Article May 9, 1914 Issue

On page 29 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "The...

Frederick Dixon—Weymouth, England

Weymouth Telegram

On page 29 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "The Holy Ghost, or divine Spirit, overshadowed the pure sense of the Virgin-mother with the full recognition that being is Spirit." There is the full explanation of the Christian Science position. As the perception of Truth dawns on the human consciousness, the human mind frees itself from the trammels of so-called material law in discovering that the only real law is the law of Spirit. The limitations of ignorance have bound men for centuries in the belief of the dominion of matter, from which it was Mrs. Eddy's aim to set them free. Jesus had said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

This knowledge of the truth was the knowledge of the absolute spiritual law which was to banish from men's minds the limitations of material sense. In the exact proportion in which the old belief of material dependence gives place to the new understanding of spiritual dominion, man repents, for the Greek word translated repentance simply means a complete change of mind.

Now, as the body is only the subjective condition of the human mind, in proportion as the human mind is permeated with the understanding of Truth, the subjective condition alters from a condition of inharmony to a condition of harmony, and in repenting, we find the kingdom of God at hand. It was so that, as Mrs. Eddy says in the passage above quoted, the divine Spirit, overshadowing "the pure sense of the Virgin-mother," brought forth her child by the revelation of Truth, and it was this, as she says later in the book, on page 534, which enabled "the Son of the Virgin-mother" to unfold the remedy for error, in healing the sick, raising the dead, walking on the water, and destroying the sins of the world. "The illumination of Mary's spiritual sense," Mrs. Eddy says on page 29 of Science and Health, "put to silence material law and its order of generation," but there can be only one immaculate conception, as there can be only one Christ Jesus. The work of the followers of Christ Jesus must be to fulfil his commands, in the effort to walk so closely in his footsteps as to be able to repeat his works in the healing of sorrow and sickness and sin.

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