This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected.
Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ideas. Show all posts
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Day 250: Genesis i.1
Friday, May 27, 2011
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
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Day 133: Spiritual Ideas & Mortal Models
In divine Science, man is the true image of God.
The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,--perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.
Immortal ideas, pure, perfect, and enduring, are transmitted by the divine Mind through divine Science, which corrects error with truth and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results.
Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done
Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve their models.
Day 132: God & Man
Mind creates His own likeness in ideas, and the substance of an idea is very far from being the supposed substance of non-intelligent matter.
God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.
The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea and spiritual individuality
Man is not absorbed in Deity, and man cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, solitary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all substance.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Day 127: Thought Sculptor
We are all sculptors, working at various forms, [molding] and chiseling thought.
give up imperfect models and illusive ideals
We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Day 48: Idea versus Thought (Belief)
I spent most of yesterday working on the notion that everything I saw was a thought. Today Mary Baker Eddy expands that to divide thoughts between the Divine’s ideas and Mortal beliefs:
How are the veritable ideas to be distinguished from illusions? By learning the origin of each. Ideas are emanations from the divine Mind. Thoughts proceed from the brain or from matter, are offshoots of mortal mind; they are mortal material beliefs.
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.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Day 280: Points to Remember
In this reading, Mary Baker Eddy noted a few points that I wanted to remember:
- the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man
- without the correct sense of its highest visible idea, we can never understand the divine Principle
- Ignorance of the divine idea betrays at once a greater ignorance of the divine Principle of the idea – ignorance of Truth and Love.
- The understanding of Truth and Love…leads to the discernment of the divine idea.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Day 258: Complete
Yesterday, the idea of the forever Universe was brought up – eternity can never reveal the whole of God. In today’s reading, Mary Baker Eddy says
Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love.
Since I am an idea of God, I am complete and forever expressed. My question is, is an idea of God (me) interchangeable for yesterday’s idea? Is the following correct?
Even eternity can never reveal the whole of [Me, God’s idea/reflection], since there is no limit to infinitude or its reflections.
If that is correct, what does that mean? That I (spiritual idea) continue to grow (spiritually) forever? I think my difficulty is complete but still unrevealed. I could make some huge metaphysical leaps here but I don’t want to run off in the wrong direction. If any reader has ideas, please comment below.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Day 255:
Yesterday was my son’s first day of school in the new building. He didn’t want to get dressed, put his shoes on, leave the house, get in the car. Once we were in the car, he was sure we were going the wrong way. So yesterday was a bit of a wash for me, hence no post.
Based on the reading, I was struck by how much discussion there is about animals, both literally and figuratively. I liked the idea that animals are ideas that reproduce their own and it made me think about ideas in a herd or sticking together. It made me think of my husband an children and how were are like ideas forming a family.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Day 234: A New Idea
Something I thought was settled in my life has reared up again. It’s minor in the scheme of things but upsetting for its bad timing. Its regarding my son, a situation you may remember I’ve been praying about. So here is what I was happy to read today:
A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes property whatever is offensive.
The other thing I thought about was that MBE would enjoy writing a blog. She could continue on her spiritual journey but be more visible.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Day 218: (Not really) The Trial, Day 1
Today’s reading is the trial Mortal Man. It’s an interesting way to visualize the intellectual play that happens in thought. I read it and thought was an illusion it is.
My mind has been elsewhere today. I was looking at something, I can’t even remember what, thinking ‘it’s just an idea.’ I’m just an idea. A flower is an idea. Everything is just a whole bunch of ideas. I’ve also been thinking about purpose lately so I thought if we are all ideas, what of it? I had children (ideas), what is my purpose there? To nurture these ideas. If I have a job, what is my purpose there? To nurture the ideas (people, work, etc) there. I saw everything and everyone as just ideas and our only job to nurture all the other ideas. I’m not sure where I’m going with that but I haven’t been able to let it go.
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