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422 independently of the brain. Thus we have discernment of objects at a distance, we behold spiritual events, conditions, states; we detect “odors” or mental atmospheres at a distance. Through these senses we have immediate access to Divine wisdom and love. They include the feminine side of our nature, the receptivity or higher love. In brief, they yield Science or “the Christ within.” Through this priceless possession man is able to make Divine wisdom manifest in spiritual healing.

Science or Truth is fundamental knowledge of this our real nature, with its inner states and possibilities. It is light in contrast with the wisdom of the world. It is harmony in contrast with disease or discord. It corrects all errors, holds no doubts, proves all things, explains causes and effects. It is Divine wisdom “reduced to self-evident propositions.” It is the basis of all special branches of knowledge—when those other sciences are rightly founded. It is Christ, the wisdom of Jesus. It is in all, accessible to all. We all become parts of it in so far as we discern real truth. In fact, Quimby often says the real man “is” Science. In contrast with it, the body is only a “tenement for man to occupy when he pleases.”

Jesus was the man who brought the true light or Christ to light. Christ was His religion, the God in Him. It is the sympathy “which annihilates space.” It separates Truth from error, Wisdom from opinion. “Christ is that unseen principle in man of which he is conscious, but which he has never considered as intelligence.” It is in reality the basis of all true intelligence. It is Wisdom reduced to practice so that it is made tangible or visible in the concrete things of life. More than that, it is the real man in us all, the spiritual self or ego. To be a disciple of Jesus is not only to realize the Christ within as an individual possession, but to put this wisdom into practice in daily life. The New Testament, rightly understood, is the great book of life. We might read the Bible, as indeed we might read the human heart, if we began with the Christ, if we had overcome bondage to the wisdom of the world. To overcome this servitude is to become spiritually free.

God is an eternal and everlasting Essence without matter or visible form. This eternal Wisdom spoke the idea “matter” into existence and everything else that man calls life.