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Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion,
possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming
to be real and identical.
(Christ the ideal Truth)
The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God,
is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are
to be classified as effects of error. Christ
came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-principle
is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is everywhere,
and nothing apart from Him is present or has
power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal
sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes
all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who,
more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true
idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroying
the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and
Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the
Christ.
(Jesus not God)
In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced
the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording the
proof of Christianity's truth and love; but to
reach his example and to test its unerring Science
according to his rule, healing sickness, sin, and
death, a better understanding of God as divine Principle,
Love, rather than personality or the man Jesus, is
required.
(Jesus not understood)
Jesus established what he said by demonstration,
thus making his acts of higher importance than his
words. He proved what he taught. This
is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved
the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error,
to be divine. Few, however, except his students understood
in the least his teachings and their glorious
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