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Healing Through Spiritual Rebirth

From the July 1973 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Healing in Christian Science involves, in its most radical sense, being born again— out of matter into Spirit. Improved human conditions always accompany mankind's gradual emergence from belief in error into the true consciousness of Love, until finally thought is wholly spiritualized and matter disappears.

Spiritual rebirth takes place through the breaking up of false, mortal belief under the strong light of immortal Mind. Under this light, errors of physical sense cannot withstand the test of divine logic and spiritual understanding. They dissolve into the nothingness from which they came, leaving only the consciousness of true, spiritual being, which is eternal, perfect, all-harmonious.

Mortal discord, matter, fear, the woes as well as the delights of the physical senses, are not actual and substantial. They are images in the Adam-dream that depicts the universe including man as composed of material, finite, nonintelligent, destructible dust. But God is Spirit. He is the All-in-all, the one creator, the source of all substance and identity. His universe is spiritual, peopled with individual expressions of His own immaculate being. His offspring all reflect His sinless nature and consciousness. They never fall from the perfection with which He endows them. They never stray from the safety of His jurisdiction. They are never deprived of divine status. They are in truth invariably celestial, satisfied with infinite, spiritual substance and intelligence. They forever enjoy health, harmony, fulfillment—the heavenly consciousness of Love's all-presence and all-power.

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