Day 64: God -- a restful Mind

119:25-121:32

These two pages make heavy use of the Sun and the Earth as an analogy of God and man.

The first thing that caught my attention was:

man, who is but a humble servant of the restful Mind

Mary Baker Eddy uses this in the same paragraph she talks about Earth orbiting the Sun. She uses imagery and symbolism, sometimes in ambiguous ways. I worry I take the imagery too far or not far enough. But a restful Mind. I don't care about the imagery. I just want to be part of that restful Mind. I wonder if this is like her usage of Divine Logic, a frequent topic which I never noticed before.

Day 62: What or Who is God in Christian Science?

116:11-117:28

Mary Baker Eddy spends two pages talking about God, and at the very end Jesus. In her own writing, several words are italicized to differentiate them:

• corporeal
• incorporeal
• person
• personal
• Person (capital P)
• individuality
• One

These two sentences I underlined have to do with a physical challenge I'm working on healing right now:

... God is all, therefore matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind

Evidence drawn from the five physical senses relates solely to human reason...

Then a little bit later:

 Truth is a revelation.

So I think this is the third time MBE has made a direct connection (although in two different sentences) to Divine Logic is revelation. This time its worded slightly differently so it might not mean the same thing but I don't buy coincidence - I think this is planned to lead me somewhere.

The one thought that I come back to on the Divine Logic is revelation front - is revelation a synonym for understanding or seeing the future. I know in at least one instance, it meant the later but to me, I keep reading it as Divine Logic will give me understanding.

Day 59: Principle and Practice

109:32-112:2

These pages continue Mary Baker Eddy's discussion of how she came to discover Christian Science. The two passages I marked are:

The three great verities of Spirit, [1] omnipotence, [2] omnipresence, [3] omniscience, - Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, - contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual.

And -

The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science.

MBE also states reason and revelation were reconciled for her as part of her journey. That sounds very close to a line I marked on Day 50. The idea of these two ideas tied together and then repeated within 20 pages of each other means something. I never picked up on this connection before.

MBE states she used only the Bible as her textbook. I've never read the Bible all the way through - any version.

As the material in the chapters gets to this stage where new concepts are introduced -- or I didn't pay attention one of the many times I read the material before -- I have to slow down and think about what is pinging around in my head. Jumbled thoughts point somewhere but not at first. So I may ramble more than usual.

Words I looked up:

equipollence
theosophy
millenarianism

Day 52

95:28-97:28

Now that I'm reading Science and Health, two pages at a time, I can see the rhythm and linear logic of the chapters. I never saw that before. These two pages are still along the lines of the higher concepts from a few pages ago but are focusing on that transition time in the future, right before the total Spiritualization of man. The writing has the feel of a revelation about the future.

I underlined:

Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization.

I always wondered what this chemicalization would be like but I must say, it just a small way, I've been going through it myself recently. A change in thought is making me look at things differently. Some ideas seem more relevant, most seem absurdly human and mortal error-ish. It's weird to examine every though I have and then realize I don't like them and replace them with something else.

A couple of days ago, I underlined:

Divine logic and revelation coincide.

I seem to be coming back to this quote over and over, looking for meaning that I can get from it -- how I can apply it. 

Day 50

91:22-93:20

These two pages start by listing the five erroneous postulates:

• The first erroneous postulate of belief is, that substance, life, and intelligence are something apart from God. 
• The second erroneous postulate is, that man is both mental and material.
• The third erroneous postulate is, that mind is both evil and good; whereas the real Mind cannot be evil nor the medium of evil, for Mind is God.
• The fourth erroneous postulate is, that matter is intelligent, and that man has a material body which is part of himself. 
• The fifth erroneous postulate is, that matter holds in itself the issues of life and death, -- that matter is not only capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, but also capable of imparting these sensations.

The other thing I marked was:

Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we believe otherwise, we may be sure that either our logic is at fault or that we have misinterpreted revelation.

This has that higher concept feel to it. Misinterpreting revelation is almost vague in that it could be revelations from the bible or it could be revelations we ourselves experience -- the small, still voice.

I did look up one word: Esse.