S. & H. 403 absolutely, finally from all mal-practice; for you live, move and have your being in God. The false claim of mortal mind has no arguments with which to deceive you, for you have the understanding "that mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being." I know that there is but one Mind and that there is no need of a material wire to convey to you the message of divine intelligence. Now you hear the declaration of Truth; now you are free from personal contagion— the belief of life in matter; now are you the son of Godthe effect of good-the idea of Mind-the manifestation of Truth-the object of Love! Shake yourself from the dust of mortal mind! Exercise your God-given heritage, dominion over every belief! Be not afraid. Love is transforming you and bringing out Her own radiant image. I shall hold you close to the great heart of Christ, and as free from all material sense. Love is with you. I must go to a patient but will think of you as sheltered in the arms of ever-present good. Love, love, love, S. M. H. BASKET TEN Letters 1917-1919 NEW YORK CITY, DEAR -: This lesson on Soul brings out the Lord's Prayer as "the prayer of Soul, not of material sense." I am always impressed by the invitation to the congregation to unite in prayer: "Let us now unite in silent prayer, to be followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation as found in the Christian Science textbook." We are to "unite." This can be done only as we recognize the one Mind, even God, and His one Body, Christ, the only begotten. We unite in the understanding of Spirit. There can be no uniting in matter, in belief, in error, in the dream, for the dream is made up of conflicting, disintegrating, antagonistic qualities, such as envy, jealousy, distrust, suspicion, hate, fear, self-love, selfjustification, self-interest, pride, and all the suppositional attributes of false mortal mind. "Let us unite" -rise in spiritual consciousness till we find our membership in Christ, till we touch that consciousness wherein Jesus declared, "I and my Father are one." "In silent prayer." We must silence every physical sensation; cause every suggestion of material sense to cease; meet every argument arising from mortal mentality; destroy every carnal belief of a selfhood apart S. & H. 14 John 10:30 S. & H. 481 from God, Spirit. Then when material sense is silenced; when all animal magnetism is proved a lie; when self-mesmerism is broken; when hypnotism has yielded up its false control; then are we held in the immutable law of Truth; we breathe the atmosphere of Spirit where Soul is supreme, "Like the archpriests of yore, man is free 'to enter into the holiest,'--the realm of God." This "silent prayer" corresponds to the six days encompassing of Jericho, in which materialism is circumvented. On the seventh day, the complete consciousness, the full tone of Soul, Spirit, Mind, is heardthe consciousness of Jesus' spiritual realization is again reached-for the word has gone forth from our holy Leader that this "silent prayer" is to be "followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer." Think what a marvelous work shall be wrought in individual and universal consciousness by that "audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer." Let Soul be audible; let its trumpet-peal be heard to the utmost limit of the false claim of error. Let each achieve that "audible repetition" until the mental welkin rings with "Our Father which art in heaven." Side by side, yea one with the Lord's Prayer comes its "spiritual interpretation as found in the Christian Science textbook." The spiritual interpretation has been given by the blessed Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of the Science of Life and may be "found" by every seeker for Truth in the textbook of all true Science. At last is come the entire gospel, the full revelation, the complete unfolding of God's message to mankind. The masculine and feminine representatives of the spiritual idea have been ushered into human presence. Before the glory of the on-coming Christ, the spawn of the serpent, the illusion of an Adam-and-Eve race is dispersing. "Let the 'male and S. & H. female' of God's creating appear." This "spiritual 249 interpretation as found in the Christian Science textbook" is destroying the false teachings of scholastic theology, material medicine, theosophy and all the lies of a suppositional mortal mind. Let us pray without ceasing, so that we may indeed realize that conscious understanding which is an "audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer." Lovingly yours, SIBYL MARVIN HUSE. NEW YORK CITY, February 19, 1917. DEAR It is already near to being "very early in the morn- Luke ing." I want to get off a few lines to you, so that you 24:1 may receive them tomorrow. I have just been over the new lesson, and am much impressed with the riches incalculable that we there glimpse, as it were. The story of Jonah opened up to me, tonight, so much that I would like to tell you; but you will think it out for yourself. Let me just give you one or two hints. Nineveh symbolizes universal thought; of course the material concept representing carnal belief. It was a great city of three days' journey. Jonah began to enter into it a day's journey. Jonah stands for, or represents, all the prophets, who never went further than one day's journey, which is the uncovering of error. John the Baptist, of whom Jesus said, "Among those that Luke are born of woman there is not a greater prophet than 7:28 John the Baptist" uncovered error, and preached the gospel of repentance. But Jesus alone traversed the S. & H. whole night, or consciousness of error, and "on the third day of his ascending thought," rose victor over the claim of mortal mind. 509 The fourth, fifth and sixth days of the perfect revealing of the God man involve, it seems to me, the redemption of womanhood. This is being done by our blessed Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. It was not until John, the most feminine of the disciples, received the Revelation of Jesus that there is any hint of the divine nature of woman. The woman of the Apocalypse is a vignette of the full stature of Man, the true image, or idea of God. It is very near to being revealed. We must enact the remaining verses of Genesis, and especially bring forth the qualities which S. & H. are "likened to 'the cattle upon a thousand hills.' 514 We must so spiritualize thought as to lose the carnal concepts of animals; in other words divine Love must destroy the false carnal qualities which are externalized as material animals and send forth Her own radiant qualities of divine Mind, before the ideal Man, who is the sum total of all the divine attributes, can appear as S. & H. lord of all his own "externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding." 512 We rejoice in the fact that Nineveh, which is but another name for Babylon, is fallen. Jesus destroyed it, completely traversed that belief and did not, like Jonah, merely prophesy its destruction and then walk out of his own premise to watch doubtingly for its accomplishment. This is but a wee hint of what came to me tonight as I studied the lesson, here in my quiet room. Give much love to Mrs. C. To you, dear child, |
