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Throughout the ages, the veil has metaphorically represented mystery and concealment, obscuring vision, hiding something of value or beauty. With the coming of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, the veil of ritualistic religion was withdrawn both in his daily life and in his healing ministry.

What a grand destiny faces each individual! As human thought awakens from drab materiality to the glorious prospects of spiritual being, our lives embrace a new-found joy. God created man in His own image to reflect the fullness of divine being.

In order that men may live together amicably, certain laws are instituted, the enforcement of which is called government. Every clear-thinking citizen obeys these laws, for he knows that they are made for the benefit of all, even though they are variable and from time to time are changed according to the need.

The stars have ever had an awe-inspiring fascination for mankind, and men have sometimes attached peculiar and foundationless importance to their movements and their positions, seeing in them signs and portents of future happenings, and linking with them the fate of health and prosperity. So strong has been this superstition that much fear, unhappiness, and sickness have resulted from the false assumption that the position of the planets at the time of one's birth and at various stages of his career can influence his actions and undermine his health in a way beyond his control.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 24 ), "Acquaintance with the original texts, and willingness to give up human beliefs (established by hierarchies, and instigated sometimes by the worst passions of men), open the way for Christian Science to be understood, and make the Bible the chart of life, where the buoys and healing currents of Truth are pointed out.

In the course of ordinary experience, human perspective seems to be limited to the horizon of things material. The interests of many are so restricted that their outlook does not exceed the boundaries of their neighborhood or city.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written ( p. 255 ), "'Let there be light,' is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the music of the spheres.

Increasingly important to the Christian Scientist becomes the subject of church membership and the activities related thereto, when considered in relation to the needs of a strife-torn world seeking a solution of its complex problems. This is true because the Christian Scientist well knows that through the authorized activities of The Mother Church and its branches he is afforded the sacred privilege of sharing with others the healing and saving message of Truth revealed through Christian Science.

It is recorded by Lyman P. Powell in his book entitled "Mary Baker Eddy" that a celebrated journalist who had just returned from China, after an interview with Mrs.

In various parables Jesus emphasized the need for mortals to overcome the desire for the accumulation of material things, a mental state as common to humanity then as now, in order to gain spiritual riches, the spiritual understanding of God and His universe, and to lay hold of lasting treasure, eternal life. The rich man in the parable, whose grounds had brought forth so abundantly that his barns would no longer contain his harvest, proposed to replace his storehouses with greater ones, that he might lay up more of what he believed to be the substance necessary to his enjoyment, that is, material things.