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The Healing Consciousness
The writer of the book of Proverbs, speaking of mortal man, declares, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 167), "Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence,—our health, our longevity, and our Christianity." It may seem strange to the beginner in Christian Science that he can improve his body, have dominion over his sense of environment, and influence his future by the thoughts he entertains, but that this is true has been proved beyond question. We have in the teachings of Christian Science positive rules whereby we may prove the truth of every statement made; and the faithful worker brings into his experience health, happiness, and harmony as the results of his faithfulness to these rules.
The kingdom of heaven is found in the consciousness of good. The only place where evil can claim to operate is in wrong thinking, in the thought which believes in the reality of grief, sin, sickness, and strife. Good and good alone is to be talked, thought, and lived, if we would be healthy and happy. Spiritual thoughts are emanations of the divine Mind; and this Mind is God, the one and only creator, who creates nothing but good, and who therefore causes His spiritual ideas to reflect divine power. God knows truth only, and all that is true has its source in Him, the divine Mind. The realization of this fact enables one to think true thoughts and thus become mentally at-one with God. The real man knows nothing, thinks nothing, but what the Father knows.
God knows all that is true; and if we would know ourselves, we must learn to think the thoughts God gives; for thereby we see ourselves as He sees us—upright, pure, and eternally perfect. Thus it is seen that mankind is saved through the realization of the presence and power of the spiritual idea, or the Christ. The loftiest exaltation of thought is purely spiritual; it unfolds the truth that one is in his rightful place as the child of God, the offspring and reflection of the divine Mind. Material sense would obscure our vision of the real, the abiding, the true, and hinder our approach to the promised land, the consciousness of spiritual Truth.
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December 12, 1925 issue
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Working with God, Good
ANDREW J. GRAHAM
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The Healing Consciousness
S. ELLA SHELHAMER
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Prompt Obedience
HARRIET O'BRIEN
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Order
WILLIAM HALE COOMBER
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In the Waters
EUNICE F. MAURER
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Truth's Voice
PAUL D. CRANDALL
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Peace
WINNIFRED B. HOWES
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One is surprised that a critic, writing in your issue of...
Charles W. J. Tennant,
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In a discussion of spiritual healing in your issue of recent...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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The article on "Suicide" in the Gazette des Hopitaux...
Mrs. Caroline Getty, Committee on Publication for France,
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In connection with your report of the defeat of Senate File No. 26...
Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the state of Nebraska,
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In your review of a book by the Dean of Chester, entitled...
Louis Potts, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
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Kindly permit me to say a word in reference to the...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for Alberta, Canada,
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God is the Builder
LUCIE HASKELL HILL
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Righteousness and Peace
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Law of Righteousness
Ella W. Hoag
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"As for God, his way is perfect"
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Erich Paul Hieber, Grace M. Packard, William A. Morrison, Asa T. Patterson, Annie E. Turner, Truman S. Thompson, Sidney A. Wesson, Parke Patton Easley
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That the divine Mind does direct and govern has been...
Othar C. Wamsley
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It is about four and a half years since I turned to...
Eveline T. G. Wybrants
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An experience came to me several years ago which taught...
Bertha E. Converse
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In gratitude for all the blessings I have received in Christian Science,...
Edith Emily Morgan
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My Thanksgiving offering is a song of praise, and I must...
Hazel A. Kempe
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For the many blessings that have come to me through...
Elvira R. Wright
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For a number of years my family and I have been...
James C. Dwyer
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. G. D. Freeman, Clarence Reed, D. William Brown, M. Ashby Jones, Alexander MacColl