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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

The importance of spiritual receptivity

Christian Science reveals that our true individuality as God's reflection embodies every spiritual quality of God. As we strive to put this truth into practice, we see how to open up our thinking and be receptive to the inherent infinitude of spiritual good.

How subtle are our idols

1 . Do you shy away from eating something because of bad publicity about it? 2.

The tale of the two knights

There was once an evil knight who rode around the countryside terrifying everyone. No one knew who he was, for the visor of his helmet was always down.

Staying awake spiritually

To gain and maintain a wide-awake consciousness of the kingdom of God within, we have to watch that we do not become mentally indolent in our study and application of Christian Science. Mental alertness is especially needed today, when the carnal mind's resistance to Truth is claiming to put students to sleep spiritually, some after years of discipleship.

Divine law sustains associations without teachers

Through systematic study and practice of Christian Science we can demonstrate our salvation from the collective and individual claims of the flesh, or belief of life apart from God. The equipping of students to understand and utilize the Science of Christ, Truth, was of utmost importance to Mrs.

Toward greater freedom

Those wonderful words "I've had a healing," which are so familiar to Christian Scientists, need to be scientifically understood by those healed if they would gain even greater freedom. Thoughts like "It went away" or "It stopped hurting" or "It's not red anymore" may indicate that one thinks the discord which has been healed in Christian Science was once a reality.

The Church: its mission . . . and ours

The signs of our times indicate a great need for spiritual understanding and demonstration of the true idea of Church as cognized and expressed through the Church of Christ, Scientist. Today the demand is tremendous for an ever clearer view of church government, for greater appreciation and effective support of the By-Laws stated in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs.

Truth destroys evil's despotism

The history of mankind can be viewed as a struggle between despotism and spiritual freedom. Mankind is slowly awakening from the false claim that evil has authority to control and destroy individuals, cultures, races, and nations.

"The duality of Jesus the Christ"

The words "duality" and "dualism" differ distinctly in their meanings. In the statement of Christian Science, this difference is chasmal.

Evil is no-where and no thing

Millennia ago God, in all His commanding majesty and might, revealed Himself to Moses as I am that I am—a living Being of undisputed omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. The question of whether this almighty Being could in any way fragment Himself and become the fount of warring, opposite factions, is clearly answered in Deuteronomy, where we read, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.