From the Platform of Christian Science
and the definitions of "mortal
mind."
West
(-3-
Evil obsolete)
III. The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material
sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor
power. As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming to
be something, - for lust, dishonesty, selfishness, envy, hypocrisy,
slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inanity,
devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes.
East
(-4- Life the
creator)
IV. God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which
reflect it than substance is in its shadow. If life were in mortal man or
material things, it would be subject to their limitations and would end in
death. Life is Mind, the creator reflected in His creations. If He dwelt
within what He creates, God would not be reflected but absorbed, and the
Science of being would be forever lost through a mortal sense, which
falsely testifies to a beginning and an end.
mortal mind
mythology
Recapitulation Questions
Lesson topics, and the definition of Adam
West
Question 3. - Is there more than one
God or Principle?
ADAM = Belief in "original sin," sickness,
and death.
( - Adam: The belief in "original sin,"
sickness, and death - )
Answer. - There is not. Principle and its idea is one,
and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and
His reflection is man and the universe. Omni is adopted
from the Latin adjective signifying all. Hence God
combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge,
all-presence. The varied manifestations of Christian Science indicate
Mind, never matter, and have one Principle.
East
Question 4. - What are spirits and
souls?
ADAM = Evil.
(Real versus unreal)
Answer. - To human belief, they are personalities
constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and
evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as
Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth is limitless; error is limited.
Truth is intelligent; error is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real,
and error is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most
reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the most important to
understand.
(Mankind redeemed)
The term souls or spirits is as improper
as the term gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and
nothing else. There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means
only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and
Jewish theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence, soul, and
life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism are the outcome of all
man-made beliefs. The Science of Christianity comes with fan in hand to
separate the chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright, and
Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and its divine Principle,
making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually.
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