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the stars or calculate an eclipse. This Mind-reading
is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of
the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the capacity
of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense
comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the
divine Mind.
(Value of intuition)
Such intuitions reveal whatever constitutes and perpetuates
harmony, enabling one to do good, but not
evil. You will reach the perfect Science of
healing when you are able to read the human
mind after this manner and discern the error you would
destroy. The Samaritan woman said: "Come, see a
man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this
the Christ?"
It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his
students, "knew their thoughts," - read them
scientifically. In like manner he discerned disease and healed
the sick. After the same method, events of great moment
were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our
Master rebuked the lack of this power when he said:
"O ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky;
but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"
(Hypocrisy condemned)
Both Jew and Gentile may have had acute corporeal
senses, but mortals need spiritual sense. Jesus knew the
generation to be wicked and adulterous, seeking
the material more than the spiritual. His
thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needed. He never
spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said:
"These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone." The great Teacher knew both cause and
effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never
imparts error.
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