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she departed from the old
landmarks.
The unveiled spiritual signification of the Word so enlarges our sense
of God that it makes both sense and Soul, man and Life, immaterial,
though still individual. It removes all limits from divine power. God
must be found all instead of a part of being, and man the reflection of
His power and goodness. This Science rebukes sin with its own
nothingness, and thus destroys sin quickly and utterly. It makes disease
unreal, and this heals it.
The demonstration of moral and physical growth, and a scientific

deduction from the Principle of all harmony, declare both the Principle
and idea to be divine. If this be true, then death must be swallowed up
in Life, and the prophecy of Jesus fulfilled, "Whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die." Though centuries passed after those
words were originally uttered, before this reappearing of Truth, and
though the hiatus be longer still before that saying is demonstrated in
Life that knows no death, the declaration is nevertheless true, and
remains a clear and profound deduction from Christian Science.

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OF THE SAME LINEAGE AS
SPIRITUALISM OR THEOSOPHY?
Science is not susceptible of being held as a mere theory. It is hoary
with time. It takes hold of eternity, voices the infinite, and governs the
universe. No greater opposites can be conceived of, physically, morally,
and spiritually, than Christian Science, spiritualism, and theosophy.
Science and Health has effected a revolution in the minds of thinkers
on the subject of mediumship, and given impulse to reason and
revelation, goodness and virtue. A theory may be sound in spots, and
sparkle like a diamond, while other parts of it have no lustre. Christian
Science is sound in every part. It is neither warped nor misconceived,
when properly demonstrated. If a spiritualist medium understood the
Science of Mind-healing, he would know that between those who have
and those who have not passed the transition called death, there can be
no interchange of consciousness, and that all sensible phenomena are
merely subjective states of mortal mind.
Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism. This corruption had a renewal in
the Neoplatonic philosophy; but it sprang from the Oriental philosophy
of Brahmanism, and blends with its magic and enchantments.
Theosophy is no more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the
upas-tree is to the sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant
coruscations of the northern sky are to solar heat and light.

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FROM BENEATH, AND NOT FROM
ABOVE?
Hear the words of our Master: "Go ye into all the world"! "Heal the
sick, cast out devils"! Christian Scientists, perhaps more than any other
religious sect, are obeying these commands; and the injunctions are not
confined to Jesus' students in that age, but they extend to this age,--to
as many as shall believe on him. The demand and example of Jesus
were not from beneath. Are frozen dogmas, persistent persecution, and
the doctrine of eternal damnation, from above? Are the dews of divine
Truth, falling on the sick and sinner, to heal them, from beneath? "By
their fruits ye shall know them."
Reading my books, without prejudice, would convince all that their
purpose is right. The comprehension of my teachings would enable any
one to prove these books to be filled with blessings for the whole
human family. Fatiguing Bible translations and voluminous
commentaries are employed to explain and prop old creeds, and they
have the civil and religious arms in their defense; then why should not
these be equally extended to support the Christianity that heals the sick?
The notions of personality to be found in creeds are far more mystic
than Mind-healing. It is no easy matter to believe there are three
persons in one person, and that one person is cast out of another person.
These conceptions of Deity and devil presuppose an impotent God and
an incredible Satan.
IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC?
Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither in matter nor
in the modes of mortal mind. It shows that matter and mortal mind have
neither origin nor existence in the eternal Mind. Thinking otherwise is
what estranges mortals from divine Life and Love. God is All-in-all.
He is Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Himself. Nothing that
"worketh or maketh a lie" is to be found in the divine consciousness.
For God to know, is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and
eternally exist. If He knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then
mortality and discord must be eternal. He is Mind; and whatever He
knows is made manifest, and must be Truth.

If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge would
manifest evil in Him and proceeding from Him. Christian Science
shows