Article September 24, 1938 Issue

God's Kingdom of Spiritual Ideas

ALBERT C. MOON

The study of Christian Science awakens one to see that salvation from everything unlike good is a present possibility. It reiterates the words with which, according to Matthew's Gospel, both John the Baptist and Christ Jesus began their preaching, namely, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand."

It reveals this kingdom, not as a material place for men to enter into or be excluded from, but rather as the consciousness of the presence of God's creation of spiritual ideas. This consciousness is attainable through the scientific understanding of Christ, Truth, as Jesus understood it.

Jesus' teachings were positive and constructive, denying the erroneous beliefs of mortal mind specifically and in toto, and releasing those who sought him from the tired, negative, condemning sense of existence. His condemnation of error was based on the spiritual fact which was and is so potent, so restorative, that right where disease had appeared to mortal sense health became apparent, supply displaced poverty, and Life overcame "the last enemy," death. Jesus' vanquishment of erroneous mental concepts rested on his positive understanding and active obedience to God. When tempted by Satan, his reply was, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."

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