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WHAT IS REAL DEMOCRACY? 
 MUST IT BE ATTAINED TO END WAR? 
 
 BY 
 
 ROY HOLLAND SEWARD 
 
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WHAT IS REAL DEMOCRACY? 
 MUST IT BE ATTAINED TO END WAR? 
 
 BY 
 ROY HOLLAND SEWARD 
 
Copyright, 1917 
 
 by 
 
 R. E. SEWARD 
 
SPIRITUAL vs. MATERIAL 
 
 WAYS AND MEANS OF ENDING THE 
 PRESENT WORLD- WAR 
 
 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear 
 the words of this prophecy, and keep those things 
 which are written therein: for the time is at hand. 
 — Revelation i., 3. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy says on page 172 of Miscellaneous 
 Writings: "Dispensing the Word charitably, but 
 separating the tares from the wheat, let us declare 
 the positive and the negative of metaphysical Science; 
 what it is, and what it is not." Again on pages 534 
 and 535 of Science and Health she says: 
 
 There will be greater mental opposition to 
 the spiritual, scientific meaning of the Scrip- 
 tures than there has ever been since the 
 Christian era began. The serpent, material 
 sense, will bite the heel of the woman, — 
 will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea of 
 Love; and the woman, this idea, will bruise 
 the head of lust. The spiritual idea has 
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given the understanding a foothold in Christ- 
 ian Science. The seed of Truth and the seed 
 of error, of belief and of understanding, — 
 yea, the seed of Spirit and the seed of mat- 
 ter, — are the wheat and tares which time will 
 separate, the one to be burned, the other 
 to be garnered into heavenly places. 
 
 Following this line of reasoning, adhering strictly 
 to the scientific rules of divine metaphysics, and 
 looking at the proposition from a spiritual stand- 
 point I feel it my duty, as a divine metaphysician, to 
 show, or rather point out, if I may, the absolute fallacy 
 of trying to bring about a cessation to the present 
 war between true democracy, government by the 
 Christ-mentality, and autocracy, government by 
 the so-called human mentality, through the employ- 
 ment of human mental ways and means. Paul says 
 that the "carnal mind" is enmity against God — good. 
 Consequently, by acquiescing with the methods of 
 the carnal mind in an endeavor to end the war, one 
 would make a concession to error, deviate from the 
 metaphysical postulates of divine metaphysics, throw 
 the weight of influence on the wrong or material side, 
 and forfeit his spiritual power, thereby inviting defeat 
 at the outset. 
 
 If Christian Science makes anything clear what- 
 ever, it must be this: that material and spiritual 
 methods do not coincide, and that the human and 
 divine mentalities do not cooperate, but vice vena, 
 
—they run in counter directions. This being true, 
 is it not a species of human egotism for any individual, 
 or nation, to attempt to unite that which God has 
 not joined together, and to endeavor to bring an end 
 to the present war, through the employment of 
 other than spiritual methods of warfare? Those who 
 are employing spiritual methods are following in 
 the footsteps of Truth— "The Way of Wisdom" 
 {Miscellany, p. 356). Those who are employing 
 ■material methods are following "Ways that are Vain" 
 {Miscellany, p. 210). 
 
 Christian Scientists cannot be negative or neutral 
 in their attitude toward the war. The mistaken 
 notion that they can assume an attitude of neutrality 
 and be exempted from enlistment in actual service on 
 the side of the divine Mind in its inexorable warfare 
 of the extermination of the cause of the war — the 
 carnal mind — manifests an unwillingness to respond 
 to the voice of the ever-present, impersonal idea, 
 Christ; a stubbornness to yield to divine demands; an 
 inability to follow the spiritual leadership of our Leader, 
 Mary Baker Eddy, as she ascends the scale of scien- 
 tific being and calls us to rise to higher spiritual 
 altitudes. This condition of human belief is severely 
 rebuked in the following words from Revelation iii., 
 16: "Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold 
 nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." 
 
 Mrs. Eddy says on page 216 of Science and Health: 
 "Spirituality lay6 open siege to materialism. On 
 
which side are we fighting? " Every genuine Christian 
 Scientist strives to find his spiritual niche, his scien- 
 tific mental place in the bod} r of Christ, the spiritual 
 cosmos, and behind the impregnable bulwarks of 
 divine Love, fights with all the might of his divine 
 nature in an earnest endeavor to stem the tide of 
 materialism, and to annihilate the sap positional 
 claims of impersonal evil, remembering, at the same 
 time, that "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, 
 but mighty through God to the pulling down of 
 strong holds" (II Cor. x., 4) and everything which 
 claims reality or power apart from God. 
 
 He alone ascends the hill of Christian Science who 
 abides strictly by the divine law of demonstrable Truth, 
 and recognizes the axiomatic rule of divine meta- 
 physics, viz.: "Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit is all. 
 'There is no matter' " {Miscellany, p. 357). Unless 
 one is willing to relinquish all material anchorage 
 for Christ — the spiritual idea, and renounce the false 
 evidence of material sense testimony, he is trying to 
 climb "up some other way" (John x., 1). He volun- 
 tarily departs from Mind to matter, from good to 
 evil, from divine to human concepts, and this dis- 
 qualifies him from being a divinely authorized expo- 
 nent of divine metaphysics or Christian Science. 
 Mrs. Eddy refers to this departure from the Christ 
 method in the following words: 
 
 The predisposing and exciting cause of all 
 defeat and victory under the sun, rests on 
 
this scientific basis: that action, in obedi- 
 ence to God, spiritualizes man's motives and 
 methods, and crowns them with success; 
 while disobedience to this divine Principle 
 materializes human modes and conscious- 
 ness, and defeats them (Miscellaneous 
 Writings, pp. 267-268). 
 
 The government of the United States, through its 
 representatives, is doing everything within its power 
 to end the war with victory on the side of democracy. 
 No one who is clothed in his right mentality questions 
 the sincerity and righteousness of its motives. It 
 does not follow from this, however, that it is using 
 the scientific, therefore the most powerful weapons in 
 this undertaking. Nations, as well as individuals, 
 may be governed by material concepts and so led 
 into a mistaken course of official conduct as a result 
 of a wrong sense of the scientific facts of existence. 
 Being ignorant of the use of spiritual weapons of 
 warfare, "the sword of the Spirit . . . the word of 
 God," which Christ Jesus and his followers proved 
 effectual in conquering sin and death, I repeat, not 
 employing these spiritual weapons of warfare, but 
 resorting to material means of defense — "an eye for 
 an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" (Matt, v., 38), the 
 government of the United States is engaged in the 
 mobilization and utilization of every conceivable 
 material influence, power, and method of the nation 
 in an earnest attempt to abolish autocracy from the 
 
face of the earth. This employment of human in- 
 stead of divine mental ways and means, however, 
 will never bring about a successful consummation 
 of the war, which is the outgrowth of the warring 
 elements of the carnal mind. Mrs. Eddy's words 
 on page 225 of Science and Health support my deduc- 
 tions: 
 
 A few immortal sentences, breathing the 
 omnipotence of divine justice, have been 
 potent to break despotic fetters and abolish 
 the whipping-post and slave market; but 
 oppression neither went down in blood, nor 
 did the breath of freedom come from the 
 cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator. 
 
 At this particular crisis in the world's history, 
 therefore, when autocracy and democracy — the human 
 and divine mentalities — are engaged in the greatest 
 conflict ever known to humanity, and when a great 
 chemicalization wave is sweeping over the entire uni- 
 verse and seems destined to engulf all who are not 
 safely sheltered in the ark of spiritual understanding, 
 it is wise to halt and consider the predisposing and 
 exciting cause of this great world-wide disturbance, 
 and endeavor, if possible, to find scientific mental 
 ways and means of bringing war to a successful, 
 therefore final consummation. 
 
 The consensus of mortal opinion seems to be that 
 the time is not yet ripe for Christian Scientists to 
 
work from a "wholly spiritual foundation, than 
 which there is no other. . . . Spirit is infinite; 
 therefore Spirit is all" (Miscellany, p. 357), to dis- 
 pense with material methods, and to endeavor 
 to solve the vexatious problems of mortal exist- 
 ence through the demonstration of the Science of 
 being,— 
 
 There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor 
 substance in matter. All is infinite Mind 
 and its infinite manifestation, for God is 
 All-in-all (Science and Health, p. 468) . 
 
 Such a notion, however, is the expression of human 
 hypotheses, and will prevail until superseded by spir- 
 itual understanding. Material thought is slow to 
 relinquish time-honored traditions, to yield the human 
 to the divine, and to accept spiritual facts. Mrs. 
 Eddy tells us, however, that material concepts are 
 ephemeral and transitory, and that they will ulti- 
 mately vanish before spiritualized thought, the Mind 
 of Christ. She says on page 297 of Science and Health: 
 "The only fact concerning any material concept is, 
 that it is neither scientific not eternal, but subject to 
 change and dissolution." 
 
 Divine metaphysicians, or genuine Christian Scien- 
 tists, therefore, are looking not only for a "change" 
 in material concepts, but for a complete "dissolution" 
 of them and the consequent disappearance of their 
 false objectified phenomena and a revelation of the 
 
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 new heaven and the new earth — the phenomena of 
 spiritual sense. A little lecven leavens the whole lump. 
 In this connection Malachi tells us that the operation 
 of the Christ idea, the radiation of the "Sun of righ- 
 teousness," in human consciousness will ultimately 
 dissolve or disperse all material concepts and "leave 
 them neither root nor branch;" that is, Truth will 
 finally destroy not only every material concept, but 
 the cause, as well as the effect, of all error — the carnal 
 mind and its manifestation — a so-called material 
 man and material universe. 
 
 The war between autocracy and democracy will 
 end only when material concepts are dissolved in the 
 crucible of Truth. We not infrequently hear it said 
 that the whole world must go to war, and that every 
 individual — every man, woman, and child — should 
 contribute his part, however small, toward helping 
 end the war. This proposition, however, has been 
 materially interpreted by some calling themselves 
 Christian Scientists, who have lost sight of its spiritual 
 import, thereby following "Ways that are Vain" 
 (Miscellany, p. 210). Knowing nothing about divine 
 democracy — their duties, rights, and privileges as 
 individual members, ideas of Christ's body — they 
 are endeavoring to cooperate, as units of a social 
 organism, in an endeavor to do their part toward 
 bringing about victory in favor of the allied forces. 
 The true Christian Scientist, demonstrator of genuine 
 Christian Science as taught by Mary Baker Eddy, 
 
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 the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, 
 armed with spiritual understanding, is not deceived 
 by the suggestion of anti-Christ, and is endeavoring 
 to find his niche in divine democracy — the impreg- 
 nable fortification in the secret place of the divine 
 Mind — and from this summit of spiritual power and 
 security patiently awaits the self-extinction of evil 
 and its embodiments, and the reign of the phenomena 
 of spiritual reality — eternal life in infinite Mind. 
 
 The motive and purpose, which prompt people to 
 engage in Red Cross work, to enlist in the army and 
 navy, to become farmers with a view of feeding and 
 sustaining those who are fighting in the trenches, 
 and to contribute, in other ways, toward the perpetua- 
 tion of the war on a material basis, may be patriotic 
 and humanitarian, but they are not spiritual, and be- 
 ing unspiritual they must be unscientific, and being 
 unscientific, they must be the outgrowth of material 
 concepts, and not the outcome of the divine law and 
 order. Consequently, such mistaken methods, how- 
 ever sincere, will utterly fail in bringing about a 
 cessation of this great world-wide battle between the 
 Christ-man and the so-called carnal man, which is 
 destined, sooner or later, to annihilate the false sense 
 of existence and its counterfeit phenomena, — the 
 material Adam-dream universe, — thereby revealing 
 the new heaven and the new earth, the spiritual uni- 
 verse of God's creating. 
 
 There is not a single word in our textbook, Science 
 
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 and Health, to warrant the assumption that Mrs. 
 Eddy recommends the employment of material 
 methods in combating evil and its phenomena. On 
 the contrary, she continuously admonishes us, through 
 the medium of her writings, that our warfare with 
 evil is entirely a "mental conflict between the evi- 
 dence of the spiritual senses and the testimony of the 
 material senses," Science and Health, p. 288, and that 
 evil can be successfully handled only through the 
 utilization of the Mind of Christ, the Word of God. 
 
 No one, who is awake to the "still, small voice" 
 of the ever-present impersonal idea, Mrs. Eddy's 
 divine selfhood, can be deceived, or led to believe, for 
 a moment, that he should enlist and use material 
 weapons of warfare to bring to an end this terrible 
 conflict. Mrs. Eddy, while admonishing us to enlist 
 in the conflict against evil and to be aggressive in our 
 attitude toward it, yet points out the fallacy of re- 
 sorting to material weapons of warfare in the follow- 
 ing words from Miscellaneous Writings, page 336: 
 
 It is your province to wrestle with error, 
 to handle the serpent and bruise its head; 
 but you cannot, as a Christian Scientist, re- 
 sort to stones and clubs, — yea, to matter, — 
 to kill the serpent of a material mind. 
 
 Let the power of the Christ-mind, which you 
 possess, nullify the hate and the evil of the so-called 
 
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 carnal man. The relinquishment of the spiritual 
 fact of one creator, and one creation — God and His 
 infinite manifestation, Christ, the spiritual universe, 
 including the sons and daughters of divine Love; the 
 acceptance of the false sense of existence with its 
 accompanying result — the belief in other gods and 
 other creators; the incorporation into one's conscious- 
 ness from other sources of that which is contrary to 
 demonstrable Truth, viz.: that God is All and man 
 is His image and likeness; the forgetfulness of, and 
 lack of consecration to the one thing needful — the 
 spiritual fact; the indulgence in and acquiescence with 
 human mental ways and means of doing things, and 
 the endeavor to demonstrate the Word of God — 
 divine Science — on any other than a "wholly spiri- 
 tual" basis — these are some of the phases of those 
 mental concessions, on the part of so-called Christian 
 Scientists, to the subtle and insidious suggestions 
 of malicious animal magnetism, which hypnotize 
 them, reverse the scientific facts of immutable Truth, 
 and cause them to lose sight of the spiritual sense of 
 existence. 
 
 The battle of Armageddon is en. A titanic struggle 
 between two opposing mental forces — the human and 
 divine mentalities — is now in progress. Error's 
 advocates — the agencies of impersonal evil — and 
 Truth's representatives — the demonstrators of im- 
 personal good — are engaged in a final death struggle. 
 The present war is the outgrowth of the conflict between 
 
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 the human and divine mentalities, between Truth 
 and error, and will continue until the divine destroys 
 the claim of the human. This being true, Christian 
 Scientists must prove the potency of spiritual thought- 
 force. They must aid in bringing war to a final end 
 through the weapons that Christ Jesus employed, the 
 reflection of eternal Mind, the Principle or cause 
 of real existence, man's spiritual dominion or the 
 "dominion" which Spirit bestows upon the real man 
 who manifests God — good. 
 
 Scholastic theology acknowledges Jesus' divine 
 method of warfare over the phenomena of the human 
 mentality expressed in sin, sickness, and death. 
 Scholastic theologians, as well as those claiming to be 
 Christian Scientists, must finally attain the Mind of 
 Christ, if they would destroy the cause of war, human 
 generation and its ephemeral phenomena which 
 masquerades as man, but is not in the image and 
 likeness of God, therefore has no real existence. 
 
 All wars or battles from the foundation of the 
 world have been wholly mental and must be mentally 
 brought to a final end. "Understanding the control 
 which Love held over all, Daniel felt safe in the lions' 
 den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless" 
 (Science and Health, p. 514). Love is an element or 
 quality of the eternal Mind, God. His power exer- 
 cised by Christ and they that are Christ's will take 
 away all the claim of a power in envy, jealousy, hate, 
 malice, lust, and hypocrisy. When these are de- 
 
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 stroyed the government of the world will be upon the 
 shoulder of the Prince of Peace, the ideal man, who is 
 governed by and executes the law of God — eternal 
 Life, Truth, and Love. Then will come the reign of 
 peace on earth, "good will toward men," then will be 
 established the true brotherhood of man. 
 
 The Kaiser — the agency through whom the mental 
 forces of anti-Christ are operating uninterruptedly 
 (since he is offering no resistance to them) — is a 
 typical example of what malicious animal magne- 
 tism, or belief in a power apart from God — divine 
 Mind — may lead to, unless thwarted in its incipiency. 
 If the Kaiser were controlled by the Mind of Christ, 
 impersonal good, he would cease to be the representa- 
 tive of impersonal evil — organized greed, lust for 
 material power, territorial conquest, etc. — and the 
 war would be brought to a speedy termination as a 
 result of his refusal to become the channel or agency 
 for the evil or autocratic suggestions of the so-called 
 carnal mind. The claim of autocratic rulership, or the 
 theory of divine rightism, is the outgrowth of the 
 despotic tendencies inherent in the carnal mind, 
 described by Paul, and will be stubbornly fought 
 for by the ignorant and materially minded until 
 exterminated by spiritual power — divine democracy — 
 reflected by the sons and daughters of divine Love, 
 the representatives of Truth. 
 
 Jesus resorted to no material force nor other et 
 ceteras of the so-called human mind which is at enmity 
 
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 with the divine purpose. "For all they that take the 
 [material] sword shall perish with the [material] 
 sword" (Matt, xxvi., 52). 
 
 Nations, like individuals, as long as they are 
 governed by material concepts, will continue to be 
 advocates of false issues and supporters of policies 
 inimical to the normal gravitation of man toward the 
 realization of divine democracy. 
 
 Our beloved President, Woodrow Wilson, the 
 chosen champion of human democracy, the representa- 
 tive, or agency, through whom the righteous impulses 
 of an improved belief are operating and urging to 
 higher outlooks and more scientific achievements, in 
 their endeavor to merge into unity and at-one-ment 
 with the one Mind — should be loyally and morally 
 supported by every citizen of the United States, in 
 this hour of national peril, and permitted to carry out 
 unhampered and untrammeled his sublime mission in 
 making the world safe for human democracy. He is 
 doing his work nobly and creditably on a human plane, 
 and this will have a far reaching effect in not only 
 preparing the world-thought for the reign of human 
 democracy, but in sowing the seeds of divine democ- 
 racy, and in precipitating the ultimate reign of the 
 impersonal idea, Christ, the Prince of Peace, who is 
 "behind the shadow" scientifically calming the 
 raging elements of the carnal mind, inherent in 
 individtial and universal consciousness. This is an 
 axiom of divine metaphysics — that individuals, as. 
 
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 well as nations, must sooner or later overcome the 
 human and rise to the consideration of all proposi- 
 tions from a spiritual, instead of a material stand- 
 point. 
 
 The subordination of the false mentality, or carnal 
 mind; the crucifixion of the undestroyed human 
 element, and the ascension above material viewpoints 
 are conditions precedent to a proper realization of 
 the Principle of scientific being and the true perspec- 
 tive of the phenomena of divine reality — man and 
 the universe in the image and likeness of God the 
 source and supply of all created things. 
 
 President Wilson's continued responsiveness to the 
 divine nature, Christ, — his spiritual identity, — will 
 ultimately cause him to surrender the human to the 
 divine viewpoint; to repudiate evil — militarism; to 
 consider fundamental issues from a spiritual basis; 
 to rise entirely out of human mental ways and means 
 of doing things, thereby achieving the ultimatum of 
 scientific being — divine democracy, wherein all will 
 recognize themselves as individual members, ideas, of 
 Christ's body, reflecting the freedom of the sons and 
 daughters of God — divine Love. 
 
 It will be observed, from the two paragraphs above, 
 that there are two opposing forces at war — that one 
 is fighting to maintain the autocratic rule of the false 
 mentality, or carnal so-called mind, and the other, to 
 make the world safe for human democracy. Both 
 sides, however, are using material methods of warfare. 
 
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 It will be noticed that there is a third party which 
 is also bravely fighting, but it is employing only mental 
 means, spiritual weapons — righteous prayer, the Mind 
 of Christ — in an earnest endeavor to overcome the 
 mental adversary, Satan, anti-Christ, the carnal mind 
 — the prolific source of all discord, physical and 
 mental, and make the world safe for divine democracy. 
 To these brave, faithful soldiers of Christ — divine 
 metaphysicians — apply these words of Scripture from 
 Zechariah xiii., 8, 9: 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that in all the 
 land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall 
 be cut off and die; but the third shall be 
 left therein. 
 
 And I will bring the third part through 
 the fire, and will refine them as silver is re- 
 fined, and will try them as gold is tried : they 
 shall call on My name, and I will hear them : 
 I will say, It is My people: and they shall 
 say, The Lord is my God. 
 
 "Entrenched behind the breastworks of omnipo- 
 tence" upon the mountain-top of Zion, Israel's 
 army — the faithful soldiers of Christ, the impersonal 
 "Directors" in the universe of Spirit, to whom Mrs. 
 Eddy referred in her letter to First Church of Christ, 
 Scientist, New York City {Miscellany, p. 360), im- 
 bued with spiritual perception, which gives them the 
 true perspective of the strategic positions occupied 
 
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 by the opposing mental forces, — the dragon and his 
 angels, mortal mind and its embodiments — are con- 
 tinually bombarding, with the mental ammunition of 
 Truth and Love, the material fortifications constructed 
 out of the adamantine formation of so-called mortal 
 mind. Confusion, disorder, and uncertainty reign, 
 and victory for the allied forces of Truth and Love is 
 imminent. 
 
 These faithful soldiers of Christ, genuine Christian 
 Scientists following the ever-present impersonal Leader 
 — Christ — the compound idea — these faithful sen- 
 tinels on the watch-towers of Zion, clad in the in- 
 vincible armor of divine Love, are determined not to 
 lay down their weapons until they have destroyed the 
 claim of sin, impersonal evil, which operates through 
 physical personalities, for they know that only in this 
 way can they end the suppositional conflict between 
 Truth and error. In this great struggle for supremacy 
 between the human and divine mentalities, it is wise 
 to beware of the argument of human belief to "take 
 thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry" (Luke xii., 19). 
 
 Paul was a divine metaphysician. He was conscious 
 of the supposititious warfare between Truth and error, 
 Science and the material senses, spiritual and hu- 
 man concepts, and was always alert, active, and 
 aggressive in stirring up the consciousness of the 
 people, in order that they might not be mesmerized 
 and overcome with the evil and autocratic suggestions 
 of the carnal mind to reject the absolute and accept the 
 
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 relative point of view. Peter admonished the people 
 in the following words, which are heeded by all genuine 
 Christian Scientists: 
 
 But there were false prophets also among 
 the people, even as there shall be false 
 teachers among you, who privily shall bring 
 in . . . heresies, . . . and bring upon 
 themselves swift destruction. 
 
 And many shall follow their pernicious 
 ways; by reason of whom the way of truth 
 shall be evil spoken of. 
 
 Yet herefore, beloved, seeing ye know these 
 things before, beware lest ye also, being led 
 away with the error of the wicked, fall from 
 your own stedfastness (II Peter ii., i , 2 ; iii. ,17). 
 
 Christian Scientists should beware that they are 
 not misled to-day, as the people were of old, by "false 
 teachers" — those who fail to perceive the spiritual 
 import of divine metaphysics, and who, actuated 
 by sense testimony, rather than by divine Principle, 
 unintentionally influence the weak and vacillating 
 in the faith to follow "their pernicious ways, " thereby 
 causing the "way of truth to be evil spoken of" and 
 bringing upon themselves "swift destruction" — ex- 
 tinction; but, on the contrary, should be careful lest 
 they, being led astray with the "error of the wicked" 
 — the error of adulterating the metaphysical purity of 
 the Science of being — fall from their own steadfastness 
 to Principle. 
 
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 By familiarizing themselves with the spiritual 
 import of divine Science; by adopting a policy of 
 alert watchfulness with reference to the false mental 
 claims of error, and by working, watching, and pray- 
 ing that they may not be misled by the autocratic 
 enactments of the carnal mind, they shall repudiate 
 error in all of its forms, phases, and manifestations, 
 and thereby gain a more thorough comprehension of 
 Truth, which shall make the history of mankind a 
 series of ascending developments toward the realiza- 
 tion that Spirit is all, there is no matter. 
 
 Ignorance, which causes one to personalize rather 
 than impersonalize evil, constitutes the bane of 
 Christianity, prevents spiritual growth, impedes the 
 recognition of the brotherhood of man, and perpetu- 
 ates the war by adding fuel to the great conflagration 
 now raging throughout the world of material sense. 
 It causes one to misinterpret the Science of being, to 
 throw the weight of influence on the wrong side — the 
 material, and to prolong the conflict between human 
 and divine concepts. One can never rise in the scale 
 of scientific development until ignorance is supplanted 
 by spiritual enlightenment, and the light of spiritual 
 understanding dispels the illusions of mortal mind 
 with its beliefs of a mortal man and material universe. 
 Sooner or later, it must be admitted by all that there 
 never was, is not, and never will be a material genera- 
 tion, and that the All-knowing Mind and His creation 
 — the spiritual universe, including the individual 
 
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 identities composing the body of Christ — are the only 
 real and eternal verities of being. The new heaven 
 and new earth, therefore, will be revealed to all who 
 redeem their birthright — spiritual understanding of 
 their relation to the one God and Father of all. 
 
 The following words from the eighth chapter of 
 John illustrate Jesus' method of imper sonalizing evil, 
 and show, by way of contrast, the material and the 
 spiritual viewpoint. Furthermore, they show how 
 Jesus allowed himself to become the representative of 
 impersonal good, and how the scribes and Pharisees 
 permitted themselves to become the mouthpieces or 
 agencies of a false mentality — impersonal evil. John 
 says : 
 
 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto 
 him [Jesus] a woman taken in adultery; and 
 when they had set her in the midst, 
 
 They say unto him, Master, this woman 
 was taken in adultery, in the very act. 
 
 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that 
 such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 
 
 This they said, tempting him, that they 
 might have to accuse him. But Jesus 
 stooped down, and with his finger wrote on 
 the ground, as though he heard them not. 
 
 So when they continued asking him, he 
 lifted up himself, and said unto them, He 
 that is without sin among you, let him first 
 cast a stone at her. 
 
 And again he stooped down, and wrote on 
 the ground. 
 
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 And they which heard it, being convicted 
 by their own conscience, went out one by one, 
 beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: 
 and Jesus was left alone, and the woman 
 standing in the midst. 
 
 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw 
 none but the woman, he said unto her, Wo- 
 man, where are those thine accusers? hath no 
 man condemned thee? 
 
 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said 
 unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and 
 sin no more. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy says on page 310 of Miscellaneous 
 Writings: "To impersonalize scientifically the ma- 
 terial sense of existence — rather than cling to person- 
 ality — is the lesson of to-day." Jesus impersonalized 
 evil and refused to attach or associate it with the 
 woman's real personality. This spiritual concept, or 
 correct view of the woman's divine individuality, 
 dispossessed evil of its suppositional power over her. 
 Jesus held in thought a right concept of the woman's 
 divine identity, or spiritual selfhood. He knew that 
 the woman was an individualized manifestation of 
 divine Mind, and hence was entirely separate and apart 
 from the claim of sin. Mrs. Eddy describes Jesus' 
 spiritual point of view, which healed the sick and cast 
 out the claim of suppositional evil, in the following 
 words: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, 
 who appeared to him where sinning mortal man ap- 
 pears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour 
 
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 saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man 
 healed the sick" (Science and Health, pp. 476, 477). 
 The scientific method employed by Jesus and Mrs. 
 Eddy, in impersonating evil, was constructive, while 
 the unscientific method employed by the scribes and 
 Pharisees, in personalizing evil, was destructive. Un- 
 questionably, the only way one can benefit himself and 
 help others is to scientifically impersonalize evil, ac- 
 cording to the teachings of Jesus and Mary Baker 
 Eddy. 
 
 We can never end war through the use of material 
 weapons of warfare, or through a wrong conception 
 of being. The issue between true or divine democracy, 
 an emanation of divine Mind, and human auto- 
 cracy, an outgrowth of the carnal mind, can never be 
 brought to a successful consummation with vic- 
 tory on the side of God — right — except through 
 spiritualization of thought which alone will enable 
 one to scientifically impersonalize evil, and thereby 
 demonstrate the powerlessness of the claim of sin 
 to operate through so-called personal channels or 
 agencies. 
 
 If Christian Scientists would demonstrate their 
 full "dominion" as sons and daughters of divine 
 Love, if they would prove the power of spiritual sense 
 over the false mental claim of sin, the belief of life in 
 matter and show forth the glory of the Father, they 
 must cling tenaciously to God and His idea — Christ — 
 the spiritual individuality, and repudiate the physical 
 
organism as a substanceless shadow possessing neither 
 reality nor power. 
 
 Emerson says that prayer is the "contemplation of 
 the facts of life from the highest point of view." 
 From this it follows, logically and scientifically, that 
 the spiritual fact must be the highest point of view 
 and the only one that is permissible in the practice 
 of true Christian Science. Divine metaphysicians, 
 therefore, looking at the war from the highest point of 
 view — the divine — see it as the outgrowth of a wrong 
 point of view, the phenomena of the "carnal mind," 
 the extemalization of a false sense of existence, which 
 will vanish, as a shadow, into nothingness, when the 
 divine Mind, operating through the spiritual represen- 
 tatives of Truth, destroys the dream which induces 
 mortals to adopt an erroneous point of view, to believe 
 in a power apart from God, good, and to engage in a 
 warfare against the warring elements of the carnal 
 mind in an attempt to neutralize them by utilizing 
 material instead of spiritual means — efficacious prayer, 
 the sword of the Spirit. 
 
 Genuine Christian Scientists agree that prayer — 
 righteous prayer, spiritual affirmation, the reflection 
 of divine Love — alone will antidote the warring ele- 
 ments of the so-called carnal mind and end the war. 
 With this in view, they are consecrating themselves 
 anew to the task of destroying the universal belief 
 that there are two opposing mental forces, a dual 
 consciousness — a human and divine mentality, at 
 
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 work in the world. They recognize that the con- 
 templation of the facts of being, from a wrong view- 
 point — the material — is the predisposing and exciting 
 cause of the present war, and that the only waj' to 
 correct this basic mental error is to destroy the belief 
 of dualism, and mentally realize and persistently affirm 
 that there is but one First Cause or consciousness — 
 the divine — from which proceeds or emanates a 
 perfect spiritual universe, which is composed of God's 
 ideas, or children, each of which is a reflector of the 
 substance of divine Mind, is under the control of 
 divine law, and subject to the discipline of the Christ 
 government. 
 
 This source, or Principle — God — from which pro- 
 ceed all ideas, identities, is not a dual consciousness 
 constituted of good and evil, but, on the contrary, is 
 a consciousness which is "wholly spiritual." It is 
 the God-consciousness and is exempt from every 
 phase of imperfection and every taint of evil. From 
 this it follows that the present war — the outgrowth of 
 the carnal mind, cannot proceed from God, good, but 
 must be the phenomena of mortal consciousness — the 
 counterfeit of the divine mentality. Consequently, 
 the only way to nullify the cause of the war is to recog- 
 nize it for what it is — a conflict between the human 
 and divine mentalities — and cease to believe in, or 
 give reality to, the human mentality, and continu- 
 ously declare the unreality of all that is inharmonious 
 and self-destructive, and that does not partake of the 
 
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 divine nature. Mrs. Eddy says on page 93 of Science 
 and Health: "Whatever contradicts the real nature of 
 the divine Esse, though human faith may clothe it 
 with angelic vestments, is without foundation." 
 
 The scientific statement of being, in its applica- 
 tion to human needs, is the direct antithesis of the 
 testimony of mortal mind, which argues for the belief 
 of life and intelligence in matter. Every time one 
 repeats the substance of the scientific statement of 
 being, he makes a spiritual affirmation, and strikes a 
 telling blow at the supposed foundation of so-called 
 material knowledge — the erroneous belief of matter 
 as sentient substance. The potency of spiritual 
 thought is a silent, disintegrating force to evil in every 
 form it may assume. Let Christian Scientists con- 
 tinue their mental declarations of God's allness and 
 their oneness with Him, until Truth and Love tri- 
 umph over the false mentality, or Adam-dream, which 
 is the predisposing and active cause of all discord, 
 physical and mental. 
 
 Glory to God for Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christ 
 Jesus' mental method of destroying sin and death 
 through the spiritual power which God bestows on 
 man in His image and likeness who reflects His law 
 of divine love. 
 
 When the light of spiritual understanding, reflected 
 by spiritual individuality — the impersonal "Direct- 
 ors" in the universe of Spirit, the individualized mani- 
 festations of infinite Mind — when this light dissolves 
 
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 the darkness of material concepts, false mental pic- 
 tures projected upon the wall of corporeality, finite 
 physical personality will fade into invisibility, nothing- 
 ness, and man's spiritual individuality, his divine self- 
 hood, as God's idea, will illuminate the universe with 
 the glory of God, the Principle of being. 
 
 This foreshadows the reappearance of the imper- 
 sonal compound idea, the divine selfhood of Christ 
 Jesus who represented the fatherhood of God. and of 
 Mary Baker Eddy who, in this age, represents the 
 motherhood of God, and points to the end of the dark 
 dream of material so-called life. 
 
 Let all Christian Scientists, who have struggled 
 long and patiently to obtain and retain a glimpse 
 of the promised land — divine reality — adhere stead- 
 fastly to the spiritual import of divine metaphysics 
 and refuse to permit it to be perverted and distorted 
 by false erring mental suggestions of the carnal mind. 
 Let them be so alert and watchful that they may be 
 able to nullify the false secret arguments of impersonal 
 evil, within and without, thereby destroying the 
 liability of being deceived by the suggestions of 
 self-hypnotism or universal mesmerism. Truly, the 
 redemption — revelation — of all things, through spirit- 
 ualization of thought, is at hand. Immortal conscious- 
 ness is fast revealing the spiritual embodiments of 
 Soul, and the individualized manifestations of infinite 
 Mind as the only realities of being. The following 
 words of Paul from Romans xiii., 11-14, should give 
 
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 much comfort and illumination to all who are striving 
 to obliterate the human concept and awaken to the 
 realization of their divine birthright, oneness with God, 
 their source of being. Let us, 
 
 Knowing the time [reading with absolute 
 certainty the signs of the times], that now it 
 is high time to awake out of sleep [sensuous 
 mesmerism] : for now is our salvation [eman- 
 cipation from bondage to material concepts] 
 nearer than when we believed [had mere faith 
 without understanding]. 
 
 The night [of error] is far spent, the day 
 [of spiritual understanding] is at hand: let 
 us therefore cast off the works of darkness 
 [material knowledge which gives us no 
 glimpse of God, spiritual Truth], and let us 
 put on the armour of light [spiritual under- 
 standing, which reveals the glory of God]. 
 
 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not 
 in rioting and drunkenness [sensuous mes- 
 merism], . . . 
 
 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ [the 
 Mind of Christ, spiritual thought], and make 
 not provision for the flesh [material belief], to 
 fulfil the lusts thereof. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy gives the gist of the whole matter in 
 the following words from Science and Health, page 548 : 
 
 Earth has little light or joy for mortals 
 before Llife is spiritually learned. Every 
 agony of mortal error helps error to destroy 
 
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 error, and so aids the apprehension of im- 
 mortal Truth. This is the new birth going 
 on hourly, by which men may entertain 
 angels, the true ideas of God, the spiritual 
 sense of being. 
 
 I rejoice that 
 
 The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals, 
 — separated by belief from man's divine 
 origin and the true idea, — will through much 
 tribulation yield to the activities of the divine 
 Principle of man in the harmony of Science 
 {Science and Health, p. 562). 
 
 Truth's individual reflectors — "earth's luminaries, 
 which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of 
 material sense and to permeate humanity with purer 
 ideals" {Science and Health, p. 37); yea, the "lamps 
 in the spiritual heavens of the age, which show the 
 workings of the spiritual idea ... by manifesting 
 the light which shines 'unto the perfect day' as the 
 night of materialism wanes" {Science and Health, p. 
 562), cannot be extinguished, but, on the contrary, 
 will be kept "trimmed and burning" by the spiritually 
 minded until they hear Truth's impersonal call, 
 "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet 
 him" (Matthew xxv., 6). 
 
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