Article February 17, 1951 Issue

UTILIZING SPIRITUAL LAW

BESSIE L. CARN

Christian Science makes clear that the scientific, right understanding of God destroys the erroneous belief that life, substance, and intelligence exist in matter and shows that because evil is unknown to God, good, the one supreme intelligence, its claims are illegitimate, unreal, and powerless. It teaches that God is infinite Mind, Spirit, Love, divine Principle, and Life; that man, being created in His image and likeness, as the Scriptures tell us, is spiritual; and that since man is Mind's perfect spiritual idea, or reflection, he is not and never has been subject to so-called laws of matter or evil, but rather is eternally governed by God's laws, which are spiritual and are ever operative.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p.168): "Because man-made systems insist that man becomes sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are we to believe an authority which denies God's spiritual command relating to perfection,—an authority which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law of Mind." Poised in the consciousness of the omnipotence of God, good, and the knowledge of His ever-present law, Jesus progressively demonstrated man's God-given dominion by refuting each and every argument of the carnal mind. Ever conscious of man's unity with God, he proved evil's powerlessness to maim or kill man or to impair his harmony, joy, and activity. The Master knew that man's life is the expression of infinite Life, independent of a physical organism, and that it is therefore eternally complete and indestructible.

The Scriptures record the lives of main who overcame some form of evil through the knowledge and utilization of divine law and therein were enabled to free themselves from whatever would annihilate their health, joy, or peace, as exemplified by Daniel's experience in the lions' den and that of the three young Hebrews who were unharmed by the fiery furnace into which they had been cast by Nebuchadnezzar.

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