Article October 20, 1934 Issue

God-given Increase

LOUIE ALLEN

"Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,—to manifest His power." These words of Mrs. Eddy from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 517) bring home to the student of Christian Science the importance of cultivating receptivity to spiritual ideas, for it is through these ideas that the nature, character, and qualities of God are made manifest. Mortal existence is made up solely of material beliefs; mortal mind itself is not real, and its supposed progeny are without entity.

Love for God and man enabled our Leader to be receptive to God's thoughts, or ideas, and, guided by them, to build up the Christian Science movement. Her students must make Love the basis of their work; then they too will be blessed by an increasing spiritual understanding. Jesus' parable of the leaven which was "hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened," illustrates the activity of a divine idea.

The true idea, if allowed to govern thought, rules out false beliefs of pride, fear, and anything else that would claim to bind one to things material. The individual who desires to become a Christian Scientist learns that he must practice his understanding faithfully—must use every true idea he perceives in order to increase his spirituality. Christian Science makes its appeal through divine ideas of goodness, and the reception and use of these ideas result in the disappearance of false beliefs. Very often the first acceptance of a divine idea leads to the realization of health as spiritual instead of physical. As the right idea of health is accepted, the false belief of sickness is denied place and power.

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