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"Remember what you are"

From the January 1976 issue of The Christian Science Journal


You'll be propelled out of any problem you may be enmeshed in by remembering, or finding out, who you are. Though this needs explanation, it is not said to be simplistic but to be helpful.

Christian Science shows how to get rid of troubles, but a primary reason Science is here is to call the attention of humanity to man's real identity—the outcome of infinitely intelligent Mind. And this is the way we break free from claims of disease, quarrelsomeness, or whatever. Understanding our true identity, and living from this standpoint, have preeminently practical consequences. Why? Because all human difficulties are based on a false sense of self, a sense of man as a death-destined and potentially trouble-plagued creature. Christian Science shows how to replace this false sense with the true, and it washes out of human thought and life what is not in accord with the character and being of the real man, who is God's self-unfoldment.

Human beings are sometimes faced with uncertainties. They suffer from holding mistaken views. They undergo illness and worry. Mary Baker Eddy poses the provocative question, "Is man the supposer, false believer, sufferer?" She answers with the authority of her own demonstration of man's real being: "Not man, but a mortal —the antipode of immortal man. Supposing, false believing, suffering are not faculties of Mind, but are qualities of error." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 332;

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