Let discord of every name and nature be heard no more, and let the harmonious and true sense of Life and being take possession of human consciousness.
Discord can never establish the facts of harmony.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Day 181: Discord
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Day 180: Traditions
Surely it is not enough to cleave to barren and desultory dogmas, derived from the traditions of the elders who thereunto have set their seals.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Day 179: Personal Devil
We cannot bring out the practical proof of Christianity, which Jesus required, while error seems as potent and real to us as Truth, and while we make a personal devil and an anthropomorphic God our starting-points,--especially if we consider Satan as a being coequal in power with Deity, if not superior to Him. Because such starting-points are neither spiritual nor scientific, they cannot work out the Spirit-rule of Christian healing, which proves the nothingness of error, discord, by demonstrating the all-inclusiveness of harmonious Truth.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Day 178: Faith Healing (Faith + Healing)
When we lose faith in God's power to heal, we distrust the divine Principle which demonstrates Christian Science, and then we cannot heal the sick. Neither can we heal through the help of Spirit, if we plant ourselves on a material basis.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Day 177: Not Power but God
I desire to have no faith in evil or in any power but God, good.
Two essential points of Christian Science are, that neither Life nor man dies, and that God is not the author of sickness.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Science & Health for Kindle
I just received an email from Amazon.com/Kindle Store that the authorized version of Science and Health with the Key to the Scriptures has formatting issues. After responding to the email as instructed, I’ll get a new version. That is such a wonderful customer experience in that I was informed of the issue, could easily respond to it, and my phone’s kindle will update. Very little work on my part.
I’m looking forward to getting the hymnal and the manual for kindle as well – whenever that is.
Day 176: Carnal Mind
This thought of human, material nothingness, which Science inculcates, enrages the carnal mind and is the main cause of the carnal mind's antagonism.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Day 175: God’s Unlikeness
As it is evident that the likeness of Spirit cannot be material, does it not follow that God cannot be in His unlikeness and work through drugs to heal the sick?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Day 173: The Basis of all Health
339:1-340:29
The basis of all health, sinlessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is the only Mind; and this Mind must be not merely believed, but it must be understood. To get rid of sin through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, and never to admit that sin can have intelligence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose their imaginary power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony and God.
The basis of all health, sinlessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is the only Mind; and this Mind must be not merely believed, but it must be understood. To get rid of sin through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, and never to admit that sin can have intelligence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose their imaginary power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony and God.
Day 172: Eternal things
Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Day 171: Substantial Things
Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal are insubstantial.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Day 170: Jesus as body
Sometimes, like after today’s reading I can’t imagine why anyone thought (or thinks) the literal words of Jesus were the point. The figurative position just gives so much more to the words.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Day 169: Interesting Words
The use of shadow and self-existence in the quotes below grabbed me and started working out thought images.
God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow.
He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Day 168: Faith by Demonstration
In Science we can use only what we understand. We must prove our faith by demonstration.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Day 167: The Way to Escape Sin
What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in revenge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger. Then he loses pleasure in wickedness, and it becomes his torment. The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. Sin is the image of the beast to be effaced by the sweat of agony. It is a moral madness which rushes forth to clamor with midnight and tempest.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Day 166: Lost & Found
Today’s reading uses the ideas of lost and found. In Christian Science, I think reveal and conceal might be truer to the meaning because we haven’t lost Love or Life. We definitely haven’t lost God.
I’m thankful we don’t have to perform some religious ritual or other material benchmark in order to change our path. Changing our thought hourly, and daily, is the key. And yet, it is so hard.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Day 165: Progress
It is highly important--in view of the immense work to be accomplished before this recognition of divine Science can come--to turn our thoughts towards divine Principle, that finite belief may be prepared to relinquish its error.
Mortals may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts of being without striving for them. This strife consists in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to possess no other consciousness but good.
Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear,--this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Day 164: Spiritual Interpretation
Metaphors abound in the Bible, and names are often expressive of spiritual ideas.
The one important interpretation of Scripture is the spiritual.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Day 163: God is Love
we can by special and proper capitalization speak of the love of Love, meaning by that what the beloved disciple meant in one of his epistles, when he said, "God is love."
Day 162: Spiritual Individuality
The individuality of man is no less tangible because it is spiritual and because his life is not at the mercy of matter. The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and enables him to conquer sin, disease, and death.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Day 161: Jesus & the Jews
[the Jews’] material views were the parents of their wicked deeds
He knew of but one Mind and laid no claim to any other. He knew that the Ego was Mind instead of body and that matter, sin, and evil were not Mind;
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Science & Health eBook on the Kindle
The Church has a Kindle version of the text book out. Yeah! I just bought it for my smart phone. Happy, happy, happy!
Here are the links to all the eBook vendors:
Kindle (Amazon) • Nook/Nook Color (Barnes & Noble) • Kobo• iBooks (Apple) almost here!
For more information about eBooks for the IPhone, start here.
As a personal choice, I love Kindle.
Here are the links to all the eBook vendors:
Kindle (Amazon) • Nook/Nook Color (Barnes & Noble) • Kobo• iBooks (Apple) almost here!
For more information about eBooks for the IPhone, start here.
As a personal choice, I love Kindle.
Day 160: God is not in a pill
A personal sense of God and of man's capabilities necessarily limits faith and hinders spiritual understanding. It divides faith and understanding between matter and Spirit, the finite and the infinite, and so turns away from the intelligent and divine healing Principle to the inanimate drug.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Day 159: False Beliefs
Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spiritual truth. This state of error is the mortal dream of life and substance as existent in matter, and is directly opposite to the immortal reality of being.
Matter is made up of supposititious mortal mind-force;but all might is divine Mind. Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments.
Matter, sin, and mortality lose all supposed consciousness or claim to life or existence, as mortals lay off a false sense of life, substance, and intelligence. But the spiritual, eternal man is not touched by these phases of mortality.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Day 158: Going Astray
If these children should go astray, and forget that Life is God, good, and that good is not in elements which are not spiritual,--thus losing the divine power which heals the sick and sinning,--they were to be brought back through great tribulation, to be renamed in Christian Science and led to deny material sense, or mind in matter, even as the gospel teaches.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Day 157: Man’s province
man cannot be separated for an instant from God, if man reflects God.
Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that there is more than one intelligence or God.
Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Day 156: Life of Man
It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and goodness.
Divine Principle is the Life of man. Man's happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense.
Day 155: Definition of Man, cont’d
Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and is always beyond and above the mortal illusion of any life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter. This statement is based on fact, not fable. The Science of being reveals man as perfect, even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind, of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all being, and because this real man is governed by Soul instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called laws of matter.
Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Day 154: God is Seen
The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love,-- yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Day 153: Finite sense
Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal.
Finite sense has no true appreciation of infinite Principle, God, or of His infinite image or reflection, man.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 152: Death of Material Sense
The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.
An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in taking the next step and in understanding the situation in Christian Science.
Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.
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