TEXT: "When the woman touched the hem of Jesus' garment she was healed. Spiritual reflection, like man's garments, never becomes part of him but is taken on by him. What a devilish and subtle effort of animal magnetism to leave the letter of Christian Science and try to take away its spirit and identify it with the emotionalism, which is a phase of the human mind's expression! This is illustrative of how error always works, attempting to divide that which can only function successfully when united. The divine marriage is symbolic of man's effort to unite himself with that of which he has been robbed or separated. Wisdom and love must be united; inspiration and understanding; justice and mercy; motive and method; desire and duty. These pairs constitute the male and female of God's creating, the warp and the woof of the student’s growing understanding. United they spell success; divided they fall...
"Animal magnetism attempts to direct man's desire for understanding and wisdom so that in the attainment he will become a materialist. It is an axiom that the moment you apply so-called common sense to inspiration it flies out of the window." (Visions of MBE, G.C.Carpenter)
DISCUSSION:
1. "Wisdom and love must be united; inspiration and understanding; justice and mercy; motive and method; desire and duty... the warp and the woof of the student's understanding." Examples?
2. A.M. turns a desire for understanding and wisdom into materialism? How? What does it take to defend against it?
3. Examples of how common sense can dispel inspiration.