Article April 9, 1960 Issue

REFUSE TO COME DOWN

EDWARD ROHR

Occasionally one hears it said that someone is coming down with a cold or some other disease. Obviously no physical stepping down from one location to another is meant, but, rather, a fear of descending from a state of well-being. To all mankind, Christian Science calls, "Refuse to come down!"

This Science teaches that the man of God's creating, God's image and likeness, possesses spiritual consciousness, in which there are no ups and downs, no suggestions of lack, sickness, or other discord. Man is the eternal, spiritual embodiment of health and harmony. This is his true identity.

However, in so-called human experience one may, on occasion, come down from an elevated consciousness of spiritual identification into a mortal sense of personality and suffering. But there exists no real power which can force one down against his own God-supported choice. In the wilderness, the devil did not endeavor to cast Christ Jesus down from the pinnacle of the temple but, rather, tried to prevail upon him to cast himself down. Exercising his God-given dominion over this evil suggestion, the Master refused to respond to it or to lower his high, spiritual thinking in the slightest degree.

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