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Love , all-powerful and ever present, is one of the synonyms used for Deity in Christian Science. Students of this Science become aware of taking a great stride forward as they begin consciously to accept Love as the whole, instead of merely as an attribute, of God.

" Man in Science is neither young nor old," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 244 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " What a release from the bondage of timetables and calendars does the acceptance of this statement afford! In accordance with the first chapter of Genesis, Christian Science teaches that man is made in the image and likeness of God, that he is the expression of God's being.

In writing of the so-called activities of human existence, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in "Science and Health with Key 'to the Scriptures" ( p. 283 ), "Matter and its effects—sin, sickness, and death—are states of mortal mind which act, react, and then come to a stop.

The fundamental error in all human problems is the belief that man's being or identity is conditioned by matter, that his harmony or well-being is good or bad according to the testimony put forth by the material senses. Christian Science, however, teaches that man is wholly spiritual.

What is unselfishness? In Christian Science it means being freed of one's ego, or false sense of self, freed of the demands of mortal mind. Selfishness means idolizing one's ego by believing in a selfhood apart from God.

Reflecting God is an effortless process for God's man. It requires no straining, struggle, or tenseness, for God expresses Himself through man, unfolding in him intelligence, love, joy, peace, strength —all right ideas.

Christian Science reveals that matter has no intelligence either to cause bodily ills or to heal them. Therefore, searching in matter and diagnosing the body to find the cause and cure of so-called physical discords is like dissecting a motion picture screen, rather than the film, in order to be rid of an ugly picture.

Christian Science teaches that the realm of the real is Spirit, God. Real business is that activity which reflects and expresses Spirit, Mind, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love.

The purpose of divine Principle, God, is to express itself. Man lives in accordance with this divine purpose, his existence evidencing the eternal unfolding of divine Principle.

What a striking and apt figure of speech Mary Baker Eddy uses when she speaks of Christian Science as the prism of truth. She says in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.