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Under a marginal heading "The divine loveliness" Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 247 ), "Beauty is a thing of life, which dwells forever in the eternal Mind and reflects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, outline, and color.

The thinker in Christian Science discerns between the real and the unreal and bases his thinking on divine reality, thus accepting only spiritual values. The right thinker works to gain a clear understanding of the omniscience of God, and as a result, he receives God-given illumination.

Christian Science teaches that God created all that is, namely the spiritual universe, including man, and that as stated in the first chapter of Genesis ( verse 31 ), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. " Furthermore, it is stated in this chapter of the Bible that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.

Kindness ! What a world of meaning is included in this heart-warming word, evoking remembrance of compassionate deeds and loving self-sacrifice by others for those near and dear to them and for the general welfare. Kindness softens the asperities, knitting together again through conciliation those long separated by strife and misunderstanding and comforting the ones subjected to harsh treatment.

Knowing that man is the perfect child of the perfect Father, God, Christ Jesus said ( Matt. 5:48 ), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Christian Science teaches that the real man has a spiritual personality, which is the reflection of the one infinite Person, God. This good and perfect personality is the direct opposite of the human sense of personality.

Probably every parent who is a Christian Scientist has used the story of the Shunammite woman, as recorded in the fourth chapter of II Kings, to bolster his faith and to overcome his fears when dealing with children's difficulties. This Shunammite woman had the courage to turn her back upon the evidence of the senses.

Mary Baker Eddy states in her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p. 56 ): "All consciousness is Mind, and Mind is God.

True friendship is of God. True friendship is the individualized expression of God's infinite love for His reflection, man.

" Truth for authority, not authority for truth. " These thought-provoking words appear on an autographed photograph of a state appellate court judge.