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| 1 | sin, and death are the vague realities of human conclu- |
| | sions. Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine |
| 3 | Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in |
| | spiritual understanding. As a cloud hides the sun it |
| | cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the |
| 6 | voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot de- |
| | stroy Science armed with faith, hope, and fruition. |
| | What is termed material sense can report only a mor- |
| 9 | tal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can |
| | bear witness only to Truth. To material sense, | Truth's
witness |
| | the unreal is the real until this sense is corrected |
| 12 | by Christian Science. |
| | Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, in- |
| | volves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, real- |
| 15 | ity. Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in |
| | matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense |
| | of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never |
| 18 | reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal. |
| | When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, |
| | joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spirit- |
| 21 | ual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle, |
| | and admit no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead |
| | up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense |
| 24 | of being. |
| | [[[Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving |
| | animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial |
| 27 | visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, | Thought-
angels |
| | pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, |
| | winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their indi- |
| 30 | vidualism may be. Human conjecture confers upon angels |
| | its own forms of thought, marked with superstitious out- |
| | lines, making them human creatures with suggestive |
| 1 | feathers; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more |
| | reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves |
| 3 | his "Statue of Liberty," which embodies his concep- |
| | tion of an unseen quality or condition, but which has |
| | no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's own ob- |
| 6 | servation and "chambers of imagery."]]] |
| | My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door |
| | of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried |
| 9 | its fondest earthly hopes. With white fin- | Our angelic
messengers |
| | gers they point upward to a new and glo- |
| | rified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels |
| 12 | are God's representatives. These upward-soaring beings |
| | never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to |
| | the divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi- |
| 15 | viduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving |
| | earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, |
| | and we entertain "angels unawares." |
| 18 | Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively |
| | represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of |
| | sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then | Knowledge
and Truth |
| 21 | to judge the knowledge thus obtained to be |
| | untrue and dangerous, since "the tree is known by his |
| | fruit"? |
| 24 | Truth never destroys God's idea. Truth is spiritual, |
| | eternal substance, which cannot destroy the right reflec- |
| | tion. Corporeal sense, or error, may seem to hide Truth, |
| 27 | health, harmony, and Science, as the mist obscures the |
| | sun or the mountain; but Science, the sunshine of Truth, |
| | will melt away the shadow and reveal the celestial |
| 30 | peaks. |
| | If man were solely a creature of the material senses, |
| | he would have no eternal Principle and would be mutable |
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