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Awake!
"Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
These words, which occur in Paul's letter to the Ephesians, are of special importance to humanity today. As one progresses in the study of Christian Science, he becomes increasingly aware that salvation, or freedom from earth's troubles, is a process of continuous awakening. Each healing experience is a further awakening to the truth of being, to the great fact that the good for which mankind is perpetually seeking, including health, supply, happiness, is already here and has always been here. Nothing real changes. Only thought is aroused to see the good which mortal belief, or the sleep of mesmerism, has seemingly hidden or concealed. He begins to discern that since God is Spirit, His creation, including man, is spiritual and indestructible.
On page 252 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker." Any difficulty confronting one, whether it be disease, lack, or unhappiness, must be seen as an image of thought, a dream picture from which we must be aroused. This stand taken, we can know that our loving Father, Mind, gives us the understanding through which to overcome the wrong belief that has seemed to deceive us. As we are receptive to God's leadings, we never fail to receive the thoughts that show us the baselessness of what seemed so real before.
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July 18, 1942 issue
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True Security
WILL B. DAVIS
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Spiritual Substance
IRENE KENT
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The Mortal Dream Is Untrue
MARGET HEYDEBRUCH
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Awake!
STANLEY WELTY
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Home
ELEANOR ANNIE EVELYN TRYDELL
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Progressive Demonstration
ROBERT J. HIGHLAND
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"God in His wisdom will test all mankind"
JANET M. BRANIN
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Power
Evelyn F. Heywood
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Facts Concerning Victory
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Jennie D. Todd, Caroline Sophie Mulhearn, Catherine M. Rankin, Stella Beatrice Schabner, Philip H. C. Slater, Albert Warren Ambler, Erma M. Hogue, Max J. Simon
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A Christian Science period in...
James W. Fulton
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Quietness
HALLIE S. BIXBY
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Sunday School Notes and Comments
with contributions from Herbert Welch
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"And God said, Let there be...
Ruth Bumba
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It is from a deep sense of gratitude...
Rosalind Letitia Hoyle
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I am always very grateful for...
Walter Weiler, Jr.
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"God is Love" was the first...
Maude Campbell Douglas
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Words are inadequate to express...
Marion D. Raymond with contributions from Chester C. Raymond
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For all the encouragement and...
Flora E. Lunam
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Many years ago, finding myself...
Orsina Gray Thompson
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Christian Science Rest Room for the Forces
EDGAR ISAAC NEWGASS
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General Activities Meeting of The Mother Church
with contributions from Wilfred B. Wells, The Christian Science Board of Directors, William M. Bartlett, Emma C. Shipman, Mary Baker Eddy, Ralph H. Knapp, Abigail Dyer Thompson