Editorial February 28, 1931 Issue

Spiritual Alertness

Duncan Sinclair

Christian Science lays stress on two things. The first is that there must be an awakening on the part of mankind from a false material sense of being to an understanding of spiritual reality; the second, that after the awakening constant alertness should be exercised, not only to maintain the position, but to progress along the way of eternal life. In stating this one is reminded of Paul's words to the Corinthians: "Awake to righteousness, and sin not;" to the Ephesians, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light;" and to the Thessalonians, "Hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil."

Mortals are asleep in the belief that matter and evil are real, dreaming that material phenomena are actual. Every material experience is part of the illusion or dream that life and intelligence are in and of matter. Disease is part of the dream; sin is part of the dream; death is part of the dream. How is it that we can be certain that matter and evil and all their consequents are a dream or illusion? We can be so because we know through divine Science that God, the creator of all that is real, is infinite Mind, infinite good.

The awakening in a degree from the dream that matter and evil are real means proportionate healing and regeneration. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 230 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality." And straightway she adds these enlightening words: "This awakening is the forever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick." How helpful, how necessary indeed, for the sick and the sinning to get this absolutely true point of view: to see all sickness or sin as part of a material dream or illusion from which they can be awakened through the coming of the truth to their consciousness!

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