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    Unity of Good
    Unity of Good
    Unity of Good
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    Unity of Good

    By Mary Baker Eddy

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    “All that is, God created. If sin has any pretense of existence, God is responsible therefor; but there is no reality in sin, for God can no more behold it, or acknowledge it, than the sun can coexist with darkness.

    To build the individual spiritual sense, conscious of only health, holiness, and heaven, on the foundations of an eternal Mind which is conscious of sickness, sin, and death, is a moral impossibility; for “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.” (1 Corinthians III. 11.) The nearer we approximate to such a Mind, even if it were (or could be) God, the more real those mind-pictures would become to us; until the hope of ever eluding their dread presence must yield to despair, and the haunting sense of evil forever accompany our being.

    Mortals may climb the smooth glaciers, leap the dark fissures, scale the treacherous ice, and stand on the summit of Mont Blanc; but they can never turn back what Deity knoweth, nor escape from identification with what dwelleth in the eternal Mind”. (From Summary of The Unity of Good).
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    Release dateMar 26, 2018
    ISBN9788827823170
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      Unity of Good - Mary Baker Eddy

      Table of Contents

      Caution in the Truth - Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and death?

      Seedtime and Harvest - Is anything real of which the physical senses are cognizant?

      The Deep Things of God

      Ways Higher than Our Ways

      Rectifications

      A Colloquy

      The Ego

      Soul

      There is no Matter - Sight Touch Taste Force

      Is There no Death?

      Personal Statements

      Credo - Do you believe in God? - Do you believe in man? - Do you believe in matter? - What say you of woman? - What say you of evil?

      Which is right, God, who condemned the knowledge of sin and disowned its acquaintance, or the serpent, who pushed that claim with the glittering audacity of diabolical and sinuous logic?

      Suffering from Others’ Thoughts

      The Saviour’s Mission

      Summary

      UNITY OF GOOD

      by

      MARY BAKER EDDY

      First digital edition 2018 by Gianluca Ruffini

      Caution in the Truth - Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and death?

      Perhaps no doctrine of Christian Science rouses so much natural doubt and questioning as this, that God knows no such thing as sin. Indeed, this may be set down as one of the things hard to be understood, such as the apostle Peter declared were taught by his fellow-apostle Paul, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest ... unto their own destruction. (2 Peter III. 16.)

      Let us then reason together on this important subject, whose statement in Christian Science may justly be characterized as wonderful.

      Does God know or behold sin, sickness, and death?

      The nature and character of God is so little apprehended and demonstrated by mortals, that I counsel my students to defer this infinite inquiry, in their discussions of Christian Science. In fact, they had better leave the subject untouched, until they draw nearer to the divine character, and are practically able to testify, by their lives, that as they come closer to the true understanding of God they lose all sense of error.

      The Scriptures declare that God is too pure to behold iniquity (Habakkuk I. 13); but they also declare that God pitieth them who fear Him; that there is no place where His voice is not heard; that He is a very present help in trouble.

      The sinner has no refuge from sin, except in God, who is his salvation. We must, however, realize God’s presence, power, and love, in order to be saved from sin. This realization takes away man’s fondness for sin and his pleasure in it; and, lastly, it removes the pain which accrues to him from it. Then follows this, as the finale in Science: The sinner loses his sense of sin, and gains a higher sense of God, in whom there is no sin.

      The true man, really saved, is ready to testify of God in the infinite penetration of Truth, and can affirm that the Mind which is good, or God, has no knowledge of sin.

      In the same manner, the sick loses their sense of sickness, and gain that spiritual sense of harmony which contains neither discord nor disease.

      According to this same rule, in divine Science, the dying, if they die in the Lord awake from a sense of death to a sense of Life in Christ, with a knowledge of Truth and Love beyond what they possessed before; because their lives have grown so far toward the stature of manhood in Christ Jesus, that they are ready for a spiritual transfiguration, through their affections and understanding.

      Those who reach this transition, called death, without having rightly improved the lessons of this primary school of mortal existence, and still believe in matter’s reality, pleasure, and pain, are not ready to understand immortality. Hence, they awake only to another sphere of experience, and must pass through another probationary state before it can be truly said of them: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.

      They upon whom the second death, of which we read in the Apocalypse (Revelation XX. 6), hath no power, are those who have obeyed God’s commands, and have washed their robes white through the sufferings of the flesh and the triumphs

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