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Rh pressed out the little end as one thing, which in this case, as in the others, is the same one thing, namely, mind.

What has been said of Christ will enable us to prove more conclusively that Mrs. Eddy's conceptions of him are Neoplatonic, to which task we are now come.

And first we observe that she identifies Christ with mind, as has just been stated, which, strange to say, is an identification of son and father. How could Mrs. Eddy do this? It was not impossible for her to do it inasmuch as she regards the Biblical trinity not as three persons, but as different expressions of one being or principle. She says: “The Ego is revealed as Father, Son and Holy Ghost; but the full Truth is found only in Divine Science, where we see God as Life, Truth, and Love.” The Neoplatonists could very naturally call mind the son of God as they posited a deity above mind. But how can Mrs. Eddy identify mind, which is her synonym for God, with the Son of God, when it is her contention that the Son of God is distinct from God, as the reflection of an object is from the object? Christian Scientists may solve this riddle if they can. But, while they are doing it, I suggest that she identifies mind with Christ or the father with the son, because she is either slavishly or cunningly following the Neoplatonists. Whether she blunders blindly or not she is reproducing them