SPIRITUALIZING THOUGHT August 25, 1973 Issue

through the practice of divine law

JOHN R. PETERSON

When you practice Christian Science rightly, you are practicing divine law. The more faithfully and completely you conform your thoughts, words, and actions to divine law, the more spiritualized your thinking. The more spiritualized your thinking, the better your healing work. Your obedience to divine law is the test of your spirituality.

How important it is, then, to understand what divine law really is and how we can practice it!

The Master, Christ Jesus, said he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it. What was that law? Jewish teaching supplied the two great commandments that comprised Jesus' answer: love God and love thy neighbor. Combining them, as Jesus did, may or may not have been a new departure. In one of the Gospels, Jesus asked a scribe to state the law and received this reply.^{See Luke 10:25–27;}

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