American Freedom Articles 1776-2024

AMERICAN FREEDOM - Thinking about Christian Science on this holiday is an opportunity to contemplate the value of the freedom upon which America was based which is an open door to strive to improve humanity NOT by promoting war which is just another name for evil, animal magnetism, devil.  Promoting war promotes an evil military industrial complex, as President Dwight D Eisenhower warned America in his departing speech at the termination of his second term as President of the United States of America.

PROMOTE unity, peace and the betterment of  humanity by devoting thought, speech, and action to the messages offered by these references from Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy:

GOD:  God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.  SH 14  Recapitulation 465:9

GOD. The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence. SH 17 Glossary 587:5

GOOD. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action. SH 5 17 Glossary 587:19

Scientific statement of being:
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. 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. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.  SH 14 Recapitulation 468:8

What is substance - Spiritual synonyms
Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: 'The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit.   SH 14 Recapitulation  468:19

 Question. — What is man?  Fleshly factors unreal
Answer. — 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 cannot be so unlike Spirit. 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.   SH 14 Recapitulation 475:5-22 
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