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God is Spirit ~ Treatment

Spirit ~ Term For God ~ Treatment

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. ~ SH 465 ~ Mary Baker Eddy
How does Spirit & its related qualities connect and interact in one grand network with all 7 terms for God?

                                                  Treatment ~ MP3 ~ 52 min 

Spirit ~ Definitions

Spirit ~ Science and Health 17 ~ Glossary

Spirit ~  Pgs 594:19 to 21 by Mary Baker Eddy

SPIRIT.  Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, ever-lasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite. 

Spirit ~ Words and Opposites ~ Science and Health

ALPHA List by Mary Baker Eddy Institute
ALPHA List of all words from Science & Health for the synonymous term Spirit for God and its opposite                           MP3
Spirit ~ Mary Baker Eddy’s references Contained Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures

                                                Spirit ~ words underlined by Helen Wright

Spirit ~ Science and Health 14 ~ Recapitulation ~ What is Substance?
Chapt 14 Recapitulation ~ Pgs 468:16-24 
Article by Mary Baker Eddy

Spiritual Synonyms 
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 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. 

Spirit ~ Science and Health 14 ~ Recapitulation ~ What are Spirits and Souls?

Chapt 14 Recapitulation ~ Pgs 466:7-31 
Article by Mary Baker Eddy

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. 

Mankind Redeemed
The term souls or spirits is as improper as the termgods. 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.

                    Spirit ~ The Metaphysical View of Time and Space ~ Frederick L Rawson

Life Understood From a Scientific And Religious Point of View by Frederick L Rawson, 457 pgs

A CONSISTENT THEORY OF MATERIAL PHENOMENA - Page 79
The Metaphysical View of Time and Space. (fn 1) The fallacy of what is called time is easily seen on looking at it from a purely metaphysical standpoint. In Mind everything is available; in heaven you only have to think of anything to have it. There is no limit of time in eternity. All the vistas of the past and present are spread out to the mental vision at the moment they are Show all
Spirit ~ Your Divinity Revealed by Helen M. Wright
Spirit ~ A Scientific Analysis of the Synonymous Term for God ~ Chapter 5 ~ Introduction
The Office of Spirit 

What is the office of Spirit? To answer this we will need to examine two things, namely, what Spirit is, and how Spirit is differentiated from Mind. We will expound the inner nature of Spirit, and also its distinctive nature as compared with Mind.
As we do this, we will begin to see how each further synonymous term we take up for study in this manner enables us to understand the preceding synonyms better. Through the differentiation between Mind and Spirit, in tonality, we begin to realize, to a greater degree, what Mind actually is. The comparison with Spirit (and later with the other synonyms) will make it more concrete, more tangible, and the identity of the tone will come out more clearly.
This results in another advantage; as we get the flow from Mind to Spirit we will begin to see there is an irresistible order of Mind leading to Spirit. We will see that Mind demands Spirit, and afterwards that Mind and Spirit demand Soul. In this way we find there is an ordered flow from Mind to Spirit, to Soul, to Principle, up to Love. Spirit ~ Your Divinity Revealed ~ Chpt 5

Spirit ~ A Scientific Analysis of the Synonymous Term for God ~ Chapter 5
Subtitle List for Science and Health Topics for Spirit

Pgs 228 to 230 - Subtitle List

What Spirit Means 
What Spirit is
What Spirit Does
What Spirit Has
What Spirit Deals With
Spirit Interprets Itself 
Words Mrs. Eddy Uses to Describe SPIRIT             
      
 Complete list of references on pgs 228-230
Spirit ~ Quotations
Science and Health ~ Preface
Science and Health ~ Preface ~ Pg 8: 9-12 

Theology and physics teach that both Spirit and matter are real and good, whereas the fact is that Spirit is good and real, and matter is Spirit's opposite. 
Science and Health ~ Chpt 3 ~ Spiritual Origin
Chpt 3 ~ Marriage ~ Pgs 63:5-11

Spiritual Origin 
In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.

Science and Health ~ Chpt 4 ~ Spiritualism

Chpt 4 ~ Christian Science Versus Spirtualism ~ Pgs 73: 3-7 

Spiritualism calls one person, living in this world, material, but another, who has died to-day a sinner and supposedly will return to earth to-morrow, it terms a spirit. The fact is that neither the one nor the other is infinite Spirit, for Spirit is God, and man is His likeness.

Science and Health ~ Chpt 4 ~ Spirit Intangible

Chpt 4 ~ Christian Science Versus Spiritualism ~ Pgs 78: 21-27

Spirit Intangible
Spirit is not materially tangible. How then can it communicate with man through electric, material effects? How can the majesty and omnipotence of Spirit be lost? God is not in the medley where matter cares for matter, where spiritism makes many gods, and hypnotism and electricity are claimed to be the agents of God's government.
Science and Health ~ Chpt 6 ~ Science, Theology, Medicine
Chpt 6 ~ Science, Theology, Medicine ~ Pgs 124: 25-31

Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification.
Science and Health ~ Chpt 7 ~ Spirit is Positive
Chpt 7 ~ Physiology ~ Pgs 173: 11-16

Spirit is Positive
What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material mentality. Neither the substance nor the manifestation of Spirit is obtainable through matter. Spirit is positive. Matter is Spirit's contrary, the absence of Spirit. For positive Spirit to pass through a negative condition would be Spirit's destruction.

Science and Health ~ Chpt 7 ~ Physiology

Chpt 7 ~ Physiology  ~ Pgs 192:4-10

We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ. Human opinions are not spiritual. They come from the hearing of the ear, from corporeality instead of from Principle, and from the mortal instead of from the immortal. Spirit is not separate from God. Spirit is God.
Spirit ~ Science and Health ~ Chpt 14 ~ Recapitulation
The Scientific Statement of Being ~ Pgs 468:8-15

Question. — What is the scientific statement of being? 
Answer. — 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.
Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ Spirit The Starting-Point
Science and Health ~ Chpt 10 ~ Science of Being ~ Pg  275: 1-9  

Spirit The Starting-Point 
Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipresent and omnipotent Mind. This shows that matter did not originate in God, Spirit, and is not eternal. Therefore matter is neither substantial, living, nor intelligent. The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.

SH ~ Chpt 10 + Subtitles

                                               Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ The Immortal Birth

Science and Health ~ Chpt 7 ~ Physiology ~ Pg 191: 8-15

The Immortal Birth
As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine Principle of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to "where the young child was," — even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes. Thus the whole earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light, chasing away the darkness of error.

Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ The Clouds Dissolving

Science and Health ~ Chapt 15 ~ Genesis ~ Pg 548: 9-17

The Clouds Dissolving
How little light or heat reach our earth when clouds cover the sun's face! So Christian Science can be seen only as the clouds of corporeal sense roll away. Earth has little light or joy for mortals before Life is spiritually learned. Every agony of mortal error helps error to destroy error, and so aids the apprehension of immortal Truth. This is the new birth going on hourly, by ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being. 

 

Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ Genesis ~ LET the Spiritual Birth be individual birth ~ Bible Quotation
Note:  Every place where there is an important statement, it begins with the word 'LET'.

Bible ~ King James Version ~ Genesis 1:1 to 2:3

Chapter 1
1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the Show all

Spirit ~ More Treatments

Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ Treatment

Let the New Birth come forth. The limits of time & space are removed as we understand there is no life, truth, intelligence, or substance in matter. They are mental illusions. ~ MP3 – 39 min by Mary Baker Eddy Institute                               Spirit ~ The New Birth
Spirit ~  Pgs 594:19 to 21 by Mary Baker Eddy

SPIRIT.  Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, ever-lasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite. 

God ~ Spirit ~ Evil ~ How to Negotiate with the Devil

Treatment ~ 1 of 2 ~ 57 min MP3
How to Negotiate with the Devil ~ 1 of 2

Suggestions include:
1. Definitions for negotiate, devil.
2. Network where all the factors are working in harmony as per divine Principle.
3. Scientific & methodical process in accordance with the quote below from Science & Health page 146.
"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." 
How to Negotiate with the Devil ~ Includes Nuclear War ~ 2 of 2
Suggestions include:
1. See How to Negotiate with the Devil 1 of 2.
2. Definitions for nuclear.
Treatment ~ 2 of 2 ~ 50 min MP3