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Conflicting Claims of Truth and Error

From the December 1890 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The question is often presented as to claims of mortal mind on those who have come into the Truth. Advice should never be asked, and when asked should not he given by one person to another. The word of Jesus, "Man, who made me a judge and a divider over you," is the answer of Truth when called to arbitrate the claims of error. All such questions are best worked out, by each for himself, from his own realization of Principle.

The action of each mortal must proceed from his own sense of Life, and not from that of another: else his act is not his own but that of the other. Such interference is a violation of Divine order.

Jesus the Christ is born to each human consciousness, in the acknowledgment of Christian Science. This birth encounters the seeming conditions of mortal mind in relation of its so-called life. The young child must, at first, be protected by its mother from their violence. When he becomes conscious of his spiritual origin, however, he answers to the mortal thought of the mother in material sense, "Wot ye not that I must be about my Father's business? " It is only till he reaches this consciousness that he is subject, in seeming. It is never subject, and cannot be. If it seems to be, it is because Science as Divine and the fact of spiritual origin is not yet realized.

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