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Christian Science healing results from the action of Truth upon the human consciousness. It is obvious that truth cannot enter one's consciousness unless there is a willingness to receive it.

So manifold are the natural, legal, or moral obligations or duties by which individuals seem to be bound, it is only reasonable to believe that Thomas Carlyle stated an obvious fact when he said, "The situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. " In whatever form the ideal of duty may be presented, it reveals a more ethical nature than that of mere material activity.

The author shows how we’re released from a belief in danger when we gain a spiritual understanding of safety.

Christianity was not known as Science until it was so revealed by Mary Baker Eddy. It was a system of religious beliefs, of widely varying doctrines, until her discovery that Christianity is founded upon divine Principle, which constitutes all reality, governs all real activity, and underlies all true existence; that, being exact Science, it has rules which may be learned and practiced by those who study carefully its letter and imbibe its Spirit.

Of utmost importance in any given line of thought is its beginning. The fundamental premises determine the conclusions at which right reasoning arrives.

A dictionary defines "discerment" in part as the "power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another. " By his use of parables or little stories to arouse those who listened to his inspired teaching to greater mental and spiritual vigor, the Master evidently was endeavoring to develop in his listeners a right discernment.

Throughout the ages mankind's search for wisdom has been of a very determined nature. No stone has been left unturned, no channel of approach unexplored.

"Progress," Mrs. Eddy tells us, "is born of experience" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

In his teaching Jesus drew upon incidents familiar to his listeners to elucidate everlasting truths. He used as illustrations things common to their daily experiences and surroundings, such as the fowls of the air, the sheep of the pasture, the lilies of the field.

Through Christian Science we learn that our true and only being is in divine Mind, from which we spring, and from which we can never be separated. We also learn that the divine Mind can never be at odds with itself, hence can never be imperfect and inharmonious; that, consequently, everything which belongs to this Mind—the spiritual universe including man—partakes of this divine perfection.