Chapter X - Science Of Being
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ment that Truth is real necessarily includes the correlated
ment that Truth is real necessarily includes the correlated
statement, that error, Truth's unlikeness, is unreal.
The great conflict
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The suppositional warfare between truth and error is
The suppositional warfare between truth and error is
only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spir-
itual senses and the testimony of the material
senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and
flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the un-
derstanding of divine Love.
Superstition and understanding can never combine.
When the final physical and moral effects of Christian
Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth
and error, understanding and belief, Science and material
sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated
by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign. The
lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash
till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the
distance. Then the raindrops of divinity refresh the
earth. As St. Paul says: "There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God" (of Spirit).
The chief stones in the temple
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The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are
The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are
to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God,
good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not
to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and
cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject
to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no ma-
terial life, and no death.
The Christ-element
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Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal
Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal
man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses.
The Christ-element in the Messiah made him
the Way-shower, Truth and Life.
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The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have
The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have
learned from error, and man's real existence as a child
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of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal debris
of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns
that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensa-
tion are in the body should be overcome by the under-
standing of what constitutes man as the image of God.
Then Spirit will have overcome the flesh.
Wickedness is not man
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,
lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life
abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life
and life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men
sick, sinful, or mortal.
Death but an illusion
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The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still
The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still
overcomes death proves the "king of terrors" to be but
a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys
with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this
shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a
mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe
there is no death-process.
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The belief that matter has life results, by the universal
The belief that matter has life results, by the universal
law of mortal mind, in a belief in death. So man, tree,
and flower are supposed to die; but the fact remains,
that God's universe is spiritual and immortal.
Spiritual offspring
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The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are
contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the
material must be untrue. Life is not in matter.
Therefore it cannot be said to pass out of mat-
ter. Matter and death are mortal illusions. Spirit and
all things spiritual are the real and eternal.
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Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, – of
Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, – of
Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be