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.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Day 299: Out of my Thought
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.
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