Liberty, equality, fraternity, are of course the three famed words that epitomized the underlying ideals of the French Revolution. Since then they have resounded throughout the world with varied interpretations and have encouraged many in their fight against political or other forms of oppression.
Christian Science lifts liberty, equality, fraternity, from the domain of materialism and reveals them in reality as universal spiritual states of being, bestowed on man by his creator, God, the Father-Mother of the universe. Mary Baker Eddy issues a rousing call to mankind everywhere to awaken to the truth about liberty when she declares in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 227:) "Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and cries: 'Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sickness, sin, and death!' Jesus marked out the way. Citizens of the world, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,' and be free! This is your divine right."
The way to the world-wide freedom marked out by Jesus is wholly spiritual, and to walk in it requires an assiduous cultivation of spiritual sense under the tutelage of divine Mind. One main essential in this cultivation is to keep our thoughts continuously on that spiritual level where man is recognized as the reflection, or idea, of God, good—immortal, perfect, enjoying unrestricted "glorious liberty" in the boundless, timeless, all-harmonious universe of Spirit. By holding constantly to these and other Christianly scientific truths we are able to dispose of the sickly, sinful picture of the mortal bondman, imposed upon us by illusive mortal mind, and adopt the spiritually free man made in the image and likeness of immortal Love and endowed with health and holiness. One outstanding corollary to this mental process is that through it we lose fleshly ills and morbid fears of death and acquire strength in place of weakness, health in place of sickness, love in place of hate, and eternal life in place of extinction.
