The
realization that man reflects the nature of God, who is infinite Spirit, Life, and Love, awakens thought from the belief of life and intelligence in matter to the true idea of being.
Many
of the facts of being which Christ Jesus taught were so contrary to the beliefs and so far above the understanding of the times in which he lived that he found it necessary to pierce the unenlightened minds of his listeners with parables, thus making an entrance for the truths he taught.
The
Gospels record that during Christ Jesus' three years' ministry on earth there were many instances of his casting out devils, evil spirits, unclean spirits, dumb or talking spirits.
It
is related in the Gospel of John that as Christ Jesus was teaching in the temple, the Jews said (7:15), "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
Christian Science
has come to this age to free us from a mistaken concept of identity, the educated belief that we can properly identify ourselves with an organic sense of body.
