It is a pleasure to acknowledge the great benefits which have come to me through Christian Science.
2010
Monday, December 19, 2011
Day 345:
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Day 344: From Darkness to Light
I know that things which I did and thought last year I would not do or think this year, and am satisfied.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Day 343: Well
"You feel well, do you not?" I assured her that I never had felt so well as I had since reaching there. "Well," she said with decision, "your tumor is gone, for God never made it," and her statements were true, for it has never been heard of from that day.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Day 342: Infinite Good is the one Friend
I learned that the infinite good is the one Friend upon whom we can call at all times, an all-powerful, ever-present help in every time of trouble; that His children are really governed in peace and harmony by spiritual law, and as the right understanding of it is gained, the other things soon follow, bringing a peace the human concept can never know.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Day 341:
I knew then, as I know now, that nothing satisfies but Love. That day began the outward and inward conscious healing,--mental and physical. There never came a doubt! I absolutely knew that Christian Science was and is the truth. Money, friends, materiality, are nothing beside the conscious knowledge of God, man, and the universe.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Day 340: 2 a.m.
Two and three o'clock in the morning often found me poring over its pages, which grew more and more sacred to me every day, and the help I received therefrom was wonderful, for which I can find no words to express my gratitude.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Day 339: Healing and Understanding
For this, together with the greater and higher blessing of having the spiritual fact of being unfolded to me, I am most grateful.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Day 338: Gratitude
far more grateful am I for the spiritual teaching to love, to forgive, to curb my tongue, and cease my criticism.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Day 337: God-given Strength
Through reading the textbook I learned that God has given us strength to do all we have to do, and that it is the things we do not have to do (the envying, strife, emulating, vainglorying, and so on) that leave in their wake fatigue and discord.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Day 335: Changes
For fifteen years I had used tobacco, both chewing and smoking; for ten years I had been a victim of the drink habit, sometimes to excess; I was also addicted to profanity. Christian Science removed these appetites.
Fear has also been overcome in many ways.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Day 334: Peace
One day, however, the mental conflict was so great I commenced reading in the hope of obtaining peace.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Day 333: Sensation in Matter
In Mrs. Eddy's book I came across a great deal of thought that was not readily understood at the first reading, but by continued and careful study, and a good deal of help from my knowledge of chemistry and natural philosophy, I soon shook off the belief of sensation in matter,--the so-called elementary substance.
2010
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Day 332: HEALTH AND UNDERSTANDING GAINED
I began to demonstrate over my physical and mental condition, and as soon as the fear and pain began to leave me I felt encouraged to go on.
From the time the healing came into my consciousness, the desire for material remedies left me, because Christian Science at once pointed out the way to get at the cause of discord and disease. All that I had to give up were the false beliefs of mortal mind.
I was not so easily influenced by other people's shortcomings, when I learned that evil has neither personality nor place. I was not so ready to take offence, when I found out the way to work unselfishly for the upbuilding of the Cause.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Day 331: Healed
Through reading Science and Health and the illumination which followed, I was healed
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Day 330: Persistence
There have been some mighty struggles with error, and I have learned that we cannot reach heaven with one long stride or easily drift inside the gate, but that the "asking" and
the "seeking" and the "knocking" must be earnest and persistent.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Day 328: Healed
I had been a Bible student for twenty-eight years, but when I commenced reading Science and Health with the Bible I was healed in less than a week.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Day 327: Gratitude
My gratitude is endless and can be best expressed by striving mightily to walk in the path our Leader has so lovingly shown us in Science and Health.
I found out that one Mind is the only medicine, and then I was freed from the suffering.
I am glad to say, I am quite free from all those material laws and go out in all sorts of weather.--
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Day 326: Understanding
I am perfectly well. To say that I am grateful to God for all this does not express my feelings. The physical healing was wonderful, but the understanding given me of God, and the ability to help others outweigh all else. I also love our dear Leader.
My one aim now is to live Christian Science, not in words only, but in deeds; loving God more and my neighbor as myself, and following meekly and obediently all our Leader's teachings. Words cannot express my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for Christian Science.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Day 325: A Loving Parent
since I have learned that [God] is a loving Father, who gives only good, I regret that I ever charged Him with my affliction
I began to read Science and Health, and shall never forget my joy at finding that I could love and trust God.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Day 323: God in Christian Science
Many proofs of the healing power of Truth and of His protecting care throng my thoughts.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Day 322:
When the tea bell rang I closed the book and I shall never forget my perception of the new heaven and the new earth,--everything in nature that I could see seemed to have been washed and made clean. The flowers that I have always loved so much, and that from childhood had told me such sweet stories, now spoke to me of the All-in-all, the hearts of my friends seemed kinder,—I had touched the hem of the garment of healing.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Day 321: Reading the Book
I sent for the book, Science and Health, and commenced to read it out of curiosity, not thinking or knowing that I could be helped by the reading, but thinking I must still take medicine and that I must also have treatment by a Scientist. I, however, dropped my medicine and read for three days; then a light began to shine in the darkness. I was healed of the trouble and have never had to take medicine since.
In a few weeks the reading of that book had accomplished what materia medica had failed to accomplish in ten years.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Day 320:
Often the changing of a single word in a sentence makes the scientific thought not only more lucid to him who is familiar with the book, but also to those just coming into the blessed light.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Day 319: A Rest
After I had read Mrs. Eddy's work, Science and Health, a few days, I found that my ailments had disappeared, and a rest had come to me which I had never before known.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Day 317: Light that never knows Darkness
Thanks to a friend who took me in this hopeless, discouraged condition and led me to the light that never knows darkness, I got a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and was healed in a short time by reading this work.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Day 316: Science and Health Healed
When I began with Science and Health, I read the chapter on "Prayer" first, and at that time did not suppose it possible for me to remember anything I read, but felt a sweet sense of God's protection and power, and a hope that I should at last find Him to be what I so much needed,--a present help in time of trouble. Before that chapter on "Prayer" was finished, my daughter was downstairs eating three meals a day, and daily growing stronger. Before I had finished reading the textbook she was well, but never having heard that the reading of Science and Health healed any one, it was several months before I gave God the glory.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Day 315: The Understanding of God
We have seen croup, measles, fever, and various other children's complaints, so-called, disappear like dew before the morning sun, through the application of Christian Science,--the understanding of God as ever-present and omnipotent. It has been proven to me without a doubt that God is a very present help in trouble, and what a blessed help this wonderful truth is in the training of our children, and how quickly the child grasps it.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Day 314: Practical Application
Every thought of prejudice immediately vanished before the proofs that Christian Science is indeed the elucidation and practical application of Jesus' teachings, which are demonstrable truth, "The same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.”
Monday, November 14, 2011
Day 313: Working on Gratitude Today
For all this I am endeavoring to be thankful to God and to our faithful Leader, Mrs. Eddy, whose pure and undefiled life enabled her to discover this precious truth for the benefit of all mankind.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Day 312: Spiritual Insight
I was tired of trying to find anything satisfactory in religious belief, for it seemed as if God either could not or would not bring into harmony the terrible conditions existing in human society.
Here is where Christian Science found me.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Day 311: I Kept Up my Study
The disease with which I had been troubled for years tormented me worse than ever for about six months, as if trying to turn me aside; but I lost all fear of it. I kept up my study of Science and Health and the disease disappeared. I can honestly say that Science and Health was my only healer, and it has been my only teacher.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Day 310: Wait on the Lord
I can go all day, from morning till night, upheld by the thought that "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength."
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Day 309: Loving Gratitude
About nine years ago I was drawn to Christian Science by a relative whose many afflictions had given place to health and harmony, and whose loving gratitude was reflected in every word and deed. The thought came to me, God indeed healeth all our diseases.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Day 308: Mind is Renewed
Many times I have been enabled to turn to God, to know it was His will to help in trouble, and obtained the needed benefit. Catarrh has disappeared; tonsilitis, which very frequently laid me aside from duties in the schoolroom and home, is no longer manifest. When temptation comes (for Christian Science is both preventive and curative), I turn to that wonderful book, Science and Health, and my precious Bible, grown dearer since read in the new light of spiritual understanding, until I know that my mind is renewed, because the action is changed and the inflammation has abated.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Day 307: Gems of Gratitude
I have received much help, spiritually and physically, through Christian Science.
I think I never realized what fear meant until I began to try and put into practice my understanding of Christian Science for my children. I have proved, however, many times, that fear can neither help nor hinder in our demonstration of truth.
I shall never forget the feeling of joy and peace that came over me, when I realized how quickly God's word, through Science and Health and the beautiful hymn, had accomplished the healing work.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Day 304: The Years
I had been reading Science and Health several months, before I gave any thought to myself and my numerous complaints. I had never been very strong, and some of my ailments were supposed to be hereditary and chronic, hence I dragged through many tedious years with a belief in medical laws and hereditary laws resting upon me.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Day 303: The Release
While I fully appreciate the release from my physical troubles, this pales into insignificance in comparison with the spiritual uplifting Christian Science has brought me.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Day 302: Bondage and Joy
Only those who have been held in such bondage and have been liberated by the same means, can know the eager joy of the first perusal of that wonderful book.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Day 301: Broken Arm Healed
While the pain was intense, I lay still in the dust, declaring the truth and denying that there could be a break or accident in the realm of divine Love
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Day 300:
The revelation was marvellous and brought a great spiritual awakening. This awakened sense never left me, and one day when walking alone it came to me very suddenly that I was healed, and I walked the faster declaring every step that I was healed.
God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Day 299: Out of my Thought
Very soon I became so absorbed in the book that I forgot all about my ankle; it went entirely out of my thought, for I had a glimpse of all God's creation as spiritual, and for the time being lost sight of my material selfhood.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Day 298: Every Good Work
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.—Paul.
As the truth was unfolded to me, I realized that the mental condition was what needed correcting, and that the Spirit of truth which inspired this book was my physician. My healing is complete, and the liberation in thought is manifest in a life of active usefulness rather than the bondage of helpless invalidism and suffering.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Day 297: Spontaneity
WILDERNESS. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Day 296: Thought & Deed
THUMMIM. Perfection; the eternal demand of divine Science. The Urim and Thummim, which were to be on Aaron's breast when he went before Jehovah, were holiness and purification of thought and deed, which alone can fit us for the office of spiritual teaching.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
295: Spiritual Outing
RIVER. Channel of thought. When smooth and unobstructed, it typifies the course of Truth; but muddy, foaming, and dashing, it is a type of error.
ROCK. Spiritual foundation; Truth. Coldness and stubbornness.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Day 294: Error
PHARISEE. Corporeal and sensuous belief; self-righteousness; vanity; hypocrisy.
RED DRAGON. Error; fear; inflammation; sensuality; subtlety; animal magnetism; envy; revenge.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Day 293: Spiritual Understanding appearing
JUDAH. A corporeal material belief progressing and disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God and man appearing.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Day 291 Harmony & love
GAD (Jacob's son). Science; spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony.
GETHSEMANE. Patient woe; the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Day 290: Glossary Gems
God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself
Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Day 289: Another Trust in Good
ARK. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle;
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Day 288: Trust in Good
In Christian Science we learn that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition of a Scriptural word often elucidates the meaning of the inspired writer.
ABRAHAM. Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal Principle of being. This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Day 287: 23rd Psalm
[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
[LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.
[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]:
[LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me;
[LOVE'S] rod and [LOVE'S] staff they comfort me.
[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
[LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Day 286: Transform through spiritually
The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Day 285: You are the Blessed child of God
Accompanying this scientific consciousness was another revelation, even the declaration from heaven, supreme harmony, that God, the divine Principle of harmony, is ever with men, and they are His people. Thus man was no longer regarded as a miserable sinner, but as the blessed child of God.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Day 284: Revelation xii. 13-16
Many are willing to open the eyes of the people to the power of good resident in divine Mind, but they are not so willing to point out the evil in human thought, and expose evil's hidden mental ways of accomplishing iniquity.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Day 283: Revelation xii. 9-12
Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error.
Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in Christian Science.
He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Day 282:Revelation xii. 5-8
As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear,--as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy,--so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Day 281: Revelation xii. 2-4
Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal. We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and death. We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness? The great red dragon symbolizes a lie,—the belief that substance, life, and intelligence can be material. This dragon stands for the sum total of human error. The ten horns of the dragon typify the belief that matter has power of its own, and that by means of an evil mind in matter the Ten Commandments can be broken.
The serpent is perpetually close upon the heel of harmony.
In the Apocalypse, when nearing its doom, this evil increases and becomes the great red dragon, swollen with sin, inflamed with war against spirituality, and ripe for destruction. It is full of lust and hate, loathing the brightness of divine glory.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Day 280: Revelation xii
The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word.
The understanding of Truth and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.
As Elias presented the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested, so the Revelator completed this figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea of God's motherhood.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Day 279: To the globe's remotest bound
The "still, small voice" of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Day 278: Radiation of Spirit
Vertebrata, articulata, mollusca, and radiata are mortal and material concepts classified, and are supposed to possess life and mind. These false beliefs will disappear, when the radiation of Spirit destroys forever all belief in intelligent matter. Then will the new heaven and new earth appear, for the former things will have passed away.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Day 277: Sustained by Spirit
mind in matter is the author of itself, and is simply a falsity and illusion
Error would have itself received as mind, as if it were as real and God-created as truth; but Christian Science attributes to error neither entity nor power, because error is neither mind nor the outcome of Mind.
Truth fosters the idea of Truth, and not the belief in illusion or error. That which is real, is sustained by Spirit.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Day 276: Look outward and upward
Human experience in mortal life, which starts from an egg, corresponds with that of Job, when he says, "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." Mortals must emerge from this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward and upward. But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild with freedom and so be self-contradictory.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Day 275:
Error of thought is reflected in error of action. The continual contemplation of existence as material and corporeal--as beginning and ending, and with birth, decay, and dissolution as its component stages--hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust. If Life has any starting point whatsoever, then the great I AM is a myth. If Life is God, as the Scriptures imply, then Life is not embryonic, it is infinite.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Day 273:
The proof that the system stated in this book is Christianly scientific resides in the good this system accomplishes, for it cures on a divine demonstrable Principle which all may understand.
The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and
immortal.In this Science, we discover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Day 272: Genesis iv.16 continued
mortals should so improve material belief by thought tending spiritually upward as to destroy materiality
Outside of Christian Science all is vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth;
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Day 271: Genesis iv.16
No mortal mind has the might or right or wisdom to create or to destroy. All is under the control of the one Mind, even God.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Day 270: Genesis iv. 3-15
Let Truth uncover and destroy error in God's own way, and let human justice pattern the divine. Sin will receive its full penalty, both for what it is and for what it does. Justice marks the sinner, and teaches mortals not to remove the waymarks of God.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Day 269: Genesis iv. 1
Has Spirit resigned to matter the government of the universe?
The purpose of the Hebrew allegory, representing error as assuming a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe a lie.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Day 268: Genesis iii.22-24
Error excludes itself from harmony. Sin is its own punishment. Truth guards the gateway to harmony.
The literal meaning would imply that God withheld from man the opportunity to reform, lest man should improve it and become better; but this is not the nature of God, who is Love always,-- Love infinitely wise and altogether lovely, who "seeketh not her own."
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Day 267: Genesis iii. 16-19
Passions and appetites must end in pain. They are "of few days, and full of trouble." Their supposed joys are cheats. Their narrow limits belittle their gratifications, and hedge about their achievements with thorns.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Day 266: Genesis iii.11-15
The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding,—yea, the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter,--are the wheat and tares which time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Day 265: Genesis 5-10
Knowledge and pleasure, evolved through material sense, produced the immediate fruits of fear and shame.
Fear was the first manifestation of the error of material sense. Thus error began and will end the dream of matter.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Day 264: Genesis iii.1-5
The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real. First, this narrative supposes that something springs from nothing, that matter precedes mind. Second, it supposes that mind enters matter, and matter becomes living, substantial, and intelligent. The order of this allegory--the belief that everything springs from dust instead of from Deity--has been maintained in all the subsequent forms of belief. This is the error,--that mortal man starts materially, that non-intelligence becomes intelligence, that mind and soul are both right and wrong.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Day 263: Genesis ii.16-22
Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam in order to perform a surgical operation on him and thereby create woman. This is the first record of magnetism. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light, --materially rather than spiritually,--error now simulates the work of Truth, mocking Love and declaring what great things error has done. Beholding the creations of his own dream and calling them real and God-given, Adam--alias error--gives them names. Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of the creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them mankind,--that is, a kind of man.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Day 262: Genesis ii.7-15
Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are of good, God.
Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Day 261: Genesis ii.6-7
God becomes "a man of war," a tribal god to be worshipped, rather than Love, the divine Principle to be lived and loved.
Could Spirit evolve its opposite, matter, and give matter ability to sin and suffer?
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Day 260: Genesis ii.6
The Science of the first record proves the falsity of the second. If one is true, the other is false, for they are antagonistic. The first record assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God's perfection and power. The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal,--as having broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own. Existence, separate from divinity, Science explains as impossible.
Although presenting the exact opposite of Truth, the lie claims to be truth. The creations of matter arise from a mist or false claim, or from mystification, and not from the firmament, or understanding, which God erects between the true and false.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Day 259: Genesis ii.2-5
The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work.
growth is the eternal mandate of Mind
The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition that man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual record of creation
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Day 258: Genesis i.28-Genesis ii.1
Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,--to manifest His power.
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom infinity!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Day 257: Genesis i.26-27
As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God. The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere.
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
The life-giving quality of Mind is Spirit, not matter.
Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit to infinitude or to its reflections.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Day 256: Genesis i.23-25
Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings.
God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are spiritual realities.
Understanding the control which Love held over all, Daniel felt safe in the lions' den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless.
Patience is symbolized by the tireless worm, creeping over lofty summits, persevering in its intent.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Day 255: Genesis i. 17-22
The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infinite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Day 254: Genesis i.14-16
So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances are no more contingent now on time or material structure than they were when "the morning stars sang together."
turn away from a false material sense
Love alone can impart the limitless idea of infinite Mind.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Day 253: Genesis i. 11-13
Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source.
The intelligent individual idea, be it male or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds the infinitude of Love.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Day 252: Genesis i.6-10
Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth.
Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind,--Life, Truth, and Love,--and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science.
Understanding is a quality of God, a quality which separates Christian Science from supposition and makes Truth final.
Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites understanding to eternal harmony.
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Day 251: Genesis i. 2-5
In the universe of Truth, matter is unknown. Hence the eternal wonder,—that infinite space is peopled with God's ideas, reflecting Him in countless spiritual forms.
God creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love.
Was not this a revelation instead of a creation?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Day 250: Genesis i.1
This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Day 249: Today’s Questions
How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science? answer
Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe the spirit. Adhere to the divine Principle of Christian Science and follow the behests of God, abiding steadfastly in wisdom, Truth, and Love.
You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself.
Ask yourself: Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good? Am I demonstrating the healing power of Truth and Love? If so, then the way will grow brighter "unto the perfect day."
Have Christian Scientists any religious creed? answer
The tenets of Christian Science:
- As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
- We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
- We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
- We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
- We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
- And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Day 248: Today’s Question
Will you explain sickness and show how it is to be healed?
Read the chapter Christian Science Practice starting on page 362
Mind must be found superior to all the beliefs of the five corporeal senses, and able to destroy all ills. Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Christian Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes any other sense of moral or mental inharmony. That man is material, and that matter suffers,--these propositions can only seem real and natural in illusion. Any sense of soul in matter is not the reality of being.
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good.
God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is governed by God. Truth casts out error now as surely as it did nineteen centuries ago.
When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is--can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science, instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of being, and this understanding will supplant error with Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence discord with harmony.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Day 247: Today’s Question
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? (day 1, day 2)
For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence. In reality there is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its unlikeness, mortality.
Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.
All the evidence of physical sense and all the knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to Science, to the immortal truth of all things.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Day 246: Today’s Question
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? (continued from yesterday)
Outside the material sense of things, all is harmony. A wrong sense of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense.
Will-power is but a product of belief, and this belief commits depredations on harmony. Human will is an animal propensity, not a faculty of Soul. Hence it cannot govern man aright.
Matter cannot connect mortals with the true origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Day 245:
You speak of belief. Who or what is it that believes? answer
The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the English verb believe; they have more the significance of faith, understanding, trust, constancy, firmness. Hence the Scriptures often appear in our common version to approve and endorse belief, when they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding.
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? answer
Christian Science sustains with immortal proof the impossibility of any material sense, and defines these so-called senses as mortal beliefs, the testimony of which cannot be true either of man or of his Maker.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Day 244: Today’s Question
Is materiality the concomitant of spirituality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to the understanding and expression of Spirit?
Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth.
If thought yields its dominion to other powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents, called disease and sin.
In reality man never dies. The belief that he dies will not establish his scientific harmony. Death is not the result of Truth but of error, and one error will not correct another.
Sight, hearing, all the spiritual senses of man, are eternal. They cannot be lost. Their reality and immortality are in Spirit and understanding, not in matter,--hence their permanence.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Day 243: Today’s Questions
Is it important to understand these explanations in order to heal the sick? answer
In order to heal by Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spiritual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral ignorance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its approach to the standard in Christian Science.
One must fulfill one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly.
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism?answer
Not one of them is included in it. In divine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind.
Science must triumph over material sense, and Truth over error, thus putting an end to the hypotheses involved in all false theories and practices.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Day 242: Today’s Question
Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter? (answer cont’d from yesterday)
Consciousness, as well as action, is governed by Mind,--is in God, the origin and governor of all that Science reveals.
The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death, and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This is the significance of the Scripture concerning this "tree of the knowledge of good and evil,"--this growth of material belief, of which it is said: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Human hypotheses first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death, and then assume the necessity of these evils because of their admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the procurers of all discord.
When reading the Scriptures, the substitution of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases.
As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with sense, with material sensation.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Day 241: Today’s Questions
What are body and Soul? answer
Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter.
Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter? answer (answer cont’d tomorrow)
Matter cannot see, feel, hear, taste, nor smell. It is not self-cognizant,--cannot feel itself, see itself, nor understand itself. Take away so-called mortal mind, which constitutes matter's supposed selfhood, and matter can take no cognizance of matter.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Day 240: Today’s Question:What is man?
Quotes from answer:
Man is spiritual and perfect; and be cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin.
Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Day 239: Today’s Questions
Is there no sin? answer
Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical.
To Truth there is no error,--all is Truth. To infinite Spirit there is no matter,--all is Spirit, divine Principle and its idea.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Day 238: Today’s Questions
Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? answer
- God is the only Life
- God is to be understood, adored,
- divine Truth casts out suppositional error and heals the sick and demonstrated
What is error? answer
- supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter
- neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties
- the contradiction of Truth
- a belief without understanding
- unreal
- because untrue
- that which seemeth to be and is not
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Day 236: Today’s Questions
What are the demands of the Science of Soul?
- "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
- "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
What is the scientific statement of being?
A wonderful example of a treatment.
What is substance? A good reminder about discord and decay.
What is Life? A good start to working with time, age.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Day 235: Today’s Questions
What is God? Are these terms synonymous?
Is there more than one God or Principle? answer
What are spirits and souls? answer
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Day 234: Decide Proper Treatment
To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error-- whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death--is the first step towards destroying error. Our Master treated error through Mind. He never enjoined obedience to the laws of nature, if by these are meant laws of matter, nor did he use drugs. There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material. The sick are not healed by inanimate matter or drugs, as they believe that they are. Such seeming medical effect or action is that of so-called mortal mind.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Day 233: Anatomy is mental Self-knowledge
Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question. This branch of study is indispensable to the excision of error. The anatomy of Christian Science teaches when and how to probe the self-inflicted wounds of selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It teaches the control of mad ambition. It unfolds the hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spiritual love. It urges the government of the body both in health and in sickness. The Christian Scientist, through understanding mental anatomy, discerns and deals with the real cause of disease.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Day 232: Our system of Mind-healing
Our system of Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the nature and essence of all being,--on the divine Mind and Love's essential qualities. Its pharmacy is moral, and its medicine is intellectual and spiritual, though used for physical healing. Yet this most fundamental part of metaphysics is the one most difficult to understand and demonstrate, for to the material thought all is material, till such thought is rectified by Spirit.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Day 231: Become a law unto Yourself
The Christianly scientific man reflects the divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind. He must prove, through living as well as healing and teaching, that Christ's way is the only one by which mortals are radically saved from sin and sickness.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Day 230: Truth and Healing
One must abide in the morale of truth or he cannot demonstrate the divine Principle. So long as matter is the basis of practice, illness cannot be efficaciously treated by the metaphysical process. Truth does the work, and you must both understand and abide by the divine Principle of your demonstration.
God selects for the highest service [healing others] one who has grown into such a fitness for it as renders any abuse of the mission an impossibility. The All-wise does not bestow His highest trusts upon the unworthy. When He commissions a messenger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself. No person can misuse this mental power, if he is taught of God to discern it.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day 229: Love is the Incentive
Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must "have her perfect work."
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 228: Mental Malpractice
All mental malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling another from wrong motives, and it is practised either with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct him how to bar the door of his thought against this seeming power,--a task not difficult, when one understands that evil has in reality no power.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day 227: Christian Scientists must…
The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good. Sickness to him is no less a temptation than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding God's power over them. The Christian Scientist knows that they are errors of belief, which Truth can and will destroy.
Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must renounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power. Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow, must be their queen of life.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Day 226: Strictly adhere to Christian Science
If the student adheres strictly to the teachings of Christian Science and ventures not to break its rules, he cannot fail of success in healing. It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most harm. Fettered by sin yourself, it is difficult to free another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists manacled, it is hard to break another's chains. A little leaven causes the whole mass to ferment. A grain of Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnipotent is Truth, but more of Christian Science must be gained in order to continue in well doing.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Day 225: Individual Right of Self-government
The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon man's individual right of self-government. We have no authority in Christian Science and no moral right to attempt to influence the thoughts of others, except it be to benefit them. In mental practice you must not forget that erring human opinions, conflicting selfish motives, and ignorant attempts to do good may render you incapable of knowing or judging accurately the need of your fellow-men. Therefore the rule is, heal the sick when called upon for aid, and save the victims of the mental assassins.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Day 224: Teaching Christian Science
The teacher must make clear to students the Science of healing, especially its ethics:
- that all is Mind
- the Scientist must conform to God's requirements
- the teacher must thoroughly fit his students to defend themselves against sin, and to guard against the attacks of the would-be mental assassin, who attempts to kill morally and physically.
- Unfold the latent energies and capacities for good in your pupil
- Teach the great possibilities of man endued with divine Science.
- Teach the dangerous possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material means for healing.
- Teach the meekness and might of life "hid with Christ in God," and there will be no desire for other healing methods.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Day 223: Trial Summation
We have no trials for sickness before the tribunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such laws.
An improved belief cannot retrograde. When Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understanding, and sin, disease, and death disappear.
Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Day 222: Trial Defense Rests
In the presence of the Supreme Lawgiver, standing at the bar of Truth, and in accordance with the divine statutes, I repudiate the false testimony of Personal Sense. I ask that he be forbidden to enter against Mortal Man any more suits to be tried at the Court of Material Error. I appeal to the just and equitable decisions of divine Spirit to restore to Mortal Man the rights of which he has been deprived.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Day 221: Notes from the Trial
It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now punish him.
the Court of Error construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedience to the law of Life.
One of the principal witnesses, Nerve, testified that he was a ruler of Body, in which province Mortal Man resides. He also testified that he was on intimate terms with the plaintiff, and knew Personal Sense to be truthful
I proclaim this witness, Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be a false witness.
Man self-destroyed; the testimony of matter respected; Spirit not allowed a hearing; Soul a criminal though recommended to mercy; the helpless innocent body tortured,--these are the terrible records of your Court of Error, and I ask that the Supreme Court of Spirit reverse this decision.
Then Christian Science proved the witness, Nerve, to be a perjurer. Instead of being a ruler in the Province of Body, in which Mortal Man was reported to reside, Nerve was an insubordinate citizen, putting in false claims to office and bearing false witness against Man.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Day 220: The Court of Spirit
Mortal Man versus Personal Sense
Defending your right to health:
- Mortal Man has had no proper counsel in the case. All the testimony has been on the side of Personal Sense
- The only valid testimony in the case shows the alleged crime never to have been committed.
- If mortals sin, our Supreme Judge in equity decides what penalty is due for the sin, and Mortal Man can suffer only for his sin. For naught else can he be punished, according to the law of Spirit, God.
- The only jurisdiction to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and Love.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Day 219: Erroneous Statements in the Trial
These statements are wrong and should be contradicted with statements of Truth:
- Mortality is the governor of the body.
- A disease’s person can be punished with death.
- A good deed can be punished.
- Laws of nature render disease homicidal.
- We must regard the evidence of Personal Sense.
- Because he has loved his neighbor as himself, Mortal Man has been guilty of benevolence in the first degree. For this crime Mortal Man is sentenced to be tortured until he is dead.
"Delay the execution; the prisoner is not guilty."
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Day 218: Trial btwn Divine Mind & Supposed laws of Matter and Hygiene
The trial is set up as an antagonistic fight between the accused, Mortal Man, and the plaintiff, Personal Sense. This reading calls the following witnesses: health laws, coated tongue, sallow skin, nerve, mortality.
I smiled when I read this. It is funny but it is also true. I check with these very witnesses sometimes when I’m not well and I know I shouldn’t. They aren’t speaking for me.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Day 217: Death
When man gives up his belief in death, he will advance more rapidly towards God, Life, and Love. Belief in sickness and death, as certainly as belief in sin, tends to shut out the true sense of Life and health.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Day 216: Ignorance of God
Man's individual being can no more die nor disappear in unconsciousness than can Soul, for both are immortal. If man believes in death now, he must disbelieve in it when learning that there is no reality in death, since the truth of being is deathless. The belief that existence is contingent on matter must be met and mastered by Science, before Life can be understood and harmony obtained.
The great difficulty lies in ignorance of what God is. God, Life, Truth, and Love make man undying. Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Day 215: God is more than Belief
Mortal man will be less mortal, when he learns that matter never sustained existence and can never destroy God, who is man's Life. When this is understood, mankind will be more spiritual and know that there is nothing to consume, since Spirit, God, is All-in-all. What if the belief is consumption? God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we acknowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again except to offend God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion of the body can destroy you.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Day 214: Approachs to Healing
Incorrect approach to healing:
Not holding the reins of government in his own hands, he believes that something stronger than Mind--namely, matter--governs the case. His treatment is therefore tentative. This mental state invites defeat. The belief that he has met his master in matter and may not be able to mend the bone, increases his fear;
Correct approach to healing:
The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the truth of being, to destroy the error.
The metaphysician, making Mind his basis of operation irrespective of matter and regarding the truth and harmony of being as superior to error and discord, has rendered himself strong, instead of weak, to cope with the case
Monday, August 1, 2011
Day 213: Startle Mortal Mind
Tell the sick that they can meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize that divine Love gives them all power over every physical action and condition.
Tell him that he suffers only as the insane suffer, from false beliefs.
Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him. There is no disease.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Day 212: What governs man?
There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious action, no paralysis. Truth not error, Love not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Day 211: Identity & Illusion in Healing
The whole reading today grabbed me. My thoughts have been racing toward this all week.
The material body, which you call me, is mortal mind, and this mind is material in sensation, even as the body, which has originated from this material sense and been developed according to it, is material. This materialism of parent and child is only in mortal mind, as the dead body proves; for when the mortal has resigned his body to dust, the body is no longer the parent, even in appearance.
To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened. Disease should not appear real to the physician, since it is demonstrable that the way to cure the patient is to make disease unreal to him. To do this, the physician must understand the unreality of disease in Science.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Day 210: Explain Christian Science to Patient
…harmony is universal, and discord is unreal. Christian Science declares that Mind is substance, also that matter neither feels, suffers, nor enjoys. Hold these points strongly in view. Keep in mind the verity of being,--that man is the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is painless and permanent. Remember that man's perfection is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is blameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine Love.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Day 209: To Heal By Argument
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break the dream of the material senses. To heal by argument, find the type of the ailment, get its name, and array your mental plea against the physical. Argue at first mentally, not audibly, that the patient has no disease, and conform the argument so as to destroy the evidence of disease. Mentally insist that harmony is the fact, and that sickness is a temporal dream. Realize the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health and harmony.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Day 208: Destroy Human Fear of Sickness
The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized. The mental state is called a material state. Whatever is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is imaged forth on the body. Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger.
The great fact that God lovingly governs all, never punishing aught but sin, is your standpoint, from which to advance and destroy the human fear of sickness. Mentally and silently plead the case scientifically for Truth.
The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Day 207: Faith & Love
Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Day 206: Sin is Insanity
There are many species of insanity. All sin is insanity in different degrees. Sin is spared from this classification, only because its method of madness is in consonance with common mortal belief. Every sort of sickness is error,--that is, sickness is loss of harmony. This view is not altered by the fact that sin is worse than sickness, and sickness is not acknowledged nor discovered to be error by many who are sick.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Day 205: The Moral Man
Sin and sickness will abate and seem less real as we approach the scientific period, in which mortal sense is subdued and all that is unlike the true likeness disappears. The moral man has no fear that he will commit a murder, and he should be as fearless on the question of disease.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Day 204: The Christian State
You command the situation if you understand that mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being. Mortal mind is constantly producing on mortal body the results of false opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal error is deprived of its imaginary powers by Truth, which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion. The most Christian state is one of rectitude and spiritual understanding, and this is best adapted for healing the sick. Never conjure up some new discovery from dark forebodings regarding disease and then acquaint your patient with it.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Day 203: Self-Government
Sometime it will be learned that mortal mind constructs the mortal body with this mind's own mortal materials.
we rarely remember that we govern our own bodies
self-mesmerism is induced unconsciously and by his mistake a man is often instructed
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Day 202: Harmony of Being
The action of so-called mortal mind must be destroyed by the divine Mind to bring out the harmony of being.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Day 201: No Materiality to Heal
To heal the sick, one must be familiar with the great verities of being. Mortals are no more material in their waking hours than when they act, walk, see, hear, enjoy, or suffer in dreams.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Day 200: Do’s & Don’ts of Nursing a Patient
At the right time explain to the sick the power which their beliefs exercise over their bodies. Give them divine and wholesome understanding, with which to combat their erroneous sense, and so efface the images of sickness from mortal mind. Keep distinctly in thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man; that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit, outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life
and sensation.
Avoid talking illness to the patient. Make no unnecessary inquiries relative to feelings or disease. Never startle with a discouraging remark about recovery, nor draw attention to certain symptoms as unfavorable, avoid speaking aloud the name of the disease. Never say beforehand how much you have to contend with in a case, nor encourage in the patient's thought the expectation of growing worse before a crisis is passed.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Day 199: Law of mind or Mind?
Sometimes it is easy to confuse mortal mind and material senses with the physical form, since the erroneous belief says that they are inseparable. But Mary Baker Eddy reminds us:
The body seems to be self-acting, only because mortal mind is ignorant of itself, of its own actions, and of their results,--ignorant that the predisposing, remote, and exciting cause of all bad effects is a law of so-called mortal mind, not of matter.
Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor inflammation.
A false belief is both the tempter and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the disease and its cause.
The sick unconsciously argue for suffering, instead of against it. They admit its reality, whereas they should deny it. They should plead in opposition to the testimony of the deceitful senses, and maintain man's immortality and eternal likeness to God.
The admission that any bodily condition is beyond the control of Mind disarms man, prevents him from helping himself, and enthrones matter through error.
We should remember that Life is God, and that God is omnipotent.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Day 198: Hold Fast to this Ideal
The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.
The only course is to take antagonistic grounds against all that is opposed to the health, holiness, and harmony of man, God's image.
The physical affirmation of disease should always be met with the mental negation. Whatever benefit is produced on the body, must be expressed mentally, and thought should be held fast to this ideal.
Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously.
Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Day 197: Defend Yourself
We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained, and we should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul, simply because, to the mortal senses, there is seeming discord. It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony. Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul.
Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity and healing the sick.
Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.
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