[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;
Showing posts with label Chapter 9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 9. Show all posts
Friday, June 10, 2011
Day 161: Jesus & the Jews
Thursday, June 9, 2011
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.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Day 151: Meaning?
This verdict of the so-called material senses victimizes mortals, taught, as they are by physiology and pathology, to revere false testimony, even the errors that are destroyed by Truth through spiritual sense and Science.
Some of Mary Bakery Eddy’s longer sentences are difficult to understand as well as long.
What does the above sentence mean to you and how could it be better punctuated to express that thought?
Monday, May 30, 2011
Day 150: Material Sense
The five physical senses are the avenues and instruments of human error, and they correspond with error. These senses indicate the common human belief, that life, substance, and intelligence are a unison of matter with Spirit. This is pantheism, and carries within itself the seeds of all error. If man is both mind and matter, the loss of one finger would take away some quality and quantity of the man, for matter and man would be one.
Day 149: Final Judgment
No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Day 148: Postulates of Christian Science
To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the material must be untrue.
The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death.
Day 147: Mini-treatment - Sin, Sickness, & Death
Sin, sickness, and death are comprised in human material belief, and belong not to the divine Mind. There are without a real origin or existence. They have neither Principle nor permanence, but belong, with all that is material and temporal, to the nothingness of error, which simulates the creations of Truth. All creations of Spirit are eternal; but creations of matter must return to dust. Error supposes man to be both mental and material. Divine Science contradicts this postulate and maintains man's spiritual identity.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Day 145: No Matter
Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact. A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. Similarly, matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has no place in matter.
There is no inherent power in matter; for all that is material is a material, human, mortal thought, always governing itself erroneously.
As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence apart from God.
Day 144: Inspiration Found
Divine Science does not put new wine into old bottles, Soul into matter, nor the infinite into the finite. Our false views of matter perish as we grasp the facts of Spirit. The old belief must be cast out or the new idea will be spilled, and the inspiration, which is to change our standpoint, will be lost.
I’m going to step aside from Mary Baker Eddy for just a moment here. I think the above quote might give one the impression that it is either now or never. The boat is leaving and you need to be on it. But I’ve known so many people with a spiritual path that wasn’t straight and had many potholes. Matter is a difficult belief to work through on the road of Spirituality.
I don’t think God ever gives up on us and his inspiration is never lost. Ours shouldn’t be either. Trust in God, yourself, and your fellow man.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Day 143: Spirit, not matter
as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the consciousness of matter
In proportion as the belief disappears that life and intelligence are in or of matter, the immortal facts of being are seen, and their only idea or intelligence is in God.
Spirit, God, is infinite, all. Spirit can have no opposite.
Day 142: Foundation of Fellowship
When the divine precepts are understood, they unfold the foundation of fellowship, in which one mind is not at war with another, but all have one Spirit, God, one intelligent source, in accordance with the Scriptural command: "Let this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
The realization that all inharmony is unreal brings objects and thoughts into human view in their true light, and presents them as beautiful and immortal
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Day 141: Begin with God
The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,--that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.
All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.
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