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.
Showing posts with label Harmony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harmony. Show all posts
Thursday, October 27, 2011
295: Spiritual Outing
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Day 242: Today’s Question
Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter? (answer cont’d from yesterday)
Consciousness, as well as action, is governed by Mind,--is in God, the origin and governor of all that Science reveals.
The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which wisdom warns man, is the testimony of error, declaring existence to be at the mercy of death, and good and evil to be capable of commingling. This is the significance of the Scripture concerning this "tree of the knowledge of good and evil,"--this growth of material belief, of which it is said: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Human hypotheses first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death, and then assume the necessity of these evils because of their admitted actuality. These human verdicts are the procurers of all discord.
When reading the Scriptures, the substitution of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases.
As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with sense, with material sensation.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Day 212: What governs man?
There is no metastasis, no stoppage of harmonious action, no paralysis. Truth not error, Love not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Day 210: Explain Christian Science to Patient
…harmony is universal, and discord is unreal. Christian Science declares that Mind is substance, also that matter neither feels, suffers, nor enjoys. Hold these points strongly in view. Keep in mind the verity of being,--that man is the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is painless and permanent. Remember that man's perfection is real and unimpeachable, whereas imperfection is blameworthy, unreal, and is not brought about by divine Love.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Day 202: Harmony of Being
The action of so-called mortal mind must be destroyed by the divine Mind to bring out the harmony of being.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Day 181: Discord
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.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Day 137: Heaven & Hell
Perfect and infinite Mind enthroned is heaven.
The evil beliefs which originate in mortals are hell.
On my recent trip to the Bible Belt of America, we discussed beliefs of Heaven and Hell. I wasn’t as eloquent as Mary Baker Eddy in the above quote – wish I had been.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Day 119: Harmony & Discord
…discords have only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy
He [Jesus] referred man's harmony to Mind, not to matter...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Day 88: Action
There can be no healing except by this Mind, however much we trust a drug or any other means towards which human faith or endeavor is directed.
Only the action of Truth, Life, and Love can give harmony.
The demands of Truth are spiritual, and reach the body through Mind.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Day 278: Line of Creation
I’ve been working on harmony this year. Several personal situations seem to keep cropping up that show me I have much more work to do. Mary Baker Eddy says harmony is increasing as we rise spiritually:
Christian Science reveals harmony as proportionately increasing as the line of creation rises towards spiritual man, – towards enlarged understanding and intelligence; but in the line of the corporeal senses, the less a mortal knows of sin, disease, and mortality, the better for him, – the less pain and sorrow are his.
She makes in interesting point her. I’ve always thought of ignoring materiality but Mary Baker Eddy pointedly says to know less, instead of ignore. That implies, to me, an active state of refusing to be educated in such areas.
That’s in interesting idea. I’m going to pray on that today.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Day 277: What you say about error
I’ve been working on two ideas lately: 1) Harmony is all, & 2) Health is all. Harmony and health are, spiritually speaking, the same thing and can easily be synonyms for God. It is easy to confuse material health with spiritual health so an idea from the reading helped to clarify this difference for me [rearranged for meaning]:
Mortal: who made me?
Error: God made you.
The first effort of error has been and is to impute to God the creation of whatever is sinful and mortal; but infinite Mind sets at naught such a mistaken belief.
I need to keep my prayers focused on spiritual health because that is the only kind there is.
Another statement in the reading:
An inquirer once said to the discoverer of Christian Science: “I like your explanations of truth, but I do not comprehend what you say about error.”
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Day 273: Harmony
I’ve been praying about harmony this year, mostly about my son but there have been other issues. So anytime Mary Bakery Eddy uses that word, I take notice.
We see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony.
Funny that she uses estate. The thought of both home and substance have been on my mind. I’ll come up with other ideas for estate as I work with this today.
And my sentence with blanks, just to extend the thought:
We see that man has never lost his spiritual _______ and his eternal _______.
What would you put in the spaces?
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Day 267: Sorrow, Desire, & Rule
Well, now. Adam and Eve get a talking to – don’t they. The 2nd Story God lays down the punishment.
The woman will multiply her sorrow, her only desire to serve her husband, and he (her husband) shall rule over her. God just made man the god of woman. So now there are many gods.
Mary Baker Eddy’s response is right on:
Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed material foundations of life and intelligence.
The material foundation are not only how man is created but how man and woman are to live, which in Science is in harmony, with only one god – God.
Then God turns to man and says he can’t eat of that tree anymore, man can eat herb of the field, bread. Ok. so why isn’t this passage (Genesis 3:17-19) taken literally if so many religions want to take Genesis 3:16 literally? Just bread for man.
Then Mary Baker Eddy sums up what this 2nd Story God did:
The illusion of sin is without hope or God.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Day 252: Parenting & Understanding
Here are the two idea areas I found in the reading.
Spiritual Parenting
The divine Mine, not matter, creates all identities, and they are forms of Mind, the ideas of Spirit apparent only as Mind, never as mindless matter nor the so-called material senses.
Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God.
Spiritual Understanding
Spiritual understanding [1] unfolds Mind…—and [2] demonstrates the divine sense.
God unites understanding and eternal harmony.
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.
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