Christian Science Daily Thoughts ~ Index – 250101 to 250804
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250804 | Monday | System of Divine Metaphysics ~ 32 Planks ~ Intro | SYSTEM OF DIVINE METAPHYSICS ~ 32 PLANKS ~ INTRO Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus’ healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease. [SH 146:31-5] 32 PLANKS OF THE PLATFORM When the 32 planks of the platform is understood and the letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated. [Science & Health ~ Pg 330:9] Complete Platform View Tomorrow, we will begin presenting the 32 Planks with Mary Baker Eddy Institute extemporaneous prayer treatments and/or comments. Show all |
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| 2 | 250801-250803 | Friday-Sunday | Evil Network ~ Attack All Sides | EVIL NETWORK ~ ATTACK ALL SIDES PROCEDURE: 1. Find the specific evil that appears to be causing the problem. 2. Evil deceptive ~ be sure you are addressing the correct evil ~ cannot be myopic. 3. Expose evil ~ it will destroy most of itself ~ apply Truth to clean up what is left 4. Get yourself out of the way ~ look to Mind for direction 5. Utilize Mind to apply the medicine 6. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so ~ Shakespeare 7. All thoughts permitted into consciousness must be affirmations of Truth. 8. Live a life of giving, not taking ~ this is Love ~ required for healing 9. Be grateful for spiritual qualities symbolized by the visual things ~ not the things 10. There is no Life, Truth, intelligence, or substance in (name of problem). Substitute the name of the problem for term matter throughout the Statement of Scientific Being. [Science & Health - Pg 468] View 12. Keep your thoughts on Truth & not the problem ~ Every time the thought of the problem occurs, repeat the procedure from the beginning as needed. 13. To embed in consciousness Truth, not error, one must repeat Truth to one's consciousness. 14. Healing requires replacing years of compounded errors & therefore Truth must be repeated until the thoughts of error yield. Show all |
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| 3 | 250731 | Thursday | Evil, Depravity, Swamp Drain | EVIL, DEPRAVITY, SWAMP DRAIN 1. Four (4) levels of consciousness View 2. Depravity ~ Mortal mind ~ first degree ~ lowest level of consciousness 3. Step 1 ~ Discover the specific evil ~ utilizing the System of Divine Metaphysics 4. Step 2 ~ Expose the specific evil ~ Most of it will be self-destroyed 5. Step 3 ~ Destroy any remaining evil ~ utilizing the System of Divine Metaphysics 6. Mind is the medicine ~ Truth is the healer 7. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so ~ Shakespeare 8. Utilize Mind to fill consciousness with Truth to bring forth healing |
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| 4 | 250723 - 250730 | Wednesday - Wednesday | Intelligent Perseverance of Good | View | INTELLIGENT PERSEVERANCE OF GOOD |
| 5 | 250722 | Tuesday | Evil Exposed | EVIL EXPOSED ~ INDEX OF 10 PAGES View 1. See Link above for 10 complete presentations 2. Animal Magnetism Unmasked ~ See Science & Health Chpt 5 by Mary Baker Eddy (MBE) View 3. MBE was required by God to complete #2 above before publisher would publish first edition. 4. MBE emphasizes throughout Science and Health the importance of finding the evil, exposing it, and destroying it before any healing can take place. |
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| 6 | 250721 | Monday | System of Divine Metaphysics | SYSTEM OF DIVINE METAPHYSICS Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus’ healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease. [SH 146:31-5] 1. Mary Baker Eddy provided this valuable System. 2. The platform of the System includes 32 Planks [SH 330-340] 3. MBE Institute applies the System LIVE with the extemporaneous prayer treatments. 4. The 39 Household Topics utilize the System. 5. Mary Baker Eddy required her Household to study the 39 topics at the beginning of every day. 6. A grand new dimension is revealed utilizing the System. 7. Daily study of the System will expand the view of every student. Show all |
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| 7 | 250717-250720 | Thursday-Sunday | Self Improvement | Self Improvement ~ Proficiency The title = Clues for best spiritual advancement SEE BELOW 1. Change focus from Matter to Spirit ~ Step by Step 2. Be intuitive about implementing a life of giving 3. Time management 4. Goal management 5. Monitor progress 6. Constant refinements based on experience 7. Establish model + update with new inspiration continously 8. Facts Only ~ Eliminate all opinions Show all |
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| 8 | 250707-250716 | Monday-Wednesday | Future is very bright | Let’s see what is in store for us all… not the repressive worlds portrayed in many science fiction movies ~ but one similar to what has long been presented by the Star Trek series. We are about to step into our own Star Trek future that has largely already been created for us all without our knowledge. This has been done to protect humanity ~ our former controllers wanted nothing more than to destroy humanity and permanently enslave it in one form or another. That grim future has been removed from the one timeline and replaced by the bright positive timeline that has secured a future for Earth ~ humanity ~ one in which we take our rightful place as an interstellar civilization and beyond.
May the Light of the Creator shine upon all of us and within all of us. Show all |
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| 9 | 250701-250706 | Tuesday - Sunday | Transform from Govt Control to Citizen Sovereignty | TRANSFORM FROM GOVT CONTROL TO CITIZEN SOVEREIGNTY Infinite progression is concrete Being ~ Mary baker Eddy GOD ~ God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. [SH 465] 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 587] GOOD ~ God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action. [SH 587] MAN ~ The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind. [SH 591] Since God is infinite and the fact that everything real about us is by reflection of the infinite nature of God, there is NO limit to what we are able to permit to be revealed to us. The REAL record about us is Genesis 1:1 through 2:3. The FALSE record about us begins in Genesis 2:4. We NOW are experiencing in visible form the total transformation of everyone in all existence that is open to the transformation. See Homepage July 2025 View Show all |
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| 10 | 250630 | Monday | Principle is Absolute | Principle's government is divinely autocratic. It cannot be gainsaid. It is imperative, apodictical. We hear the
power sense of Principle. After stating what constitutes
the inner consistency of Principle, through its harmony, its system, and government, we now come to another aspect of Principle: Through the channel of system we see
that Principle operates in an absolute way. It is the dictatorship of Principle, and its counterfeit would be the dictatorship of people.
In the fourth day of creation, the day or stage corresponding to Principle, we have the government of the heavenly bodies-God's government of His ideas. The government of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, earth, and stars, shows a relationship in which these heavenly bodies are operating. It gives a sense of system and government. Our relationship with each other is likewise under the government of Principle, where all moves in harmony. 'Existence separate from divinity Science explains as impossible,' Mrs. Eddy says. In this existence, which is one with divinity and is governed by Principle, all ideas move and flow harmoniously, rhythmically, in relation to one another, as in the music of the spheres. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 410 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 11 | 250627 | Friday | Principle Governs Through a System | Principle is that which first programs the way of governing every detail through a system. That's government.
The government we have in Science is not democracy, which means people governing-government by, for, and of the people. Government in Science is theocracy, the government of God (God, meaning our own right Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love)- 'the kingdom of God within [our consciousness],' where everyone and everything is governed by its Principle and not by people, organizations, medicine, the weather, politics, or anything else. Therefore, whatever needs to be governed, be it the body, the business, relationships, or whatever, is under the government of the divine Principle, if we are Christian Scientists. In the textbook we can see that Mrs. Eddy only states the government of Principle and of nothing else. She acknowledges no government other than the government of Principle. Since there is nothing but God and His idea and since our true Mind and its idea is one thing, there is nothing between us and God so there can be no government but the government of Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 409 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 12 | 250626 | Thursday | Government | System leads to government. Comparing the definition of government with the definition of system we find
there isn't much difference. Government is the ruling of
Principle through a system. From one central point of
Principle every detail of the whole system is governed
harmoniously, so harmony, system, government just flow
into each other. The Principle of being must be the Principle in every idea. Government shows how it is going to do this. The principled nature of the one Principle is deduced and translated through all the categories of Principle to the point of each idea-to where we see how each idea is governed in a principled way. We can see from this that government usually implies a whole hierarchy of categories. Government usually demands hierarchy of classifications through which the one Principle translates itself and transforms itself into level, office, or aspect that is unique to every idea. We took up control under Mind and under Soul. Now we can see why Principle is not so much involved with the control as Mind is. In Mind's control, through Soul, we get the greater controlling the lesser. In a system we have to have checking points where we check every time we go into a new category to see that we don't leave the tonality of the category. In this identity checking we again note the tone of Soul. Only through that kind of control can the divine Principle be translated to the details without losing its nature, but that control is not itself an idea of Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 408 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 13 | 250625 | Wednesday | We must go forward | The lesson sermon met a need of the hour. It was
adapted to that age, and it was a great improvement over
what churches had before. But we must go forward. We
can't solve the problems of today with the methods of the
nineteenth century.
The main point in Principle is to see that what has been created by Mind, all the ideas of Mind, are gathered together in Principle, into one governing Principle. This gathering together forms not just one relationship of ideas inseparable from Principle-that could be mysticism-but rather it forms that relationship of ideas to Principle as a systematic relationship. It is a relationship that goes through the various categories and subcategories so that there is a whole system of ideas in which all the ideas are gathered together in one Principle. This is why we are learning to reduce the infinite into categories and classifications and why we are beginning to see the relationships that exist between these categories, whether it is the relationships that exist between the seven synonymous terms, or between the four sides of the holy city. Whenever we have categories within categories, and combine them, we get system. As we progress our whole attention is increasingly given to thinking in categories and therefore to thinking in relationships, and not so much to thinking just in truths, in facts. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 407 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 14 | 250624 | Tuesday | Church Scientists Use False Logic | An unscientific approach is meaningless. You can put
hundreds of thousands of data into one pot and every
time you stir it something else comes up, but it doesn't
lead anywhere. This is what happened in Christian Science. Individual sentences of the textbook were understood. Then people began to combine those sentences.
They randomly made seemingly logical relationships between statements-between one statement here and another statement somewhere else. This was a mistake.
What makes One one, is that the relationships are exact,
are definite. Just as there is but one way to put Hamlet
together and make sense, so there is but one way to put
sentences in Science and Health together and make sense.
We have to know the laws of relationship, the principle of relationship, the structural way of relationship. The logic of what church Scientists do in combining randomly seems convincing until one sees through it. They say, 'But an idea is always an idea of God, and God doesn't contradict Himself, so you can put any sentence together with any other sentence because each sentence is about God.' This is not good logic, because the 'putting together' must be a putting together of ideas in their own classification, on their own level, in their own classified relationship, or it doesn't make sense. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 406 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 15 | 250623 | Monday | Doorly First to See Scientific Structure | John Doorly was the first to see Christian Science in
its scientific structure. The literature which he, Max
Kappeler and other mature Scientists put out, is completely
different from the' authorized' literature of Boston.
One example is the work of Gordon Brown. In a recent letter Gordon Brown writes, 'Helen, you ask me if I will write you a paragraph concerning my time with John Doorly, and what this has meant to me during the intervening years. It would be difficult for me to do justice to this in a short paragraph.' Gordon urges instead that we direct readers to some of his writings. In his book Civilization Lieth Foursquare Gordon writes: In 1947, in the tone of Principle as Principle ... John Doody addressed his students on what he called The Need of the Hour. He stressed the necessity of looking out spiritually from the oneness and wholeness of the capitalized terms for God, rather than aspiring God-ward from the standpoint of the uncapitalized attributes for God. In this he showed the imperative need for the letter and spirit to be scientifically one, instead of divided from each other. Gordon goes on to remind us: Remember how, in 1889, at this very same point of Principle as Soul, and Principle as Principle, Mrs. Eddy dissolved both her church and College organizations, and so prevented a recurrence, in the realm of Christian Science, of the disaster that befell Judah and Israel. Her action served as the example to the Christian Science field, in the post 1910 era, not to become a kingdom divided against itself which is brought to desolation. This could not have happened if her provisions had been complied with, for then no ecclesiastical dictatorship would have arisen to cause the inevitable break-up. The reader should also see Gordon Brown's last book, That the World May Know, p.179-199. Gordon Brown's books, like Doorly's publications and those of other mature Christian Scientists, were system's own contribution to the unfolding idea of Mind. Understanding the system will enable us to unfold the idea. We will see the textbook always clearer and clearer, if we are pure in our scientific approach. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 404-406 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 16 | 250620 | Friday | How We Open Up the Treasure-Troves of Infinity | The infinite calculus is given to us through the system of Christian Science. Through system-through reduction-we get infinite multiplication. By reducing the
infinite to simple categories we open up the treasuretroves of infinity.
So let's become acquainted with the beauty and warmth the system of Christian Science holds for us. We can now see why system is an idea of Principle. Principle wants to classify; it wants to govern every part of the infinite realm through its channels of classification, categorization, sub-categorization, sub-classification, until every idea finds its proper place value within the whole. Then the idea can be understood in its relationship to the whole. We only understand an idea when we understand its relationship to the whole-understand it in its place value within the whole. Until we understand an idea in its place value within the whole we only make statements. We state truths but they are not scientific truths. Only scientific truths can be demonstrated: only scientific truths lend themselves to further unfoldment. This tells why Christian Science, for church Scientists, has not unfolded over the past three-quarters of a century, and why the articles in the Journal and Sentinel aren't as good as they were seventy-five years ago. The articles today bring nothing new. This is not development. As long as Science is studied just as statements we cannot unfold this Science. It is only when we know the system of a Science that we can unfold it, develop it. Only those who investigate the subject in its scientific structure can unfold the idea and the teaching of Christian Science. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 403 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 17 | 250619 | Thursday | How Do We Arrive at the System of Christian Science? | How did Mrs. Eddy reduce Christian Science to a system? Very much the same as any subject is reduced to a system. We have discovered that Mrs. Eddy had put a
whole number of certain ideas into one classification. For
example she put ideas like power, action, intelligence,
basis, creator, law, cause, etc., into one classification and
called that classification Mind.
This is how a science operates. A science doesn't start out with all the data and try to see how altogether they operate in a system, in one web of consistency. A scientist first has super symbols. He puts hundreds, even thousands, of data into one category. He reduces them to a system-' divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system.' The method of reduction is the method the scientist uses in order to arrive at harmony. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 402 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 18 | 250618 | Wednesday | System | We have harmony in Principle because we have system. System is closely related to harmony but with a little
different flavor. As we saw earlier, Mrs. Eddy speaks a
lot about harmony in relationship to Soul, where it is connected with balance, grace, beauty, symmetry, joy, satisfaction and so on, but Mrs. Eddy would never use system
with Soul.
Harmony in connection with system is concerned with the frictionless operation of parts. System is scientific, and as an idea of Principle it is also the relationship of parts, as in harmony. But system, instead of being just the relationship of individual data, parts, or facts, is much more the relationship of classifications and categories. Classifications and categories are much more fundamental for system. It is system that produces harmony. Religiouslyminded Christian Scientists at first feel system is cold, abstract. But when we know and understand system and what it means, we get a feeling of harmony-beauty, warmth, strength, joy, satisfaction-and everything that belongs to harmony. When our inner thinking becomes acquainted with what the system of Christian Science is, our attitude towards learning that system changes, because we begin to feel the reliability and security a system gives us. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 401 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 19 | 250617 | Tuesday | Harmony | The moment we have a frictionless connection or relationship of all with all, we have the concept of harmony.
Harmony means that each part of the whole is connected
with all the other parts of the whole in such a way that
they are acting according to the One, and not according
to the part. They are acting according to the Principle of
that unity, and not according to the parts of that unity.
We are all a part of a meaningful whole. We have seen that harmony is a scientific fact. In order to have harmony we need more than one thing; we need data. What is called harmony is the different data (whatever they are) related to each other in such a way as not to produce friction, but each supporting and helping the other. Harmony is a system of relationships, a web of relationship where each point is related to every other point in such a way that there is no friction. This web of relationships must be governed by one intelligence, one governing power and plan, so that the data and their relationship is brought back to the one. The infinite calculations in mathematics never experience friction or discord when they are in harmony with the principle of mathematics. 2 x 2 = 4 doesn't collide with 2 x 3 = 6. Likewise heaven is harmony where one reflection doesn't interfere with another reflection in their frictionless association. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 400-401 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 20 | 250616 | Monday | Universe | The idea 'universe' also characterizes Principle.
Why? Universe, as we saw, comes from the Latin-'unus'
meaning one + 'vertere,' meaning to turn, giving it the
root meaning 'turned into one,'-combined into one
whole. We don't have universe in the plural. It is a totality-all is brought into one relationship-where everything is related to everything else in an intelligent and
meaningful way.
Universe means all is turned into one thing. Nothing
happens outside of the one Being. Each idea is in frictionless relationship with every other idea.
[Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 400 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 21 | 250613 | Friday | That Consciousness Which God Bestows | This brings us to the unity of God as an idea characterizing Principle. Unity here does not mean human unity.
It means unity only of ideas. In Science we only have the
unity of the facts through relationships. It is only as we
all are the expression of one divine Principle that there is
unity and Christian fellowship. To have unity, 'man must
harmonize with his Principle, divine Love.' When we
harmonize with our Principle we harmonize and are in
true unity with each other. This is what it means to have
If that consciousness which God bestows' ('the kingdom
of God within you').
The Principle we are unites all ideas. Immanuel means the unity of God with us. This unity of God with us can only come about through assimilating the teachings of Christian Science. In the measure that Science and Health becomes the structure of our consciousness, the false Adam-dream structure drops into oblivion, 'unknelled, unconfined, unknown.' Our new structure of consciousness has evolved from the sixteen chapters of the textbook. Divine Science has ushered in the new structure. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 399 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 22 | 250612 | Thursday | "You Are the Principle" - MBE | Mrs. Eddy brings out the indestructible relationship
of Principle and idea. In reality each one of us is the Principle, having an expression. When Science is understood
as our very being the whole fabrication of priestcraft dissolves. We see we are not mortals struggling to become
one with our Principle, we now are the Principle in omni-action. The only thing that is ever going on is God-our
Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love-reflecting
ourself to ourself, out of ourself, through ourself, as ourself, and for ourself. Mrs. Eddy speaks of the human consciousness as ' ... that consciousness which God bestows,'
which can't be another consciousness than God's own
consciousness; hence the indestructible relationship.
[Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 398 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 23 | 250611 | Wednesday | How We Build Up Structure | Every science finds the relationships and the structure-studies how its subject is built up. This is why' in
our study of the seven synonyms, we have considered
especially the relationships of the synonyms and of the
ideas associated with them. We took a term like 'law,'
and we didn't just say law is law, and because law is law,
law is law. We considered relationships and found how
law was related to all the other terms we had under Mind,
because of the inner meaning of law. 'What does law
mean?' was a consideration. Seeing the relationship of law we could see that law can only be law if within itself
it is related to power. So we made a relationship with
power and we said law must be power. Well, power can
only be power if it has action. Therefore law must be
related to action. In this way we began to build up the
structure of law. We can see that the term law has a structure within itself. It says, 'I am related to power; I am
related to action, I am related to intelligence; I can't be
law without having a cause for an effect, so I am related
to cause.' A law is always the same law, it never varies,
never makes a mistake, therefore it must be related to
unerring intelligence.
In this way we build up a structure called law. This is no longer just a fact-finding activity. This new sense of Science is fact-arranging, fact ordering, finding relationships in the way that we found law was related to all the other terms we had under Mind. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 398 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 24 | 250610 | Tuesday | What Causes the Text to Be Meaningful? | What did we do? We did not consider data. We considered relationship. We asked 'In what relationship
does this sentence stand with regard to the problem under consideration in the paragraph? What was its relation to the problem stated or taken up in the paragraph?'
Relationship is what is important, because relationship
is asking: 'Is this the answer to a question? Is it the conclusion of a proposition that went on before? In what
relationship does this sentence stand to the other sentences in the paragraph?
Approaching the text with this method of ferreting out the relationship of a sentence to the rest of the paragraph or even the whole chapter, causes the text to become understandable and meaningful. From now on let's read the textbook not just as ideas, but as ideas related to a Principle, ideas related to a whole system. Let's see an idea related to the whole structure of the textbook, an idea related to other ideas. It is now relationships we are going to read, and no longer sentences, no longer facts. This is important in reading the textbook. From now on we are going to read the textbook as relationships and not as sentences. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 397 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 25 | 250609 | Monday | Seeing the Relationship Between the Facts | In the Science we are studying it is the relationship
between the facts that is important. We can therefore see
that reading the textbook as statements, as isolated statements, is not giving us the truth of the teaching. It is different with ordinary education. If students study a 600-
page book on geography diligently for a year they know
what is in the book. If they spent the same amount of
time on the Christian Science textbook, they would still
have no idea, after a year, what they have been reading. Why? First, because they don't know the synonymous terms, and second, because they read statements and not relationships. When we were considering references in the textbook, often they were just short statements, but to get the sense of them we had sometimes to read what went before, maybe even a paragraph or two, and also sometimes what followed. It was necessary to get the larger frame of reference before we could see what the little sentence within the bigger frame of reference means. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 396 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 26 | 250606 | Friday | What Makes the Infinite One? | Relationship is that which makes infinitude one. In
this century every science has begun to see that relationship is much more important than the data, the facts. The
sciences are now seeing that what should be investigated
is the relationship between the facts. The facts per se are
not scientific facts. It is only when these facts are related
in a broader, greater whole, that they become scientific
facts. This is the new concept of the sciences today.
Bronowski was one of the first to introduce the new concept of science, decades ago, when he wrote that Science
is not a fact-finding activity, but a fact-arranging activity,
a fact relating activity, a fact ordering activity. Fact-finding collects the data, but as he said, fact-finding is not a
science. Fact-finding is the work of encyclopedia makers.
A person can know an encyclopedia by heart, but he only
knows, he doesn't understand, and therefore he can't
evolve a science with the knowledge he gains from an
encyclopedia.
What is necessary to be a scientist is to be conversant with the relationships that facts have with each other; to be able to see the reasonable relationship, the intelligent relationship between facts. Science is not primarily concerned with knowing facts. It is knowledge of relationships. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 395 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 27 | 250605 | Thursday | Science is Knowledge of Relationship | Putting idea back into Principle and seeing that Principle and its idea is one is only possible because of one of
the most basic characteristics of Principle, namely, relationship. What is the tone here? Why is relationship so
important? Only on the ground that infinite ideas are related can the infinite become one. It is only because infinitely individualized ideas are related that they can be put into one system, into one operative Principle. Reality consists of infinitely diversified phenomena. This is something the philosophers have always puzzled over. They have seen the infinitely diversified phenomena, and yet they felt there was oneness, unity. On the one side we have infinitude, and on the other side we have one. They seem to be opposites, antipodesinfinite and one. How can the infinite phenomena and the one be reconciled? This is a prime question today even in subatomic physics. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 394 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 28 | 250604 | Wednesday | What Am I, As Principle? | We have to put the idea back into its Principle and
then consider the bigness of Principle, and see what, as
Principle, I am. We have to see what it means when we
put the idea back into Mind, Spirit, Soul and fill our
thought with Mind, Spirit, Soul. If we do this, then we
see that this Principle that I, in reality, am, having 'the
kingdom of God within [me],' can't help but operate. As
what? As Life, Truth, and Love.
If we do this then we have put a single idea back into the whole definition of God and we have freed it from the sense that we personally should demonstrate it, that we personally are responsible for it, that it depends on us whether or not the idea works. All this feeling of personal responsibility is taken away and put back into the authority of the Principle. Let's remember, where Principle is, the idea is, just as in mathematics. Where the principle of mathematics is, the idea of mathematics is, and where the idea is, the principle is. The idea is always in its Principle and is invested with the nature of Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 393 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 29 | 250603 | Tuesday | Putting the Idea Back Into Its Principle | Why must we put the idea back into its Principle?
Because by putting it back into its Principle we give
to that idea all the authority of Principle, the whole governing power of Principle. If we ask, 'How can I put this
idea into use?' this is wrong. We can't put it into use; we
have to see that an idea is an idea of Principle, and in
consciousness we must take it back to Principle and see it
has come from Mind so it is still in Mind and we must put
it right back into Mind as the Principle of all, and so invest the idea with the authority of Principle instead of the
authority of our doing something with it. It must be taken
away from person, and put back where it came from. We must see that it is still related to Principle. Principle has to take care of this idea and operate this idea. Principle has to demonstrate this idea the way Principle wants to demonstrate it, as Life, Truth, and Love, and not the way we would like to demonstrate it. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 390-392 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 30 | 250602 | Monday | Principle and its Idea | When Mrs. Eddy speaks of Principle and its idea it is
always to convey the definite, perpetual, unbreakable relationship existing between Principle and its infinite ideas.
God, our true being, is All-in-all, so all is Principle and its idea. The Principle can only be learned or understood through its idea (as in any science). Without an idea through which to manifest itself, Principle couldn't be learned, comprehended, understood, and we would have no proof of its existence. The idea must be seen in its Principle. We must reason from divine Principle and its spiritual idea. Mrs. Eddy says, 'Spiritual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle ... [they] lead up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense of being.' It is all a question of the relationship of Principle to idea and of idea to Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 389 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 31 | 250530 | Friday | What gives us Power? | In our study of Soul we learned that spiritual sense
and spiritual understanding identifies us with God, 'the
kingdom of God within' us, with Soul, as the one and
only identity. Now, arriving at Principle, we see that being thus identified gives us spiritual power. When we
reach Principle we look out from Principle, from the new
frame of reference that the weaving of Mind, Spirit, Soul
into one unit has given us. From this vantage point we
will see that' all is one grand concord.' When we come
to Principle, as in the principle of any subject, we do not
have to strive and struggle; we only have to know what
is. Knowing what is, what the facts are, is what gives us
the power. Knowing the principle in mathematics is what
gives us the power in mathematics. The power we have
in Christian Science lies only in knowing and spiritually
understanding the facts The facts are stubborn things,
though to mortal sense they are irrelevant. In Science we
must understand the facts, the Principle, and what that
Principle involves-how the system of Principle is concerned with the harmonious relationships of all ideas,
operating in the whole. In order to have harmony in music
we must have the right relationship of musical sounds
within the whole. It is the same with the triune Principle,
Life, Truth, and Love.
Our work today in putting Mary Baker Eddy's 430 editions of Science and Health on the Internet is one of the watershed events in the technological history of the world. All of this is to say we have been moving fast up the learning curve. Another great technological achievement will take place a few years hence, when every nation's people will be able to read the English version in their own language. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 388 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 32 | 250529 | Thursday | The Triune Principle: Life, Truth, and Love | The triune Principle is Life, Truth, and Love. What
does this mean? When Person is capitalized it means the
Person of God. The Person of God is Principle; and Life,
Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God.
As mother to ourselves we are divine and eternal Principle, Life, Truth, and Love, when we understand this Principle of our being. When we come to Life, Truth, and Love, we will see that only that lives (Life) which is true (Truth), and this is our salvation (Love). The Bible refers to God as Life, as Truth, as Love (uncapitalized in the Bible) and as Spirit. Mrs. Eddy defined God additionally with the capitalized terms Mind, Soul, and Principle. Principle as a synonym for God was needed to show the fundamental oneness and harmonious operation of the ideas of the infinite. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 387-388 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 33 | 250528 | Wednesday | All Ideas Have the Same Principle | We come now to the main point: all ideas have the
same Principle. This is the fourth step in the order of Science, so let's review the line of reasoning leading to Principle. Mind is the creator, the cause that brings forth all ideas. Mind creates only ideas. Spirit then comes, saying, 'These ideas constitute reality; they are substantial, and they are substance that is spiritually tangible.' Soul says, 'But each idea is different from every other idea, different in form and quality. Each idea is distinct. Each idea has distinct identity. Each idea of Mind has an identity of its own completely different from every other idea of Mind. Each idea is infinitely identified.' It is Soul's province to show that each idea has a different identity from every other idea. This is why we have this infinite rarefaction of ideas, this infinite variety of ideas. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 386 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 34 | 250527 | Tuesday | All Ideas Harmonize With Principle | When we think about the creative Principle we must
think about Mind, Spirit, Soul, the prerequisites of true
creation. This is what is meant by the' creative Principle,'
which Mrs. Eddy speaks of, in the chapter Genesis, before she goes on to show the other side of God, the trinity
of Life, Truth, and Love.
We have Mind, Spirit, Soul wedded into one system of ideas as our creative Principle, expressing God's creative nature. This creative nature of God consists of Mind which creates all as idea; of Spirit which gives these ideas birth, unfoldment, development; and of Soul which gives these ideas definiteness and clear-cut identity, unalterable, unmistakable identity. Mind, Spirit, and Soul set forth the unchangeable nature of the creation of idea and the inseparable relationship between idea and its creator as well as the harmonious interrelationship of ideas. All ideas conform to, and harmonize with, the one divine Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 385 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 35 | 250526 | Monday | The Nature of Life Can't Be Different From Mind, Spirit, Soul | Everything that comes after Principle, as an outcome
of Principle, must have the nature of Principle. It must
have the nature of Mind, Spirit, and Soul, and not a nature of something different from Mind, Spirit, and Soul.
Principle cannot demonstrate a nature of life that is different from Mind, Spirit, and Soul.
The prerequisites for anything that should be demonstrated lie in Mind, Spirit, Soul. Therefore anyone trying to demonstrate life in matter, life in the body, shows he doesn't understand the nature of divine Principle, since Principle is not matter, is not in body. Our Principle is Mind, Spirit, Soul. We can't wish to see Life, Truth, and Love demonstrated in mortal mind, matter, body, or wish to see it expressed in the material universe in body, in matter, because this is the wrong attitude; it is not in line with the teaching of Christian Science. We should try to demonstrate this Principle in Life in spite of mortal mind, in spite of matter, in spite of body, and not in order to demonstrate it in the mind of people, in matter, in body. This is a different attitude. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 384 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 36 | 250523 | Friday | Principle Demonstrates Itself As Life, Truth, and Love | Here we see how Mind, Spirit, and Soul are giving us the nature of our Principle, but what about Life, Truth and Love? How do they fit? In the Science of being the Principle of being is actually Mind, Spirit, and Soul, and what
they imply. One might say, 'The Principle isn't Life, Truth, and Love. Life, Truth, and Love is the way this Principle expresses itself, demonstrates itself, operates itself.'
Mrs. Eddy shows that in order to demonstrate the divine Principle we cannot start with demonstrating the divine Principle in any other way than to first get a good knowledge of what constitutes the nature of this Principle. We can't demonstrate God as the Principle unless we first have this knowledge; otherwise what is it that we are going to demonstrate? What is the nature we are going to demonstrate? If we are going to demonstrate life, what kind of life are we going to demonstrate? Is it life in matter that we are going to demonstrate, or Life in Spirit? Are we going to demonstrate life in body or Life in Soul? [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 383-284 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 37 | 250522 | Thursday | What Kind of Principle is God? | If God is the Principle of all, we naturally ask, 'What
kind of a Principle is it? What is the nature of this Principle? What constitutes its nature? What are its constituents?' When we are considering mathematics or
music we can't just say there is a principle. We must
know what constitutes that principle.
In the case of
Principle, the constituents are Mind, Spirit, Soul. To understand how Mind, Spirit and Soul show the nature of Principle, consider the term 'creative.' Why
does Mrs. Eddy speak of the creative Principle in contrast to Mind that is creative? She says Mind is the creator, Mind creates, but now she speaks about the creative Principle. Why?
Here, in Principle, 'creative' is an adjective. What is it that is creative? We have seen that in order to bring forth a creation we need the creative Mind, Mind as the creator; but we also need Spirit that gives birth and brings forth, unfolds, develops the ideas of Mind, because if it doesn't unfold we really don't have a creation. But even unfolding and bringing forth isn't enough. That which is created through the unfolding stages of Spirit must have definite identity, so we need Soul also, for only when we have a creation of infinite definite identities have we established in consciousness the universe of ideas, the nature of ideas. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 382 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 38 | 250521 | Wednesday | Mind, Spirit, Soul, the Nature of the Creative Principle | We can look at Principle in two ways: either as the
creative Principle, namely Mind, Spirit, Soul, which gives the nature of Principle, or as the triune Principle, Principle's expression, which Mrs. Eddy calls Life, Truth,
and Love.
Principle has two wings. One wing shows the nature of Principle, the creative Principle as Mind, Spirit, Soul; the second wing, on the other side of the definition, is Life, Truth, and Love as the demonstration of that Principle, or the essence of that Principle. What does the essence mean in relation to nature? It means the really important part about the nature. Essence is the concentrated sense of something; in essence Principle operates as the living Principle (Life), as the factual Principle (Truth), and as the Principle that is the Principle of all and everything (Love). Principle must be considered as that which takes together, in one, these two wings. Under the wings of Principle we find all the other synonymous terms. Principle says, 'I am the Principle of everyone of those synonymous terms.' Later we will see Mind is the Principle of. . what? Spirit is the Principle of ... ?Soul is the Principle of ... ? We will see what each is the Principle of. Each synonymous term has its Principle-is the Principle of its ideas. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 381-382 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 39 | 250520 | Tuesday | Comparing system with Harmony | It is interesting to compare the definition of system with the definition of harmony, They are almost the same. There is but a slight difference between system and harmony. Harmony is the Soul-sense of system. But underlying both is the concept of exact relationship and interrelationship in which there is no crisis, no chemicalization,
no irritation.
Everyone yearns for harmony; but harmony can only be established on the basis of system. Without system there is no harmony. The attainment of harmony demands more than just a Soul sense, it demands a scientific understanding of the interrelationship of all ideas, the blending of ideas, the categorization of ideas. Religion can never bring about harmony because it has no system to rely on, no divine system. Only a Science can bring harmony-a Science that builds on true ideas and understands how these ideas operate. With this background we turn to our study of Principle where we will find the ideas under Principle are not very numerous, and more or less always the same; so getting the tonality of Principle should be easy. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 380-381 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 40 | 250519 | Monday | Principle brings Harmony | Because there is only one Principle and because all ideas
are united through definite relationships, these relationships must be harmonious. Harmony is an idea characterizing Principle. We brought out harmony of relationships
when we blended the different ideas characterizing Mind,
showing the synonymity principle, namely that a creator,
to be a creator, needs power, intelligence, action, vision. We saw that all the ideas listed under Mind were synonymous with Mind, and therefore could be blended with each other in harmonious relationship. We saw that an idea like power could only be power if within itself it was related to, or in harmony with, every other idea, if, in other words, the All was in the all. Each idea was as big as God, qualitatively, because of the relationship principle, the synonymity principle. In order to understand Principle's system we must understand this harmonious relationship of ideas. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 380 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 41 | 250516 | Friday | A system of Ideas | An important idea of Principle is system. System is
necessary in proving a principle. Just as we have system
in arithmetic, we have system in Principle, and that system is necessary for demonstration, for Principle to prove
itself. Principle is not going to prove itself to us until the
idea within us is one with its Principle. In order for the
idea to be one with its Principle it must be in line with the
system, meaning our consciousness must be aligned with
the whole system of the categories of Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 379 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 42 | 250515 | Thursday | Omniscient solution to any problem cannot be blocked | 1. Solution is always from level higher than the level of where the problem appeared 2. Every problem appears on a level of so-called matter and mortal mind - unreality 3. Every permanent solution is revealed at the spiritual level - reality 4. Spirit is the only substance = for all topics 5. Mind is the source of all intelligence 6. God is omni-intelligence 7. Mind being omni = no competition or opposition 8. We have the tools = our responsibility to work out the solution 9. Love = nurturing the area that needs support to reveal wholeness 10. The only power obtainable is from the good we do and embody - MBE SH 11. Persist in declaring Truth until the revelation results in healing Show all |
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| 43 | 250514 | Wednesday | Principle Must Have Ideas | Principle is the pivot that is fundamental and foundational. It is basic for every interpretation. I therefore go out from Principle and I see that Principle is always the Principle of its own ideas.
Without ideas there would be no need for a Principle. Principle demands a universe of ideas, ideas that are governed by one central Principle. These ideas that have been created by Mind, unfolded by Spirit, and identified by Soul, cannot be deprived of relationship with Principle. They are the demonstration of that one Principle and are kept within the unity of Principle and idea. They do not leave the Principle; they are always united with the Principle. Principle is the Principle of the universe. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 377-378 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 44 | 250513 | Tuesday | Principle: The Pivot and Foundation | 1. Mind, Spirit, Soul are the nature of the Principle of being. In other words Mind, Spirit, Soul, taken as one, make up Principle. Mind is the creator; Spirit is that which evolves, unfolds, develops everything; Soul makes what is evolved definite, and sees that it has unchangeable identity. This is the creative nature of Being. This is the Principle on which we can build.
2. Principle asks us to take the standpoint of this Principle that is Mind, Spirit, Soul as one operation. This Principle then demonstrates itself as Life, Truth, and Love. 3. Principle, what you are in reality, is the pivot around which the synonymous terms rotate. The foundation is Mind, Spirit, and Soul from which Life demonstrates it self; Mind, Spirit, Soul is the foundation which, as Principle, brings forth the true form, the healthy form of Truth, and shows the fulfillment of everything in Love. This is 'the kingdom of God within you.' 4. Once we have touched the Principle and have seen that Principle is our consciousness-our consciousness of Mind, our consciousness of Spirit, and our consciousness of Soul-then that Principle begins to demonstrate itself. 5. The Principle then begins to live (Life), to show itself as the saving truth which corrects everything (Truth), to show that Love is the fulfilling of this Principle (Love). [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 Pg 377 ~ Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 45 | 250512 | Monday | Principle ~ Interpreted by Science of Divine Metaphysics | Science interprets the Principle 1. Principle must be stated accurately in its Science. 2. Principle is the Principle of all sciences. 3. Principle interprets itself through its system of categories, classifications, and self-operating calculus. 4. Principle explains itself by interpreting itself. 5. Principle is always working as a self-operating Principle. 6. Principle proves itself through a system of ideas and interrelationships. 7. Principle unites all into one through relationship, bringing all into relationship with Principle. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 7 ~ Pg 376 by Helen Wright] Show all |
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| 46 | 250509 | Friday | Spirit ~ Reality replacing false concepts | Mary Baker Eddy steps to cure the problem: 1. Find and expose the evil. 2. Eradicate it. 3. State the counter-fact. 4. Apply the System of Divine Metaphysics [Mary Baker Eddy Institute] Real versus Unreal Question. — What are spirits and souls? Answer. — To human belief, they are personalities constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the most important to understand. [SH 14:466 by MBE]Show all |
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| 47 | 250508 | Thursday | Criticism | View | Criticism is fault-finding. It shuts you out of heaven. It will darken all your skies. It will keep you from demonstrating for yourself and others. It will bar you from progress. It leads you into all trouble. It leads you into all discord, into all unkindness, impatience, hard heartedness, unfriendliness—and finally into all evil, hatefulness envy. Just as long as that spirit of criticism remains in your thought, and you leave it there, just so long will not progress, just so long will you not be able to demonstrate, just so long will you not be able to find your way in Truth, because you will be looking for faults constantly. You are fault finding on a mortal, material plane. [Francis J. Fluno] Criticism ~ MP3 Criticism ~ PDF Fluno Index |
| 48 | 250507 | Wednesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Principle | View | We must hallow this word “Principle” as a name for God. Declare often: there is only one Principle, and this is my infinite, all-present, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-acting, all-loving Principle. Principle is my God and my God is divine Principle. Good is my Principle and my Principle is good. [Mary Baker Eddy] |
| 49 | 250506 | Tuesday | God's standard | God is Love. Can we ask Him to be more? God is intelligence. Can we inform the infinite Mind of anything He does not already comprehend?
Do we expect to change perfection? Shall we plead for more at the open fount, which is pouring forth more than we accept? The unspoken desire does bring us nearer the source of all existence and blessedness. [SH 2:24-30] Putting self aside, opens the door to the omni-intelligence of God. This divine source is all-knowing. Therefore, this is the One and only guide of reality. [Comment by Mary Baker Eddy Institute] |
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| 50 | 250505 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind | View | Mind is God, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, all-knowing, all-seeing. Divine Mind is enthroned in my consciousness. Mortal mind and matter and personal sense are not enthroned. Ignorance and apathy and materiality are not enthroned in my consciousness. [Mary Baker Eddy] |
| 51 | 250331 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Spirit | We must declare often that Spirit is not an invisible personality inhabiting a material body. Spirit has no other meaning than God, and substance. We must declare there is only one Spirit and that is God. Spirit is my God and my God is Spirit, individual, incorporeal, immaterial. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 52 | 250327 | Thursday | Spiritual Language | God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, spiritual. Christian Science attaches no physical nature and significance to the Supreme Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do this. God's essential language is spoken of in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel as the new tongue, the spiritual meaning of which is attained through "signs following." [SH Pg 117: 6-13 by Mary Baker Eddy] |
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| 53 | 250326 | Wednesday | Science ~ Aim of Science and Divine Personality | Aim of Science A correct view of Christian Science and of its adaptation to healing includes vastly more than is at first seen. Aim of "Vorks on metaphysics leave the grand point Science untouched. They never crown the power of Mind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against physical enemies, - even to the extinction of all belief in matter, evil, disease, and death, - nor insist upon the fact that God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind. Divine Personality Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that Divine God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, - that is, personality bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is incorporeal. [SH Pg 116: 10-23 by Mary Baker Eddy] |
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| 54 | 250325 | Tuesday | Watchfullness Requisite | Index | Simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness. We reach the Science of Christianity through demonstration of the divine nature; but in this wicked world goodness will "be evil spoken of," and patience must bring experience. [SH Chpt 1 Prayer] |
| 55 | 250321-250324 | Friday - Monday | Soul ~ Spiritual Senses | Abide in the 91st Psalm and know that such abiding is treatment and protection. There is nothing that can make laws or influence you. There is but one Mind and that is Love. Do not give life to evil by attaching it to a person or thing. It cannot live without a body. Man is immortal, one. There is but one infinite manifestation. No error can attach itself to man and why deceive ourselves by thinking it can do so? Every manifestation of life is ever-present and omnipresent good and this carries within itself all healing, sustaining. Know that the kingdom of heaven is within you and this is your armor. [Click PDF to view complete article ~ Pgs 222-227] | |
| 56 | 250320 | Thursday | Soul & Spirit Redeem Mankind | The term souls or spirits is as improper as the term gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence, soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism are the outcome of all man-made beliefs. The Science of Christianity comes with fan in hand to separate the chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright, and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually. [Chpt 14 - Pgs 466:7-31 by Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 57 | 250319 | Wednesday | Soul vs spirits Real vs unreal What are spirits and souls |
What are spirits and souls? ~ To human belief, they are personalities constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the most important to understand. [SH 466] | |
| 58 | 250318 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven | The 7 Diapason of Heaven treatments by Mary Baker Eddy include all 7 terms for God. Below are definitions for God.
GOD is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. [SH 465] 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 587] GOOD ~ God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action. [SH 587]Show all |
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| 59 | 250317 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Life | Life is holy. We must hallow this word, for it is a sacred name for God. Declare often: There is only one Life, and that is God. There is no personal life. My life is God, an infinite, incorporeal, all-encompassing, all- present, all-active, everlasting Life. Declare that God, good, is the only Life of man. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 60 | 250314 | Friday | Deliverance not vicarious ~ Household #2 | Final deliverance from error, whereby we rejoice in immortality, boundless freedom, and sinless sense, is not reached through paths of flowers nor by pinning one’s faith without works to another’s vicarious effort. Whosoever believeth that wrath is righteous or that divinity is appeased by human suffering, does not understand God. (ibid) [SH 22:15 ~ Household #2 by Mary Baker Eddy] |
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| 61 | 250313 | Thursday | Creation ~ Household #5 | MP3 | Thoughts are things: Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts. (SH 261:2) [Household #5 by Mary Baker Eddy] |
| 62 | 250312 | Wednesday | Footsteps of Truth ~ Household #4 | MP3 | The only way: There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality—to have no other consciousness of life—than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses (242:9). [Household #4 by Mary Baker Eddy] |
| 63 | 250311 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Love | Love is my God and my God is Love. Good is my God and my good is Love. Love is my God and my love is good. Love is my Principle and my Principle is Love. Love is the law of my being. Divine Love is enthroned in my consciousness as my God. This is the Word of God. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 64 | 250310 | Monday | Atonement and Eucharist ~ Household #1 | MP3 | Wait for reward: “Work out your own salvation,” is the demand of Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you. “Occupy till I come!” Wait for your reward, and “be not weary in well doing.” If your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a sluggard in the race. (SH 22:11) [Household #1 by Mary Baker Eddy] .. Click Mp3 to listen to the complete text |
| 65 | 250307 | Friday | Mind | MRS. Eddy’s momentous discovery in the second half of the nineteenth century has revolutionized the world. In simplest words it is that mind is the cause of all effect. If mind embraces and emits Truth and Love it is God. If mind embraces and emits fear, error, or belief, it is evil, a lie. In 1866 only one individual on earth could see the magnitude of this great discovery. [TICS ~ 2011-07 ~ VOL 36-01 ~ Pgs 7-11] | |
| 66 | 250306-250305 | Thursday & Wednesday | Freedom | Excerpt 1949 Association Paper ~ It is important to know what freedom is and how it is accomplished. It is not just by the rejection of error, but to know a thing is not true. It is the individual alone who can make evil an unreality. Actually, freedom begins with the rejection of error. Freedom comes to the beholder first, and this is divine freedom -- the only freedom there is. ~ What is freedom? There are many opinions but CS supplies the only answer. A Christian Scientist understands freedom. Divine Science interprets “I am free.” It must be freedom, not license. [Mildred L. LeBlond C.S.B] | |
| 67 | 250304 | Tuesday | Devil | Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: " I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind, — a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god and put into the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after its own image." [SH 584 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 68 | 250303 | Monday | Man | The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind. [SH 591 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 69 | 250228 | Friday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Truth | Truth is a sacred name for God. We must divest it of all materiality. Declare often: Truth is my God and my God is Truth. Good is my Truth and my Truth is good. Truth is enthroned in my consciousness. Error and materiality are not enthroned. This is the Word of God. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 70 | 250227 | Thursday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Soul | We must hold Soul in consciousness only as a sacred name for God. We have to rise above the belief that Soul is an invisible personality residing in a fleshly form, with a personal identity. Soul must be recognized as a name for God and a name by which God is to be worshiped. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 71 | 250226 | Wednesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Spirit | We must declare often that Spirit is not an invisible personality inhabiting a material body. Spirit has no other meaning than God, and substance. We must declare there is only one Spirit and that is God. Spirit is my God and my God is Spirit, individual, incorporeal, immaterial. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 72 | 250225 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Principle | We must hallow this word “Principle” as a name for God. Declare often: there is only one Principle, and this is my infinite, all-present, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-acting, all-loving Principle. Principle is my God and my God is divine Principle. Good is my Principle and my Principle is good. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 73 | 250224 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind | View | Mind is God, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, all-knowing, all-seeing. Divine Mind is enthroned in my consciousness. Mortal mind and matter and personal sense are not enthroned. Ignorance and apathy and materiality are not enthroned in my consciousness. [Mary Baker Eddy] |
| 74 | 250221 | Friday | Man never less than man | Man undergoing birth, maturity, and decay is like the beasts and vegetables, — subject to laws of decay. If man were dust in his earliest stage of existence, we might admit the hypothesis that he returns eventually to his primitive condition; but man was never more nor less than man. If man flickers out in death or springs from matter into being, there must be an instant when God is without His entire manifestation, — when there is no full reflection of the infinite Mind. [SH 244:13-22 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 75 | 250220 | Thursday | Mind ~ Deformity & Perfection | Sickness, sin, and death are not the fruits of Life. They are inharmonies which Truth destroys. Perfection does not animate imperfection. Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error. Divine Science reveals these grand facts. On their basis Jesus demonstrated Life, never fearing nor obeying error in any form.
If we were to derive all our conceptions of man from what is seen between the cradle and the grave, happi9 ness and goodness would have no abiding-place in man, and the worms would rob him of the flesh; but Paul writes: 'The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.' [SH 243:30-12 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] Show all |
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| 76 | 250219 | Wednesday | Mind ~ Perpetual youth | Disappointed in love in her early years, she became insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she was still living in the same hour which parted her from her lover, taking no note of years, she stood daily before the window watching for her lover's coming. In this mental state she remained young. Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew no older. Some American travellers saw her when she was seventy-four, and supposed her to be a young woman. She had no care-lined face, no wrinkles nor gray hair, but youth sat gently on cheek and brow. Asked to guess her
age, those unacquainted with her history conjectured that
she must be under twenty.
This instance of youth preserved furnishes a useful hint, upon which a Franklin might work with more certainty than when he coaxed the enamoured lightning from the clouds. Years had not made her old, because she had taken no cognizance of passing time nor thought of herself as growing old. The bodily results of her belief that she was young manifested the influence of such a belief. She could not age while believing herself young, for the mental state governed the physical. Impossibilities never occur. One instance like the foregoing proves it possible to be young at seventy-four; and the primary of that illustration makes it plain that decrepitude is not according to law, nor is it a necessity of nature, but an illusion. [SH 245:5-31 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] Show all |
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| 77 | 250218 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind | Love the light of victory evolved ~ Mind is light ~ “The real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven: ‘Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love.’” (Mis. 206:19) [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 78 | 250217 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Love - Part 2 | Mrs. Eddy writes in Miscellaneous Writings, “The real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven: ‘Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God and my God is Love (Mis. 206:19-23). We must mentally and orally, perpetually repeat, “Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God and my God is Love.” | |
| 79 | 250214 | Friday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Love - Part 1 | Love is my God and my God is Love. Good is my God and my good is Love. Love is my God and my love is good. Love is my Principle and my Principle is Love. Love is the law of my being. Divine Love is enthroned in my consciousness as my God. This is the Word of God. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 80 | 250113 | Thursday | Spirit & Soul | What are spirits and souls? — To human belief, they are personalities constituted of mind and matter, life and death, truth and error, good and evil; but these contrasting pairs of terms represent contraries, as Christian Science reveals, which neither dwell together nor assimilate. Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Truth is limitless; error is limited. Truth is intelligent; error is non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is unreal. This last statement contains the point you will most reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the most important to understand. Mankind Redeemed The term souls or spirits is as improper as the term gods. Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural. Heathen mythology and Jewish theology have perpetuated the fallacy that intelligence, soul, and life can be in matter; and idolatry and ritualism are the outcome of all man-made beliefs. The Science of Christianity comes with fan in hand to separate the chaff from the wheat. Science will declare God aright, and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually. [SH 466:7-31 ~ Mary Baker Eddy]Show all | |
| 81 | 250212 | Wednesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind | Divine Mind is my Mind and my Mind is God. God is my Mind and my Mind is good. I have an intelligent Mind, a good Mind, a wise, perceptive, discerning Mind, a clear Mind, a joyous, happy Mind. Mind is God, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, all-knowing, all-seeing. Divine Mind is enthroned in my consciousness. | |
| 82 | 250211 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Soul | We must hold Soul in consciousness only as a sacred name for God. We have to rise above the belief that Soul is an invisible personality residing in a fleshly form, with a personal identity. Soul must be recognized as a name for God and a name by which God is to be worshiped. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 83 | 250210 | Monday | Truth ~ Perfection | There are 3 introductory quotes at the beginning of Science & Health. The first quote states ~ we need to understand Truth. The second one states ~ what we think is going to be our experience. Therefore, we must let Truth be what we are thinking about as we are doing our spiritual perception, our spiritual looking. Mary Baker Eddy examined herself hourly to be sure her focus was on the Truth about everyone & everything, which means that no evil was accepted, but only Truth was recognized to be real. Doing this enabled her to heal any problem instantaneously. This is our guide. [MBEI] | |
| 84 | 250207 | Friday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Truth | Truth is a sacred name for God. We must divest it of all materiality. Declare often: Truth is my God and my God is Truth. Good is my Truth and my Truth is good. Truth is enthroned in my consciousness. Error and materiality are not enthroned. This is the Word of God. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 85 | 250206 | Thursday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind | Love the light of victory evolved ~ Mind is light ~ “The real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven: ‘Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love.’” (Mis. 206:19) [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 86 | 250205 | Wednesday | Gates ~ The royally divine gates | As the Psalmist saith, "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." It is indeed a city of the Spirit, fair, royal, and square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star, the Word, the polar magnet of Revelation; eastward, to the star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient, who followed it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies, — the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society into solemn union; westward, to the grand realization of the Golden Shore of Love and the Peaceful Sea of Harmony. [SH 575:22-2] | |
| 87 | 250204 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Life | Life is holy. We must hallow this word, for it is a sacred name for God. Declare often: There is only one Life, and that is God. There is no personal life. My life is God, an infinite, incorporeal, all-encompassing, all- present, all-active, everlasting Life. Declare that God, good, is the only Life of man. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 88 | 250131 | Friday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Spirit | We must declare often that Spirit is not an invisible personality inhabiting a material body. Spirit has no other meaning than God, and substance. We must declare there is only one Spirit and that is God. Spirit is my God and my God is Spirit, individual, incorporeal, immaterial. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 89 | 250130 | Thursday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Soul | We must hold Soul in consciousness only as a sacred name for God. We have to rise above the belief that Soul is an invisible personality residing in a fleshly form, with a personal identity. Soul must be recognized as a name for God and a name by which God is to be worshiped. [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 90 | 250128 | Tuesday | Gethsemane glorified | During his night of gloom & glory in the garden, Jesus realized the utter error of a belief in any possible material intelligence. The pangs of neglect and the staves of bigoted ignorance smote him sorely. His students slept. He said unto them: 'Could Ye not watch with me one hour?' Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voice less agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world? There was no response to that human yearning, and so Jesus turned forever away from earth to heaven, from sense to Soul. Remembering the sweat of agony which fell in holy benediction on the grass of Gethsemane, shall the humblest or mightiest disciple murmur when he drinks from the same cup, and think, or even wish, to escape the exalting ordeal of sin's revenge on its destroyer? Truth and Love bestow few palms until the consummation of a life-work. [SH 47-48 ~ Mary Baker Eddy]Show all | |
| 91 | 250127 | Monday | 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 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. [SH 469:25 to 470:10 ~ Mary Baker Eddy]Show all | |
| 92 | 250124 | Friday | Mind ~ Impossible Coalescence | Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power except that which is derived from Mind. If Mind was first chronologically, is first potentially, and must be first eternally, then give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due its holy name. Inferior and unspiritual methods of healing may try to make Mind and drugs coalesce, but the two will not mingle scientifically. Why should we wish to make them do so, since no good can come of it? [SH 143:26-2 ~ Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 93 | 250123 | Thursday | Freedom ~ deny evil ~ affirm Truth | Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. — John viii. 32 Freedom is the key to a civilization that desires peace. The freedom one seeks is freedom from any & all evil. When we have freedom from evil, we then cultivate only Truth. The real Truth about man is that we are given freedom as a part of our heritage from our real Father, which is God. "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love" ~ [SH 465]. When we are free, that means that we are reflecting all of these qualities from our origin, which is our one & only Father. |
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| 94 | 250122 | Wednesday | AMERICA ~ Pledge of Allegiance | One Nation Under God ~ America is Above All Storms "I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all." |
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| 95 | 250121 | Tuesday | The Power of Mind ~ Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 04 | WE STAND IN AWE before the great fact that we can learn the nature of God, of Being, as Mind. Mrs. Eddy taught that the primal slavery was accepting human life as defined by the physical senses. IN CLASS she started her revelation at a single point in her students' thinking, namely, their concept of God. Each student had to explain his concept of God. Then, for three days Mrs. Eddy would open up to them a view of divinity that transformed the world they had known. SHE PRESENTED them with a divine Principle that knew no pain or death. Click to view complete details |
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| 96 | 250120 | Monday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind Part 2 | Divine Mind is my Mind and my Mind is God. God is my Mind and my Mind is good. I have an intelligent Mind, a good Mind, a wise, perceptive, discerning Mind, a clear Mind, a joyous, happy Mind. Mind is God, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, all-knowing, all-seeing. Divine Mind is enthroned in my consciousness. Mortal mind and matter and personal sense are not enthroned. Ignorance and apathy and materiality are not enthroned in my consciousness. Good is my Mind and my Mind is good. Mind is my God and my Mind is good. Divine Mind is enthroned, etc. This is the Word of God. | |
| 97 | 250117 | Friday | Substance or Spirit | Question ~ What is substance? Answer ~ 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 synonyms 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. [Mary Baker Eddy ~ SH 468] |
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| 98 | 250116 | Thursday | God or Principle | Question. - Is there more than one God or Principle? Answer - There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying all. Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifestations of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter, and have one Principle. [Mary Baker Eddy ~ SH 465-466] |
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| 99 | 250115 | Wednesday | Spirit is Omnipresent | The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. [Luke 4] SILENT EXAMPLE: We each are anointed by God if we reflect His qualities, all of which are spiritual. One of the most valuable ways to deliver all messages from God is by silent example. [MBEI] |
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| 100 | 250114 | Tuesday | Diapason of Heaven ~ Mind Part 1 | Love the light of victory evolved ~ Mind is light ~ “The real Christian Scientist is constantly accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven: ‘Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love.’” (Mis. 206:19) [Mary Baker Eddy] | |
| 101 | 250113 | Monday | Treating back in time or Treating Backwards | View | “Before Abraham was, I am” ~ Christ Jesus “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer” ~ Isaiah “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been” ~ Eccl. Realize that nothing is impossible to GOD ~ Realize that there is no such thing as time “ Treating backwards ” is the term applied to treatment when the person treated desires the apparent effect of the treatment to take place at a given time in the past. [Frederick L Rawson] |
| 102 | 250110 | Friday | God ~ Seek Him First | “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness…..” ~ Christ Jesus Treatment is the word used to indicate that form of prayer which is based upon right thinking, namely, thinking of absolute good. It is actively thinking of the world of reality. The word treatment therefore signifies the line of demarcation between prayer thus understood and prayer based upon supplication addressed to a distant omnipotent being who, many think, may or may not answer or even hear the cry of the suppliant. [Frederick L Rawson] |
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| 103 | 250109 | Thursday | Mind ~ True sense of infinite | 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. 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. [Science and Health ~ Chpt 14 Recapitulation ~ Pg 469] | |
| 104 | 250103 | Friday | Love ~ The Universal Plan
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Love ~ The Universal Plan of Love Everything that happens in the creative Mind-everything which is unfolded through Spirit, identified in Soul, and governed by the central Principle, then operated as the newness of Life, which shows in Truth the actuality of being-this is all going on for one big purpose. It is going on in order to fill a universal plan." This plan is the plan of Love. [Your Divinity Revealed ~ Helen M Wright] |
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| 105 | 250101 | Wednesday | Progress ~ A continuous opportunity to begin anew | A New Year is a Continuous Opportunity For Progress. Selected Definitions from Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures. Chpt 17 ~ Glossary |
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