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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.

The teachings of Christian Science unveil the great truth that man is in reality the reflection of the one creative cause, the complete manifestation or expression of this one infinite divine Principle, or Mind, which is God. Furthermore, they reveal that in the Science of true being man is a spiritually mental creature, an idea of this Mind, or God, and that the prevalent belief of a man created of matter and mind and born of human parents is an illusion of the so-called carnal mind.

" Let not your heart be troubled," entreated Jesus, comforting his disciples: "ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.

In the first chapter of Genesis, which presents the true record of creation, we read, "God said, Let there be light: and there was light;" and it is added that "God saw the light, that it was good. " In this creation of light no darkness appeared.

In the Science of being, consciousness of self can never be separated from consciousness of God. Self-consciousness scientifically, and therefore spiritually, understood is the individual expression of the consciousness of God.

Perhaps the most comforting thought that Christian Science brings to its students is the assurance, yea, the conviction, that there is no death. St.

Intuition is a divine attribute. It is the opposite of that false sense of instinct which is animal in nature and utterly without intelligence.

" We need to understand the affirmations of divine Science, dismiss superstition, and demonstrate truth according to Christ," is the arresting statement of Mary Baker Eddy on page 149 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " In the light of scientific truth God's perfect creation, that sum total which comprises the infinite realm of reality as beheld in divine Science, is avowedly already established.