Chapter IX - Creation
Human egotism
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Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be
Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be
independent workers, personal authors, and even privi-
leged originators of something which Deity
would not or could not create. The creations
of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man
alone represents the truth of creation.
Mortal man a mis-creator
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When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence
When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence
with the spiritual and works only as God works,
he will no longer grope in the dark and cling
to earth because he has not tasted heaven.
Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involun-
tary hypocrite, – producing evil when he would create
good, forming deformity when he would outline grace
and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He
becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a
semi-god. His "touch turns hope to dust, the dust we
all have trod." He might say in Bible language: "The
good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do."
No new creation
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There can be but one creator, who has created all.
There can be but one creator, who has created all.
Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the discovery
of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a
new multiplication or self-division of mor-
tal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its
cloister with amazement and attempts to pattern the
infinite.
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The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of per-
The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of per-
sons and things is not creation. A sensual thought, like
an atom of dust thrown into the face of spiritual im-
mensity, is dense blindness instead of a scientific eternal
consciousness of creation.
Mind's true camera
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The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
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terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.
terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.
They have their day before the permanent facts and their
perfection in Spirit appear. The crude crea-
tions of mortal thought must finally give place
to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the
camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spir-
itual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading,
finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.
Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm
of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we
must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we
have our being.
Self-completeness
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As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,
As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,
multitudinous objects of creation, which before were
invisible, will become visible. When we
realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of
matter, this understanding will expand into self-com-
pleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other
consciousness.
Spiritual proofs of existence
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Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being.
Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being.
Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit. Sin
is unsustained by Truth, and sickness and
death were overcome by Jesus, who proved
them to be forms of error. Spiritual living
and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can
recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace
which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.
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When we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-
When we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-
ognize man's spiritual being, we shall behold and under-
stand God's creation, – all the glories of earth and heaven
and man.
Godward gravitation
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The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,
The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,