructed in Christian","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science, nothing is really understood of material","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"existence. Mortals are believed to be here without their","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"consent and to be removed as involuntarily, not knowing","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"why nor when. As frightened children look everywhere","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"for the imaginary ghost, so sick humanity sees danger in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"every direction, and looks for relief in all ways except the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"right one. Darkness induces fear. The adult, in bond-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"age to his beliefs, no more comprehends his real being","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"than does the child; and the adult must be taken out of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"his darkness, before he can get rid of the illusive suffer-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ings which throng the gloaming. The way in divine","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Science is the only way out of this condition.","flyout_text":"Mind imparts purity, health, and beauty","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"I would not transform the infant at once into a","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"man, nor would I keep the suckling a lifelong babe.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"No impossible thing do I ask when urging","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the claims of Christian Science; but because","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"this teaching is in advance of the age, we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"should not deny our need of its spiritual unfoldment.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mankind will improve through Science and Christi-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"anity. The necessity for uplifting the race is father to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weak-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ness, and health instead of disease. Truth is an altera-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tive in the entire system, and can make it \"every whit","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"whole.\"","flyout_text":"Brain not intelligent","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"372","lines":[{"text":"Remember, brain is not mind. Matter cannot be sick,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"and Mind is immortal. The mortal body is only an erro-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"neous mortal belief of mind in matter. What","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"you call matter was originally error in solu-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tion, elementary mortal mind, - likened by Milton to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"chaos and old night.\" One theory about this mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mind is, that its sensations can reproduce man, can form","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"blood, flesh, and bones. The Science of being, in which","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"all is divine Mind, or God and His idea, would be clearer","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in this age, but for the belief that matter is the medium","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of man, or that man can enter his own embodied thought,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"bind himself with his own beliefs, and then call his bonds","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"material and name them divine law.","flyout_text":"Veritable success","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"When man demonstrates Christian Science absolutely,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"he will be perfect. He can neither sin, suffer, be subject","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"to matter, nor disobey the law of God. There-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"fore he will be as the angels in heaven. Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tian Science and Christianity are one. How, then, in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Christianity any more than in Christian Science, can we","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"believe in the reality and power of both Truth and error,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Spirit and matter, and hope to succeed with contraries?","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Matter is not self-sustaining. Its false supports fail one","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"after another. Matter succeeds for a period only by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"falsely parading in the vestments of law.","flyout_text":"Recognition of benefits","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"deny before my Father which is in heaven.\" In Chris-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tian Science, a denial of Truth is fatal, while","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"a just acknowledgment of Truth and of what","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"it has done for us is an effectual help. If pride, super-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"stition, or any error prevents the honest recognition of","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"of the sick and the success of the student.","flyout_text":"Disease far more docile than iniquity","paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"373","lines":[{"text":"If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"darkness as to the physical exemption which Christian-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"ity includes, then we must have more faith","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"in God on this subject and be more alive to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"His promises. It is easier to cure the most","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"malignant disease than it is to cure sin. The author has","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"raised up the dying, partly because they were willing to","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"be restored, while she has struggled long, and perhaps in","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"vain, to lift a student out of a chronic sin. Under all","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"modes of pathological treatment, the sick recover more","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rapidly from disease than does the sinner from his sin.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Healing is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"done.","flyout_text":"Love frees from fear","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The fear of disease and the love of sin are the sources","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"of man's enslavement. \"The fear of the Lord","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"is the beginning of wisdom,\" but the Scriptures","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"also declare, through the exalted thought of John, that","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"\"perfect Love casteth out fear.\"","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"The fear occasioned by ignorance can be cured; but","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"to remove the effects of fear produced by sin, you must","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"rise above both fear and sin. Disease is expressed not","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"so much by the lips as in the functions of the body. Es-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"tablish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"oppressed organ. The inflammation, decomposition, or","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"deposit will abate, and the disabled organ will resume its","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"healthy functions.","flyout_text":"Mind circulates blood","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"When the blood rushes madly through the veins or","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"languidly creeps along its frozen channels, we call these","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"conditions disease. This is a misconception.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Mortal mind is producing the propulsion or the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"languor, and we prove this to be so when by mental means","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"the circulation is changed, and returns to that standard","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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{"number":"374","lines":[{"text":"which mortal mind has decided upon as essential for","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"health. Anodynes, counter-irritants, and depletion never","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"reduce inflammation scientifically, but the truth of being,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"whispered into the ear of mortal mind, will bring relief.","flyout_text":"Mind can destroy all ills","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Hatred and its effects on the body are removed by","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"Love. Because mortal mind seems to be conscious, the","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"sick say: \"How can my mind cause a disease","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"I never thought of and knew nothing about,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"until it appeared on my body?\" The author has an-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"swered this question in her explanation of disease as origi-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"nating in human belief before it is consciously apparent","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"on the body, which is in fact the objective state of mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"mind, though it is called matter. This mortal blindness","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"and its sharp consequences show our need of divine meta-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"physics. Through immortal Mind, or Truth, we can","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"destroy all ills which proceed from mortal mind.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Ignorance of the cause or approach of disease is no","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"argument against the mental origin of disease. You con-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"fess to ignorance of the future and incapacity to preserve","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"your own existence, and this belief helps rather than","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"hinders disease. Such a state of mind induces sickness.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"It is like walking in darkness on the edge of a precipice.","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"You cannot forget the belief of danger, and your steps","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"are less firm because of your fear, and ignorance of mental","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"cause and effect.","flyout_text":"Temperature is mental","paragraph_start":false},{"text":"Heat and cold are products of mortal mind. The body,","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":true},{"text":"when bereft of mortal mind, at first cools, and after-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"wards it is resolved into its primitive mortal","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"elements. Nothing that lives ever dies, and","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"_vice versa_. Mortal mind produces animal heat, and then","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"expels it through the abandonment of a belief, or in-","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false},{"text":"creases it to the point of self-destruction. Hence it is","flyout_text":null,"paragraph_start":false}]}
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