Article March 17, 1951 Issue

TAKE YOUR CASE TO THE COURT OF SPIRIT

LESLIE BURN ANDREAE

In Mary Baker Eddy's allegory in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 430–442), after sentence of death has been pronounced on Mortal Man, the proceedings are removed from the Court of Error to the Court of Spirit, where Christian Science acts as attorney for the defendant and obtains his complete liberation. This removal to the Court of Spirit, where the rule of Christ is supreme and man is found in the divine image—upright, Godlike, and free —was the turning point in the condemned one's experience, it is depicted in the allegory as follows (pp. 433, 434): "Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free. Swift on the wings of divine Love, there comes a despatch: 'Delay the execution; the prisoner is not guilty.' Consternation fills the prison-yard. Some exclaim, 'It is contrary to law and justice.' Others say, 'The law of Christ supersedes our laws; let us follow Christ.'"

In the stress of circumstances which arise from ill-health, lack, and other discordant conditions or amidst the strain and pressure of political and economic warfare, one often seems to be penalized for happenings beyond his control. Wherefore he either wrongly accepts the penalty as inevitable or retaliates by fighting with the world's weapons in the Court of Error, where human will and personal opinions prevail and the evidence is heavily weighted against him.

Christian Science bids him transfer the conflict to the Court of Spirit, where the law of Christ supersedes mortal mind laws, liberates Mortal Man, and destroys evil in its many guises. This is in accordance with Paul's statement (II Cor. 10:3–5), "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."

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