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THE ETERNAL VERITY
The young student of Christian Science soon notices as he reads the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly that in some Lessons there are references to two opposite accounts of creation in the Bible. In the first account we read (Gen. 1:27), "God created man in his own image," that is, in the image of Spirit, Mind; hence man is spiritual. However, in the other account we read (Gen. 2:6, 7): "There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." This "mist" concept of man is the carnal sense, the mortal sense, the lie which is constantly proposing itself for acceptance. It is this false belief about man that must be mastered on the basis of the eternal verity that man is the image and likeness of God, divine Mind, Life, Soul, Principle, Spirit, Truth, Love.
Throughout his study of Christian Science the student will be dealing with these two concepts, one the eternal verity—actual and absolute; the other a falsity—temporal and relative. He will encounter such opposite terms as mortals and immortals, mortal mind and divine Mind, material sense and spiritual sense, false belief and spiritual fact, mortality and immortality. Concerning these two concepts we have Paul's statement (Rom. 8:7), "The carnal mind is enmity against God," and Christ Jesus' words (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
In order to let the eternal verity, the spiritual sense of man, destroy the carnal sense, or material sense, it was necessary for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to employ relative as well as absolute statements in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The student may, for instance, notice this absolute statement (p. 536): "The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness." Then he may quickly recall another statement (p. 295), "Mortals are not like immortals, created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear." The first statement is absolute, free from any hint of the belief of mortality or a consciousness separate from Deity, whereas the second points out the false sense of life in matter, which must yield to divine consciousness or the understanding of man's oneness, or unity, with God, Spirit.
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September 5, 1953 issue
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CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AND THE NEW BIRTH
LESLIE LELAND
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FIDELITY
ELROY C. ROBERTSON
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MESSAGE OF THE CHIMES
Jean Hazel Allen
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THE ETERNAL VERITY
BERNICE MURRAY KING
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THE TRUTH WE LIVE
CHARLES W.B.HURD
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REVELATION
Elizabeth O'C. Ledbetter
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THE CHURCH AND THE READING ROOM
INA C. BRIGGS
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BLESSED SILENCE
MARIE OTTO
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"AND LOVE IS REFLECTED IN LOVE"
CONSTANCE HEWARD
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THE WAY
Gerald Stanwell
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MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD
Richard J. Davis
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UNITY WITH OUR LEADER
Helen Wood Bauman
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Dudley F. J. Harricks, Willard J. Dunkirk, Clarence I. Waters, W. Marlborough Addison
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MY PRAYER
Helena A. Wood
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It is with a very deep sense of...
John Nicholson
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Having received untold benefits...
Marjorie V. Cheney
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It is with deep gratitude that I...
Pauline S. Carlson
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The greatest blessing of my life is...
Leah R. McAfee
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In gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for...
Adaline Elizabeth Pittinger
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Each year the observance of Independence...
Dorothy W. Eldon
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It is with a heart full of gratitude...
Albert Pitt
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Having been a student of Christian Science...
Etheleen Davis
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It is with the desire to bless many...
Elisabeth Higgens Willis with contributions from Oliver Warren Willis
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While I was attending a university...
Hildeborg D. Hvall
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edwin Hirst, R. Jay Wilson, Norman P. Auburn