Day 171: The Platform and Soul

334:31-336:31

Today's part of the platform covers man and God in the sense that is God in man or man in God. While I usually have a firm grasp on my belief regarding Soul, this sentence caught me unaware:

Only by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain the eternal unfolding of Life as immortality brought to light. 

I've been asking myself what false sense of Soul I have and why? This leads me to think that Soul is really about a connection without the material that is upheld by other religions. It could almost be considered part of American conversation and culture: soul is in the body. It doesn't hold for every religion or people in American but it is common enough to be used in popular entertainment (movies, t.v., books) without much explanation of what the idea is -- it is just assumed the viewer knows.

Day 170: The Platform, Jesus, and the Christ

332:9-334:30

Today is the second day of the platform at the end of this chapter. While I was reading it, I realized this was a great summary of the theology of Christian Science, particularly how CSers view Mary, Jesus, and use the term Christ.

I marked the section about Mary because I felt, as a mom, I also need to mentally conceive of my children spiritually. Yes, they are already born, but I want to continue to keep them in my thought spiritually and recognize their true origin from God.

Day 169: The Platform

330:8-332:8

Today's reading starts the enumeration of The Platform. I don't know what else to call it. I've tagged it as MBE Listy which will include other lists Mary Baker Eddy sets aside. If I've missed one, please comment on it and I'm make sure that day's entry also has the tag.

The two things in today's reading that stood out to me were:

Neither God nor the perfect man can be discerned by the material senses.

And

Everything in God's universe expresses Him. 

These two might seem contradictory but they reinforce, at least for me, the difference between the material and the spiritual and where I need to focus.

Day 148: Superstition and Man

288:9-290:2

Today's reading has a lot of good stuff to chew on: the postulates, the wicked man, debris of error. But I'm going to focus on the first sentence:

Superstition and understanding can never mingle. 

Don't think of superstition as black cats and ladders. That's too obvious and not relevant. Superstition to me is blind belief, or worse, some thought of the material steps that need to be taken to heal a situation. X has to be done, in order for Y to occur.

My situation at home that I'm praying about has a lot of history of this kind of superstitious thought. It has changed over time, but still. So today, I'm going to try to listen to ideas and see the perfection all around. And not focus on the tapes of superstition that are running around in my thought, unwanted.