Healing the Belief of Duality and Division
November 30, 2016
Hymns 20, 196, 444
The Bible
Ps. 133:1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity!
Gen. 13:1, 2, 5-7 (to :), 8-10 (to 3rd ,), 11, 14, 15
Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot
with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And
the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a
strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s
cattle: … And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we
be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,
from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou
depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes,
and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere,…
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they
separated themselves the one from the other.
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up
now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and
southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever.
Col. 1:9 (to 1st we), 9 desire, 10; 2:6
For this cause we desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will
in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the
Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in
the knowledge of God; As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk ye in him:
Matt. 4:10, 5:43-46 (to 1st ?), 47 (to 1st ?)
Then saith Jesus, Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For
if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? And if ye salute your
brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Eph. 2:2 (to 1st ,), 3 (to whom), 3-6 we, 8 and, 10, 14, 18, 19
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, …
Among whom we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised
us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. For he is our peace, who hath made both one,
and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; For through
him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints,
and of the household of God;
Eph. 4:1 (to 1st ,), 1-4 beseech, 6, 7, 13
I therefore, … beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye
are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing
one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling; … One God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy
SH 340:23 (only, to ;)
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations;
SH 294:25-26
Man’s genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true.
SH 267:3-5 (to 1st .)
The offspring of God start not from matter or ephemeral dust. They are in
and of Spirit, divine Mind, and so forever continue.
SH 94:1-4
Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the image and
likeness of Himself, — of Spirit, not of matter. Man reflects infinite Truth,
Life, and Love.
SH 42:19-20
The belief that man has existence or mind separate from God is a dying
error.
SH 204:3-19
All forms of error support the false conclusions that there is more than one
Life; that material history is as real and living as spiritual history; that mortal
error is as conclusively mental as immortal Truth; and that there are two
separate, antagonistic entities and beings, two powers, — namely, Spirit and
matter, — resulting in a third person (mortal man) who carries out the
delusions of sin, sickness, and death.
The first power is admitted to be good, an intelligence or Mind called God.
The so-called second power, evil, is the unlikeness of good. It cannot
therefore be mind, though so called. The third power, mortal man, is a
supposed mixture of the first and second antagonistic powers, intelligence
and non-intelligence, of Spirit and matter. … Such theories are evidently
erroneous. They can never stand the test of Science.
SH 204:23
False and self-assertive theories have given sinners the notion that they can
create what God cannot, — namely, sinful mortals in God’s image, thus
usurping the name without the nature of the image or reflection of divine
Mind; but in Science it can never be said that man has a mind of his own,
distinct from God, the all Mind.
SH 88:11-14 (to 1st .)
Thoughts, proceeding from the brain or from matter, are offshoots of mortal
mind; they are mortal material beliefs.
SH 274:20
These false beliefs and their products constitute the flesh, and the flesh wars
against Spirit.
SH 450:27-29
Who, that has felt the perilous beliefs in life, substance, and intelligence
separated from God, can say that there is no error of belief?
SH 302:3-6 (to ;)
The material body and mind are temporal, but the real man is spiritual and
eternal. The identity of the real man is not lost, but found through this
explanation;
SH 280:10, 17-21
Finite belief limits all things, and would compress Mind, which is infinite,
beneath a skull bone. Such belief can neither apprehend nor worship the
infinite; and to accommodate its finite sense of the divisibility of Soul and
substance, it seeks to divide the one Spirit into persons and souls.
Moses declared as Jehovah’s first command of the Ten: “Thou shalt have no
other gods before me!” But behold the zeal of belief to establish the
opposite error of many minds.
SH 251:30
Inharmonious beliefs, which rob Mind, calling it matter, and deify their own
notions, imprison themselves in what they create. They are at war with
Science, and as our Master said, “If a kingdom be divided against itself, that
kingdom cannot stand.”
SH 72:13-16
Mortal belief (the material sense of life) and immortal Truth (the spiritual
sense) are the tares and the wheat, which are not united by progress, but
separated.
SH 282:20-21
At no point can these opposites mingle or unite.
SH 167:20-26
The “flesh lusteth against the Spirit.” The flesh and Spirit can no more unite
in action, than good can coincide with evil. It is not wise to take a halting and
half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth
and error. There is but one way — namely, God and His idea — which leads to
spiritual being.
SH 202:3-5
The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out
in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.
SH 448:30-32; 449:7-8 (to 2nd .), 28 Only (only)
To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one’s self the
most harm. … The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one’s
self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. … Only virtue is a rebuke to
vice.
SH 329:5 1st A (only)
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
SH 420:17-18
The fact that Truth overcomes both disease and sin reassures depressed
hope.
SH 354:26-27
Sin should become unreal to everyone. It is in itself inconsistent, a divided
kingdom.
SH 269:3
From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind and matter and the
mingling of good and evil have resulted from the philosophy of the serpent.
Jesus’ demonstrations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the unity
and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothingness, of evil.
SH 91:5
Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated from God, and obey
only the divine Principle, Life and Love. Here is the great point of departure
for all true spiritual growth.
SH 267:5-6 God
God is one. The allness of Deity is His oneness.
SH 361:16
As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun,
even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads:
“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”
SH 475:13-14 (to ;), 14
Man is idea, the image, of Love; … He is the compound idea of God,
including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God’s image
and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which
man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which
has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality
underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative
power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
SH 91:17
The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man’s spiritual and
eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from
matter or through what are termed the material senses.
SH 239:20
The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and
show what we are winning.
SH 401:1-4
Any human error is its own enemy, and works against itself; it does nothing
in the right direction and much in the wrong.
SH 192:6-9, 11-13
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. … Erring power is a material belief, a blind miscalled
force, the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mortal mind and not of
the immortal.
SH 201:20-2
Grafting holiness upon unholiness, supposing that sin can be forgiven when
it is not forsaken, is as foolish as straining out gnats and swallowing camels.
SH 22:3-6
Vibrating like a pendulum between sin and the hope of forgiveness, —
selfishness and sensuality causing constant retrogression, — our moral
progress will be slow.
SH 239:16-20
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.
SH 9:11
If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbor
unselfishly, and bless them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great
duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up
before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith.
SH 30:26-30
If we have triumphed sufficiently over the errors of material sense to allow
Soul to hold the control, we shall loathe sin and rebuke it under every mask.
Only in this way can we bless our enemies, though they may not so construe
our words.
SH 274:1-3
Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain
existence.
SH 324:4
The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the
pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
SH 242:25-26
The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without
seam or rent.
SH 469:30-5
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.
SH 340:9 Let
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: love God and keep His
commandments: for this is the whole of man in His image and likeness.
Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and
manifests His love.