Jacob’s experience at Peniel, when “there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day,” was the result of his desire, his prayer for God’s help to enable him to meet Esau, whom he feared. The outcome of the mental struggle was Jacob’s victory over fear.
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The secret spring of love and compassion which Christ Jesus, the master Christian, manifested during his life-work, was based upon his scientific statement, “I and my Father are one.” He was so clearly conscious of the truth of being that those who came to him for healing were immediately freed.
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Let us pull down the dark tapestry curtains of materialistic beliefs, that the Sun of Righteousness may shine in all its splendor on our pathway, and the Love of God the Father permeate our being. Then shall we be “filled with all the fulness of God,” and be at one with Him.
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All forms of error are uprooted in Science, on the same basis whereby sickness is healed, — namely, by the establishment, through reason, revelation, and Science, of the nothingness of every claim of error, even the doctrine of heredity and other physical causes. You demonstrate the process of Science, and it proves my view conclusively, that mortal mind is the cause of all disease.
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Man must realize that, because he is God’s perfect child, he has no room reserved for evil, and never has had. He must know that he is not receptive to erroneous suggestions; that he has no such capacity, and never could have; that no subtlety of evil can render his thought receptive to anything but the ever present thoughts of God, since there are no evil suggestions.
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When Jesus was moved with compassion, there was a yearning sense of tenderness excited by the need of the people; but his actions showed that he did not rest in any sense of mere pity. He turned from the seen to the unseen,—from the pitiful need of man to God’s infinite provision of good.
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Disease is not only mental, it is mesmeric. How shall we break the mesmerism? Have you ever said to yourself, “I am the temple of the living God, the place where limitless Life and Mind are in operation, the place where dullness and distress cannot enter”?
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When passing through the belief of sin, sickness or death, are you going to make a reality of it, or are you going to pick up the serpent and have no fear; but know that the serpent once handled becomes a rod, a staff? If made a reality it becomes a stumbling block.
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We must make nothing of mortal beliefs and mental malpractice. See the nothingness of these bland or aggressive denials of Truth and handle them with ever increasing intelligence and effectiveness. But at the same time, let us be wise in dealing with them.
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...Christian Science shows clearly how the whole teaching of the Bible converges upon this one point; how, as men came to realize the power and presence of God, evil was overcome and dissipated, as a thing powerless and unreal. In thus demonstrating the all-power of good, the allness of God, Jesus destroyed the belief in any power or presence of evil...
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