Day 149: Final Judgment

290:3-292:6

No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually

2010

Day 137: Heaven & Hell

266:20-267:32

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.

2010

Day 292: Heaven & Hell

587:9-589:7

There seem to be a lot of definitions for God and error in the glossary – different shades, different meanings – but the same overall concept. I didn’t expect that. This reading includes Heaven and Hell below:

HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul.

HELL. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie."

But why did Mary Baker Eddy include the word in?

IN. A term obsolete in Science if used with reference to Spirit, or Deity.

Was she referring to God in Man, soul in body? Then the definition from a Christian Science perspective, makes sense. But, wow, the concept had to have been, maybe it still is, so fundamental to other religions that she felt the need to include “in” and then say it was obsolete.

Day 137: The end of creation

266:20-267:32

Today is the last day of the chapter titled Creation. It's only seven journal days and I feel like it might have been to short or I was distracted or it was ground already covered but consolidated into a single space and made relevant specifically to Creation. I feel like I missed something in the reading that I was supposed to get. If there is something in this chapter that you love, please let me know.

The two sentences I underlined were:

Perfect and infinite Mind enthroned is heaven. The evil beliefs which originate in mortals arex. 

Of course, I edited them into how my mind understood them:

Heaven is perfect and infinite Mind enthroned. Hell is evil beliefs which originate in mortals.

Mary Baker Eddy uses evil beliefs in a way here that, for 267 pages, I hadn't clearly understood. This makes me want to guard my thinking even more. I don't have any ideas of chapter nicknames. Do you have ideas or is creation clear enough?