Day 213: Startle Mortal Mind

420:10-422:4

Tell the sick that they can meet disease fearlessly, if they only realize that divine Love gives them all power over every physical action and condition.

Tell him that he suffers only as the insane suffer, from false beliefs.

Insist vehemently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside Him. There is no disease.

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Day 198: Hold Fast to this Ideal

391:7-393:3

The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.

The only course is to take antagonistic grounds against all that is opposed to the health, holiness, and harmony of man, God's image.

The physical affirmation of disease should always be met with the mental negation. Whatever benefit is produced on the body, must be expressed mentally, and thought should be held fast to this ideal.

Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously.

Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take.

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Day 92:

176:21-178:27

Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind.

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Day 61: Mind, not mind

114:1-116:10

The nice thing about the web is that I can display Mary Baker Eddy’s words in an arrangement that is meaningful to me. So here goes:

Mind	mind
In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts. In divine Science, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmonious, and eternal.	The spiritually unscientific definition of mind is based on the evidence of the physical senses, which makes minds many and calls mind both human and divine.

 

Scientific Translation of Immortal Mind

Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind

GOD: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love,Soul, Spirit, Mind.  MAN: God's spiritual idea, individual, perfect, eternal. IDEA: An image in Mind; the immediate object of understanding.--Webster.

1st Degree Depravity Physical Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death. 2nd Degree Evil beliefs disappearing. Moral Humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance. 3rd Degree Understanding. Spiritual Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, spiritual power, love, health, holiness.

 

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Day 247: Man, Dreams, and Death

491:17-493:8

This reading is so far down the line that I had to go back to page 488 to see that the question was: Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? The very first idea of the reading was Mary Baker Eddy saying it as plain as day:

The belief that matter and mind are one, – that matter is awake at one time and asleep at another, sometimes presenting no appearance of mind, – this belief culminates in another belief, that man dies. Science reveals material man as never the real being. The dream or belief goes on, whether our eyes are closes or open.

Then another formula:

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

Or:

[God is Mind] + [God is infinite] = [all is Mind]

And who are we:

Being is [1] holiness, [2] harmony, [3] immortality.