Chapter X - Science Of Being
The one anointed
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in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term
in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term
Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and
proper translation of the Greek), may be ren-
dered "Jesus the anointed," Jesus the God‑
crowned or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in
the first chapter of Hebrews: –
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Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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With this agrees another passage in the same chapter,
With this agrees another passage in the same chapter,
which refers to the Son as "the brightness of His [God's]
glory, and the express [expressed] image of His person
[infinite Mind]." It is noteworthy that the phrase "ex-
press image" in the Common Version is, in the Greek
Testament, character. Using this word in its higher mean-
ing, we may assume that the author of this remarkable
epistle regarded Christ as the Son of God, the royal
reflection of the infinite; and the cause given for the ex-
altation of Jesus, Mary's son, was that he "loved right-
eousness and hated iniquity." The passage is made
even clearer in the translation of the late George R.
Noyes, D.D.: "Who, being a brightness from His glory,
and an image of His being."
Jesus the Scientist
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Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that
Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that
ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material
surface of things, and found the spiritual
cause. To accommodate himself to imma-
ture ideas of spiritual power, – for spirituality was pos
sessed only in a limited degree even by his disciples, –
Jesus called the body, which by spiritual power he
raised from the grave, "flesh and bones." To show
that the substance of himself was Spirit and the body
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no more perfect because of death and no less material
no more perfect because of death and no less material
until the ascension (his further spiritual exaltation),
Jesus waited until the mortal or fleshly sense had re-
linquished the belief of substance-matter, and spiritual
sense had quenched all earthly yearnings. Thus he found
the eternal Ego, and proved that he and the Father were
inseparable as God and His reflection or spiritual man.
Our Master gained the solution of being, demonstrating
the existence of but one Mind without a second or equal.
The bodily resurrection
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The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed
The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed
plainly that their material views were the parents of their
wicked deeds. When Jesus spoke of repro-
ducing his body, – knowing, as he did, that
Mind was the builder, – and said, "Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up," they thought that he
meant their material temple instead of his body. To such
materialists, the real man seemed a spectre, unseen and
unfamiliar, and the body, which they laid in a sepulchre,
seemed to be substance. This materialism lost sight of
the true Jesus; but the faithful Mary saw him, and he
presented to her, more than ever before, the true idea of
Life and substance.
Opposition of materialists
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Because of mortals' material and sinful belief, the
Because of mortals' material and sinful belief, the
spiritual Jesus was imperceptible to them. The higher
his demonstration of divine Science carried
the problem of being, and the more dis-
tinctly he uttered the demands of its divine Principle,
Truth and Love, the more odious he became to sinners
and to those who, depending on doctrines and material
laws to save them from sin and sickness, were submis-
sive to death as being in supposed accord with the
inevitable law of life. Jesus proved them wrong by