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In "Rudimental Divine Science" Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, states an important requirement for healing in the following words ( p. 9 ): "To heal, in Christian Science, is to base your practice on immortal Mind, the divine Principle of man's being; and this requires a preparation of the heart and an answer of the lips from the Lord.

Christian Science reveals the allness, the wholeness, and the reality of Life, God, and man's true being in God as His reflection, or manifestation. As the coming of dawn dispels the shades of night, so the recognition of man's spiritual identity discloses the utter falsity and nothingness of the belief of a mortal life with its sordid record of sin, sickness, discord, and death.

In the eternal now man is the son of God, the perfect image and likeness of his perfect creator, reflecting the glorious purity and satisfaction of his perfect Principle. How gratifying it is to know that the real man, and there is no other, goes through no process of suffering or struggle to rise to this perfect state, since he already includes it in his rich inheritance as the son of God.

When prayer is sincere and understanding, the petitioner may be assured of its fulfillment. Christ Jesus promised ( Matt.

The first chapter of Genesis, which gives the true version of creation, opens with the words, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " To St.

Over and over again we read in the Bible of those who went up into a mountain to commune with God, to seek inspiration and revelation, and of the good which followed. Abraham went up into a mountain to sacrifice and was given the blessing of God.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp. 191, 192 ), "Mind, God, sends forth the aroma of Spirit, the atmosphere of intelligence.

There is in the Old Testament, in II Chronicles, a most encouraging account of the consistent, persistent achievements of a youth. Josiah was but eight years of age when he became king of Judah.

A Blessing enjoyed by the pure in heart is that of discerning with increasing clarity the truth of the sinless nature of man. Unselfed love and unswerving fidelity to Truth mark the seekers of this right discernment.

In studying the familiar and well-loved emblem of Christian Science, the cross and crown, which must ever be the hallmark of authentic Christian Science literature, one is impressed with the character of the crown. He discovers it to be the opposite of the crown of thorns; rather is it a crown of power and authority, of triumph and rejoicing.