Day 60:

112:3-113:32

The four propositions of Christian Science:

1. God is All-in-All.
2. God is good. Good is Mind. 
3. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 
4. Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin, disease.

These echo the first story of creation in Genesis. When looking for a mental argument, remember her mathematical usage of the propositions at the bottom of this page:

The divine metaphysics of Christian Science, like the method in mathematics, proves the rule by inversion. For example: There is no pain in Truth, and Metaphysical inversions no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no mind in nerve; no matter in Mind, and no mind in matter; no matter in Life, and no life in matter; no matter in good, and no good in matter.

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Day 59: Good versus Evil

109:32-112:2

These two pages have a line drawn. On the side of God is: man’s perfectibility and divine metaphysics. On the other side is: will defined as sensuous reason, and unreality called evil.

I know from my reading of this book last year what part human will plays (or more accurately doesn’t play) in Christian Science. I’m eager to learn how man’s perfectibility is explained in the book. I know some of it but I expect more since it is right here in these particular pages.

If you have a favorite phrase about man’s perfectibility in the book, please leave the page and line reference in the comments.

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Day 58: Christian Science on 1 Page

107:1-109:31

Mary Baker Eddy presents a complete picture of Christian Science with two separate paragraphs.

It was the divine law of Life and Love, unfolding to me the demonstrable fact that matter possesses neither sensation nor life, that human experiences show the falsity of all material things, and that immortal cravings, “the price of learning love,” establish the truism that the only sufferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind cannot suffer.

…the opposite of Truth, – called error, sin, sickness, disease, death, – is the false testimony of false material sense, of mind in matter; that this false sense evolves, in belief, a subjective state of mortal mind which this same so-called mind names matter, thereby shutting out the true sense of Spirit.

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Day 57: Self-government

105:22-106:29

Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

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Day 56:

104:3-105:21

I wonder if Mary Baker Eddy would be happy to know that intent is recognized by the court.

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Day 55: Despotic Control

102:1-104:2

Indolence, apathy, and despotic control. Wow. No one wants to be on the wrong end of that. The consistent care to look through these to God is needed. Standing porter when the enemy is attacking is much easier than when you invite him in.

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Day 54:

100:1-101:32

What if Mesmer got it all wrong from the beginning? What if the mutual power he saw was actual us reflecting God’s love but he didn’t know or understand it so he took it in a different direction.

What if these other theories (outside C.S.) are people who where on the cusp of something spiritual (truly God inspired), but they just couldn’t figure it out?

What if that happens everyday?

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