CHAPTER II
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
MATTER is but the subjective state of mortal mind. Matter has no more substance and reality in our day-dreams than it has in our night-dreams. All the way mortals are experiencing the Adam-dream of mind in matter, the dream which is mortal and God-condemned and which is not the spiritual fact of being. When this scientific classification is understood, we shall have one Mind, one God, and we shall obey the commandment, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
If nineteen hundred years ago Christ taught his followers to heal the sick, he is to-day teaching them the same heavenly lesson. Christ is “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” “God is Love," the ever-operative divine Principle (or Person, if you please) whose person is not corporeal, not finite. This infinite Person we know not of by the hearing of the ear, yet we may sometimes say with Job, “But now mine eye [spiritual sense] seeth Thee.”
God is one because God is All. Therefore there can
be but one God, one Christ. We are individually but
specks in His universe, the reflex images of this divine
Life, Truth, and Love, in whom “we live, and move,
and have our being.” Divine metaphysics is not to
be scoffed at; it is Truth with us, God “manifest in the
flesh,” not alone by miracle and parable, but by proof;
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