Friday, April 9, 2010

Day 97: The Absense of God

186:11-188:2

These two pages continue the treatment so this is day three or 6 pages of patient treatment. I read this section twice and here is what I got out of it:

Error or evil leads to the belief of no God which man incorrectly then elevates his own mind and therefore this body.

The above is my own paraphrasing and not something Mary Baker Eddy wrote. Here is what I underlined:

It [evil] is unreal, because it presupposes the absence of God, the omnipotent and omnipresent.

The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind.

Here you may see how so-called material sense creates its own forms of thought, gives them material names, and then worships and fears them. 
What did you get out of these two pages? A different line of thought?

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