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and in that way we can do a lot of good to other people. In Christian Science, the underlying principle on which it is based is not different form the best philosophy of every nation; only it is misinterpreted, and in fact the doctrine given out is also in its present form of teaching false, according to Our view. But the underlying principle is the same; there is no defect there. Christian Science would mean the science taught by Christ, and certainly he taught, that the highest entity is not matter, but spirit. He does not say that there is no matter, but in these days the advocates of Christian Science say that there is no matter, but only spirit. If there is only spirit and nothing else in the universe there is no room for anything else, and if the spirit is the purest entity, there is no reason why it should become impure; but we know as a fact that there is disease. People feel it and know it. However, the modern advocates of Christian Science do not go to that extent, and they do say that evil exists, but that it is subordinate to the soul, because the soul is the highest entity in the universe, and it ought not to be subordinated to the laws of matter. Mind is the cause of bondage or liberation; it is only that the mind thinks that it is bound down to the action of the body. The human being, according to our experience, in order to think and in order to act, has to use an organism, and there comes in the importance of the body. If the body was of no importance, there would be 110 necessity for practising Christian Science or mesmerism. Health
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