From the Platform of Christian Science
and the definitions of "mortal
mind."
West
(-27- True idea
of man)
XXVII. The true idea of man, as the reflection of the invisible God, is as
incomprehensible to the limited senses as is man's infinite Principle. The
visible universe and material man are the poor counterfeits of the
invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God's
thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things
are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the
real or the spiritual and eternal.
East
(-28- Truth
demonstrated)
XXVIII. Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule of health and
holiness in Christian Science, and you ascertain that this Science is
demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no other system
can. Christian Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal harmony. It
brings to light the only living and true God and man as made in His
likeness; whereas the opposite belief - that man originates in matter and
has beginning and end, that he is both soul and body, both good and evil,
both spiritual and material - terminates in discord and mortality, in the
error which must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality of material man
proves that error has been ingrafted into the premises and conclusions of
material and mortal humanity.
mortal mind
sin;
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