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" Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity," Mrs. Eddy writes on page vii of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

The Scriptural allegory in the book of Genesis explains how the concept of evil first appeared to the human mind in the form of a serpent. So subtle is the serpent that it has deluded mankind ever since the beginning of history, and so plausible is its argument that it has deceived even the wise.

When Paul wrote, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," he was no doubt aware that he was enunciating the operation of the law of divine Principle. The more human experience and human history are reviewed the more is it apparent that nothing short of transformation will suffice to establish a reign of harmony.

The world has been witnessing for almost five years the most tremendous upheaval, perhaps, in its history. Outwardly the eruption assumed the form of a great war in which all the devices of engineering skill, all the resources of modern natural science, were employed; but beneath the surface, and essentially, the struggle which took place during these tragic years was one between truth and error, or good and evil.

No teaching of Christian Science is more distinctive or more significant in its effects than that found in the emphasis which it lays upon demonstrable truth-knowing as the essential factor of Christian faith. In this it presents a great contrast to that very general religious teaching which gives prominence to unquestioning belief as the ground of our salvation, and to an ecstatic state of emotion as the evidence that one is saved or forgiven.

Simply as a story, the book of Esther is fascinating. To the casual reader it is worth while from the peculiarly interesting way in which character is delineated; but to the metaphysician the book is full of food for thought, so much more being implied than the mere words convey.

The word emanation is used on page 519 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mrs. Eddy writes in this connection: "Deity was satisfied with His work.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy gives the metaphysical meaning of wilderness in the following illuminating definition ( p.

A Christian Scientist is an individual whose consciousness is so touched by the truth, so liberated and purified, that he is declaring himself on the side of good, of reality, in all circumstances. And this intelligent affirmation and persistent declaration depends upon realization,—reflection,—for God is seen to be All-in-all.

Reiterating the teachings of Christ Jesus, Christian Science dismisses the notion that heaven is reached through death and departure to some other sphere. Despite the fact that death is designated in the Bible as an enemy, many human beings still hug the notion that, on the contrary, it is the one friend through which all may expect to gain complete release from suffering.