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Conquering Animal Magnetism
The following admonition from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is priceless in the clearness and directness of its instruction (p. 447): "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them." Mrs. Eddy knew that in order fully to carry out this admonition, it would be necessary for mankind to understand how to refrain from ascribing reality to that which seems to be but is not. How shall one keep one's spiritual vision clear? Christian Science teaches that this is accomplished by understanding the allness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil, including disease.
All who are familiar with the words and works of Christ Jesus know that he frequently taught by parables. When asked by his disciples to explain to them the sower and the seed, as recorded in Mark's Gospel, Jesus said, "Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" In the light of Christian Science, based on the Master's teachings, we may find a special significance in this parable, which clearly illustrates the workings of animal magnetism.
Jesus' term for this hidden influence was Satan. And he explained how it prevents the Word of God from being received, enjoyed, and found fruitful. He said, "Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts." Then he told them of some of the ignorant and fraudulent ways in which mortals are influenced erroneously, namely, by "the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things." And these carnal thoughts, "entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."
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May 29, 1937 issue
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In Reality There Are No Little Things
ISRAEL PICKENS
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"Fixing your gaze"
FLORENCE I. EDWARDS
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Conquering Animal Magnetism
IRVING S. BAILEY
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"Consolation to the sorrowing"
GATLING H. KING
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Position and Employment
MARY LOUISE NOBLE
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Our Lifework
ALICE CORTRIGHT
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Christ's Standard
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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The writer of the article "Mind Over Matter," published...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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The references, direct or implied, which a clergyman...
Guy Haldane Dempster, Committee on Publication for Egypt,
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In the Post of June 8 you review a foreword to a volume...
William James Huckerby, Committee on Publication for Warwickshire, England,
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In a recent article in the Appenzeller-Zeitung, Christian Science...
Meinrad Schnewlin, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,
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For nearly two thousand years Christianity has been...
Roy G. Watson, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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War Is Not Inevitable
George Shaw Cook
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Unity in Christian Science
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Else Gabriel, Mabel E. Prescott, Ada C. Thompson, Marion A. Larson
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Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know...
Elizabeth Bigheart
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Christian Science has proved such a blessing to me that I...
Florence M. Bantel
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During the past eight years Christian Science has been...
Edward L. Colley
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It is now more than ten years since I began to study...
Sonia Ianovsky
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In the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. VIII, Sect. 24)...
Winifred Merrick Reed
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I first heard of Christian Science in the year 1905
George P. Davidson
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Immediately following the birth of our eldest son, I was...
Lillian M. Riaska
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Through Eyes of Love
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James Reid