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TWO COMMANDMENTS

From the September 1940 issue of The Christian Science Journal


TO the earnest student of Christian Science, especially to one who has long been in bondage to some error, comes the realization that the solution of all problems is to be found in the simple truth of the statements made by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 225), "Love is the liberator;" and (p. 224), "No power can withstand divine Love."

This conclusion is sustained by the fact that Jesus emphasized the commandments to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. The one thing, therefore, we are to do is to love. Furthermore, careful consideration will convince one that to love as Jesus loved, and as he admonished us to love, necessarily involves obedience to all the commandments of the Mosaic Decalogue.

Until the discovery by Mrs. Eddy of the divine Science underlying the teachings and works of Christ Jesus, men had found it difficult, and often seemingly impossible, to obey these commandments, being hampered by a wrong concept of God, and of man and the universe. Our Leader's revelation of Truth, however, has made plain the way for those who devotedly study her writings. In accordance with the Bible. Christian Science teaches that, since God is Mind, man, made in the image and likeness of God, is spiritual, not material; that man, as God's idea, expresses all the qualities of Mind, God; that since God. good, is the only creator, all that He creates is good; therefore there is no reality or truth in evil, because God does not and cannot create anything unlike Himself.

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