ON page 22 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mrs. Eddy writes: "God is over all. He alone is our origin, aim, and being." Since this triad of true origin, aim, and being is interrelated, it must be claimed in its entirety by every Christian Scientist. Without a true sense of origin we cannot feel the nobility of true aims indicated by the Master's words, "Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." It would be a hard task, for instance, to accede to the belief in a material origin and yet coax ourselves into thinking that we prefer spiritual aims to material ones. Such basic inconsistency must needlessly prolong our struggle to emerge into the demonstration of real being. We should therefore constantly dwell on the fact that the consciousness of spiritual man proceeds from pure Mind. In the degree in which this fact is realized and demonstrated by the individual, temptations lose their hold and fear fades out of human thought.
Christian Science is sanctifying the daily life of its students. They know that all the honest effort and the holy energy they manifest has been divinely awakened in them and is sure to be rewarded by the God of justice and mercy. True thoughts and aims, and the many lovable qualities known to humanity, originate not in flesh and blood, but in God, Spirit. "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160). This, then, is the aim of the Christian Scientist, and it is attained through claiming the true origin of man and the integrity of spiritual identity.
Like the Master, the Christian Scientist is aware of temptation; but this awareness compels him to rise above it, and not descend into it. Carnal desires and fears are the witless tyrants of the so-called carnal mind; they are aimless nonentities, to which none need subject himself, either voluntarily or involuntarily.
