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Conception, True and False
True conception is the outcome of real Life expressing itself. Real Life is God, divine Love. False conception is the outcome of a false sense of life and love appearing to us as material circumstances and conditions.
To the extent that our motives are one with the self-expressing power of divine Life and Love, our conceptions originate in and are formed by the divine, immortal Mind. They are true and pure. To the extent that we are motivated by material circumstances or conditions, our conceptions are the outcome of mortal mind expressing itself. They are false and impure.
Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Human beings are physically mortal, but spiritually immortal. The evil accompanying physical personality is illusive and mortal; but the good attendant upon spiritual individuality is immortal." Unity of Good, p. 37;
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November 25, 1972 issue
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Could This Be a Dawn?
MARGARET LOUISE THOREN
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Undeceived
JEAN STARK HEBENSTREIT
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Heredity: A Delusion
LORENE LOTZ FINFROCK
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Communication—How?
GLADYS C. GIRARD
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Patience Is an Active Quality
ELOISE P. HENDRICK
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We Have a Place
MARYANN McKAY
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Contributing and Writing
JOHN HAY SCOTT
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Sandy's Gerbils
Nancy Wharmby
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Conception, True and False
Carl J. Welz
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Unlimited Possibilities
Alan A. Aylwin
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We read in the Holy Bible (Act 17:28): "For in him we live,...
Velma Mustoe Johnson with contributions from Jerrilynn Joy Johnson, Sarah Will Hales
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More than fifty years ago a friend of mine who later became my...
Viola Emma Stitt
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It is with sincere gratitude to Christian Science for many blessings...
Sydney Bodman Dyer
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My introduction to Science came in 1936, when I had suffered a...
Hugo W. Hiemke with contributions from Elsa E. Hiemke