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MAN IS NOT A LOCALIZED MORTAL

From the August 1952 issue of The Christian Science Journal


When "a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest" (Matt. 8: 19), Jesus answered, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."

It was Christ Jesus' understanding and embodying of man's true nature as spiritual, not material, that enabled him to dwell in the conscious awareness of divine omnipresence, untrammeled in thought and movement. The Gospel narratives give instances of Jesus' freedom from the illusive restriction called matter and its attendant process of transportation. Wherever he was, there good was made manifest. In his demonstration of the divine ever-presence every suggestion of lack was silenced.

The mistaken attitude of believing in terms of material localization, personal sense, physical conditions, constitutes a denial of divine Love's omnipresence. It serves as a closed door to progress and achievement. With the coming of Christian Science mankind's ability to awaken from this dream of separation from good has been increasingly apparent in improved beliefs in every phase of human experience.

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