Millions are believing in God, or good, without bearing the fruits of
goodness, not having reached its Science. Belief is virtually blindness,
when it admits Truth without understanding it. Blind belief cannot say with
the apostle, "I know whom I have believed." There is danger in this mental
state called belief; for if Truth is admitted, but not understood, it may
be lost, and error may enter through this same channel of ignorant belief.
The faith-cure has devout followers, whose Christian practice is far in
advance of their theory.
The work of healing, in the Science of Mind, is the most sacred and
salutary power which can be wielded. My Christian students, impressed with
the true sense of the great work before them, enter this strait and narrow
path, and work conscientiously.
Let us follow the example of Jesus, the master Metaphysician, and gain
sufficient knowledge of error to destroy it with Truth. Evil is not
mastered by evil; it can only be overcome with good. This brings out the
nothingness of evil and the eternal somethingness, vindicates the divine
Principle, and improves the race of Adam.
FOUNDATION-STONES
The following ideas of Deity, antagonized by finite theories, doctrines,
and hypotheses, I found to be demonstrable rules in Christian Science, and
that we must abide by them.
Whatever diverges from the one divine Mind, or God,--or divides Mind into
minds, Spirit into spirits, Soul into souls, and Being into beings,--is a
misstatement of the unerring divine Principle of Science, which interrupts
the meaning of the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of Spirit,
and is of human instead of divine origin.
Pages:
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57