JOURNAL SEPTIMUS J. HANNA, Editor. CAMILLA HANNA, Assistant Editor. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF NATIONAL CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST ASSOCIATION. FOUNDED APRIL, 1883, by the Author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH, with THE REV. MARY BAKER EDDY. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 95 FALMOUTH STREET, BOSTON, MASS. SCIENCE AND ITS REVELATOR. IF SCIENCE AND HEALTH be a Revelation of God, the person through whom it has been given is a Messenger of God. The Voice of God to this age is a Mediator between the present state of human consciousness and that higher God thought to which it is introduced by the New Revelation. Do we then, the question will be asked, say that the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH is equal with Jesus"? The question rests on misapprehension of the relation to humanity of the personal: Jesus,.and forgetfulness of the distinction between him and the impersonal Christ. The only measure we have of spiritual state, or position or function, in ourselves or others, is found in the degree of realization of the Life which is Spirit gained by the individual, or the work performed in the collective human consciousness, in the warfare against the supposed life of material sense. Jesus demonstrated over all the beliefs of this false sense of life, even over the belief of death, "the last enemy to be overcome." He was "tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin"; the veil of flesh was rent by him and he entered within the Holy of holies-the perfect consciousness of Life as God, Spirit. He thus became for mortals the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the perfect Way out of the false consciousness of Life as matter to the true consciousness of Life as Spirit only, to the absolute consciousness or realization of God as all-presence and all power, or, as the apostle says, "God in all and over all." Jesus is our Saviour in that he did this for us, and so made |