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Disorder of any type is the objectification of mental error, and a wise metaphysician continually cultivates his or her ability to discern accurately the error that seems to obtain in human consciousness. We might say that this ability is part of what Christ Jesus described as being "wise as serpents.

It is a tremendous thing to know that there is only one Mind, one consciousness—the divine Mind that is Love. It enables us to acknowledge with gratitude "how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Ps.

Ancient Egyptians revered the phoenix, a mythical, majestic bird sacred to the sun-god, Ra. It was fabled to exist for 500 years or more and then to be consumed in its own fire, only to rise from its very ashes in rebirth.

Along with the present resurgence of belief in many forms of the occult, one may hear the terms "religion" and "magic" used as if they were almost interchangeable. It is even sometimes suggested that both ways of looking at the world are based only on beliefs about how a material man struggles to control his material world.

When the prophet Gad advised King David to purchase Araunah's threshing floor and build there an altar to God to stay a plague, Araunah wished to make David a present of the threshing floor and of everything needed for the sacrifice. But David's thoughtful reply was that he would buy it all at a price; he would not offer unto God that which cost him nothing.

Regardless of our present perception of things, the spiritual facts of existence remain unshakable. A glimpse of this can be greatly reassuring.

The Gospel of Mark tells how Jesus restored mental soundness to an insane man, a Gadarene. No sooner did Jesus accomplish this than he crossed by ship to the opposite shore of the Galilean Sea, where he was approached and implored to heal Jairus's daughter, who was at the point of death.

In general usage the word "mind" denotes the matter-based consciousness and source of thought that are believed to belong to every human being and that give him identity. But in Christian Science the word assumes a higher meaning.

Wouldn't we all like to have access to an infinite remedy for evil? An infinite remedy—measureless, limitless, endless! There could be no place where this remedy would not apply; no error could escape its encompassing, correcting power. Indeed an infinite remedy must actually be a preventive, disallowing the presentation or development of error, of sin and illness.

There's no time for weeping over death. There are lessons to learn—lessons of real life and love and dominion over mortality! There is the requirement of Life, God, to find man in Himself, in divine Mind, instead of in frail dust.