Article March 20, 1954 Issue

PROTECTION THROUGH SPIRITUAL LISTENING

HELEN LOUISE TURNER

Christian Science shows us how we may experience protection through our listening to God's self-declaration that He is All-in-all and that He alone governs man. In our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states (p. 308), "The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man."

From this it is evident that listening for Truth's direction is imperative in the demonstration of spiritual being. Any consideration of existence apart from Truth's all-inclusive perfection is a misapprehension of being, the one lie called mortal mind, to which Christ Jesus referred when he said (John 8:44), "Ye are of your father the devil," and, "He is a liar, and the father of it."

All problems concerning protection originate in so-called human consciousness, not yet liberated from false belief in the reality of both good and evil, looking to temporal means for easement of unpleasant material conditions. Mankind must learn what wonderful protection, comfort, and enlightenment come with the realization that protection may be experienced now through spiritual listening. Today one may put aside the belief of separation from his Maker through the understanding that Christ Jesus' declaration (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one," applies in Science to every individual. Protection may be seen not so much as defense from evil as an instant guidance resulting from the Christly realization of this unity. As the work of spiritualizing thought in this way progresses, one ceases to ask "When?" and "Why?" of a far-off Deity and quietly listens for the inspirational answer of omnipresent divine Mind.

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