Article August 17, 1918 Issue

Education, in the true sense, as understood in Christian Science,...

The Christian Science Monitor

Education, in the true sense, as understood in Christian Science, is synonymous with spiritual enlightenment. It is the unfoldment of spiritual ideas. It is Mind's revelation of itself as consciousness, in right or true thoughts. Mind's unfoldment is ceaseless, limitless, eternal. It is not, then, an intellectual process. The activity of Mind, in right or true thinking, is not related to, nor does it depend upon, the size, quality, or condition of the human brain. True education does not require effort or exertion. Man's inherent and inalienable right as the likeness of Mind is to reflect spontaneously and abundantly the Truth that is God. "Spiritual sense," Mrs. Eddy says on page 209 of Science and Health, "is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God." Spiritual enlightenment, or true education, cannot, therefore, be limited by time or space.

Apprehension of the true facts about education through the study of Christian Science, begins immediately, in one's present human experience, to free one from the doubts and fears which invariably attend false views of education. The dawn of liberating truth begins at once to dispel the mental darkness in which lurk the phantoms of limited ability, limited capacity, and limited opportunity.

As spiritual enlightenment unfolds in our present experience the truth about business,—"the Father's business,"—we see what we call our business manifesting a greater sense of freedom, activity, honesty, abundance, and success. But the most harmonious and prosperous material business only typifies, humanly, man's real business, which is to know God, to reflect absolute good. Man's real business, therefore, as the son of God, the conscious reflection of divine Mind, is to express eternally and perfectly the activity, freedom, harmony, and abundance of his infinite Principle, Love. That is man's real business and it is a success. It cannot fail because it is sustained, protected, and directed by supreme intelligence. Knowledge of these facts constitutes real law and power. This divinely bestowed understanding is available to all through true education and may thus become to every man, here and now, the law which removes fear and limitation and rightly directs all his activities.

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