as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the consciousness of matter
In proportion as the belief disappears that life and intelligence are in or of matter, the immortal facts of being are seen, and their only idea or intelligence is in God.
Spirit, God, is infinite, all. Spirit can have no opposite.
Some days, I underline most of the reading. Today is one of those days but for this blog, I’ll just pick out a few:
Man’s privilege at this supreme moment is to prove the words of our Master: “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, – this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true.
eternal building
everlasting Father
We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them with the life which is spiritual, not material.
We must hold forever the consciousness of existence
We must being, however, with the more simple demonstrations of control, and the soon we begin the better.
if we are wise, we look beyond a single step in the line of spiritual advancement
Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.
A side note: I’ve had 216+ days so far to think about how I want to continue this journal next year. Mainly, I’m focusing on making the tasks less time consuming so that I can spend more time on reading and thinking about each day’s reading instead of the mechanics of how to blog about it. One step is to move off of blogger. Another step is to get all the days’ readings mapped out and linked up before the next year. I’m a little concerned this might be some sort of copyright issue if I do that. While I’m not ‘copying’ the content, you could say I’m breaking the spirit of the copyright. I do burn a lot of time with that process and if it were available, other’s might join in the blog-journal year with me. So, copyright violation? Moral violation? Or seems practical and helpful? Thoughts?
Today’s reading covers death as “another phase of the dream that existence can be material.” Some little idea popped in the back of my mind; its sitting there waiting for me to know it. I don’t know when I dropped the fear of death. Maybe I never had it. I just didn’t seem relevant. And I wasn’t worried about anyone I left behind until I had kids. But that too is not a huge nagging issue for me. But the whole death as another phase implies that there is the ability to side-step the dream altogether. That’s the new idea.
I don’t mean in the Jesus didn’t die way but something even larger than that -- something completely outside of life as we believe we know it.
Things are better with my daughter. Yesterday’s intense CS reading was worth it. Today’s reading gave me some insight into what may have happened.
Mary Baker Eddy uses the term self-mesmerism (hypnotism) to explain sickness. I thought her exact word choice was very interesting and made me think of my recent challenge with my daughter:
self-mesmerism…is believed that the misfortune is a material effect
