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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Hymns 267,444,10
SH 465:8 (only)
Question.  —  What is God?
PRINCIPLE
1. Ps. 1:1,2
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BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
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But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate
day and night.
2. Ps. 19:7,8
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The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the
LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
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The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment
of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
1. SH 283:11 Principle
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Principle is absolute. It
admits of no error, but rests upon understanding.
2. SH 329:21 Principle
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Principle is imperative. You cannot mock it by human will. Science is a
divine demand, not a human. Always right,
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its divine Principle never repents, but maintains the claim of Truth by quenching error.
The pardon of divine mercy is the destruction of error. If
men understood their real spiritual source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual
and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mortal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to
spirituality, till error yields to Truth.
Error destroyed,
not pardoned
3. SH xi:9-14
The physical healing of Christian Science results
now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine
Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real12
ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally
and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and
sin to reformation.
4. SH 304:17
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Divine Principle is the Life
of man. Man’s happiness is not, therefore, at
the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not
contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful
as in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal.
Harmony natural
MIND
3. Job 28:12,23,24
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But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
understanding?
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God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
4. Rom 12:1,2
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I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service.
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And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
5. Luke 4:33-36
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¶  And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean
devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of
Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy
One of God.
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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and
hurt him not.
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And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a
word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean
spirits, and they come out.
6. II Tim 1:7 God
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a
sound mind.
7. I Cor. 2:16 we (to .)
we have the mind of Christ.
5. SH 262:30-31
Divine Mind is the only cause
or Principle of existence.
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6. SH 469:13-24 Mind
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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.
True sense of
infinitude
7. SH 394:10-12
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The admission that any bodily condition is beyond
the control of Mind disarms man, prevents him from
helping himself, and enthrones matter through error.
8. SH 393:8
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12
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Mind is the
master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,
sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take
possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.
Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike
good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing
can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on
man.
SOUL
8. Ps. 19:1
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THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handiwork.
9. Job 23:13 what
what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
10. I Cor. 6:20 glorify
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
9. SH 477:22-26
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Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not
in matter. Soul can never reflect anything inferior to
Spirit.
Man is the expression of Soul.
10. SH 210:11-16
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Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever
manifested through man, the Master healed the sick,
gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the
lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the
divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving
a better understanding of Soul and salvation.
11. SH 302:19
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The Science of being reveals man as perfect,
even as the Father is perfect, because the Soul, or Mind,
of the spiritual man is God, the divine Principle of all
being, and because this real man is governed by Soul
instead of sense, by the law of Spirit, not by the so-called
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laws of matter.
SPIRIT
11. Eph 5:9 the
the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
12. Rom. 8:14-17 (to 2nd ;)
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God:
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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
12. SH 124:25-26 (to 1st .)
Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all
things.
13. SH 63:5 In
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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.
Spiritual origin
14. SH 78:28
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Spirit blesses man, but man cannot “tell whence
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it cometh.” By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are
comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the
effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling
in eternal Science.
LIFE
13. Job 33:4
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The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath
given me life.
14. John 6:27 (to :)
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Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
15. I John 5:20
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And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that
is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
16. John 17:1-3
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THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee:
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As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him.
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And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
15. SH 98:15
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Beyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the
loosening grasp of creeds, the demonstration of Christian
Mind-healing stands a revealed and practical
Science. It is imperious throughout all ages
as Christ’s revelation of Truth, of Life, and of Love, which
remains inviolate for every man to understand and to
practise.
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Revelation of
Science
16. SH 325:10
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In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: “When Christ, who
is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also
appear [be manifested] with him in glory.”
When spiritual being is understood in all its
perfection, continuity, and might, then shall man be found
in God’s image. The absolute meaning of the apostolic
words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness,
perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, “hid with
Christ in God,”  —  with Truth in divine Love, where
human sense hath not seen man.
Indestructible
being
17. SH 200:9
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Life is, always
has been, and ever will be independent of
matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea
of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not
subject to decay and dust. The Psalmist said: “Thou
madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy
hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet.”
A mortal not
man
18. SH 76:6-10
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When being is understood, Life will be recognized as
neither material nor finite, but as infinite,  —  as God,
universal good; and the belief that life, or
Real Life is God
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mind, was ever in a finite form, or good in
evil, will be destroyed.
19. SH 228:3-6
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The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncrasies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact
of being were learned,  —  namely, that nothing
inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God.
No fleshly
heredity
TRUTH
17. John 8:32 ye
ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
18. James 1:18,19,22 be
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a
kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to
speak, slow to wrath:
be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
20. SH viii:12-15
The question, What is Truth, is answered by
demonstration,  —  by healing both disease and sin; and
this demonstration shows that Christian healing con15
fers the most health and makes the best men.
21. SH 288:31
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289:1
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The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have
learned from error, and man’s real existence as a child
of God comes to light. Truth demonstrated is eternal
life. Mortal man can never rise from the temporal débris
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of error, belief in sin, sickness, and death, until he learns
that God is the only Life. The belief that life and sensation are in the body should be overcome by the understanding of what constitutes man as the image of God.
Then Spirit will have overcome the flesh.
22. SH 26:14
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Divine Truth,
Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness,
and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of
celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does
for man.
23. SH 142:31
143:1
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Truth
is God’s remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day,
as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the
sick.
24. SH 162:4
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Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of
Truth, which invigorates and purifies. Christian Science
acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with
Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores
carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is
to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it
may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
Truth an
alterative
25. SH 418:20
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Truth is affirmative, and confers
harmony. All metaphysical logic is inspired by this simple rule of Truth, which governs all reality. By the
truthful arguments you employ, and especially by the
spirit of Truth and Love which you entertain, you will
heal the sick.
26. SH 380:4 Truth (only, to 2nd .)
Truth is always the victor.
LOVE
19. Zeph. 3:17
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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee
with singing.
20. I John 4:10-12,16 2nd God
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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his
Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth
in us, and his love is perfected in us.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
27. SH 6:17-18 God
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God is Love.” More than this we cannot ask,
higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go.
28. SH 225:21-22
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Love
is the liberator.
29. SH 412:13
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The power of Christian Science and
divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death.
30. SH 326:8-15
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All nature teaches God’s
love to man, but man cannot love God supremely and set
his whole affections on spiritual things, while loving the
material or trusting in it more than in the spiritual.
We must forsake the foundation of material systems,
however time-honored, if we would gain the Christ as
our only Saviour. Not partially, but fully, the great
healer of mortal mind is the healer of the body.
31. SH 239:16
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To ascertain our progress, we must learn where our
affections are placed and whom we acknowledge and
obey as God. If divine Love is becoming
nearer, dearer, and more real to us, matter is
then submitting to Spirit. The objects we pursue and
the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show
what we are winning.
Standpoint
revealed
32. SH 13:2
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Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and
bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, “Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.”
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33. SH 454:10-13,17
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Love is enthroned.
That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power,
is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is
the great truth which strips all disguise from error.
Love for God and man is the true
incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires,
illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives
give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to
speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of
Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the
waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.
Patience must “have her perfect work.”
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