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Perfecting our defenses
As we move from a materially oriented to a more spiritual life, we can spare ourselves much anguish by learning to recognize those signs that indicate the intrusion of evil suggestions—signs such as a feeling of physical discomfort, fear, or anxiety.
By using the term "animal magnetism" for evil suggestion, Christian Science alerts us to the way evil would lure us, by deception, from a true sense of God's allness and from our unity with Him. Animal magnetism would have us believe that man is a poor, helpless, suffering mortal; that his happiness is at the mercy of certain so-called material laws, which, it claims, govern his existence from cradle to grave.
But we have a strong defense against this basic falsehood. It consists of an active, conscious, continuing awareness of the great healing truths found in the Bible and throughout Mary Baker Eddy's writings.
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June 29, 1981 issue
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One smooth stone
MARTHA S. SAVAGE
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Perfecting our defenses
RAIF MARKARIAN
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We can monitor our thoughts
CHARLES W. LINDAHL
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The cleansing waters of spiritual sense
REMINGTON EDWARDS TWITCHELL
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The vantage ground of spirituality
BARBARA M. VINING
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An undivided source
MIRIAM R. HILL
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Spiritual dwelling
BEVERLY WEST SCHMIDT
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What Mind knows
NICOLLE G. TORDA
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Solo for trumpet
MAXINE LE PELLEY
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Tuning in and tuning out
DeWITT JOHN
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Sacred consciousness
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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The zeal to win
Marjorie Ponder Matchette
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Several years ago I was suffering with severe pain...
MABEL S. STONE
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I was reared in a home where Christian Science was loved and...
SARAH-JANE FREELAND
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How grateful I am to have been raised by a mother who was a...
KEPPEL WHITFORD HOYT
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For eighteen years I studied the Bible with deep reverence for...
YVETTE S. SHROFF