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DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS
IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 531), "It is well that the upper portions of the brain represent the higher moral sentiments, as if hope were ever prophesying thus: The human mind will sometime rise above all material and physical sense, exchanging it for spiritual perception, and exchanging human concepts for the divine consciousness." Many have proved and are proving these words to be true through the study of Christian Science, for they are finding true existence in the consciousness of good, of God as the only Life. This consciousness brings peace of mind because men have found that all their needs can be met as the result of spiritual thinking.
In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 366): "The Scriptures give the keynote of Christian Science from Genesis to Revelation, and this is the prolonged tone: 'For the Lord He is God, and there is none beside Him.' And because He is All–in–all, He is in nothing unlike Himself; and nothing that worketh or maketh a lie is in Him, or can be divine consciousness." Divine consciousness neither conceives of nor knows anything which is not entirely good. We can experience nothing of which we are not conscious, and when we are truly conscious of God's presence, goodness, and love, we experience harmony.
To gain divine understanding, we must deny the testimony of the material senses, because this testimony can give us no information concerning the reality of God's creation. Our need is to dwell in the positive sense that there is no separation from any good quality which our loving Father has given us by reflection. Nothing can interfere with reflection; nothing can interpose itself between God and man.
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January 12, 1957 issue
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RECEPTIVITY TO LOVE'S GIVING
WILL B. DAVIS
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ENLISTMENT
HAZEL A. I. LEAS
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WHAT MAKES A HOME?
ALBERT E. LOMBARD, JR.
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THE TIMES WE LIVE IN
EVELYN M. DUCKETT
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TRUE SATISFACTION
IDA C. HUDSON
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THE COMPLETENESS OF GOD'S IMAGE
ANDREW FLINT FRARY
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DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS
KATHRYN T. HAYDEN
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EXAMINATIONS AND THE JOY OF DEMONSTRATION
HILDA FRANCES NIXON
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THE CHALLENGE OF THE CHANGING WORLD
Harold Molter
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CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS ADORE GOD
John J. Selover
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 173 - Life Is God
Charlotte Miller
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PERMANENT ADDRESS
Pearl Strachan Hurd
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To the glory of God and in appreciation...
Bessie Fletcher
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Words can never express my...
Alex Bradley
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About forty–five years ago Christian Science...
Elnora M. Sloan
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In the Bible we read (Hebr. 4:12),...
Mildred A. Simon
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I have been privileged to have...
Thora Frieda Ulrica Böttcher with contributions from Hildegard Böttcher, Jovan De Rocco
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It is with deepest gratitude that...
Geneva Marie MacLean
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"I waited patiently for the Lord;...
Louise F. Spooner
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from John W. Holland