{"id":591,"date":"2015-04-24T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makechristmasshoppingfree.com\/dstigers\/?page_id=591"},"modified":"2015-04-24T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:27:42","slug":"divine-science-and-the-truth-newsletter-article-1898","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lessonsintruth.info\/library\/nona-brooks\/divine-science-and-the-truth-newsletter-article-1898\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Science and the Truth &#8211; Newsletter Article 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Nona L. Brooks<br \/>\n(Newspaper Article)<br \/>\nOct. 1898<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DIVINE SCIENCE AND THE TRUTH<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/center><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Doctrines of The New Religion Explained by an Earnest Believer<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Man and God Are One in Being, in Eternal Identity, Says This Scientific Creed.<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><br \/>\nThe individual begins life as a child, thinking childish things. As he develops into manhood he thinks as a man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">It is with the race as with the individual. Its consciousness is at first immature, but is ever ripening. Ideas are changing because of this growth. Truth is not changing, for it is unalterable. Man\u2019s conception of truth varies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Who would have it otherwise? Who would wish to retard a child\u2019s natural growth, or to restrict the development of the race in consciousness? This growth must enter into the domain of religious ideas as well as into all other realms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The present universal fermentation of religious thought is due to this increasing consciousness of the race. What place has Divine Science in the advancing ideas? Many steps have led from the first consciousness to the final understanding of truth. Divine Science knows itself to be a final step into the full consciousness to which the race is now awakening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science is a perfect and complete science. In its reasoning it never departs from its basis or premise. It judges of truth wholly from principle, and teaches the divine law and order of demonstration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">To know the truth is to be free. So Jesus declared. Man\u2019s present bondage to all ills proves, then, that he does not know the truth! \u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge\u201d is as true today as ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">When we can say \u201cI know,\u201d our captivity to sin, sickness and death, to dissension and discord, shall come to an end; our division into hundreds of creeds, or beliefs, shall be dissolved. Our freedom from all such things must come simply through knowing the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Knowing what truth? The truth of God, and of man\u2019s relation to God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">How may we find this truth, and how shall we know we have found it? We find the truth of God by learning what and where God is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">God is all truth. What God is, is truth, and what God is not, is not truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>The Infinite Being<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The Divine Science measurement, or estimate of truth, is nothing less than Infinite Being. God is the Infinite Being. The foundation of all truth is this Infinite. What is Infinite Being? It is the Truth, Life and Substance of everything. In the Infinite truth that Being is Divine we find a scientific reason for knowing all things to be divine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">This is understanding God as \u201call and in all,\u201d \u201cBesides me is none else,\u201d says this Infinite Being. What is this that declares itself to be the All? It is whatever God is. What is God? We certainly know God as Infinite Mind, since He is all Intelligence, and we find this Mind declaring, \u201cI am Mind and besides Mind is none else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">It affirms, \u201cI am Life and besides Life is none else. I am Goodness, Peace and Truth, and besides these, is none else.\u201d No other truth but God, hence, Life, Love, Goodness and Peace are truths; and death, hate, evil and discord are not truths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Mind finds expression of itself in thought and word. Mind is the Creator; thought and word Its creation. Every word and thought is in Mind before coming forth. Creation is in the Creator before it appears in the visible. Creation, or the visible, is the thought and word of the Infinite Mind and Intelligence. The visible form is the expression of Infinite Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The accepted definition of religion is, \u201cThe recognition of God as an object of worship. Any system of faith and worship. The rites of religion.\u201d In Science, religion is known as that consciousness which binds the individual soul to Spirit, its source, and holds it in unwavering oneness with God, its Life, Substance, or Being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The God of scientific religion is not an \u201cobject,\u201d but Omnipresent Power and Knowledge, indwelling, all pervading Spirit; present in, through and around man as Soul; present in everything as Life and Substance; the very Essence, or Being, of everything that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Man finds God first, by withdrawing from the outer (entering into the closet), shutting the \u201cdoor\u201d of his consciousness to the visible (which represents his past misconception of Creator and creation), and within this inmost chamber of the soul realizing the one Presence and Power as All.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">When this truth is a realization, he is ready to deny all claims of mortality, because he sees the unreality of all but good, and is able to destroy such claims. Thus is evil overcome by good. Thus does he know that he has found the truth that makes free, because it is proved by him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>All Truth is Demonstrable.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">We know the truth of a rule in mathematics when we can work it out. God is not personality, but Divine Principle, and the perfection, wholeness, and peace of the Divine Nature may be, nay, must be, expressed in each life, when its law and order of demonstration is understood and applied. The beginning of this demonstration is to understand God aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The scientific statement of truth in Divine Science is to this effect&#8211;God and God manifest is all there is. God and man are one in Being. In universal Life, Love, Truth, Intelligence and Power, man is in eternal identity with Supreme Being. As an individual, man is the expression of Divine Being, its very image and likeness; therefore, manifests its nature in wholeness and perfection of soul and body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">This is the relation of the individual man to the universal Spirit, as branch to root; and it is written, \u201cIf the root be holy so are the branches.\u201d If the source is perfect so is the stream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Spirit is known as the only Source. Like begets like, or, as Jesus expressed it, \u201cThat which is born of Spirit is spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Scientific religion was something unimagined until recently. Life governed by divine law and order has not been comprehended; yet, such an understanding is essential to harmonious and peaceful conditions. A scientific religion deals with cause to understand effect. Its worship is not a \u201csystem\u201d nor a \u201crite,\u201d but a constant recognition of the Holy Presence and Power of Omniscient Spirit, and the demonstration of this truth in the healing of all ills and in the destruction of all evils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">We have had the assurance in the Divine Word that when \u201cthe Lord is in the midst of thee, thou shalt not see evil any more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">If God is good and is all presence, where is there a place for evil as a reality? If God is all-Power, and if, as Paul says, \u201cThere is no power but of God,\u201d where can any opposite power be or whence came it? If God is the First Great Uncreated Cause, and, as the Bible states, He \u201cmade all that was made, and saw all that he had made and behold it was very good,\u201d what real cause of evil is there?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Evil has been met and fought as a great reality for many centuries, and is no more conquered today than at the beginning. It might be wise to at least try a new way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Science meets evil in the dignity of the consciousness that God is All and in all. That the Infinite Presence is the all-presence, else it would not be infinite. That the Infinite Power is the all-power; that the Infinite Cause is the all-cause. It sees God (Good) as all-truth and the manifestation of good as the only reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">As all truth is contained in God and all that is true has source in God, that which does not exist in God, or is not a quality of God\u2019s nature, is not Truth, though it may have a temporary existence. Sin, evil, sickness and death are no part of God\u2019s nature, do not exist in God, have no source in God; hence are not truths and have no place in man\u2019s real Being or Life, which is God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Conscious of God.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Man is lifted out of these as he becomes more conscious of God, because they exist only in unconsciousness of Truth. We dwell forever in God, but may be \u201cblind\u201d to that Presence. Every man dwells in Light, and the Light is in him. \u201cBut if the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.\u201d How shall we banish the \u201cdarkness\u201d and dissipate the images of fear that have appeared in it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>How to Destroy Sin, Sickness and Death.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">How do we drive darkness out of a room? Do we fight it out or do we not rather bring in a light? Upon the darkness of evil let us \u201cbring in\u201d the light of good&#8211;How? By being positive about the Omnipresence of Good and in that \u201clight\u201d denying evil presence. Upon hate and envy bring in Love, by firmly recognizing the Love that is All in all, and denying a hating mind. In Divine Science we do not protect ourselves against anybody\u2019s hate or malice, and leave the \u201cbrother\u201d in such a claim; but we recognize the One Mind, Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient, therefore, his Mind, as well as mine, is Love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Upon sickness bring in Health, by knowing that Omnipresence means that the Wholeness (Health) and Perfection of God fills all at all times, and there is no room for anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">\u201cNeither give place to the devil.\u201d We soon see that evil can claim no place since the Good of God fills all. Our prayer changes from pleading, which is uncertainty, to grateful recognition of Truth as it eternally is. We do not pray for anything to be changed, since God\u2019s perfection fills all, but we ask that our eyes be opened to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Divine Science Healing Is Not Thought Transference.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The persistent practice of this consciousness brings health to body, and peace to mind, because it is recognition of Truth. Divine Science heals not by thoughts, but from Divine Consciousness. It does not teach the holding of thoughts to produce changes in the outer, but the abiding in Infinite Consciousness, by which our thought is illumined to see the outer as it truly is. Personal self is put out of the way with its opinions and beliefs about good and evil, that Divine Mind may express its own Consciousness into every thought and word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science presents, as the central fact of its teaching, the Law of expression, or the method and order in which Infinite Mind, the Cause, is made visible in effect. This teaching is so logical that the Truth of Being and its manifestation is proved beyond dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Cause of Evil.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Jesus explained the \u201corigin\u201d of evil in the parable of the Wheat and Tares. The Master planted only good seed. Man is made guardian of this field. He falls asleep and in his sleep sees an enemy planting tares! How much reality has that? In his \u201csleep,\u201d or, unconsciousness of Omnipresent Good, he dreams of many false things, and seeks out \u201cmany inventions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Now is the awakening time, when man begins to understand that the \u201ctares\u201d have no real place in the Divine Presence. The \u201cburning\u201d is the destruction that comes to our false suppositions as Truth is realized. \u201cI shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Man must learn that he is in God\u2019s likeness. Divine Science explains man as being the expression of God, not reflection. He is not something upon which God\u2019s Truth, Life and Love falls and finds reflection, but he is of the very Life Substance and Truth that God is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">In Divine Science healing, no mental or personal influence is used. Its work is accomplished by being still and knowing Truth heals, not thought; the Infinite Being or Mind, not the individual. One must think truly when he knows truth, but it is the prayer of understanding that heals the sick, and forgives sin. In true healing sin is destroyed. \u201cThe prayer of faith shall save the sick, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him.\u201d James 5. This is the permanent healing, for it is Divine healing. It is the exercise of consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The \u201cprayer of faith\u201d that heals sickness and forgives sin is the recognition of Divine Omnipresence, of the eternal state of Being as Divine Nature, image and likeness of God, never sick nor sinful, and the casting out of consciousness such false beliefs as have claimed \u201ctwo masters\u201d&#8211;two Powers, two opposite realities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Because man has for so long believed in something else besides God, he must now persistently deny the truth of such belief, and affirm the verities of Divine Being. As soon as sin, sickness and death are cast out of each consciousness, they will exist no more. \u201cTo the pure all things are pure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">\u201cIf thine eye be single thy whole body, shall be full of light.\u201d We have been seeing double! As soon as we see but One-Knowing, One Power, One Presence, One Intelligence, One Life and One Truth, our \u201ceye\u201d is single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>The Millenium<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">\u201cBut,\u201d one says, \u201cthis will bring the millenium.\u201d What is the millenium? Heaven on earth. Heaven is already on earth! Heaven is wherever God is, and God is everywhere! The sun shines whether the blind man sees or not. When God is known as Omnipresence, Heaven is known as Omnipresence. \u201cLo I am with you always.\u201d God\u2019s dwelling place is within the consciousness that recognizes that Presence. \u201cThe kingdom of God is within you.\u201d God\u2019s \u201cthrone\u201d is that heart in which God alone rules, because God is acknowledged as All.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Nineteen hundred years ago, one who understood said, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u201d Today the Spirit is bringing these words to our remembrance,\u201d or, is impressing upon us their deep significance. Heaven must be sought within and not without&#8211;right at hand and not far away. We shall \u201cgo to heaven\u201d by going to God, and we \u201cgo\u201d to God by recognizing and accepting the God Presence here and now, and His likeness or manifestation as All in all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Divine Science Teaches Man to Look<br \/>\nto the Invisible.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Man has been attracted by the outer; he has dwelt in the visible and soul has been but feebly cultivated. He has worshipped an outer God, trusted an outer Saviour and looked to the outer Word for guidance. He has believed the outer to be a source of good as well as ill. He has depended upon the visible. Slowly does he turn now to acknowledge the absolute Power of the Invisible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science is a high call. It bids man to look to no other source or cause of wisdom, truth, goodness, peace, health and harmony, but Spirit. It teaches that there is no outer or physical causation, and in its light we cease to depend upon any outer thing for help. It recognizes the outer as the perfect effect of an inner perfect Cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">God reaches man directly through man\u2019s own soul and supplies every need. Infinite Mind is the Only Source and Cause, hence there is nothing in the outer to either help or hurt us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Jesus tried to show His followers the great benefit that would come to them when they had but the inner guide to depend upon. He said to them, \u201cIt is best for you that I go away.\u201d When they could no longer claim Him personally as the great Leader and Teacher they would be forced to accept the leading of the Spirit within themselves. He wrote no book nor left any written rules that might hold them to Himself. He constantly tried to turn man\u2019s homage from His wisdom and goodness to the Universal Good&#8211;which, if Universal, is given equally to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Jesus Christ is one, and the eldest, of the Great family in heaven and earth. He taught by life and word, the wonderful power of God in man. He repelled any insinuation that He individually had special power, or was particularly favored of God. \u201cThou has loved them as Thou hast loved Me.\u201d He is God manifest in the flesh, and is proof that God is to be manifest in all flesh. Truly one has said \u201cAs the first coming of Christ is God manifest in one, the second coming will be God manifest in the race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Individuality Not Exalted.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Truth has always come to the world through some one individual consciousness. Divine Science duly acknowledges the great spiritual leaders in all the past and present, but comes with a new voice, because it is a new light, saying that what has been shall not always be in man\u2019s idea of Truth. Light has come to man in the way he could receive it. The new revelation in Divine Science proves that man is ready for a higher leading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">No individual is chosen to be the interpreter of Divine Will to others. \u201cA nation shall be born in a day\u201d is a prophecy for the latter days, or later consciousness. Thousands shall see the Truth&#8211;the same Truth, for there is but one&#8211;at the same time in all places, because the Omnipresence of Truth is recognized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science has stepped into this advanced consciousness, and can no longer limit Truth to channels. The \u201cflood\u201d of Truth is at hand in the realization of Omnipresence, and if we limit its outflowing to certain \u201cchannels\u201d we cannot yet receive the full immersion. No man has freer access to Divine Intelligence than has any other. The One Source is Omnipresent to all alike. He is chosen who chooses to receive! Any other belief is erroneous and has led the great majority to receive truth at second hand. But this is not scientific religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The Watchword of Divine Science is Charity, for it teaches with Paul that \u201cThough I have all knowledge, and can remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing.\u201d \u201cHe that saith he is in the light and condemneth his brother, is in darkness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science teaches man to hold very loosely all outer helps, knowing that as the soul expands into knowledge of the Infinite these must be done away. It does not ignore the fact that man needs the outer support in his early consciousness which is feeble, just as a child needs the help of its mother\u2019s hand when learning to walk. But all know there is a better possibility for the child and expect to see it walk alone in due time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>A Helping Hand.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science reaches a helping hand to the weak or beginning consciousness, but is all the time encouraging it to find its strength and light within itself. It gradually leads the seeker after Truth away from dependence upon another\u2019s understanding, to the light \u201cthat lightest every man that cometh into the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science stands for that teaching which is pointing man directly to Divine Source, without intervention of any other leader than Spirit. It feels that the world is ready for this step, and that spiritual progress has been heretofore impeded by the clinging of the masses to individual authority. Isaiah\u2019s words are significant: \u201cThe leaders of this people have caused them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The teachers and the books in Divine Science are held as secondary to the individual consciousness that is guided by Spirit. Divine Science is a step beyond that consciousness which looks to the individual as authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">It is sometimes asserted that Divine Scientists say \u201cI am God.\u201d This is incorrect and arises, as criticisms generally do, from misunderstanding. Divine Science perceives and teaches that the Great \u201cI Am\u201d is God, and is the One that includes all else. No individual, therefore, can claim to be this I Am, nor can he say \u201cI am God.\u201d In our present consciousness the individual man is known as the expression and manifestation of Universal Spirit, which Spirit is the only \u201cI Am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">A much misunderstood teaching of Divine Science is, that there is no matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">This is plain enough when we see that God is Spirit and not matter, and that God is All and in all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">In denying matter, however, we do not in Divine Science deny form. We do not deny the body. \u201cI have a body eternal,\u201d Paul says. When we deny matter, we simply deny our belief that there is a substance separate and apart from Spirit. There are not two substances. All that is, is Spirit and its manifestation, in form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>What is the Body?<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">As there is but one Life and one Substance, even Spirit, whatever Life and Substance the body possesses is spiritual. Divine Science no longer separates between Spirit and body. \u201cYe are the temple of God,\u201d and the veil which separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple is the type of ignorance that believed the body to be separated from Spirit\u2019s Life and Substance; that supposed the visible to be of a different nature from the invisible. \u201cBeing alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">This veil is done away in Christ, \u201cthe Truth,\u201d which reveals that there is no separation between Creator and creation&#8211;between Invisible and visible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Ignorant thought is being destroyed as the truth is perceived that All is Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Divine Science claims not to be a new religion nor a new Truth. It is a new light upon religion and Truth. Divine Science is not imitative, but includes all Truth that ever was, agrees with all that is true everywhere, and is an outreaching into new realms of Truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\"><b>Divine Science Heals.<\/b><\/span><\/center><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">Does Divine Science heal? Yes, as hundreds are ready to testify. Many demonstrations over the most so-called incurable diseases, relief from mental disturbances and outward calamities of all kind, give proof that Divine Science is a demonstrable truth. Most who have come and have been healed have been pronounced incurable and many in acute diseases have been speedily restored and saved long weeks of illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Arial,Courier;\">The first step in Divine Science is the healing, which attracts those that are weary with life\u2019s burdens. As soon as they find relief they naturally are led to investigate so beneficent a power, and then realize, as was not possible at first, that, grand as the healing is, it is but a small part of the whole Truth, which its teachings reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nona L. Brooks (Newspaper Article) Oct. 1898 DIVINE SCIENCE AND THE TRUTH Doctrines of The New Religion Explained by an Earnest Believer Man and God Are One in Being, in Eternal Identity, Says This Scientific Creed. The individual begins life as a child, thinking childish things. 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