Christian Science Definitions – Mary Baker Eddy Institute

Christian Science ~ Definitions & Quotes

Intro Quotes to Sci & Health1. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [John viii. 32] 2. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. [Shakespeare] 3. Oh! Thou hast heard my prayer; And I am blest! This is Thy high behest: Thou here, and everywhere. [MBE] View Bible ~ Authority The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in "the straight & narrow way" of Truth. [SH 126:30-31]

Definitions ~ Reality Nothing new under the sun Truth has no start or end The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. [Eccl 1:9 KJV] HEAVEN Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul. [SH 587:25] View I or EGO Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind. There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God's creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material. [SH 588:9] View INTELLIGENCE Substance; self-existent and eternal Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited. [SH 588] View JESUS The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality. [SH 589:16] View KINGDOM OF HEAVEN The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme. [SH 590] View MAN See section in column on right side MAN DEFINITIONS Reality vs Unreality MIND See section in column on right side MIND DEFINITIONS Reality vs Unreality SOUL And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. [Luke 12:29,31] ~ [Historic Bible Lesson from Feb 14,1909 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] TIME See section in column on right side TRUTH ONLY For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. [Luke 12:2-3 KJV] Note: Truth does not change and therefore is eternal. [MBEI]

Definitions ~ Man Reality vs Unreality

MAN ~ REALITY MAN ~ Bible, MBE, MBEI 1. MAN ~ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: So God created man in his own image ... [Genesis 1:26] 2. Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. [SH 475] 3. MAN ~ The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind. [SH 591:5] 4. There is nothing new under the Sun. [Eccl 1:9] 5. SENSES ~ Reduce material = increase spiritual. 6. God's work done = Individual action required. 7. #1 Recognize & eliminate focus on material life. 8. #2 Nurture focus on spiritual life. 9. #3 Progress = Spiritual thought, speech, action. 10. All of the above completed = Ready to do it. MAN ~ SH 17 Glossary The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind. [SH 591:5] MAN ~ 14 Recapitulation [SH 475:5 to 477:18] Fleshly factors unreal ~ Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness.The likeness of Spirit can't be so unlike Spirit.

MAN ~ BIBLE ~ GENESIS 1 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male & female created he them. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. [Genesis 1:26,27,31] MAN ~ UNREALITY MORTAL MAN ~ A MORTAL NOT MAN Whoever is incompetent to explain Soul would be wise not to undertake the explanation of body. Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust. The Psalmist said: "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet." [Chpt 7 ~ Physiology ~ SH 200:8-15] FEAR ~ PEOPLE vs GOVT Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing ~ Edmund Burke "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people" ~ [Anonymous] There should be no fear of the govt or fear of the people, but a good Christian Scientist will do their metaphysical work, thinking of Principle as being both balanced & harmonious. Truth is representing honesty & integrity for everyone. Being passive is not being a good individual. Love is not looking the other way, but demanding obedience to the laws of God, which are the laws of the universe.[MBEI]

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Man is spiritual and perfect; and because 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. And God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Man unfallen
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. A mortal sinner is not

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God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil, which declares that man begins in dust or as a material embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.

Mortals are not immortals
Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life and intelligence are in matter, and that this matter is man. God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and immortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen children of God. They never had a perfect state of being, which may subsequently be regained. They were, from the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must disappear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal man.

Imperishable identity
Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal man: "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." The kingdom within When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;" that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the perfect

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man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect nor material.

Material body never God's idea
Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but Christian Science reveals man as the idea of God, and declares the corporeal senses to be mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science shows it to be impossible that a material body, though interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man, the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated.
[Chpt 14 Recapitulation ~ SH 475:5 to 477:18]

Definitions ~ Mind Reality vs Unreality

MIND ~ REALITY MINDThe only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God, of whom man is the full & perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined. [SH 591:12] View What is Mind? [Chpt 14 ~ SH 469:12 to 471:21] True sense of infinitude ~ Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. View

                            MIND ~ UNREALITY
MORTAL MIND Nothing claiming to be something, for Mind is immortal; mythology; error creating other errors; a suppositional material sense, alias the belief that sensation is in matter, which is sensationless; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of matter; the opposite of Spirit, and therefore the opposite of God, or good; the belief that life has a beginning and therefore an end; the belief that man is the offspring of mortals; the belief that there can be more than one creator; idolatry; the subjective states of error; material senses; that which neither exists in Science nor can be recognized by the spiritual sense; sin; sickness; death. 
[Chpt 17 Glossary ~ SH 591:25] View

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There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God.

The sole governor
We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and has all-power, we still believe there is another power, named evil. This belief that there is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With

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one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science. The supposed existence of more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and universal.

The divine standard of perfection
Divine Science explains the abstract statement that there is one Mind by the following self-evident proposition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can only seem to be real by giving reality to the unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins? The standard of perfection was originally God and man. Has God taken down His own standard, and has man fallen?

Indestructible relationship
God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's being. If there ever was a moment when man did not express the divine perfection, then there was a moment when man did not express God, and consequently a time when Deity was unexpressed — that is, without entity. If man has lost perfection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle or Mind, then man's existence was a myth.

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and

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idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.

Celestial evidence
The unlikeness of Truth, — named error, — the opposite of Science, and the evidence before the five corporeal senses, afford no indication of the grand facts of being; even as these so-called senses receive no intimation of the earth's motions or of the science of astronomy, but yield assent to astronomical propositions on the authority of natural science. The facts of divine Science should be admitted, although the evidence as to these facts is not supported by evil, by matter, or by material sense, — because the evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God's reflection. God is infinite, therefore ever present, and there is no other power nor presence. Hence the spirituality of the universe is the only fact of creation. "Let God be true, but every [material] man a liar."

[Chpt 14 Recapitulation ~ SH 469:12 to 471:21]

Definitions ~ Unreality SH 17 ~ Glossary & SH 6 ~ Science, Theology, Medicine

 GODS  Mythology; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material; a supposition of sentient physicality; the belief that infinite Mind is in finite forms; the various theories that hold mind to be a material sense, existing in brain, nerve, matter; supposititious minds, or souls, going in and out of matter, erring and mortal; the serpents of error, which say, "Ye shall be as gods." 
God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot become finite and imperfect. [SH 587:9]

 HELL  Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie." [SH 588]

 MATTER  Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life in non-intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death, and death in life; sensation in the sensationless; mind originating in matter;

the opposite of Truth; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief. [SH 591:8] HOW DID JESUS RECOGNIZE MATTER? If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was "the way, the truth, & the life," cognize it? Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission was to translate substance into its original meaning, Mind. [Misc 74:11-29] Click to view complete text PDF UNREALITY ~ PHYSICAL Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear,depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death. [Chpt 6 Science, Theology, Medicine ~ SH 115:21] 4 Levels of Consciousness SH Pgs 14-17 View

Quotes

Time ⚪ “Before Abraham was, I am” ~ Christ Jesus ⚪ “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer”. [Isaiah 65:24] ⚪ “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been”. [Eccl 3:15] ⚪ Realize that nothing is impossible to GOD ~ Realize that there is no such thing as time. ⚪ One Step at a Time ~ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. [Isaiah 28:10 ~ KJV] ⚪ Time ~ Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.[Isaiah 46:10 ~ KJV] ⚪ Time ~ Heal back in time ~ Learn how to treat back in time ~ Frederick L Rawson proved how to do it atleast 500 times re cases of all kinds. ➡️ Complete Page View Human Tendency ⚪ Politician Human Tendency ~ “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” ~ Benjamin Franklin. Lips of Truth ~ One mighty breath When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath She’ll, like a whirlwind, scatter in its breeze The whole dark pile of human mockeries; Then shall the reign of Mind commence on earth, And starting fresh, as from a second birth, Man in the sunshine of the world’s new spring, Shall walk transparent like some holy thing.” [Mary Baker Eddy]

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