JUDAH. A corporeal material belief progressing and disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God and man appearing.
Showing posts with label Spiritual Understanding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiritual Understanding. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Day 293: Spiritual Understanding appearing
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Day 257: Genesis i.26-27
As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God. The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere.
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
The life-giving quality of Mind is Spirit, not matter.
Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit to infinitude or to its reflections.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Day 256: Genesis i.23-25
Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings.
God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are spiritual realities.
Understanding the control which Love held over all, Daniel felt safe in the lions' den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless.
Patience is symbolized by the tireless worm, creeping over lofty summits, persevering in its intent.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Day 252: Genesis i.6-10
Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth.
Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind,--Life, Truth, and Love,--and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science.
Understanding is a quality of God, a quality which separates Christian Science from supposition and makes Truth final.
Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites understanding to eternal harmony.
Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Day 247: Today’s Question
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? (day 1, day 2)
For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence. In reality there is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its unlikeness, mortality.
Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.
All the evidence of physical sense and all the knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to Science, to the immortal truth of all things.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Day 243: Today’s Questions
Is it important to understand these explanations in order to heal the sick? answer
In order to heal by Science, you must not be ignorant of the moral and spiritual demands of Science nor disobey them. Moral ignorance or sin affects your demonstration, and hinders its approach to the standard in Christian Science.
One must fulfill one's mission without timidity or dissimulation, for to be well done, the work must be done unselfishly.
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism?answer
Not one of them is included in it. In divine Science, the supposed laws of matter yield to the law of Mind.
Science must triumph over material sense, and Truth over error, thus putting an end to the hypotheses involved in all false theories and practices.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Day 240: Today’s Question:What is man?
Quotes from answer:
Man is spiritual and perfect; and be cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin.
Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Day 198: Hold Fast to this Ideal
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.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Day 197: Defend Yourself
We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained, and we should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul, simply because, to the mortal senses, there is seeming discord. It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony. Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul.
Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity and healing the sick.
Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 195: Mentally Overworked?
Because mortal mind is kept active, must it pay the penalty in a softened brain? Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked? When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Day 171: Substantial Things
Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal are insubstantial.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Day 165: Progress
It is highly important--in view of the immense work to be accomplished before this recognition of divine Science can come--to turn our thoughts towards divine Principle, that finite belief may be prepared to relinquish its error.
Mortals may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts of being without striving for them. This strife consists in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to possess no other consciousness but good.
Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear,--this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Day 162: Spiritual Individuality
The individuality of man is no less tangible because it is spiritual and because his life is not at the mercy of matter. The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and enables him to conquer sin, disease, and death.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 152: Death of Material Sense
The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.
An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in taking the next step and in understanding the situation in Christian Science.
Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Day 148: Postulates of Christian Science
To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the material must be untrue.
The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Day 143: Spirit, not matter
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.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Day 136: Self-abnegation
Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.
Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual,--they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite,--in order that sin and mortality may be put off.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Day 118: Mortal Belief
By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death.This customary belief is misnamed material law, and the individual who upholds it is mistaken in theory and in practice.
It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.
God, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can cause evil and health occasion disease.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Day 74: Healing
Lots of good instruction in this reading about theology today.
We worship spiritually, only as we cease to worship materially.
Few understand or adhere to Jesus’ divine precepts for living and healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disciple to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye, – that is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs and practices, to leave all for Christ.
In healing the sick and sinning, Jesus elaborated the fact that the healing effect followed the understanding of the divine Principle and of the Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal Jesus.
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