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Binding the Strong Man
It is hoped that the threat of annihilation through nuclear warfare is becoming less likely year after year. There is a threat, however, that we should not allow ourselves to underestimate. It is that, without recognizing what is taking place, people will be led to adopt a mode of social and economic life that would subject them to a wholly materialistic sense of existence in which morals and ethics become merely a matter of expediency.
In times of perplexity and danger there is often a tendency either to ignore the particular errors that must be dealt with or to expose them dramatically. But what is the basic error that must be overcome? And how is it to be dealt with?
In Christian Science the term used to designate the basic error is animal magnetism. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 103): "As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind. It is the false belief that mind is in matter, and is both evil and good; that evil is as real as good and more powerful. This belief has not one quality of Truth."
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January 4, 1964 issue
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"Audience with Spirit"
JEANNE STEELY LAITNER
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The Certainty of Divine Thoughts
FRANCES B. EDMONDSON
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"Strength unto the battle"
RICHARD CARVER
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Demanding a Perfect Conclusion
JOANNE SHRIVER LEEDOM
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THE CLOSED DOORS
Ruth Burrows
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A College Student Writes
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Binding the Strong Man
Ralph E. Wagers
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Overcoming Subversion
Carl J. Welz
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For a number of years I was...
Iris Phillips
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"It is a good thing to give thanks...
Anne Marie Gudmundsen
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Our revered Leader, referring...
Edward Daniel Els, Jr.
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The sharing of spiritual ideas...
Jewel B. Bigelow
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Christian Science is the only...
Esther Weikert Wilson
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Because my parents were students...
Joan R. Klima
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Signs of the Times
Paul J. Tillich