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.
Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Day 278: Radiation of Spirit
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
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