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.
Showing posts with label Fear. Show all posts
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Day 265: Genesis 5-10
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 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.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Day 107: Turning a corner
In my opinion, the book has turned a corner from introductory material to the meat of the theology. If you have made it this far, put your thinking cap on and pay close attention to what Mary Baker Eddy says. She has some real gems hidden in the text.
I pulled some ideas from the reading.
We must learn that evil is the awful deception and unreality of existence.
The original wording for this next one is:
The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things.
But I rewrote it. Does it make it clearer or change its meaning?
The scientific fact is the spiritual reality in all things.
Grabbed the core idea and removed the other words:
Error of belief = embracing sin, sickness, and death
I don’t really think most people embrace sin, sickness, and death but they embrace the road that took them there.
It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and diseased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or human will governs mortals.
Of those three, ignorance, fear, and human will, the last is most often the culprit.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Day 93:
In the quote below, Mary Baker Eddy is referring to doctors but the same could be said of anyone who deals without other people, which is all of us:
Instead of furnishing thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent element of moral mind by the influence of divine Love which casteth out fear.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Day 19:
A couple of ideas I need to work on—
Jesus, the new executor of God, present the divine law of Love, which blesses even those that curse it.
and
Pride and fear are unfit to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place it in such hands.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Day 282: At War with an Idea
Mary Baker Eddy makes an interesting point at the end of this reading:
Against Love, the dragon warreth not long, for he is killed by the divine Principle. Truth and Love prevail against the dragon because the dragon cannot war with them.
The dragon is at war with Love but he is killed by divine Principle. Materiality cannot destroy an idea. There have certainly been, and still are plenty of dictators, tyrants, and politicians willing to disprove this.
The idea remains.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Day 281: The Subtle Serpent
The great red dragon in the Apocalypse and the talking snake in Genesis are compared in this reading. The great red dragon is scary and standing there waiting to be noticed in his massiveness while the talking snake is just a lowly, snake – almost avoidable.
Mary Bakery Eddy uses the word harmony twice in this reading. I can see how both the snake and the dragon are totally about disrupting harmony. If you get by the snake, there’s always the dragon. You won’t ever make it by him – so he wants you to think.
I marked the questions MBE poses at the top of 563 because when she writes out the issues like that, they seem silly, and I remember they’re silly. Which helps – when I see the dragon.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Day 248:
Funny thing about reading this chapter before this year journal – I always hated it. Now its another chapter I can’t wait to reread.
Something else I missed in the first read and need to go back and get the full text on: Will you explain sickness and show how it is to be healed?
A full answer to the above question involves teaching, which enables the healer to demonstrate and prove for himself the Principle and rule of Christian Science or metaphysical healing.
I didn’t realize teaching was a component of healing.
I would like to replace the word fear in the following quote with anger. While to me, they are the same thing, I don’t always remember it when reading a passage like this.
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.
There are some spots in the books where I think Mary Baker Eddy is particularly eloquent -- this question/answer is one example.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Day 221: The Trial (day 4)
The idea of this reading is that the principal witness, Nerve, perjured his testimony. Here are the ideas that were very interesting to me:
It was Fear [the sheriff] who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now punish him.
Thus the Court of Error construed obedience to the law of divine Love as disobedience to the law of Life.
I proclaim this witness, Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be a false witness.
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