Light as he can assimilate, so that he pass out of the shadows into the sunlight of God's Eternal Love, where is the true Spiritual Seeing and the true Spiritual Living.

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CHAPTER IV

THE SCIENTIFIC MAN

HE man who has studied the teachings, as given in this book, and imbibed the Spirit and attained the Christ-Consciousness and is living, awake and about his Father's business, is a "Scientific Christian;" therefore a scientific man.

Man can be a Christian; he can love God and Jesus Christ; he can live a holy and upright life and not be a "Scientific Christian." Some may ask, what is the difference between a Christian and a "Scientific Christian?"

The man who is a Christian has a change of heart; he has faith in God, believes in God's message to man and accepts Jesus Christ as God's messenger; but his mind is not effected, is not awakened into thinking in the Wisdom of the Truth. Only through faith and believing is he moved. Not having his mind quickened, he necessarily looks to the beyond for his reward and misses the rejoicing righteousness that is. His mind, filled with the beliefs of Good and evil, he is as the leaves of the trees, blown about by the wind and storms, changing with whatever wind that blows. Believing that the storms are sent by God, he endeavors the best he can to submit to them, thinking it pleases God to see him thus afflicted. When sickness and pain overtake him, he gives no resistance because he believes that it is the Father's pleasure to place these burdens upon him.

We find that in olden times, one, Job, awoke to the absurdity of such teachings.

The Book of Job did not find its way into the old Bible and remain there through all the ecclesiastical cleanings to which the Bible has been subjected, except that it is by the Intelligence of God, presented for the helpful wisdom which it contains. Since Moses began his ministry and Adam dwelt in the Garden of Eden, the Truth has sought expression that it might reach and teach ignorant man, bringing him into the light of wisdom.

In the Book of Job we find that he was a just and upright man, a Christian,-or he would be called that today, believing that God prospered or afflicted him according to God's change of mood and mind.

When the winds of adversity began to blow against Job, they were severe; and trial after trial was brought to him to test his sincerity.

We read that God permitted Satan, unto the fullness of his perverse power, to place afflictions upon Job, with but one restriction, and that was that he could not take Job's life, which is a thing impossible; for Satan-error -has no power to touch the Divine-Man, that which is the manifestation of the Living God.

In these experiences of Job we read the history of the Soul of Man, as it awakens and believes that God is able to express both Good and evil, finding himself in that chaotic state wherein Satan seemed even more real than God.

In the midst of his affliction, which history tells that God permitted Satan to place upon him, Job found that he must go deeper than faith and believing; and so he gave answer to the three learned friends who came to comfort him, who in reality were to an awakened Soul, such as Job was, veritable councilors of despair. Each came to Job when his Soul was reaching out to express spiritual consciousness. When afflictions came to his body and his wife, beholding his sufferings, said to him: "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and

die," (Job 2:9.) Job did not swerve from his integrity, but continued to work at his problems without denying his righteousness of heart and of life.

We find that in Job's answer, in the twelfth chapter of the book, he is getting deeper into the Truth, saying: "Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this," "In whose hand is the Soul of every living thing, and the breath of mankind?" "Doth not the ear try words as the mouth tasteth meat?" Job 12:9, 10, 11.

After this change has taken place within him, Job, to a certain degree, becomes conscious of his Divine Sonship and of his dominion with which God has endued him: for in speaking to his three friends, he said: “Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified." Job 13:18.

Thus we see that Job, when the dire afflictions of Satan were upon him, did not submit to them, but began to analyze the situation and to examine himself and stood strong in his faith in God, and so, emerging to a certain degree, from a Christian, into a "Scientific Christian."

A "Scientific Christian" is one who has understanding concerning the Truth and God's Laws operating in and through it and has learned that it is not God who causes afflictions and the calamities which befall him. He has learned, also, what that thing spoken of as Satan really is.

Then the Scientific Man bravely faces the unpleasant things which come to or upon him and with his silently spoken Truth ladened with the Power of God commands the pain, disease or poverty to depart, denying their existence, reducing them to nothing.

A Scientific Man is one in whom is fulfilled the knowledge of Jesus Christ, who said: "You shall know the Truth."

The "Scientific Christian" will, if he keeps diligently about his seeking and achieving, reap the fruits of his

labor in the liberty which Jesus promised,-"And the Truth shall make you free."

Freedom is the Divine State of man. It is the RealSelf of each man. It is the individuality or Divine-Man of each and all, where in consciousness we have come forth from the encasing mask which is known as personality.

There is no permanent happiness nor contentment for man, as long as he lives in the belief that his personality is the Real and only Man.

The man who becomes a "Scientific Christian" lives not in recognition of the personality. The man who scales the heights and stands on the Mount of Transfiguration through knowing the Truth, passing from personality into individuality, is a "Scientific Christian. Here upon this plane such "Scientific Christianity" is accomplished.

The scientific man knows that death has no power over him and that passing through its portals does not assist him in his ongoings unto the solving of his problems, but delays him, rather.

By studying the esoteric side of the message of Jesus and reading with the inner eye, the Eye of Vision, it is plain to be seen that man's problem is to be solved here on this plane of action. Why do we assert this? Because we perceive that carnality is the outer or objective mind of man; and that in this objective carnality is the plane. upon which his consciousness of the Truth must work out his Freedom.

When man passes through the experience called death, he is shorn of the objective ability to accomplish anything toward solving his problem until he takes up his thread of life again here on the objective plane.

Then, truly, man can see that there is no way out but to do as Jesus said: "Know the Truth," and, when man fully and completely knows the Truth, he is a "Scientific Christian."