Loving and Living God's Qualities Blesses and Heals
September 2, 2015
Hymns 58, 423, 266
The Bible
I Cor. 12:1 concerning, 7 1st the
Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. … the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Matt. 4:23 (to Jesus); 5:1-13 seeing (to :), 14-16
And Jesus, seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he
was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught
them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed
are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do
hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the
merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they
shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the
children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’
sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall
revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward
in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Ye are the salt of the earth: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on
an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Rom. 8:14-17 1st as (to 2nd ;), 26 (to 1st :), 28, 35, 37-39
As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 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. The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; … Likewise the
Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: … And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. … Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom. 12:2 1st be
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.
II Pet. 1:2-4 (to ,), 5-7 beside, 10 for
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath
called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
… beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity. … for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy
SH 2:5-7 the, 16-17
The desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our
Father, and it does not return unto us void. Goodness attains the
demonstration of Truth.
SH 113:17 God (only, to 2nd .)
God is good.
SH 465:9 God
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life,
Truth, Love.
SH 275:12-24
Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, combine as one, — and are the Scriptural names for
God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and
effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of
the infinite divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no
truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but
the good God bestows.
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly
that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence,
omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science. Hence all is in
reality the manifestation of Mind.
SH 516:9-12
God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence,
Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and
permanence.
SH 281:14
The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which
supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in
individual spiritual man and things.
SH 475:7-14 (to ;), 19-20 2nd which (to ;)
The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God.
Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit.
Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must
be so understood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of Love; …
which has not a single quality underived from Deity;
SH 94:3-6
Man reflects infinite Truth, Life, and Love. The nature of man, thus
understood, includes all that is implied by the terms “image” and “likeness”
as used in Scripture.
SH 409:20
The real man is spiritual and immortal, but the mortal and imperfect socalled “children of men” are counterfeits from the beginning, to be laid aside
for the pure reality. This mortal is put off, and the new man or real man is
put on, in proportion as mortals realize the Science of man and seek the true
model.
SH 265:1-3
Man is the offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind.
SH 460:5-13
Our system of Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the nature and
essence of all being, — on the divine Mind and Love’s essential qualities. Its
pharmacy is moral, and its medicine is intellectual and spiritual, though used
for physical healing. Yet this most fundamental part of metaphysics is the
one most difficult to understand and demonstrate, for to the material
thought all is material, till such thought is rectified by Spirit.
SH 259:6-11 The
The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon
mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted their lives higher than their
poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as
fallen, sick, sinning, and dying.
SH 462:23-30 Are
Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question. This branch
of study is indispensable to the excision of error. The anatomy of Christian
Science teaches when and how to probe the self-inflicted wounds of
selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It teaches the control of mad ambition. It
unfolds the hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spiritual
love.
SH 263:7-10
When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence with the spiritual and
works only as God works, he will no longer grope in the dark and cling to
earth because he has not tasted heaven.
SH 67:18
The notion that animal natures can possibly give force to character is too
absurd for consideration, when we remember that through spiritual
ascendency our Lord and Master healed the sick, raised the dead, and
commanded even the winds and waves to obey him. Grace and Truth are
potent beyond all other means and methods.
SH 54:8 (only)
Who is ready to follow his teaching and example?
SH 54:1-7, 13
Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life.
Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love. With the
affluence of Truth, he vanquished error. The world acknowledged not his
righteousness, seeing it not; but earth received the harmony his glorified
example introduced.
In witness of his divine commission, he presented the proof that Life, Truth,
and Love heal the sick and the sinning, and triumph over death through
Mind, not matter. This was the highest proof he could have offered of divine
Love. His hearers understood neither his words nor his works. They would
not accept his meek interpretation of life nor follow his example.
SH 52:4-6 (to ;)
His affections were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual
evidence of health, holiness, and life;
SH 51:28; 52:2-3 1st His, 9-10
Jesus was unselfish. His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and
caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but it was this spirituality which
enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead.
His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His master was Spirit; their master was
matter. Their imperfections and impurity felt the ever-present rebuke of his
perfection and purity.
SH 365:7 (only, to ,), 8 would
The benign thought of Jesus, … would heal the sick, and so enable them to
rise above the supposed necessity for physical thought-taking and doctoring;
but if the unselfish affections be lacking, and common sense and common
humanity are disregarded, what mental quality remains, with which to evoke
healing from the outstretched arm of righteousness?
SH 343:21
It would sometimes seem as if truth were rejected because meekness and
spirituality are the conditions of its acceptance, while Christendom generally
demands so much less.
SH 344:1-10
It is objected to Christian Science that it claims God as the only absolute Life
and Soul, and man to be His idea, — that is, His image. It should be added
that this is claimed to represent the normal, healthful, and sinless condition
of man in divine Science, and that this claim is made because the Scriptures
say that God has created man in His own image and after His likeness. Is it
sacrilegious to assume that God’s likeness is not found in matter, sin,
sickness, and death?
SH 67:25, 32-4, 6
The lack of spiritual power in the limited demonstration of popular
Christianity does not put to silence the labor of centuries. Spiritual, not
corporeal, consciousness is needed. Man delivered from sin, disease, and
death presents the true likeness or spiritual ideal.
The epoch approaches when the understanding of the truth of being will be
the basis of true religion. At present mortals progress slowly for fear of being
thought ridiculous. They are slaves to fashion, pride, and sense. … We ought
to weary of the fleeting and false and to cherish nothing which hinders our
highest selfhood.
SH 400:18
By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for
truth, you destroy error.
SH 104:19-22
The medicine of Science is divine Mind; and dishonesty, sensuality,
falsehood, revenge, malice, are animal propensities and by no means the
mental qualities which heal the sick.
SH 262:27
The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man’s origin. To begin
rightly is to end rightly. Every concept which seems to begin with the brain
begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause
does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.
SH 263:32-3, 7-10
The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the
fleeting concepts of the human mind. They have their day before the
permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear. … Mortals must look
beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.
Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind?
SH 280:25
Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient material form, man has
a sensationless body; and God, the Soul of man and of all existence, being
perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, and immortality, imparts and
perpetuates these qualities in man, — through Mind, not matter. The only
excuse for entertaining human opinions and rejecting the Science of being is
our mortal ignorance of Spirit, — ignorance which yields only to the
understanding of divine Science, the understanding by which we enter into
the kingdom of Truth on earth and learn that Spirit is infinite and supreme.
Spirit and matter no more commingle than light and darkness. When one
appears, the other disappears.
SH 215:23-24
Every quality and condition of mortality is lost, swallowed up in immortality.
SH 248:29-32
Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the
kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will
diminish until they finally disappear.
SH 69:9-10
Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and
material disappears.
SH 261:32-3, 5-16
Good demands of man every hour, in which to work out the problem of
being. Consecration to good does not lessen man’s dependence on God, but
heightens it. …Christian Science takes naught from the perfection of God,
but it ascribes to Him the entire glory. By putting “off the old man with his
deeds,” mortals “put on immortality.”
We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God’s creation by diving into
the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings — our
efforts to find life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony of the
material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These
clearer, higher views inspire the God-like man to reach the absolute centre
and circumference of his being.