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THE RADIANCY OF SPIRIT
Spiritual life is the radiancy of God's being made manifest, and this radiancy is manifested in man. Referring to the great verities of Spirit—omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience—Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 110), "These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good."
True being is radiant being, alive and active in the beauty of holiness, emitting light or the enlightenment of Mind, diffusing wisdom, justice, and love. Far removed from the radiancy of Spirit is the opacity of matter, which is the environment of a so-called mortal and from which Christian Science urges and shows one how to escape.
Prophet and apostle throughout the ages have caught glimpses of God's radiant being, expressed through the Christ, or divine manifestation, and they have urged their hearers to forsake the material and temporal and to press on in their quest and proof of the spiritual. Isaiah was clearly referring to the spiritual sense of existence when he wrote (60:1), "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." The prophet then goes on to point out that darkness, and even gross darkness, shall cover the people, but that the spiritual light will inevitably arise and kings shall come to the brightness of its rising. The long night of materialism is drawing to a close and the radiancy of Spirit is appearing.
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January 19, 1952 issue
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SCALING "THE PINNACLE OF PRAISE"
JANE W. MCKEE
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WHAT MAKES TRUTH WORK?
RAYMOND FRANK KELLER
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I AM HE
Oma Olna Martin
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MANIFESTING THE LOVE THAT IS GOD
IOLANI INGALLS
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SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE
SYDNEY W. PORTNER
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THE TRIAL
SALLY P. BENGSTON
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TRUE PHILANTHROPY
HARRY E. DE LASAUX
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THE SECRET PLACE
ETHEL M. HOSKINS
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THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Kathryn Paulson
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HOLDING CRIME IN CHECK
Richard J. Davis
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THE RADIANCY OF SPIRIT
Robert Ellis Key
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I was led to borrow the textbook...
Roger Burges
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For over thirty years Christian Science...
Helen M. Laing
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The desire to lend encouragement...
Minerva Ellen Johnson
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In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Elaine De Lancey
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Before I was eight years of age my...
Imogene S. Harris with contributions from Dorothy A. Sullivan, Jarvie L. Sullivan
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In 1946 I was stricken with what...
William Loeskow
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"Thou wilt keep him in perfect...
Stella M. Shore
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When I be came interested in...
Carl B. Ross
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My first healing in Christian Science...
Fred E. West
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It is with heartfelt gratitude that...
Eleanor Smith Scott
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Over thirty years ago I was suffering...
Le Vadie Hamilton
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Paul Petrocokino, J. Lindsay Guthrie, Paul Scherer