Article January 31, 1948 Issue

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GEORGE LOUIS AGHAMLIAN

Why do students of Christian Science sometimes fail to challenge the aggressive mental suggestions of mortal mind which say that they are not sufficiently advanced to make certain demonstrations over evil? In the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke we read the unequivocal promise (verse 31), "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." In order to be ever with his heavenly Father, man must necessarily be so now, this very moment.

Mankind is prone to postpone acceptance of the good that spiritual man rightfully possesses through divine heritage. The counterfeit of the real man, of whom we read in the first chapter of Genesis, is mortal, a false concept of man subject to sin, sickness, limitation, and death. As one realizes that man is actually and forever the spiritual representative of his heavenly Father, His image and likeness, and sees the truth as applied to his own true selfhood, he will no longer postpone laying claim to the good which is man's here and now. No matter how long or how short a time he has been a student of the Science of being, let him steadfastly cling to the fact that his loving Father-Mother God is ever with him, and that by reflection man has all that God gives. Then and then alone will he demonstrate the immediate availability of His power and riches.

So long as erroneous, apathetic thinking can mesmerize us into accepting false claims as annoying but negligible, or too formidable to fight, it has deceived us. Mortal mind would always tempt us to procrastinate in overcoming its false beliefs. However, we are learning through the daily study of Christian Science to recognize and challenge a lie under any and all guises. Like our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, we can say fearlessly to mortal mind, whenever it presents itself, "Thou art a liar and the father of it."

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