TEMPTATION TO THE ADVANCED INDIVIDUAL – 2
This human being, however, is confronted with evil that says, “Believe in me.” Then lust, envy and hatred work to hinder the harmonious passage of this advanced individual from material sense to spiritual sense and soul. It chooses the very time and circumstance that favors the design of evil. It says, “I will nail you to the cross of old age. I, and all my emissaries, will endeavor to make you believe that you cannot demonstrate harmonious being. We will discourage you on the ground of your own statement, namely, ‘There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.’ We will insist that you cannot eat, you cannot sleep. We will argue that no functions of the system can act harmoniously.” Mary Baker Eddy (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays on Christian Science, p.26)
