Rudimental Divine Science | Page 2

Jesus' healing was spiritual in its nature, method, and design. He wrought the cure of 18 disease through the divine Mind, which gives all true volition, impulse, and action; and destroys the mental error made manifest physically, and establishes the oppo- 21 site manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmony and health.
By the individuality of God, do you mean that God has 24 a finite form?
No. I mean the infinite and divine Principle of all being, the ever-present I AM, filling all space, including 27 in itself all Mind, the one Father-Mother God. Life, 1 Truth, and Love are this trinity in unity, and their uni- verse is spiritual, peopled with perfect beings, harmonious 3 and eternal, of which our material universe and men are the counterfeits.
Is God the Principle of all science, or only of Divine or 6 Christian Science?
Science is Mind manifested. It is not material; neither is it of human origin. 9
All true Science represents a moral and spiritual force, which holds the earth in its orbit. This force is Spirit, that can "bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades," and 12 "loose the bands of Orion."
There is no material science, if by that term you mean material intelligence. God is infinite Mind, hence there 15 is no other Mind. Good is Mind, but evil is not Mind. Good is not in evil, but in God only. Spirit is not in matter, but in Spirit only. Law is not in matter, but in Mind only. 18
Is there no matter?
All is Mind. According to the Scriptures and Christian Science, all is God, and there is naught beside Him. "God 21 is Spirit;" and we can only learn and love Him through His spirit, which brings out the fruits of Spirit and ex- tinguishes forever the works of darkness by His marvel- 24 lous light.
The five material senses testify to the existence of matter. The spiritual senses afford no such evidence, 1 but deny the testimony of the material senses. Which testimony is correct? The Bible says: "Let God be 3 true, and every man a liar." If, as the Scriptures imply, God is All-in-all, then all must be Mind, since God is Mind. Therefore in divine Science there is no material 6 mortal man, for man is spiritual and eternal, he being made in the image of Spirit, or God.
There is no material sense. Matter is inert, inanimate, 9 and sensationless, -- considered apart from Mind. Lives there a man who has ever found Soul in the body or in matter, who has ever seen spiritual substance with the 12 eye, who has found sight in matter, hearing in the material ear, or intelligence in non-intelligence? If there is any such thing as matter, it must be either mind which is 15 called matter, or matter without Mind.
Matter without Mind is a moral impossibility. Mind in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real conscious- 18 ness which cognizes being. The body does not see, hear, smell, or taste. Human belief says that it does; but destroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could 21 not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical senses.
Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should 24 believe man and the universe to be the football of chance and sinking into oblivion. Destroy the five senses as organized matter, and you must either become non-exist- 27 ent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to 1 the equal inference that there is no matter.
The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assum- 3 ing manifold forms and colors, -- are they not tangible and material?
As Mind they are real, but not as matter. All beauty 6 and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God; but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a 9 false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes the place of good.
Has not the truth in Christian Science met a response 12 from Prof. S. P. Langley, the young American astronomer? He says that "color is in us," not "in the rose;" and he adds that this is not "any metaphysical subtlety," but a 15 fact "almost universally accepted, within the last few years, by physicists."
Is not the basis of Mind-healing a destruction of the evi- 18 dence of the material senses, and restoration of the true evidence of spiritual sense?
It is, so far as you perceive and understand this predi- 21 cate and postulate of Mind-healing; but the Science of Mind-healing is best understood in practical demonstra- tion. The proof of what you apprehend, in the simplest 24 definite and absolute