Christ Jesus voiced the law of universal, irresistible spiritual attraction when he declared, "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." These words give assurance of universal redemption through the winning power of divine Love. This winning power, illumining human consciousness, purges thought of sordid, alluring, or menacing mortal beliefs. It substitutes genuine self-knowledge for the old self-deception, and beautifies human character with Love's own beauty.
So reborn, so transformed, were the disciples through the Master's teaching and example that the law of spiritual attraction was broadly felt in the young Christian church. We read in The Acts of the Apostles that after Jesus' ascension "they were all with one accord in one place," and that "many wonders and signs were done by the apostles." On, that day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost descended upon them, the power of divine Truth was widely manifested in spiritual illumination and healing, "and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." This illustrates the operation of spiritual attraction.
In our day, the drawing, healing power of Christ, Truth, must be continually demonstrated through the spiritual consecration and brotherly love manifested by all Christian Scientists. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 159) Mrs. Eddy points out that "material theories tend to check spiritual attraction—the tendency towards God, the infinite and eternal —by an opposite attraction towards the temporary and finite." Whoever fails to guard his thinking against the influence of mortal mind, finds himself drawn away from spiritual interests to temporal interests, away from the infinite to the finite. With dismay he finds that his daily life is not so fruitful as, perhaps, it used to be in the early days of his study of Christian Science. Each one's daily schedule is an indication of his sense of values. Only through constantly obeying the spiritual law of progression do we emancipate ourselves from the material belief in retrogression and waning zeal. Whatever is a deterrent to the growth of the individual is also a deterrent to the growth of the church of which he is a member. Conversely, pure motives, prayerful desires, fidelity in thought and action, bear fruit after their kind. They add to the cohesion and the drawing power of the organization of Christian Science.
