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It would be a funny thing if that tangle of occult phenomena variously called mesmerism, hypnotism, thought reading, etc. , should disturb the balance of European politics, but it is not altogether impossible.

The belief that Life is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and its harmony obtained. A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes Purity and Truth, both of which are immortal.

In reading the scriptures carefully, I cannot see that He does. In the first chapter of Genesis we find God's creation complete.

I do not know that you could have written to one who has greater reason for gratitude than I have for I have been lifted out of the abyss in which all was lifeless and when all material supports had failed! But I then learned that with God there are no degrees nor distinction in degrees. Know as a certainty that God is your life; this is absolute; then, with this realization, know that God is not the author of disease.

"I am doing a great work, so that I can not come down; why should the work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you?" To understand fully the circumstances under which the above words were said, it will be necessary to pick up a few threads of history. Nehemiah was one of the captive princes of Judea, carried away to the court of Artaxerxes, the Persian King.

As all understand, who have studied Christian Science, its foundation is Unity, or the oneness of Mind. Whatever, then, aims a blow at the united effort or the organizations of Christian Scientists strikes at the most vital part of the Science whose foundation Principle is Unity.

Viewed from the popular interpretation, there is nothing more miraculous in "regeneration" or in being "born again," than there is in a change from the beliefs of material sense to true or spiritual consciousness. Such declarations as the following,—"Ye are the offspring of God," "Whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not, because his seed abideth in him and he cannot sin;" "Because as He is, even so are ye in this world;" "Be ye imitators of God;" plainly point to the hidden man of the Spirit, whose individuality is not limited to a material body, or to finite conditions.

It was a dream—there is no longer any doubt of it. And yet it was so real to appearance,—man was so entirely under the mesmeric spell,—that it seemed impossible for him to regain the power to see things in the reality of their being.

The question is often asked by persons ignorant of the fundamental principle of Christian Science, whether it is based upon the Bible. An answer may be fittingly given in the words of the Teacher, and recognized Founder of the Science: "The Scriptures are very sacred to me.

Mistaken views are much worse than dissolving views, since whatever is false should disappear. That human love guided by the divine Principle, which is Love, is partial, unmerciful, or unjust, is a misapprehension of the Principle that is Love and its workings in the human heart.