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needle,” than for sinful beliefs to enter the kingdom of 242:1 heaven, eternal harmony. Through repentance, spiritual
baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material 242:3 beliefs and false individuality. It is only a
question of time when “they shall all know
Me [God], from the least of them unto the greatest.” 242:6 Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards
the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final
triumph over the body.
The one only way
242:9 There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ
in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no
other reality - to have no other conscious-242:12 ness of life - than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure
of the senses.
242:15 Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant 242:18 of error, - self-will, self-justification, and self-love, -
which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin
and death.
Divided vestments
242:21 The vesture of Life is Truth. According to the Bible,
the facts of being are commonly misconstrued, for it is
written: “They parted my raiment among 242:24 them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.”
The divine Science of man is woven into one web of
consistency without seam or rent. Mere speculation or 242:27 superstition appropriates no part of the divine vesture,
while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment of righteousness.
242:30 The finger-posts of divine Science show the way our
Master trod, and require of Christians the proof which
he gave, instead of mere profession. We may hide 243:1 spiritual ignorance from the world, but we can never
succeed in the Science and demonstration of spiritual 243:3 good through ignorance or hypocrisy.
Ancient and modern miracles
The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous
viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from 243:6 the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion,
can heal the sick in every age and triumph
over sin and death. It crowned the demon-243:9 strations of Jesus with unsurpassed power and love. But
the same “Mind … which was also in Christ Jesus”
must always accompany the letter of Science in order to 243:12 confirm and repeat the ancient demonstrations of prophets
and apostles. That those wonders are not more commonly repeated to-day, arises not so much from lack of 243:15 desire as from lack of spiritual growth.
Mental telegraphy
The clay cannot reply to the potter. The head, heart,
lungs, and limbs do not inform us that they are dizzy, 243:18 diseased, consumptive, or lame. If this information is conveyed, mortal mind conveys
it. Neither immortal and unerring Mind nor matter, 243:21 the inanimate substratum of mortal mind, can carry
on such telegraphy; for God is “of purer eyes than
to behold evil,” and matter has neither intelligence nor 243:24 sensation.
Annihilation of error
Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no
sense of hatred. Life has no partnership 243:27 with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law
of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because
they declare nothing except God.
Deformity and perfection
243:30 Sickness, sin, and death are not the fruits of Life.
They are inharmonies which Truth destroys. Perfection
does not animate imperfection. Inasmuch as God is 244:1 good and the fount of all being, He does not produce
moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is 244:3 not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error.
Divine Science reveals these grand facts. On
their basis Jesus demonstrated Life, never 244:6 fearing nor obeying error in any form.
If we were to derive all our conceptions of man from
what is seen between the cradle and the grave, happi-244:9 ness and goodness would have no abiding-place in man,
and the worms would rob him of the flesh; but Paul
writes: “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath 244:12 made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Man never less than man
Man undergoing birth, maturity, and decay is like the
beasts and vegetables, - subject to laws of decay. If 244:15 man were dust in his earliest stage of existence, we might admit the hypothesis that he
returns eventually to his primitive condition; 244:18 but man was never more nor less than man.
If man flickers out in death or springs from matter into
being, there must be an instant when God is without His 244:21 entire manifestation, - when there is no full reflection
of the infinite Mind.
Man not evolved
Man in Science is neither young nor old. He has 244:24 neither birth nor death. He is not a beast, a vegetable,
nor a migratory mind. He does not pass from
matter to Mind, from the mortal to the im-244:27 mortal, from evil to good, or from good to evil. Such
admissions cast us headlong into darkness and dogma.
Even Shakespeare’s poetry pictures age as infancy, as 244:30 helplessness and decadence, instead of assigning to man
the everlasting grandeur and immortality of development,
power, and prestige.
245:1 The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
benefits of destroying that illusion, are illustrated in a 245:3 sketch from the history of an English woman, published
in the London medical magazine called The Lancet.
Perpetual youth
Disappointed in love in her early years, she became 245:6 insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she
was still living in the same hour which parted
her from her lover, taking no note of years, 245:9 she stood daily before the window watching for her
lover’s coming. In this mental state she remained young.
Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew no 245:12 older. Some American travellers saw her when she was
seventy-four, and supposed her to be a young woman.
She had no care-lined face, no wrinkles nor gray hair, but 245:15 youth sat gently on cheek and brow. Asked to guess her
age, those unacquainted with her history conjectured that
she must be under twenty.
245:18 This instance of youth preserved furnishes a useful
hint, upon which a Franklin might work with more certainty than when he coaxed the enamoured lightning 245:21 from the clouds. Years had not made her old, because
she had taken no cognizance of passing time nor thought
of herself as growing old. The bodily results of her belief 245:24 that she was young manifested the influence of such a belief. She could not age while believing herself young, for
the mental state governed the physical.
245:27 Impossibilities never occur. One instance like the
foregoing proves it possible to be young at seventy-four;
and the primary of that illustration makes it plain that 245:30 decrepitude is not according to law, nor is it a necessity of
nature, but an illusion.
Man reflects God
The infinite never began nor will it ever end. Mind 246:1 and its formations can never be annihilated. Man is not
a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and 246:3 sorrow, sickness and health, life and death.
Life and its faculties are not measured by
calendars. The perfect and immortal are the eternal 246:6 likeness of their Maker. Man is by no means a material
germ rising from the imperfect and endeavoring to reach
Spirit above his origin. The stream rises no higher than 246:9 its source.
The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and
gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth 246:12 coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, un—
dimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and material, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of 246:15 Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright
and imperishable glories.
Undesirable records
Never record ages. Chronological data are no part 246:18 of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are
so many conspiracies against manhood and
womanhood. Except for the error of meas-246:21 uring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man
would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and
still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man, 246:24 governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and
grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty,
and holiness.
True life eternal
246:27 Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the
demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal.
Let us then shape our views of existence into 246:30 loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather
than into age and blight.
Acute and chronic beliefs reproduce their own types. 247:1 The acute belief of physical life comes on at a remote
period, and is not so disastrous as the chronic belief.
Eyes and teeth renewed
247:3 I have seen age regain two of the elements it had lost,
sight and teeth. A woman of eighty-five, whom I knew,
had a return of sight. Another woman at 247:6 ninety had new teeth, incisors, cuspids, bi—
cuspids, and one molar. One man at sixty
had retained his full set of upper and lower teeth without 247:9 a decaying cavity.
Eternal beauty
Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty
of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as 247:12 mortal belief. Custom, education, and fashion
form the transient standards of mortals. Immortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its 247:15 own, - the radiance of Soul. Immortal men and women
are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind
and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness 247:18 which transcend all material sense.
The divine loveliness
Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Being possesses its qualities before they are perceived hu-247:21 manly. Beauty is a thing of life, which
dwells forever in the eternal Mind and reflects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, 247:24 outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal
with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches
the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with 247:27 starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness.
The embellishments of the person are poor substitutes
for the charms of being, shining resplendent and eternal 247:30 over age and decay.
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and
more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure 248:1 in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Love’s endowment
248:3 Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon
its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less
than beautiful. Men and women of riper 248:6 years and larger lessons ought to ripen into
health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness
or gloom. Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal 248:9 freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images
of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each
day brings to a nearer tomb.
Mental sculpture
248:12 The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in
order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors,
working at various forms, moulding and chisel-248:15 ing thought. What is the model before mortal
mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering?
Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you repro-248:18 ducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious
sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all
mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding 248:21 it before your gaze continually. The result is that you
are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline 248:24 and deformity of matter models.
Perfect models
To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right
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