CHAPTER VI.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM.
| And when they shall say unto you, |
| Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, |
| And unto wizards that peep and that mutter: |
| Should not a people seek unto their God? |
| For the living to the dead? — Isaiah. |
Verily, verily I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. — Jesus.
MORTAL existence is an enigma. Every day is a
mystery. The testimony of the corporeal senses
One Spirit.
cannot inform us what is real and what is
delusive, but the revelations of Christian
Science unlock the treasures of Truth. Whatever is false
or sinful can never enter the atmosphere of Spirit.
There is but one Spirit. Man is never God; but
spiritual man, made in His likeness, reflects God. In this
Scientific reflection the Ego and the Father are inseparable.
The supposition that corporeal beings are spirits,
or that there are good and evil spirits, is a mistake.
The divine Mind maintains all identities as distinct Identities. and eternal, from a blade of grass to a star. The question is, What are God's identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed?
