Scientific Statement of Being ~ Mary Baker Eddy

1- Mind Self Exam terms 26 - 30 of 61 
1. Heals, and that's shared with truth. So they both use that word image, idea, immortal, immortality.

2. Mary Baker Eddy uses the word immortal with the word mind & she uses it to absolutely refuse to accept its opposite. So she says mind is immortal, so it is immortal mind. And mind that is used with mortal is an oxymoron because mind is immortal. So you can't legitimately name mortal mind as a valid term because mind is immortal. And so you cannot connect something that is immortal with the word mortal because they are opposites.

3. One has to make a choice. Are they going to believe that mind is immortal or mortal?

4. If immortal mind is real, mortal mind is not only unreal, but self contradictory in terms. Therefore there is absolutely no power in mortal mind.

5. One could legitimately, in the scientific statement of being, the first sentence say that there is no life, truth, intelligence or substance in matter. And one could add anything to this that is un-God-like.

6. See page 115 where the four levels are, and you could call out everything that is in physical evil, beliefs, passions, appetites, fear, depraved will, self justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, death.

7. You could also add other key points that the one just discussed, which is mortal mind, electricity, inclement weather, earthquake, fire, storm of any kind, things such as wind that would be termed tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and of course any problem one may be working on dissolved to prove its nothingness.

8. Any falsity whatsoever that is not god-like personality is a good one.

9. She stresses how important it is to not attach evil to any personality.

10. Mortal man is another excellent one, because she specifically states that man is immortal, material man, because she states that man is spiritual.

11. Mary Maggioretti devoted every hour of the day, some period of time to do self examination, to make sure that she was not criticizing anyone. She was attacked all the time, just as was Jesus.

12. Revenge, resentment, the term finiteness, lust, any of the terms that are opposite to the seven synonymous terms. For every wholesome term there is an opposite, which is evil. So any of them, all of them, qualify for being a part of this sentence, stating clearly that there is no life, truth, intelligence or substance in it.

13. The next sentence, all is infinite mind & infinite manifestation. For God is all in all.

14. One could add that God is the only source, and source includes its manifestation. We are the manifestation of God, as it states in Genesis 1:27, and through the end of day 6.

15. Spirit is immortal, truth. Matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal. Matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is his image and likeness. We are individual manifestations of man. Therefore we are the image and likeness of God.

16. We are all brethren. And there can never be a conflict between brethren, for we are of the same source. And it's an harmonious relationship. It's not a conflict, it's not abrasive. It's not anything that is imbalanced.

17. No friction of any kind, in any form whatsoever, between one idea of God and another. And this is a law that is not only individual, but is collective and universal.

18. And you could end it by just repeating the last sentence after you've added all of the other items that line up with it. For man is spiritual. Amen.

19. The scientific statement of being is full of powerful suggestions of how to deal with any and every kind of evil. The more we feed these kind of connecting thoughts into our consciousness, it expands our ability to refute any kind of evil, any suggestion whatsoever that anything unlike God could be a part of man.

20. Man's character is pure because the only substance is spirit. And spirit is flawless. It can't be diluted, it can't be deflected, it can't be impaired.

21. From beginning to end, we reflect the perfection of mind, spirit, soul, principle, life, truth, love.

22. The second term of the five that we're studying is image. Mary Baker Eddy points out that we are barraged constantly with suggestions of mortal mind.

23. And it's very good to have a perfect image in thought that we can refer to to combat any suggestion of mortal mind.

24. If we look on that same page 115, where it discusses the four levels, the highest level is absolute, immortal, translated as God, idea, and man. So the next term of idea fits right in there.

25. The only idea that is real is one that is from God. In other words, God is the source, and that includes the manifestation.

26. Man is an idea of God. God is our source, and we can't be separated from that source.

27. The next term is immortal, and we've discussed that quite a bit. And the last one is immortality. So directly connected with each other that covers terms that are numbered from 26 to 30 of the 61 terms describing mind.

28. The Diapason of Heaven with a Focus on Mind by Mary Baker Eddy will be recited to close out this prayer treatment.

29. Mary Baker Eddy begins this prayer treatment with a quote from Miscellaneous Writings, page 206: the Real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven.

30. Good is my God and my God is good. Love is my God and my God is love.

31. She continues, we can declare often Divine mind is my mind and my mind is God. God is my mind and my mind is good.

32. I have an intelligent mind, a good mind, a wise, perceptive, discerning mind, a clear mind, a joyous, happy mind.

33. Mind is God ~ All acting, all wise, all loving, all knowing, all seeing.

34. Divine mind is enthroned in my consciousness. Mortal mind and matter and personal sense are not enthroned.

35. Ignorance, apathy and materiality are not enthroned in my consciousness.

36. Divine mind is enthroned. This is the Word of God. We have to change the subjective thinking we have of these seven names from personal sense to spiritual sense and see ourselves and others as spiritual individualities, not personalities.

37. This way is the only way. It is the way the Bible characters walked with God and ascended. Amen.