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Eye on the world: Real beauty
In an article titled “France's ban on super-thin models: who will it really help?” The Christian Science Monitor writes of a plan that would make the use of “dangerously skinny” models illegal in France. However, the Monitor notes, “while it’s hard to knock its intent,” the plan probably won’t have “much of an impact on persistent notions of beauty that value thinness above all.”
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Passages from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
“The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 247–248 ).
“Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as mortal belief. Custom, education, and fashion form the transient standards of mortals. Immortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its own, — the radiance of Soul. Immortal men and women are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness which transcend all material sense” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 247 ).
“All beauty and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God; but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes the place of good” (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 6 ).
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Discover your native beauty”: “... beauty is intrinsic to our spiritual identity. It's a gift of Soul—eternally ours for the claiming.” And, “By communing with God, becoming conscious of our unity with infinite good, we discern the Christ, or Truth, which dispels ignorance and false belief about our real nature. We are then able to recognize ourselves more consistently as children of Soul and to discover how lovely we truly are as Soul's flawless expression.”
In “True Being is Beautiful”: “Spiritual beauty is a universal heritage. Individually expressed, it is not a personal possession, but the loveliness of divine Mind shining forth. Everyone is free to look to this Mind for exalted ideas and to express Love's unaffected genuineness.”
In “Keeping up appearances”: “True beauty is found in the authentic nature of man as the image of God. An awareness of this truth can brighten human character with at least a glint of the real gemstone, enhancing not only the way we appear but also the way others appear to us. The beauty of Christ begins to shine in our life.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.