The
doctrine of the "divine right of kings" is based on the hypothesis that certain individuals by virtue of their office are responsible for their actions to God alone, that they are above the civil law and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of the civil courts.
To
beginners in Christian Science as well as to more advanced students the question often arises: I have learned to know that all is infinite Mind, Love, good, and its perfect infinite manifestation, the spiritual universe and spiritual man; how can anything that is not good still seem to me to have reality or power?
In
the demonstration of the harmony of true being, the advancing thought encounters what it pleases to call problems; and it is well to look upon false claims, whatever their seeming character may be, as nothing more than problems which are to be met and overcome.
Many
striking passages in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy show that there is a time to speak and a time to be silent; there is the silence of Jesus and there is the silence of Judas, the silence of spiritual perception and authority which knows the nothingness and powerlessness of sin, and the silence of fear, hypocrisy, and dishonesty which would cover sin for the sake of a convenient peace.
When
Jesus declared, of the carnal-minded men of that day, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do," he showed his unerring sense of cause and effect.
