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ONENESS
The sun and its rays are one. The sun expresses itself through the rays, but the rays have no underived power and no function except to reflect the qualities of the sun. This hints a fundamental spiritual truth of being and one that Mary Baker Eddy states simply and unequivocally in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 465, 466): "Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe."
From his oneness with God as idea, man derives power, security, meekness. Conscious of his at-one-ment with Life and Love, he functions with undepleted strength, clothed with the light and loveliness of spiritual qualities, meek and secure in his origin. This is true of spiritual man, and there is no other. This may seem hard for material sense to comprehend and believe. When the sun is hidden by clouds, however, material belief yields to an understanding of natural science, and no doubt is ever expressed as to the existence of the sun with its rays. In like manner all false sense testimony concerning man, his health, nature, qualities, and characteristics, must yield to the understanding of divine Science.
In the allegory of Adam and Eve the serpent enters the picture subtly tempting them to believe in man's separateness from his Maker. "Ye shall be as gods" (Gen. 3:5), is the insidious suggestion of what Mrs. Eddy terms corporeal sense. This sense, entertained, led to a belief of estrangement from God and also from each other. Fear, shame, toil, and banishment were the result of losing that meek consciousness of unity with the source of all being, God.
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October 1, 1949 issue
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WHAT ARE YOU REALLY LEANING ON?
BETTY PARROTT
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THE POWER AND THE GLORY
Jeanie Brown
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SELF-FORGETFULNESS IS PRAYER
THOMAS B. HUDSON
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ONENESS
ROSEMARY C. COBHAM
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THERE IS NO SEPARATION IN GOOD
ZEMMA REDDING DOBSON
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PERCEIVING AND DEMONSTRATING THE TRUE IDEA OF GOD AND MAN
CHARLES KENDRICK MILLER
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THE MIRROR OF TRUTH
J. SOPHIE MATTON
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THE FATHER'S PLAN
OLLIS W. NEWMAN
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MAN IS LOVED
FRANKIE L. THOMAS
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COMMUNE WITH GOD
Vere Baillieu
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REALITY IS IN GOD
George Channing
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OUR PILGRIMAGE
Robert Ellis Key
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"Love is impartial and universal...
Elizabeth W. Singleton
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Christian Science was introduced...
John D. Brandt
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When I think of how beautifully...
Nanette Nelson Melvin
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After I commenced reading the...
Marjory Herd
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My husband and I find our...
Catherine Kendall with contributions from Thomas Kendall
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I desire to testify to a few of the...
Blaine B. Menth with contributions from Nancy Cooper Menth
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With great joy and thankfulness...
Florence Evans
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In the summer vacation following...
Mary Newsome Garrison
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My gratitude for Christian Science...
Robert Rene Lecomte
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Soon after some of our family...
Bessie C. Johnson
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Fred E. Young, G. Ousley Brown, R. E. Fenn