God is Spirit
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?
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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
Spirit ~ words underlined by Helen Wright
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 thought of. No gulf of time separates the thinker from his thoughts, hence no time limit enters into the purely mental realm, and there is no other.
The only gulf of any description that ever separates mankind from good, is the gulf of vacuity or ignorance of an ever-present God expressed in infinite and perfect spiritual ideas filling all space, and always available to man.
We have now learnt that the so-called material accompaniments of any experience have no more reality than the sense entertained of them, and have also proved the practical effect produced on so-called material phenomena by thought corrected in accordance with the ideal standard. We can therefore face intelligently a so-called past event with the same assurance that we can face a present difficulty, knowing that both are merely false impressions. Each must be reduced to the common denominator, absolute good, which is the requirement of God in accordance with Scripture, and therefore in accordance with Principle. We in this state of consciousness can now prove by demonstration that “ That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past” (Eccles. 3:15).
“The past and the time to be are one, And both are now” (Whittier).
It is of great value to recognise this power and to see that there is no loss of time between the moment when a patient turns to God, in the form of writing to a practitioner for help, and the time the consequent prayer, or treatment, is humanly said to commence. This knowledge is invaluable in many different ways.
When, for instance, you have been in conversation with anyone and have forgotten to work for the mutual benefit—by realising heaven as you speak, knowing that in the perfect world man speaks truth and man knows Truth, as the only action is that of God, Truth—you can make up for this by work done afterwards. You must not forget, however, that a golden opportunity has been lost, as you might have prayed at the time and afterwards as well, and so more completely cleared away wrong thoughts. Space (fn2) is merely an apparent limitation in human consciousness which fails to recognise the unity of the one Mind and its one consciousness, the Christ. “The subjective states of evil, called mortal mind or matter, are negatives destitute of time and space; for there is none beside God or Spirit and the idea of Spirit ” (No and Yes, p. 16, Mary Baker Eddy).
1 “ Every great advance in the sciences consists of a vast generalisation revealing deep and subtle analogies” (Jevons). 2 “The notion of space is as little clear as that of time. Leibnitz defined it as the order of co-existence of phenomena, time being the order of their succession. Space and time are perhaps two forms of the same thing” (The Evolution of Forces, Dr. Le Bon).Show all
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Chapter 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.Show all
Spirit ~ More Treatments
Spirit ~ The New Birth ~ Treatment
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.
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.