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Man: filled with purpose and direction
Man is complete. He is endowed with all that is meaningful to life. His identity includes purpose, direction, intelligence. Man—the compound idea of God—is not in need of cultivation. Immortal man is not an idea that is moving toward perfection. He is forever the complete expression of God's nature.
Just as the substance, power, and activity of a ray of light are engendered by the sun, so the substance, power, and activity of man are engendered by the creative energy of Spirit. Divine Spirit is All. It has no opposition, no resistance; it faces no inertia. Nor does man, the likeness of Spirit.
The claim of aimlessness, of purposelessness, is healed through the recognition of man's genuine identity. We need to recognize that man, and life itself, are wholly spiritual. Only in this way can we feel the motivation and direction of Spirit, of God. Man, looked at through the lens of mortality, is without hope. He must be viewed through the lens of Spirit. Then his purpose and perfection are clearly seen. Man is directed and employed by his creative Principle.
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May 28, 1979 issue
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From my Tokyo files—on brotherly love
BARBARA COOK
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God heals anger
JEAN HILL MOORMAN
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Of being loved
Marcella Krisel
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Patience and healing
JOHN H. WILLIAMS
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Churches that heal
PATRICIA M. DICKSON
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Abundance all around
DONALD PEARCE
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Quicksilver
Roy Jacob Jordan
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Wilderness—passageway, not pathless way
PATRICIA M. BENNETT
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A faith to live by
DOUGLAS L. MAYER
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Man: filled with purpose and direction
RICHARD C. BERGENHEIM
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Feeling God's love
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Toward Christian healing
Nathan A. Talbot
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Interview with a Christian Science practitioner
Gertrude P. Fogel
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I first learned about Christian Science after some relatives...
Sadako Otagawa with contributions from Mari Takahashi
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For about three months my body was painfully paralyzed...
Charlyne Salomon
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Since childhood God has been my only physician, and I have...
James M. Espy with contributions from Elizabeth Greenwood Espy
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One day at work I answered the phone but was unable to...
Shirley Warner Prak
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My first healing was of a painful female condition
Louise A. Veen
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Complete reliance on God can protect and help us when we...
Steven Bayless
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Letters to the Press
with contributions from John H. Peters, Bradley D. Harris