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A woman sat in the office of a Christian Science practitioner and wept as she poured out the fears and frustrations that harassed her. The practitioner in turn reversed every statement of woe with the spiritual, corrective truth that God is the only Life and Mind and that man is His excellent expression.

Some time ago, a learned friend of mine remarked, "The stars dominate us. " He was a sincere religious man of strong convictions.

What are places of healing? Where are they located? Are they readily available? The New Testament tells us the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem was believed to be such a place. The narrative describes a man, disabled for many years, who was waiting to be healed by the supposed therapeutic powers of the waters, at what might be known today as a health spa.

Let us consider the woman who is included in the designation "man. " Isn't this true womanhood—the womanhood that has nothing to do with physical gender? Isn't it the expression of God's motherhood, which is inseparable from His fatherhood? In Christian Science, Father-Mother God as a name for Deity indicates the perfect orchestration of the spiritual qualities of God's fatherhood, inseparable from the spiritual qualities of God's motherhood.

If we would discover our true identity as ideas of God, we need to dismiss the material sense of ourselves. In Science and Health Mrs.

A young man asked whether he could use his understanding of Christian Science to make himself a better hairdresser. This question is often asked in many different forms.

Man, created spiritually, is at one with God and expresses all the qualities of his creator. This is what Christ Jesus so clearly perceived and taught when he said: "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise"   John 5:19 ; and "I and my Father are one.

A chief function of the Christian Science nurse is to cherish—in other words, to exercise tenderness and affection, and in this way to nurture with care. Is there anyone who does not glow and grow under this kind of nursing? The office of the Christian Science nurse is provided for by Mrs.

According to the allegory, mankind's history began with two refugees being evicted from the Garden of Eden. Since then, there have been countless variations of the same theme.

Anchored in the peace and calm of Truth, of God's goodness and allness, man is not conscious of or subject to unreality—anger, violence, discord, the evils of what is called mortal existence. He is the expression of God.