Timothy Wilken, MD writes: Recently my studies have led me to look at a some writings (1880 to 1905) described collectively as the Divine Science. In part, they teach:
Divine
Science is based on the changeless truth that God constitutes the
nature of all being and that God fills the invisible and visible realms
of existence. This truth has never changed. All truth is as available
to humanity now just as it was available to Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
Nothing a person does or fails to do will ever separate him or her from
the Source out of which we are created. Paul reminds us, “in God we
live, and move and have our being.”
True
prayer is not begging for more wisdom, more supply, or more good.
Infinite, all-embracing Being cannot give us more than Itself. In
sharing Itself with us It has given us all that we can possibly need.
Our part is to accept.
Divine
Science teaches that the fullness of Spirit is forever pouring Itself
through the mind of man, limited only by the way a person thinks and
feels about life in general and about certain conditions and situations
in particular. Therefore, all change begins as an activity in mind and
through the law of cause and effect mind manifests as a personal
experience.
The
physical evidence of any teaching lies not in the authority or history
of an organization, but in the ability of an individual to prove the
teaching. And so it is that Divine Science is recognized as a teaching
which is rooted not in hierarchy but in the demonstration of the
principles of Divine Science through a person’s life and works. …
The
foundation
truth of Divine Science is that limitless Being, God [GOOD],
is equally present everywhere and is the ALL of everything. God is pure
Spirit, absolute, changeless, eternal, manifesting in all creation. God
is everywhere, therefore God is here. What God is, is everywhere,
therefore what God is, is here. The logical conclusion is
that there can be no other presence than God-presence; no other power
than God-power; no other knowledge than God-knowledge. …
If GOOD is omnipresent, what becomes of evil? What happens to the
darkness which fills a room when the light is turned on? The darkness
does not move out and go somewhere else, it simply does not exist in
the presence of light. Darkness is not a reality, it is merely the
absence of light. In the same way when the individual thought is
centered upon the omnipresence of good, evil thought does not move out
and continue to exist elsewhere; it simply becomes nonexistent. Evil
has no reality within itself; it can have existence only so long as an
individual supports it by his belief in it. …
be learned and applied in our lives with sure results that can be
duplicated by anyone who is willing to apply these laws. … Divine Science acknowledges every advance in the world of natural
science, art, and religion, as the further expansion of
God-consciousness in man.
It
was a pleasant surprise to see that these 19th century thinkers
realized that science and religion must be ONE — must be unified. I
think they would have had no problems accepting today’s ever growing
knowledge and technology. As long as that knowledge and technology, was
used to service GOOD. This brings me to the final quote from Divine
Science:
There is no unity without equality. The Infinity and Omnipresence of
Being, its action and result, comprising the one self-existing ALL,
includes the unity and equality of man within itself. Or, as Jesus of
Nazareth said, “I and my Father are one.”
This brief introduction to Divine Science becomes a perfect preamble to the Principle of Synergic Equality. (05/14/09)
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