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\nReadings for Wed., 2/1/17, Second Church Berkeley\n
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KJV John 1:1-3
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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KJV Isa. 9:6 1st unto, 7 (to 1st .)
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6 …unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.
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KJV Matt 4:23
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23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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KJV Matt. 5:38-45 (to 1st :)
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38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. 42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 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; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:
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KJV Matt. 25:31-33, 41-45
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31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
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KJV Mark 2:1-5, 11, 12
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1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. 2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. 4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. 12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
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KJV Ps. 22:27, 28
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27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
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KJV 393:16-18
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Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind
governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s govern-
ment.
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KJV 96:4-11 (to 1st .)
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Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spir-
itualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before error
is wholly destroyed, there will be interrup-
tions of the general material routine. Earth
will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter,
seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will
continue unto the end, – until the final spiritualization of
all things.
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KJV 83:6-7
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Science only can explain the incredible good and evil
elements now coming to the surface.
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KJV 82:31-2
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In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a
greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to
consider whether it is the human mind or the divine
Mind which is influencing one.
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KJV 102:20-23, 30-2
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So secret are the
present methods of animal magnetism that they ensnare
the age into indolence, and produce the very apathy on
the subject which the criminal desires.
Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so-
called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Christian
Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently
promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore
in the community.
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KJV 225:8-22
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The powers of this world will fight,
and will command their sentinels not to let truth pass
the guard until it subscribes to their systems; but Science,
heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is
always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth’s
standard.
The history of our country, like all history, illustrates
the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor-
tionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A
few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipo-
tence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic
fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market;
but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the
breath of freedom come from the cannon’s mouth. Love
is the liberator.
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KJV 106:6
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Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration
of Independence. God has endowed man with inalien-
able rights, among which are self-government,
reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-
governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by
his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
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KJV 225:2
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Whatever enslaves
man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes
man free.
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KJV 547:25
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The true the-
ory of the universe, including man, is not in
material history but in spiritual development.
Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and
mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and
immortal.
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KJV 264:32-3
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The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,
and its government is divine Science. Man is the off-
spring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of
Mind.
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KJV 128:4-6, 14
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The term Science, properly understood, refers only to
the laws of God and to His government of the universe,
inclusive of man.
A knowl-
edge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities
and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of
thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher
realms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight
and perspicacity.
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KJV 125:12-16
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As human thought changes from one stage to an-
other of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and
joy, – from fear to hope and from faith to understand-
ing, – the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-
erned by Soul, not by material sense.
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KJV 231:30-8
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Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, –
planted on the Evangelist’s statement that “all things
were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without
Him was not anything made that was made,” – can
triumph over sin, sickness, and death.
Many theories relative to God and man neither make
man harmonious nor God lovable. The beliefs we com-
monly entertain about happiness and life
afford no scatheless and permanent evidence
of either. Security for the claims of harmonious and
eternal being is found only in divine Science.
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KJV 420:3-4
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Truth not error, Love
not hate, Spirit not matter, governs man.
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KJV 495:31-5
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Love. In the Science of Mind, you will soon ascertain
that error cannot destroy error. You will also learn
that in Science there is no transfer of evil suggestions
from one mortal to another, for there is but one Mind,
and this ever-present omnipotent Mind is reflected by
man and governs the entire universe.
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KJV 233:1
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Every day makes its demands upon us for
higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.
These proofs consist solely in the destruction
of sin, sickness, and death by the power of
Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of
progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law de-
mands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.
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\nJohn 1:1-3
\nIsa. 9:6 1st unto, 7 (to 1st .)
\nMatt 4:23
\nMatt. 5:38-45 (to :)
\nMatt. 25:31-33, 41-45
\nMark 2:1-5, 11, 12
\nPs. 22:27, 28
\n393:16-18
\nSH 96:4-11 (to 1st .)
\nSH 83:6-7
\n82:31-2
\nSH 102:20-23, 30-2
\n225:8-22
\n106:6
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\n547:25
\n264:32-3
\n128:4-6, 14
\n125:12-16
\n231:30-8
\n420:3-4
\nSH 495:31-5
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204 O Father, Thy kingdom is come upon earth
\n330 The king of Love my Shepherd is
\n359 Trust the Eternal

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Before error is wholly destroyed, there will be interrup- tions of the general material routine. Earth will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter, seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will continue unto the end, – until the final spiritualization of all things.\n\n\nKJV 83:6-7\n Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface.\n\n\nKJV 82:31-2\n In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one.\n\n\nKJV 102:20-23, 30-2\n So secret are the present methods of animal magnetism that they ensnare the age into indolence, and produce the very apathy on the subject which the criminal desires. Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so- called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community.\n\n\nKJV 225:8-22\n The powers of this world will fight, and will command their sentinels not to let truth pass the guard until it subscribes to their systems; but Science, heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth’s standard. The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor- tionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipo- tence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon’s mouth. Love is the liberator.\n\n\nKJV 106:6\n Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration of Independence. God has endowed man with inalien- able rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self- governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.\n\n\nKJV 225:2\n Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.\n\n\nKJV 547:25\n The true the- ory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal.\n\n\nKJV 264:32-3\n The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings, and its government is divine Science. Man is the off- spring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind.\n\n\nKJV 128:4-6, 14\n The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. 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\nReadings for Wed., 1/25/17, 2nd Church Berkeley\n
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SH Ps. 34:1-3
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1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
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SH Ps. 35:27, 28
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27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
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SH Ps. 40:16
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16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
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SH Ezek. 38:23
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23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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SH Luke 18:35-43
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35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: 36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. 37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. 38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. 39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David, have mercy on me. 40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, 41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.
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SH Luke 13:11-13
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11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
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SH Matt. 15:29-31
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29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
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SH Acts 19:13-17 1st certain
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13 …certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
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SH I Pet. 4:11
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11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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SH 568:24
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For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag-
nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty
conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter
than has ever before reached high heaven,
now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ;
for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her
primal and everlasting strain. Self-abnegation, by which
we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against
error, is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly
interprets God as divine Principle, – as Life, represented
by the Father; as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love,
represented by the Mother. Every mortal at some period,
here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the
mortal belief in a power opposed to God.
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SH 45:22-31
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They who earliest saw Jesus after the resurrection
and beheld the final proof of all that he had taught,
misconstrued that event. Even his disciples
at first called him a spirit, ghost, or spectre,
for they believed his body to be dead. His reply was:
“Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spirit.
He presented the same body that he had before his cru-
cifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind over
matter.
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SH 46:25-7
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Jesus was “the way;” that is, he marked the way for
all men. In his final demonstration, called the ascen-
sion, which closed the earthly record of Jesus, he rose
above the physical knowledge of his disciples, and the
material senses saw him no more.
His students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is
meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they
were roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Sci-
ence, even to the spiritual interpretation and discernment
of Jesus’ teachings and demonstrations, which gave them
a faint conception of the Life which is God.
They no longer measured man by material
sense. After gaining the true idea of their glorified Master,
they became better healers, leaning no longer on matter,
but on the divine Principle of their work.
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SH 47:31-9
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During his night of gloom and glory in the garden,
Jesus realized the utter error of a belief in any possi-
ble material intelligence. The pangs of neglect and the
staves of bigoted ignorance smote him sorely. His stu-
dents slept. He said unto them: “Could ye
not watch with me one hour?” Could they
not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voice-
less agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world?
There was no response to that human yearning, and so
Jesus turned forever away from earth to heaven, from
sense to Soul.
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If that Godlike and glorified man were physically on
earth to-day, would not some, who now pro-
fess to love him, reject him? Would they
not deny him even the rights of humanity, if he enter-
tained any other sense of being and religion than theirs?
The advancing century, from a deadened sense of the
invisible God, to-day subjects to unchristian comment and
usage the idea of Christian healing enjoined by Jesus; but
this does not affect the invincible facts.
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SH 57:22-24
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Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even
though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, en-
larging, purifying, and elevating it.
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St. Paul said: “For I determined not to know any-
thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
(I Cor. ii. 2.) Christian Science says: I am determined
not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and
him glorified.
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SH 291:5-11
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We know that all will
be changed “in the twinkling of an eye,” when the last
trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot
come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call
in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not
fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken
them to glorified being.
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The
human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-
tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and
God.
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SH 430:6-7
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Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base
by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.
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SH 557:10-16
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Christian Sci-
ence reveals harmony as proportionately increasing as the
line of creation rises towards spiritual man, – towards
enlarged understanding and intelligence; but in the line
of the corporeal senses, the less a mortal knows of sin,
disease, and mortality, the better for him, – the less pain
and sorrow are his.
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SH 265:3-15
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Man understands spiritual existence
in proportion as his treasures of Truth and
Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward,
their affections and aims grow spiritual, – they must near
the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper
sense of the infinite, – in order that sin and mortality
may be put off.
This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for
Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity
and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en-
larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action,
a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent
peace.
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And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.\n\n\nSH Luke 13:11-13\n11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.\n\n\nSH Matt. 15:29-31\n29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.\n\n\nSH Acts 19:13-17 1st certain\n13 …certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.\n\n\nSH I Pet. 4:11\n11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n\nSH 568:24\n For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and mag- nify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain. Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as divine Principle, – as Life, represented by the Father; as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the Mother. Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God.\n\n\nSH 45:22-31\n They who earliest saw Jesus after the resurrection and beheld the final proof of all that he had taught, misconstrued that event. Even his disciples at first called him a spirit, ghost, or spectre, for they believed his body to be dead. His reply was: “Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spirit. He presented the same body that he had before his cru- cifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind over matter.\n\n\nSH 46:25-7\nJesus was “the way;” that is, he marked the way for all men. In his final demonstration, called the ascen- sion, which closed the earthly record of Jesus, he rose above the physical knowledge of his disciples, and the material senses saw him no more. His students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they were roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Sci- ence, even to the spiritual interpretation and discernment of Jesus’ teachings and demonstrations, which gave them a faint conception of the Life which is God. They no longer measured man by material sense. After gaining the true idea of their glorified Master, they became better healers, leaning no longer on matter, but on the divine Principle of their work.\n\n\nSH 47:31-9\n During his night of gloom and glory in the garden, Jesus realized the utter error of a belief in any possi- ble material intelligence. The pangs of neglect and the staves of bigoted ignorance smote him sorely. His stu- dents slept. He said unto them: “Could ye not watch with me one hour?” Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voice- less agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world? There was no response to that human yearning, and so Jesus turned forever away from earth to heaven, from sense to Soul.\n\n\nSH 54:29-5\n If that Godlike and glorified man were physically on earth to-day, would not some, who now pro- fess to love him, reject him? Would they not deny him even the rights of humanity, if he enter- tained any other sense of being and religion than theirs? The advancing century, from a deadened sense of the invisible God, to-day subjects to unchristian comment and usage the idea of Christian healing enjoined by Jesus; but this does not affect the invincible facts.\n\n\nSH 57:22-24\n Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, en- larging, purifying, and elevating it.\n\n\nSH 200:25-29\n St. Paul said: “For I determined not to know any- thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” (I Cor. ii. 2.) Christian Science says: I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him glorified.\n\n\nSH 291:5-11\n We know that all will be changed “in the twinkling of an eye,” when the last trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken them to glorified being.\n\n\nSH 258:21-24\n The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor- tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.\n\n\nSH 430:6-7\nFaith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.\n\n\nSH 557:10-16\n Christian Sci- ence reveals harmony as proportionately increasing as the line of creation rises towards spiritual man, – towards enlarged understanding and intelligence; but in the line of the corporeal senses, the less a mortal knows of sin, disease, and mortality, the better for him, – the less pain and sorrow are his.\n\n\nSH 265:3-15\nMan understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual, – they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, – in order that sin and mortality may be put off. This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en- larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPs. 34:1-3\nPs. 35:27, 28\nPs. 40:16\nEzek. 38:23\nLuke 18:35-43\nLuke 13:11-13\nMatt. 15:29-31\nActs 19:13-17 certain\nI Pet. 4:11\nSH 568:24\nSH 45:22-31\nSH 46:25-7\nSH 47:31-9\nSH 54:29-5\nSH 57:22-24\nSH 200:25-29\nSH 291:5-11\nSH 258:21-24\nSH 430:6-7\nSH 557:10-16\nSH 265:3-15\nHymns:\n182 Make channels for the streams of Love\n148 In heavenly Love abiding\n139 Come walk with Love along the way\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/magnified-and-glorified/", "date_published": "2017-01-26T10:38:48-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-01-26T10:38:48-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/antidoting-mental-miasma-an-influence-or-atmosphere-that-tends-to-deplete-or-corrupt/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/antidoting-mental-miasma-an-influence-or-atmosphere-that-tends-to-deplete-or-corrupt/", "title": "Antidoting mental miasma (an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt)", "content_html": "
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SH Isa. 33:22 1st the
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22 …the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
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41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. 49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. 50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. 51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. 52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. 54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. 55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
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SH John 15:1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16
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1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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SH Luke 6:35 1st love, 36, 38 1st For
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35 …love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 38 …For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
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SH John 16:33
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33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
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SH I John 5:4
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4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
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SH II Pet. 1:1-8, 16
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1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 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: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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SH 182:5-9
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The demands of God appeal to thought only; but the
claims of mortality, and what are termed laws of nature,
appertain to matter. Which, then, are we to
accept as legitimate and capable of producing
the highest human good?
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SH 451:19-23, 26
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Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher
of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will
is not Christian Science, and he must recog-
nize this in order to defend himself from the
influence of human will.
All mental
malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought.
It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling
another from wrong motives, and it is practised either
with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
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SH 386:16-24
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A blundering dispatch, mistakenly announcing the
death of a friend, occasions the same grief that the friend’s
real death would bring. You think that your
anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another
dispatch, correcting the mistake, heals your grief, and
you learn that your suffering was merely the result of
your belief. Thus it is with all sorrow, sickness, and
death. You will learn at length that there is no cause
for grief, and divine wisdom will then be understood.
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God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual
law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose
the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the
wisdom of the creator. Jesus walked on the
waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the
dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were
the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims
of material sense or law.
Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opin-
ions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but
this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to
morals and health when it is opposed promptly and per-
sistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote
this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain ex-
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Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner
is the Soul-inspired motto, “Slavery is abolished.” The
power of God brings deliverance to the cap-
tive. No power can withstand divine Love.
What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God?
Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron
shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves
man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes
man free.
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SH 52:23-28
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The high-
est earthly representative of God, speaking of human
ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his
disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time:
“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also;
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Jesus’ spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine
Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship
in Science.
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SH 313:1 The
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The term
Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and
proper translation of the Greek), may be ren-
dered “Jesus the anointed,” Jesus the God-
crowned or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in
the first chapter of Hebrews: –
Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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SH 560:10-15
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Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science inter-
prets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great
miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and
the grand necessity of existence is to gain the
true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of
heaven in man.
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SH 202:3
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The scientific unity which exists between God and man
must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must
be universally done.
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SH 203:13
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Spiritual perception brings
out the possibilities of being, destroys reliance on aught
but God, and so makes man the image of his Maker in
deed and in truth.
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THE best sermon ever preached is Truth practised
and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness,
and death. Knowing this and knowing too
that one affection would be supreme in us and
take the lead in our lives, Jesus said, “No man can serve
two masters.”
We cannot build safely on false foundations. Truth
makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away
and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness,
false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirit-
uality, and the superabundance of being is on the side
of God, good.
The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour
in truth through flood-tides of Love.
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In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have\novercome the world.\n\n\nSH I John 5:4\n4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.\n\n\nSH II Pet. 1:1-8, 16\n1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 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: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.\n\n\nSH 182:5-9\n The demands of God appeal to thought only; but the claims of mortality, and what are termed laws of nature, appertain to matter. Which, then, are we to accept as legitimate and capable of producing the highest human good?\n\n\nSH 451:19-23, 26\n Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will is not Christian Science, and he must recog- nize this in order to defend himself from the influence of human will. All mental malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling another from wrong motives, and it is practised either with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.\n\n\nSH 386:16-24\n A blundering dispatch, mistakenly announcing the death of a friend, occasions the same grief that the friend’s real death would bring. You think that your anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another dispatch, correcting the mistake, heals your grief, and you learn that your suffering was merely the result of your belief. Thus it is with all sorrow, sickness, and death. You will learn at length that there is no cause for grief, and divine wisdom will then be understood.\n\n\nSH 273:21-3\n God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the wisdom of the creator. Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law. Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opin- ions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to morals and health when it is opposed promptly and per- sistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain ex- istence.\n\n\nSH 224:28-4\n Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner is the Soul-inspired motto, “Slavery is abolished.” The power of God brings deliverance to the cap- tive. No power can withstand divine Love. What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.\n\n\nSH 52:23-28\nThe high- est earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;\n\n\nSH 312:31-1 (to 1st .)\n Jesus’ spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship in Science.\n\n\nSH 313:1 The\nThe term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and proper translation of the Greek), may be ren- dered “Jesus the anointed,” Jesus the God- crowned or the divinely royal man, as it is said of him in the first chapter of Hebrews: – Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.\n\n\nSH 560:10-15\n Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science inter- prets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man.\n\n\nSH 202:3\nThe scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.\n\n\nSH 203:13\n Spiritual perception brings out the possibilities of being, destroys reliance on aught but God, and so makes man the image of his Maker in deed and in truth.\n\n\nSH 201:1-12, 17-18\n THE best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness, and death. Knowing this and knowing too that one affection would be supreme in us and take the lead in our lives, Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters.” We cannot build safely on false foundations. Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirit- uality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good. The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsa. 33:22 the\nLuke 8:41, 42 (to 1st .), 49-55\nJohn 15:1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16\nLuke 6:35 love, 36, 38 For\nJohn 16:33\nI John 5:4\nII Pet. 1:1-8, 16\nSH 182:5-9\nSH 451:19-23, 26\nSH 386:16-24\nSH 273:21-3\nSH 224:28-4\nSH 52:23-28\nSH 312:31-1 (to 1st .)\nSH 313:1 The\nSH 560:10-15\nSH 202:3\nSH 203:13\nSH 201:1-12, 17-18\nHymns:\n177 Look, ye saints, the day is breaking\n389 While Thou, O my God, art my help and defender\n10 All power is given unto our Lord\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/antidoting-mental-miasma-an-influence-or-atmosphere-that-tends-to-deplete-or-corrupt/", "date_published": "2017-01-19T11:02:46-08:00", "date_modified": "2017-01-19T11:02:46-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/running-with-patience-the-race-that-is-set-before-us/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/running-with-patience-the-race-that-is-set-before-us/", "title": "Running with patience the race that is set before us", "content_html": "
\nReadings for Wed., 1/11/17, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n
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SH Phil. 3:13-15
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13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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SH Phil. 2:12-16
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12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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SH Luke 8:40
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40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
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SH Luke 13:11-17
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11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
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SH Ps. 19:1-5
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1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
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SH Eccl. 9:11, 13-18 (to 1st :)
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11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war:
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SH I Cor. 9:24-27 (to 1st :)
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24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:
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SH 15:14
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In order to pray aright, we must enter into the
closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and
silence the material senses. In the quiet
sanctuary of earnest longings, we must
deny sin and plead God’s allness. We must resolve to
take up the cross, and go forth with honest hearts to
work and watch for wisdom, Truth, and Love. We
must “pray without ceasing.” Such prayer is an-
swered, in so far as we put our desires into practice.
The Master’s injunction is, that we pray in secret and
let our lives attest our sincerity.
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SH 28:15-24
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Neither the origin, the character, nor the work of
Jesus was generally understood. Not a single compo-
nent part of his nature did the material
world measure aright. Even his righteous-
less and purity did not hinder men from saying: He
is a glutton and a friend of the impure, and Beelzebub is
his patron.
Remember, thou Christian martyr, it is enough if
thou art found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy
Master’s feet! To suppose that persecution
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SH 20:24-32
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Material belief is slow to acknowledge what the
spiritual fact implies. The truth is the centre of all
religion. It commands sure entrance into
the realm of Love. St. Paul wrote, “Let us
lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that
is set before us;” that is, let us put aside material self
and sense, and seek the divine Principle and Science of
all healing.
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SH 22:11-17
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“Work out your own salvation,” is the demand of
Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you.
“Occupy till I come!” Wait for your re-
ward, and “be not weary in well doing.” If
your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive
no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a
sluggard in the race.
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SH 3:4-16
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Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the
principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The
rule is already established, and it is our
task to work out the solution. Shall we
ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own
work? His work is done, and we have only to avail
ourselves of God’s rule in order to receive His bless-
ing, which enables us to work out our own salvation.
The Divine Being must be reflected by man, – else
man is not the image and likeness of the patient,
tender, and true, the One “altogether lovely;” but to
understand God is the work of eternity, and demands
absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire.
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SH 23:21-31
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In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, faith and the
words corresponding thereto have these two defini-
tions, trustfulness and trustworthiness. One
kind of faith trusts one’s welfare to others.
Another kind of faith understands divine Love and how
to work out one’s “own salvation, with fear and trem-
bling.” “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!”
expresses the helplessness of a blind faith; whereas the
injunction, “Believe . . . and thou shalt be saved!”
demands self-reliant trustworthiness, which includes spir-
itual understanding and confides all to God.
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SH 30:26-3
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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. We cannot choose for
ourselves, but must work out our salvation in the way
Jesus taught. In meekness and might, he was found
preaching the gospel to the poor. Pride and fear are unfit
to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place
it in such hands.
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SH 519:3 Deity
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Deity was satisfied with His work. How could
He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation
was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-
containment and immortal wisdom?
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SH 442:19 An
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An improved belief cannot retrograde. When
Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into
a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-
ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth,
gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma-
terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man
is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, “Work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling:” Jesus
said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good
pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This truth is
Christian Science.
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\nPhil. 3:13-15
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", "content_text": "Readings for Wed., 1/11/17, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n\n\n\nSH Phil. 3:13-15\n13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.\n\n\nSH Phil. 2:12-16\n12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.\n\n\nSH Luke 8:40\n40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.\n\n\nSH Luke 13:11-17\n11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.\n\n\nSH Ps. 19:1-5\n1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.\n\n\nSH Eccl. 9:11, 13-18 (to 1st :)\n11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war:\n\n\nSH I Cor. 9:24-27 (to 1st :)\n24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:\n\n\nSH 15:14\n In order to pray aright, we must enter into the closet and shut the door. We must close the lips and silence the material senses. In the quiet sanctuary of earnest longings, we must deny sin and plead God’s allness. We must resolve to take up the cross, and go forth with honest hearts to work and watch for wisdom, Truth, and Love. We must “pray without ceasing.” Such prayer is an- swered, in so far as we put our desires into practice. The Master’s injunction is, that we pray in secret and let our lives attest our sincerity.\n\n\nSH 28:15-24\n Neither the origin, the character, nor the work of Jesus was generally understood. Not a single compo- nent part of his nature did the material world measure aright. Even his righteous- less and purity did not hinder men from saying: He is a glutton and a friend of the impure, and Beelzebub is his patron. Remember, thou Christian martyr, it is enough if thou art found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master’s feet! To suppose that persecution\n\n\nSH 20:24-32\n Material belief is slow to acknowledge what the spiritual fact implies. The truth is the centre of all religion. It commands sure entrance into the realm of Love. St. Paul wrote, “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us;” that is, let us put aside material self and sense, and seek the divine Principle and Science of all healing.\n\n\nSH 22:11-17\n “Work out your own salvation,” is the demand of Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you. “Occupy till I come!” Wait for your re- ward, and “be not weary in well doing.” If your endeavors are beset by fearful odds, and you receive no present reward, go not back to error, nor become a sluggard in the race.\n\n\nSH 3:4-16\n Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God’s rule in order to receive His bless- ing, which enables us to work out our own salvation. The Divine Being must be reflected by man, – else man is not the image and likeness of the patient, tender, and true, the One “altogether lovely;” but to understand God is the work of eternity, and demands absolute consecration of thought, energy, and desire.\n\n\nSH 23:21-31\n In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, faith and the words corresponding thereto have these two defini- tions, trustfulness and trustworthiness. One kind of faith trusts one’s welfare to others. Another kind of faith understands divine Love and how to work out one’s “own salvation, with fear and trem- bling.” “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!” expresses the helplessness of a blind faith; whereas the injunction, “Believe . . . and thou shalt be saved!” demands self-reliant trustworthiness, which includes spir- itual understanding and confides all to God.\n\n\nSH 30:26-3\n 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. We cannot choose for ourselves, but must work out our salvation in the way Jesus taught. In meekness and might, he was found preaching the gospel to the poor. Pride and fear are unfit to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place it in such hands.\n\n\nSH 519:3 Deity\nDeity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self- containment and immortal wisdom?\n\n\nSH 442:19 An\nAn improved belief cannot retrograde. When Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand- ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the ma- terial, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually. 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Readings for Wed., 1/4/17, 2nd Church, Berkeley
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SH Isa. 44:6
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6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
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SH Mark 6:30
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30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
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SH Mark 9:33-40
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33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? 34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. 35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. 36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. 38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. 39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. 40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
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SH Matt. 19:24 1st I say, 25, 26, 29, 30
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24 …I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. 30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
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SH Matt. 25:31-40
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31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
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SH Luke 11:24-26
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24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
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SH Matt. 20:16
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16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
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\nI was in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s day, and heard behind me a great
\nvoice, as of a trumpet,\u00a0Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
\nlast:\u00a0…\u00a0and his countenancewas\u00a0as the sun shineth in
\nhis strength\u2026 And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I
\nam the first and the last:\u00a0…\u00a0I\u00a0am\u00a0he that liveth,
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SH 334:24
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The Revelator represents the
\nSon of man as saying (Revelation i. 17, 18): “I am the
\nfirst and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead
\n[not understood]; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,
\n[Science has explained me].” This is a mystical state-
\nment of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference
\nto the human sense of Jesus crucified.
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SH 466:14
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Truth is intelligent; error
\nis non-intelligent. Moreover, Truth is real, and error is
\nunreal. This last statement contains the point you will
\nmost reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the
\nmost important to understand.
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SH 116:5-19
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Science so reverses the evidence
\nbefore the corporeal human senses, as to make
\nthis Scriptural testimony true in our hearts,
\n“The last shall be first, and the first last,” so that God
\nand His idea may be to us what divinity really is and
\nmust of necessity be, – all-inclusive.
\nA correct view of Christian Science and of its adapta-
\ntion to healing includes vastly more than is at first seen.
\nWorks on metaphysics leave the grand point
\nuntouched. They never crown the power of
\nMind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against
\nphysical enemies, – even to the extinction of all belief in
\nmatter, evil, disease, and death, – nor insist upon the fact
\nthat God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an
\nimage in mortal mind.
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SH 269:3, 13
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From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind
\nand matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-
\nsulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus’ demon-
\nstrations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the
\nunity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing-
\nness, of evil.
\nThe categories of metaphysics rest
\non one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves
\nthings into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense
\nfor the ideas of Soul.
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SH 166:28
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The balance of power is conceded to be
\nwith matter by most of the medical systems; but when
\nMind at last asserts its mastery over sin, disease, and
\ndeath, then is man found to be harmonious and
\nimmortal.
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SH 62:27-1, 5-6, 9-11
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The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower;
\nif it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed.
\nOur false views of life hide eternal harmony,
\nand produce the ills of which we complain.
\nBecause mortals believe in material laws and reject the
\nScience of Mind, this does not make materiality first and
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SH 207:15
\nBody is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than
\ngood. The Science of being repudiates self-
\nevident impossibilities, such as the amalgama-
\ntion of Truth and error in cause or effect. Science sepa-
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SH 427:26-29
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Called to the bed of death, what material remedy has
\nman when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his
\nlast resort, but it should have been his first
\nand only resort.
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SH 565:13
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The impersonation of the
\nspiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our
\nMaster; but “of his kingdom there shall be no end,”
\nfor Christ, God’s idea, will eventually rule all nations
\nand peoples – imperatively, absolutely, finally – with di-
\nvine Science. This immaculate idea, represented first
\nby man and, according to the Revelator, last by woman,
\nwill baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will burn up
\nthe chaff of error with the fervent heat of Truth and Love,
\nmelting and purifying even the gold of human character.
\nAfter the stars sang together and all was primeval har-
\nmony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea;
\nbut this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of
\ndemonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and
\nto be caught up unto God, – to be found in its divine
\nPrinciple.
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SH 548:2
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Christian
\nScience separates error from truth, and breathes
\nthrough the sacred pages the spiritual sense of
\nlife, substance, and intelligence. In this Science, we dis-
\ncover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that
\nman has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal
\nharmony.
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Isa. 44:6
\nMark 6:30
\nMark 9:33-40
\nMatt. 19:24 I say, 25, 26, 29, 30
\nMatt. 25:31-40
\nLuke 11:24-26
\nMatt. 20:16
\nRev. 1:10, 11 (to :), 16 3rd and, 17 2nd and, 18 (to 2nd ;)
\nSH 334:24
\nSH 466:14
\nSH 116:5-19
\nSH 269:3, 13
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\nSH 62:27-1, 5-6, 9-11
\nSH 207:15
\nSH 427:26-29
\nSH 565:13
\nSH 548:2186 Mighty God, the first, the last
\n455 Seek ye first the kingdom of God
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Moreover, Truth is real, and error is\nunreal. This last statement contains the point you will\nmost reluctantly admit, although first and last it is the\nmost important to understand.\n\n\nSH 116:5-19\nScience so reverses the evidence\nbefore the corporeal human senses, as to make\nthis Scriptural testimony true in our hearts,\n“The last shall be first, and the first last,” so that God\nand His idea may be to us what divinity really is and\nmust of necessity be, – all-inclusive.\nA correct view of Christian Science and of its adapta-\ntion to healing includes vastly more than is at first seen.\nWorks on metaphysics leave the grand point\nuntouched. They never crown the power of\nMind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against\nphysical enemies, – even to the extinction of all belief in\nmatter, evil, disease, and death, – nor insist upon the fact\nthat God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an\nimage in mortal mind.\n\n\nSH 269:3, 13\nFrom first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind\nand matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-\nsulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus’ demon-\nstrations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the\nunity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing-\nness, of evil.\nThe categories of metaphysics rest\non one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves\nthings into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense\nfor the ideas of Soul.\n\n\nSH 166:28\nThe balance of power is conceded to be\nwith matter by most of the medical systems; but when\nMind at last asserts its mastery over sin, disease, and\ndeath, then is man found to be harmonious and\nimmortal.\n\n\nSH 62:27-1, 5-6, 9-11\nThe higher nature of man is not governed by the lower;\nif it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed.\nOur false views of life hide eternal harmony,\nand produce the ills of which we complain.\nBecause mortals believe in material laws and reject the\nScience of Mind, this does not make materiality first and\nthe superior law of Soul last.\nSH 207:15\nBody is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than\ngood. The Science of being repudiates self-\nevident impossibilities, such as the amalgama-\ntion of Truth and error in cause or effect. Science sepa-\nrates the tares and wheat in time of harvest.\n\n\nSH 427:26-29\nCalled to the bed of death, what material remedy has\nman when all such remedies have failed? Spirit is his\nlast resort, but it should have been his first\nand only resort.\n\n\nSH 565:13\nThe impersonation of the\nspiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our\nMaster; but “of his kingdom there shall be no end,”\nfor Christ, God’s idea, will eventually rule all nations\nand peoples – imperatively, absolutely, finally – with di-\nvine Science. This immaculate idea, represented first\nby man and, according to the Revelator, last by woman,\nwill baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will burn up\nthe chaff of error with the fervent heat of Truth and Love,\nmelting and purifying even the gold of human character.\nAfter the stars sang together and all was primeval har-\nmony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea;\nbut this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of\ndemonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and\nto be caught up unto God, – to be found in its divine\nPrinciple.\n\n\nSH 548:2\nChristian\nScience separates error from truth, and breathes\nthrough the sacred pages the spiritual sense of\nlife, substance, and intelligence. In this Science, we dis-\ncover man in the image and likeness of God. 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Readings for Wed., 12/28/16, 2nd Church Berkeley
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SH Ps. 96:1 (to 1st :)
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1 O sing unto the LORD a new song:
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SH Gen. 28:10-13, 14 1st 6th and, 16
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10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
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SH Isa. 9:2
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2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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SH Luke 4:14
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14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
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SH John 9:1-4 (to 1st :), 5-7
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1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
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SH John 3:3 1st Except, 6, 7
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3 …Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
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SH Isa. 66:9
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9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
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SH I Pet. 1:22, 23
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22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

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II Cor. 5:17
\nTherefore if any man\u00a0be\u00a0in Christ,\u00a0he is\u00a0a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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SH 33:18-21
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When the human element in him struggled with the
\ndivine, our great Teacher said: “Not my will, but
\nThine, be done!”- that is, Let not the flesh,
\nbut the Spirit, be represented in me.
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SH 598:1-5
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The Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also for
\nspirit, as in the passage in John’s Gospel, the third chap-
\nter, where we read: “The wind [pneuma] bloweth where
\nit listeth. . . . So is every one that is born of the Spirit
\n[pneuma].
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SH 598:19, 23-30
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YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;
\nspace for repentance.
\nOne moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual
\nunderstanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.
\nThis exalted view, obtained and retained when the Sci-
\nence of being is understood, would bridge over with life
\ndiscerned spiritually the interval of death, and man
\nwould be in the full consciousness of his immortality and
\neternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are un-
\nknown.
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SH 250:7-11 (to 2nd .)
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Spirit is the Ego which never dreams, but understands all things;
\nwhich never errs, and is ever conscious; which never believes, but knows; which is never born and never dies.
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SH 296:4-9 (to 1st .), 10 The
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Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of
\nmortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for
\nthe immortal. Either here or hereafter, suf-
\nfering or Science must destroy all illusions
\nregarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense
\nand self.
\nThe death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real,
\nand eternal.
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SH 35:19-25
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Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our
\nchurch is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can
\nunite with this church only as we are new-
\nborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which
\nis Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth
\nthe fruits of Love, – casting out error and healing the
\nsick.
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SH 220:22-30
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A clergyman once adopted a diet of bread and water
\nto increase his spirituality. Finding his health failing,
\nhe gave up his abstinence, and advised others never to
\ntry dietetics for growth in grace.
\nThe belief that either fasting or feasting makes men
\nbetter morally or physically is one of the fruits of “the
\ntree of the knowledge of good and evil,” con-
\ncerning which God said, “Thou shalt not eat
\nof it.
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SH 221:29-3
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This new-born understanding, that neither food nor
\nthe stomach, without the consent of mortal
\nmind, can make one suffer, brings with it an-
\nother lesson, – that gluttony is a sensual illusion, and
\nthat this phantasm of mortal mind disappears as we better
\napprehend our spiritual existence and ascend the ladder
\nof life.
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SH 223:32
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Longevity is increasing and the power of sin diminishing, for the
\nworld feels the alterative effect of truth through every
\npore.
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SH 258:25-5
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Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual
\nman and of the infinite range of his thought. To him
\nbelongs eternal Life. Never born and
\nnever dying, it were impossible for man, under
\nthe government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his
\nhigh estate.
\nThrough spiritual sense you can discern the heart of
\ndivinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the
\ngeneric term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and
\nman cannot lose his individuality, for he re-
\nflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, soli-
\ntary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all
\nsubstance.
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SH 528:9-12 (np)
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Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah]
\ncaused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
\nHe took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
\nthereof;\u00a0and the rib,
\nwhich the Lord God [Jehovah] had\u00a0taken from man, made He a woman, and
\nbrought her unto\u00a0the man.
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Here falsity,
\nerror, credits Truth, God, with inducing\u00a0a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam
\nin order to perform a\u00a0surgical operation on him and thereby
\ncreate\u00a0woman.\u00a0This is the first record of magnetism.\u00a0Beginning
\ncreation with darkness instead of light,\u00a0\u2009\u2014\u2009materially rather than
\nspiritually,\u2009\u2014\u2009error now simulates the work of Truth, mocking Love and
\ndeclaring what great things error has done.\u00a0Beholding the\u00a0creations
\nof his own dream and calling them real and\u00a0God-given, Adam\u2009\u2014\u2009alias\u00a0error\u2009\u2014\u2009gives
\nthem names.\u00a0Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of
\nthe\u00a0creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them\u00a0mankind,\u2009\u2014\u2009that
\nis, a kind of man.

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But according to
\nthis narrative, surgery was first performed mentally and without
\ninstruments;\u00a0and this may be a useful hint to the
\nmedical\u00a0faculty.\u00a0Later in human history, when the
\nforbidden\u00a0fruit was bringing forth fruit of its own kind, there\u00a0came
\na suggestion of change in the\u00a0modus operandi,\u2009\u2014\u00a0that man
\nshould be born of woman, not woman again\u00a0taken from man.\u00a0It came
\nabout, also, that instruments\u00a0were needed to assist the birth of
\nmortals.\u00a0The first\u00a0system of suggestive obstetrics has
\nchanged.\u00a0Another\u00a0change will come as to the nature and origin of
\nman,\u00a0and this revelation will destroy the\u00a0dream\u00a0of
\nexistence,\u00a0reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious
\nfact\u00a0of creation, that both man and woman proceed from\u00a0God and are
\nHis eternal children, belonging to no lesser\u00a0parent.

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SH 557:18-21
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Divine \u00a0Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of
\nTruth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as
\nnever dying, but as coexistent with his creator.
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Ps. 96:1 (to :)
\nGen. 28:10-13, 14 6th and, 16
\nIsa. 9:2
\nLuke 4:14
\nJohn 9:1-4 (to :), 5-7
\nJohn 3:3 Except, 6, 7
\nIsa. 66:9
\nI Pet. 1:22, 23
\n2 Cor. 5:17
\nSH 33:18-21
\nSH 598:1-5
\nSH 598:19, 23-30
\nSH 250:7-11 (to 2nd .)
\nSH 296:4-9 (to 1st .), 10 The
\nSH 35:19-25
\nSH 220:22-30
\nSH 221:29-3
\nSH 223:32
\nSH 258:25-5
\nSH 528:9-12 (np)
\nSH 557:18-21Hymns:
\n115 Holy Father, Thou hast taught us
\n82 God is working His purpose out
\n363 Upon the Gospel\u2019s sacred page
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Link to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/new-born-of-spirit-2/
", "content_text": "Readings for Wed., 12/28/16, 2nd Church Berkeley\n\n\nSH Ps. 96:1 (to 1st :)\n1 O sing unto the LORD a new song:\n\n\nSH Gen. 28:10-13, 14 1st 6th and, 16\n10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.\n\n\nSH Isa. 9:2\n2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.\n\n\nSH Luke 4:14\n14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.\n\n\nSH John 9:1-4 (to 1st :), 5-7\n1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.\n\n\nSH John 3:3 1st Except, 6, 7\n3 …Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.\n\n\nSH Isa. 66:9\n9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.\n\n\nSH I Pet. 1:22, 23\n22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.\nII Cor. 5:17\nTherefore if any man\u00a0be\u00a0in Christ,\u00a0he is\u00a0a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.\n\n\nSH 33:18-21\nWhen the human element in him struggled with the\ndivine, our great Teacher said: “Not my will, but\nThine, be done!”- that is, Let not the flesh,\nbut the Spirit, be represented in me.\n\n\nSH 598:1-5\nThe Greek word for wind (pneuma) is used also for\nspirit, as in the passage in John’s Gospel, the third chap-\nter, where we read: “The wind [pneuma] bloweth where\nit listeth. . . . So is every one that is born of the Spirit\n[pneuma].\n\n\nSH 598:19, 23-30\nYEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;\nspace for repentance.\nOne moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual\nunderstanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.\nThis exalted view, obtained and retained when the Sci-\nence of being is understood, would bridge over with life\ndiscerned spiritually the interval of death, and man\nwould be in the full consciousness of his immortality and\neternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are un-\nknown.\n\n\nSH 250:7-11 (to 2nd .)\nSpirit is the Ego which never dreams, but understands all things;\nwhich never errs, and is ever conscious; which never believes, but knows; which is never born and never dies.\n\n\nSH 296:4-9 (to 1st .), 10 The\nProgress is born of experience. It is the ripening of\nmortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for\nthe immortal. Either here or hereafter, suf-\nfering or Science must destroy all illusions\nregarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense\nand self.\nThe death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real,\nand eternal.\n\n\nSH 35:19-25\nOur baptism is a purification from all error. Our\nchurch is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can\nunite with this church only as we are new-\nborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which\nis Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth\nthe fruits of Love, – casting out error and healing the\nsick.\n\n\nSH 220:22-30\nA clergyman once adopted a diet of bread and water\nto increase his spirituality. Finding his health failing,\nhe gave up his abstinence, and advised others never to\ntry dietetics for growth in grace.\nThe belief that either fasting or feasting makes men\nbetter morally or physically is one of the fruits of “the\ntree of the knowledge of good and evil,” con-\ncerning which God said, “Thou shalt not eat\nof it.\n\n\nSH 221:29-3\nThis new-born understanding, that neither food nor\nthe stomach, without the consent of mortal\nmind, can make one suffer, brings with it an-\nother lesson, – that gluttony is a sensual illusion, and\nthat this phantasm of mortal mind disappears as we better\napprehend our spiritual existence and ascend the ladder\nof life.\n\n\nSH 223:32\nLongevity is increasing and the power of sin diminishing, for the\nworld feels the alterative effect of truth through every\npore.\n\n\nSH 258:25-5\nMortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual\nman and of the infinite range of his thought. To him\nbelongs eternal Life. Never born and\nnever dying, it were impossible for man, under\nthe government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his\nhigh estate.\nThrough spiritual sense you can discern the heart of\ndivinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the\ngeneric term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and\nman cannot lose his individuality, for he re-\nflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, soli-\ntary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all\nsubstance.\n\n\nSH 528:9-12 (np)\nGenesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah]\ncaused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and\nHe took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead\nthereof;\u00a0and the rib,\nwhich the Lord God [Jehovah] had\u00a0taken from man, made He a woman, and\nbrought her unto\u00a0the man.\n\nHere falsity,\nerror, credits Truth, God, with inducing\u00a0a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam\nin order to perform a\u00a0surgical operation on him and thereby\ncreate\u00a0woman.\u00a0This is the first record of magnetism.\u00a0Beginning\ncreation with darkness instead of light,\u00a0\u2009\u2014\u2009materially rather than\nspiritually,\u2009\u2014\u2009error now simulates the work of Truth, mocking Love and\ndeclaring what great things error has done.\u00a0Beholding the\u00a0creations\nof his own dream and calling them real and\u00a0God-given, Adam\u2009\u2014\u2009alias\u00a0error\u2009\u2014\u2009gives\nthem names.\u00a0Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of\nthe\u00a0creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them\u00a0mankind,\u2009\u2014\u2009that\nis, a kind of man.\nBut according to\nthis narrative, surgery was first performed mentally and without\ninstruments;\u00a0and this may be a useful hint to the\nmedical\u00a0faculty.\u00a0Later in human history, when the\nforbidden\u00a0fruit was bringing forth fruit of its own kind, there\u00a0came\na suggestion of change in the\u00a0modus operandi,\u2009\u2014\u00a0that man\nshould be born of woman, not woman again\u00a0taken from man.\u00a0It came\nabout, also, that instruments\u00a0were needed to assist the birth of\nmortals.\u00a0The first\u00a0system of suggestive obstetrics has\nchanged.\u00a0Another\u00a0change will come as to the nature and origin of\nman,\u00a0and this revelation will destroy the\u00a0dream\u00a0of\nexistence,\u00a0reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious\nfact\u00a0of creation, that both man and woman proceed from\u00a0God and are\nHis eternal children, belonging to no lesser\u00a0parent.\n\nSH 557:18-21\nDivine \u00a0Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of\nTruth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as\nnever dying, but as coexistent with his creator.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPs. 96:1 (to :)\nGen. 28:10-13, 14 6th and, 16\nIsa. 9:2\nLuke 4:14\nJohn 9:1-4 (to :), 5-7\nJohn 3:3 Except, 6, 7\nIsa. 66:9\nI Pet. 1:22, 23\n2 Cor. 5:17\nSH 33:18-21\nSH 598:1-5\nSH 598:19, 23-30\nSH 250:7-11 (to 2nd .)\nSH 296:4-9 (to 1st .), 10 The\nSH 35:19-25\nSH 220:22-30\nSH 221:29-3\nSH 223:32\nSH 258:25-5\nSH 528:9-12 (np)\nSH 557:18-21Hymns:\n115 Holy Father, Thou hast taught us\n82 God is working His purpose out\n363 Upon the Gospel\u2019s sacred page\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/new-born-of-spirit-2/", "date_published": "2016-12-30T08:18:18-08:00", "date_modified": "2016-12-30T10:08:12-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-mothering-of-god/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/the-mothering-of-god/", "title": "The mothering of God", "content_html": "
\nReadings for Wed., 12/21/16, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n
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KJV Deut. 32:11, 12
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11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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KJV Ex. 1:8, 9, 15-17, 22
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8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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KJV Ex. 2:1-10
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1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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KJV Isa. 66:12 1st thus (to 1st ,), 13
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12 …thus saith the LORD, 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
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KJV Mark 1:14 1st Jesus, 29-31
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14 …Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
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KJV Mark 3:31-35
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31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. 32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
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KJV Luke 7:11-15
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11 And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. 12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. 14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. 15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
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KJV John 19:25-27
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25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
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KJV 592:16-17
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MOTHER. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life,
Truth, and Love.
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KJV 331:26-31 Life
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Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person
called God, – that is, the triply divine Principle, Love.
They represent a trinity in unity, three in
one, – the same in essence, though multi-
form in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spirit-
ual idea of sonship;
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KJV 508:9-25
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Gen. 1:12. 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.
God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen-
der is mental, not material. The seed within itself is
the pure thought emanating from divine
Mind. The feminine gender is not yet ex-
pressed in the text. Gender means simply kind or sort,
and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or
femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and
grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither
male nor female. The Mind or intelligence of produc-
tion names the female gender last in the ascending order
of creation. The intelligent individual idea, be it male
or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds
the infinitude of Love.
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KJV 511:19-28
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Gen. 1:20. 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.
To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aeri-
form. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand
for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mor-
tals metaphorically present the gradation of
mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking
form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender.
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KJV 517:8
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The ideal man
corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth.
The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love. In
divine Science, we have not as much authority for con-
sidering God masculine, as we have for considering
Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of
Deity.
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KJV 463:6
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To attend properly
the birth of the new child, or divine idea,
you should so detach mortal thought from its
material conceptions, that the birth will be natural and
safe. Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot
injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual
birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error,
and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive.
The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is
clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its
growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying. When
this new birth takes place, the Christian Science infant
is born of the Spirit, born of God, and can cause the
mother no more suffering. By this we know that Truth
is here and has fulfilled its perfect work.
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KJV 568:30-3
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Self-abnegation, by which
we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against
error, is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly
interprets God as divine Principle, – as Life, represented
by the Father; as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love,
represented by the Mother.
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KJV 577:32-18
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In the following Psalm one word shows, though faintly,
the light which Christian Science throws on the Scriptures
by substituting for the corporeal sense, the incorporeal
or spiritual sense of Deity: –
[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
[LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.
[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [Love] lead-
eth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’s]
rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me.
[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of
mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup
runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness]
of [LOVE] for ever. 
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\nDeut. 32:11, 12
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\n174 Like as a mother, God comforteth His children
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", "content_text": "Readings for Wed., 12/21/16, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n\n\n\nKJV Deut. 32:11, 12\n11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.\n\n\nKJV Ex. 1:8, 9, 15-17, 22\n8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.\n\n\nKJV Ex. 2:1-10\n1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.\n\n\nKJV Isa. 66:12 1st thus (to 1st ,), 13\n12 …thus saith the LORD, 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.\n\n\nKJV Mark 1:14 1st Jesus, 29-31\n14 …Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.\n\n\nKJV Mark 3:31-35\n31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. 32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.\n\n\nKJV Luke 7:11-15\n11 And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. 12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. 14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. 15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.\n\n\nKJV John 19:25-27\n25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.\n\n\nKJV 592:16-17\n MOTHER. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love.\n\n\nKJV 331:26-31 Life\n Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God, – that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, – the same in essence, though multi- form in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spirit- ual idea of sonship;\n\n\nKJV 508:9-25\nGen. 1:12. 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. God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen- der is mental, not material. The seed within itself is the pure thought emanating from divine Mind. The feminine gender is not yet ex- pressed in the text. Gender means simply kind or sort, and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither male nor female. The Mind or intelligence of produc- tion names the female gender last in the ascending order of creation. The intelligent individual idea, be it male or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds the infinitude of Love.\n\n\nKJV 511:19-28\nGen. 1:20. 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. To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aeri- form. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mor- tals metaphorically present the gradation of mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender.\n\n\nKJV 517:8\n The ideal man corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love. In divine Science, we have not as much authority for con- sidering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity.\n\n\nKJV 463:6\n To attend properly the birth of the new child, or divine idea, you should so detach mortal thought from its material conceptions, that the birth will be natural and safe. Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive. The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying. When this new birth takes place, the Christian Science infant is born of the Spirit, born of God, and can cause the mother no more suffering. By this we know that Truth is here and has fulfilled its perfect work.\n\n\nKJV 568:30-3\n Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in Christian Science. This rule clearly interprets God as divine Principle, – as Life, represented by the Father; as Truth, represented by the Son; as Love, represented by the Mother.\n\n\nKJV 577:32-18\n In the following Psalm one word shows, though faintly, the light which Christian Science throws on the Scriptures by substituting for the corporeal sense, the incorporeal or spiritual sense of Deity: – [DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want. [LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters. [LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [Love] lead- eth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’s] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me. [LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeut. 32:11, 12\nEx. 1:8, 9, 15-17, 22\nEx. 2:1-10\nIsa. 66:12 thus (to 1st ,), 13\nMark 1:14 Jesus, 29-31\nMark 3:31-35\nLuke 7:11-15\nJohn 19:25-27\nSH 592:16-17\nSH 331:26-31 Life\nSH 508:9-25\nSH 511:19-28\nSH 517:8\nSH 463:6\nSH 568:30-3\nSH 577:32-18\nHymns:\n174 Like as a mother, God comforteth His children\n76 God is known in loving-kindness\n362 To us a child of hope is born\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/the-mothering-of-god/", "date_published": "2016-12-22T10:49:40-08:00", "date_modified": "2016-12-22T10:49:40-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/holding-hatred-in-abeyance-with-kindness/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/holding-hatred-in-abeyance-with-kindness/", "title": "Holding hatred in abeyance with kindness", "content_html": "
\nReadings for 12/14/16, 2nd Church Berkeley\n
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KJV Prov. 10:18
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18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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KJV Prov. 10:12
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12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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KJV I Cor. 13:13 1st now
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13 …now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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KJV Matt. 5:1, 2, 43-45
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1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 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; 45 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.
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Matt. 6:24
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KJV Matt. 24:3-13
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3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven:
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KJV John 15:17, 18
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17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
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1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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KJV 178:18-27
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Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensation in
matter, is animal magnetism; but this so-called mind,
from which comes all evil, contradicts itself,
and must finally yield to the eternal Truth, or
the divine Mind, expressed in Science. In pro-
portion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are
freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or ani-
mal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power
in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status
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First Degree: Depravity.

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Physical. Evil beliefs, passions and
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Second Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing.

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Moral. Humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness,
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Third Degree: Understanding.

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Spiritual. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, spiritual power, love, health,
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In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and
\nman as God\u2019s image appears. Science so reverses the evidence before
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What is termed disease does not exist. It is neither
mind nor matter. The belief of sin, which has grown
terrible in strength and influence, is an uncon-
scious error in the beginning, – an embryonic
thought without motive; but afterwards it
governs the so-called man. Passion, depraved appetites,
dishonesty, envy, hatred, revenge ripen into action, only to
pass from shame and woe to their final punishment.
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KJV 243:25-29
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Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no
sense of hatred. Life has no partnership
with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law
of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because
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KJV 289:8-13
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,
lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life
abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life
and life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men
sick, sinful, or mortal.
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KJV 288:10-14
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When the final physical and moral effects of Christian
Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth
and error, understanding and belief, Science and material
sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated
by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign.
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KJV 329:32-7
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Human resistance to divine Science weakens in pro-
portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un-
derstanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until the
author of this book learned the vastness of
Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illu-
sions, and the human hatred of Truth, she cherished
sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with
immiediate and universal acceptance.
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Hatred, envy, dishonesty, fear, and so forth,
make a man sick, and neither material medi-
cine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body,
unless it makes him better mentally, and so delivers him
from his destroyers. The basic error is mortal mind.
Hatred inflames the brutal propensities. The indulgence
of evil motives and aims makes any man, who is above the
lowest type of manhood, a hopeless sufferer.
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KJV 405:5-11
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Christian Science commands man to master the pro-
pensities, – to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness,
to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with
charity, and to overcome deceit with hon-
esty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you
would not cherish an army of conspirators against
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KJV 407:6-16
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Man’s enslavement to the most relentless masters –
passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge – is con-
quered only by a mighty struggle. Every
hour of delay makes the struggle more severe.
If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush
out happiness, health, and manhood. Here Christian
Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the
weakness of mortal mind, – strength from the immortal
and omnipotent Mind, – and lifting humanity above
itself into purer desires, even into spiritual power and
good-will to man.
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KJV 563:1-7
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Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a
diviner sense., harmony is the real and discord the unreal.
We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and
death. We may well be perplexed at human
fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts
its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions
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KJV 571:18-19
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Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you.
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Human hate has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom.
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KJV 201:7-12 Truth
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Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away
and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness,
false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirit-
uality, and the superabundance of being is on the side
of God, good.
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\nGal. 5:1, 16 walk, 19-23
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\n429 Thou art the Way: to Thee alone
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", "content_text": "Readings for 12/14/16, 2nd Church Berkeley\n\n\n\nKJV Prov. 10:18\n18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.\n\n\nKJV Prov. 10:12\n12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.\n\n\nKJV I Cor. 13:13 1st now\n13 …now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.\n\n\nKJV Matt. 5:1, 2, 43-45\n1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 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; 45 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.\n\n\n\nMatt. 6:24\u00b6\u2009No man can serve two masters: for either he\nwill hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and\ndespise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.\n\n\n\nKJV Matt. 24:3-13\n3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.\n\n\nKJV Luke 6:22, 23 (to 2nd :)\n22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven:\n\n\nKJV John 15:17, 18\n17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.\n\n\nKJV I John 3:13, 14 (to 1st .)\n13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.\n\n\nKJV Gal. 5:1, 16 1st walk, 19-23\n1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.\n\n\nKJV 178:18-27\n Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensation in matter, is animal magnetism; but this so-called mind, from which comes all evil, contradicts itself, and must finally yield to the eternal Truth, or the divine Mind, expressed in Science. In pro- portion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or ani- mal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being.\n\n\n\nSH 115:19-10\nSCIENTIFIC\nTRANSLATION OF MORTAL MIND\nFirst Degree: Depravity.\nPhysical. Evil beliefs, passions and\nappetites, fear, depraved will,\nself-justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness,\ndisease, death.\nSecond Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing.\nMoral. Humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness,\ntemperance.\nThird Degree: Understanding.\nSpiritual. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, spiritual power, love, health,\nholiness.\nIn the third degree mortal mind disappears, and\nman as God\u2019s image appears. Science so reverses the evidence before\nthe corporeal human senses, as to make this Scriptural testimony true in\nour hearts, \u201cThe last shall be first, and the first last,\u201d so that God and\nHis idea may be to us what divinity really is and must of necessity be,\u2009\u2014\u2009all-inclusive.\n\n\n\nKJV 188:3-10\n What is termed disease does not exist. It is neither mind nor matter. The belief of sin, which has grown terrible in strength and influence, is an uncon- scious error in the beginning, – an embryonic thought without motive; but afterwards it governs the so-called man. Passion, depraved appetites, dishonesty, envy, hatred, revenge ripen into action, only to pass from shame and woe to their final punishment.\n\n\nKJV 243:25-29\n Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.\n\n\nKJV 289:8-13\n A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.\n\n\nKJV 288:10-14\nWhen the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign.\n\n\nKJV 329:32-7\n Human resistance to divine Science weakens in pro- portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un- derstanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until the author of this book learned the vastness of Christian Science, the fixedness of mortal illu- sions, and the human hatred of Truth, she cherished sanguine hopes that Christian Science would meet with immiediate and universal acceptance.\n\n\nKJV 404:29\nHatred, envy, dishonesty, fear, and so forth, make a man sick, and neither material medi- cine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body, unless it makes him better mentally, and so delivers him from his destroyers. The basic error is mortal mind. Hatred inflames the brutal propensities. The indulgence of evil motives and aims makes any man, who is above the lowest type of manhood, a hopeless sufferer.\n\n\nKJV 405:5-11\n Christian Science commands man to master the pro- pensities, – to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness, to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit with hon- esty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you would not cherish an army of conspirators against health, happiness, and success.\n\n\nKJV 407:6-16\n Man’s enslavement to the most relentless masters – passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge – is con- quered only by a mighty struggle. Every hour of delay makes the struggle more severe. If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush out happiness, health, and manhood. Here Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the weakness of mortal mind, – strength from the immortal and omnipotent Mind, – and lifting humanity above itself into purer desires, even into spiritual power and good-will to man.\n\n\nKJV 563:1-7\n Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense., harmony is the real and discord the unreal. We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, and death. We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil.\n\n\nKJV 571:18-19\n Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you.\n\n\nKJV 454:9-10 (to 2nd .)\nHuman hate has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom.\n\n\nKJV 201:7-12 Truth\n Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and “all things are become new.” Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirit- uality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God, good.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProv. 10:18\nProv. 10:12\nI Cor. 13:13 now\nMatt. 5:1, 2, 43-45\nMatt. 6:24\nMatt. 24:3-13\nLuke 6:22, 23 (to 2nd :)\nJohn 15:17, 18\nI John 3:13, 14 (to 1st .)\nGal. 5:1, 16 walk, 19-23\nSH 178:18-27\nSH 115:19-10\nSH 188:3-10\nSH 243:25-29\nSH 289:8-13\nSH 288:10-14\nSH 329:32-7\nSH 404:29\nSH 405:5-11\nSH 407:6-16\nSH 563:1-7\nSH 571:18-19\nSH 454:9-10 (to 2nd .)\nSH 201:7-12 Truth\nHymns:\n296 Rouse ye, soldiers of the cross\n429 Thou art the Way: to Thee alone\n179 Love one another\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/holding-hatred-in-abeyance-with-kindness/", "date_published": "2016-12-15T11:27:40-08:00", "date_modified": "2016-12-15T11:27:40-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/gods-word-is-truth/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/gods-word-is-truth/", "title": "God\u2019s word is truth", "content_html": "
\nReadings for 11/30/16, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n
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SH John 17:1, 3, 17 2nd thy
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1 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: 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 17 …thy word is truth.
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SH Isa 31:5
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5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
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SH Ps. 85:11
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11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
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SH I Kings 17:8-19 1st the, 21-24
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8 …the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again. 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
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SH Heb. 4:12
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12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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SH I Pet. 1:25 1st the
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25 …the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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SH James 1:18
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18 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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SH 497:3-4 As
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As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word
of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
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SH 511:19, 28
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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.
The
fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and
above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal
and divine Principle, Love.
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SH 435:19-23, 31-33
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Watching beside the couch of pain in the exercise of a
love that “is the fulfilling of the law,” – doing “unto
others as ye would that they should do unto you,” – this
is no infringement of law, for no demand, human or divine,
renders it just to punish a man for acting justly.
to be smitten contrary to the law?” The only jurisdiction
to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and
Love.
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SH 436:11
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Giving a cup of cold water in Christ’s name, is a Christian
service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man
should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica-
tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.
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SH 105:11 2nd Can, 22
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Can matter be punished? Can you separate the men-
tality from the body over which courts hold jurisdiction?
Mortal mind, not matter, is the criminal in every case;
and human law rightly estimates crime, and courts rea-
sonably pass sentence, according to the motive.
Whoever uses his developed mental powers like an es-
caped felon to commit fresh atrocities as opportunity oc-
curs is never safe. God will arrest him. Di-
vine justice will manacle him. His sins will
be millstones about his neck, weighing him down to the
depths of ignominy and death. The aggravation of er-
ror foretells its doom, and confirms the ancient axiom:
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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SH 196:15
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Sickness,
sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth.
No law supports them. They have no relation to God
wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own
hell, and goodness its own heaven.
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SH 97:22
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It
requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth
lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its in-
articulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.
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SH 442:16-22
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Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into
the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot
be reversed, but the reverse of error is true.
An improved belief cannot retrograde. When
Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into
a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand-
ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear.
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SH 427:30
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Thought
will waken from its own material declaration, “I am
dead,” to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, “There
is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor
reaction.
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SH 234:17-27
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If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind,
the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out.
We must begin with this so-called mind and
empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick-
ness will never cease. The present codes of human
systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine
theology, adequate to the right education of human
thought.
Sin and disease must be thought before they can be
manifested. You must control evil thoughts in the first
instance, or they will control you in the second.
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SH 442:30
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Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental
malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when
awake.
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SH 517:8-10
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The ideal man
corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth.
The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love.
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SH 543:26-28
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Ideas of Truth alone are reflected
in the myriad manifestations of Life, and thus it is
seen that man springs solely from Mind.
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SH 411:10-12
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If Spirit or the power of divine Love bear
witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific
way, and the healing is instantaneous.
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SH 458:14-15 (to 2nd .), 17
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Divinity is always ready.
The two-edged sword
of Truth must turn in every direction to guard “the tree
of life.
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SH 446:20
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To understand
God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and
verifies Jesus’ word: “Lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world.
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SH 568:26-30
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A louder song, sweeter
than has ever before reached high heaven,
now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ;
for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her
primal and everlasting strain.
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\nSH 234:17-27
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\nSH 517:8-10
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Hymns:
\n77 God is my strong salvation
\n252 O Word of God most holy
\n230 O Love, O Life, our faith and sight

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", "content_text": "Readings for 11/30/16, 2nd Church, Berkeley\n\n\n\nSH John 17:1, 3, 17 2nd thy\n1 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: 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 17 …thy word is truth.\n\n\nSH Isa 31:5\n5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.\n\n\nSH Ps. 85:11\n11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.\n\n\nSH I Kings 17:8-19 1st the, 21-24\n8 …the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again. 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.\n\n\nSH Heb. 4:12\n12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\n\n\nSH I Pet. 1:25 1st the\n25 …the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.\n\n\nSH James 1:18\n18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.\n\n\nSH 497:3-4 As\n As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.\n\n\nSH 511:19, 28\n 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. The fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal and divine Principle, Love.\n\n\nSH 435:19-23, 31-33\n Watching beside the couch of pain in the exercise of a love that “is the fulfilling of the law,” – doing “unto others as ye would that they should do unto you,” – this is no infringement of law, for no demand, human or divine, renders it just to punish a man for acting justly. to be smitten contrary to the law?” The only jurisdiction to which the prisoner can submit is that of Truth, Life, and Love.\n\n\nSH 436:11\nGiving a cup of cold water in Christ’s name, is a Christian service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man should find it again. Such acts bear their own justifica- tion, and are under the protection of the Most High.\n\n\nSH 105:11 2nd Can, 22\nCan matter be punished? Can you separate the men- tality from the body over which courts hold jurisdiction? Mortal mind, not matter, is the criminal in every case; and human law rightly estimates crime, and courts rea- sonably pass sentence, according to the motive. Whoever uses his developed mental powers like an es- caped felon to commit fresh atrocities as opportunity oc- curs is never safe. God will arrest him. Di- vine justice will manacle him. His sins will be millstones about his neck, weighing him down to the depths of ignominy and death. The aggravation of er- ror foretells its doom, and confirms the ancient axiom: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.\n\n\nSH 196:15\n Sickness, sin, and death are not concomitants of Life or Truth. No law supports them. They have no relation to God wherewith to establish their power. Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.\n\n\nSH 97:22\n It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its in- articulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.\n\n\nSH 442:16-22\n Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot be reversed, but the reverse of error is true. An improved belief cannot retrograde. When Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understand- ing, and sin, disease, and death disappear.\n\n\nSH 427:30\n Thought will waken from its own material declaration, “I am dead,” to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, “There is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.\n\n\nSH 234:17-27\n If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind, the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out. We must begin with this so-called mind and empty it of sin and sickness, or sin and sick- ness will never cease. The present codes of human systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine theology, adequate to the right education of human thought. Sin and disease must be thought before they can be manifested. You must control evil thoughts in the first instance, or they will control you in the second.\n\n\nSH 442:30\n Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.\n\n\nSH 517:8-10\n The ideal man corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love.\n\n\nSH 543:26-28\n Ideas of Truth alone are reflected in the myriad manifestations of Life, and thus it is seen that man springs solely from Mind.\n\n\nSH 411:10-12\n If Spirit or the power of divine Love bear witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific way, and the healing is instantaneous.\n\n\nSH 458:14-15 (to 2nd .), 17\nDivinity is always ready. The two-edged sword of Truth must turn in every direction to guard “the tree of life.\n\n\nSH 446:20\n To understand God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and verifies Jesus’ word: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.\n\n\nSH 568:26-30\n A louder song, sweeter than has ever before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and nearer to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn 17:1, 3, 17 2nd thy\nIsa 31:5\nPs. 85:11\nI Kings 17:8-19 1st the, 21-24\nHeb. 4:12\nI Pet. 1:25 1st the\nJames 1:18\nSH 497:3-4 As\nSH 511:19, 28\nSH 435:19-23, 31-33\nSH 436:11\nSH 105:11 2nd Can, 22\nSH 196:15\nSH 97:22\nSH 442:16-22\nSH 427:30\nSH 234:17-27\nSH 442:30\nSH 517:8-10\nSH 543:26-28\nSH 411:10-12\nSH 458:14-15 (to 2nd .), 17\nSH 446:20\nSH 568:26-30\nHymns:\n77 God is my strong salvation\n252 O Word of God most holy\n230 O Love, O Life, our faith and sight\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/gods-word-is-truth/", "date_published": "2016-12-02T09:45:36-08:00", "date_modified": "2016-12-02T09:45:36-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] }, { "id": "https://pleasantviewer.org/invite-angels-to-appear/", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/invite-angels-to-appear/", "title": "Invite angels to appear", "content_html": "
\nWednesday 11/23/16 readings and hymns, 2nd Church Berkeley\n
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SH Dan. 9:20-22, 23 1st for (to 1st :)
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20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. 23 …for thou art greatly beloved:
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SH Luke 1:5-7, 11-13, 18, 19, 24-32 (to 1st :)
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5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. 19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. 24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, 25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
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SH Mark 1:9-13
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9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. 13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
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SH Matt. 27:1, 35, 50, 51, 54, 55
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1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. 55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
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SH Matt. 28:1, 2, 5, 6 (to 1st .)
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1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
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SH Ps. 68:17 (to 1st :)
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17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels:
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SH Heb. 13:1, 2
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1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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SH 581:4-7
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ANGELS. God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual
intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness,
purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality,
and mortality.
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SH 174:9-14
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The footsteps of thought, rising above material stand-
points, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller;
but the angels of His presence – the spiritual
intuitions that tell us when “the night is far
spent, the day is at hand” – are our guardians in the
gloom.
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SH 298:25-30
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Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving
animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial
visitants, flying on spiritual, not material,
pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God,
winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their indi-
vidualism may be.
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SH 299:7
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My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door
of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried
its fondest earthly hopes. With white fin-
gers they point upward to a new and glo-
rified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels
are God’s representatives. These upward-soaring beings
never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to
the divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi-
viduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving
earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us,
and we entertain “angels unawares.
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SH 372:14-17
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When man demonstrates Christian Science absolutely,
he will be perfect. He can neither sin, suffer, be subject
to matter, nor disobey the law of God. There-
fore he will be as the angels in heaven.
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SH 482:19
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Jesus was the highest human
concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from
Christ, the Messiah, – the divine idea of God outside
the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his con-
trol over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of
old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through
faith, to the hungering heart in every age.
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SH 501:10-13
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The incarnation of Truth, that amplifi-
cation of wonder and glory which angels could only
whisper and which God illustrated by light and har-
mony, is consonant with ever-present Love.
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SH 512:8-16
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Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power,
and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These an-
gels of His presence, which have the holiest
charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of
Mind, and consequently reproduce their own character-
istics. Their individual forms we know not, but we do
know that their natures are allied to God’s nature; and
spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet
subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding.
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SH 548:12
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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 which men may entertain angels, the true
ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being.
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SH 566:25-8
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And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither
was their place found any more in heaven.
The Old Testament assigns to the angels, God’s divine
messages, different offices. Michael’s charac-
teristic is spiritual strength. He leads the
hosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and
fights the holy wars. Gabriel has the more quiet task
of imparting a sense of the ever-presence of ministering
Love. These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth
and Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong
faith or spiritual strength wrestles and prevails through
the understanding of God. The Gabriel of His presence
has no contests. To infinite, ever-present Love, all is
Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death.
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\nDan. 9:20-22, 23 for (to :)
\nLuke 1:5-7, 11-13, 18, 19, 24-32 (to :)
\nMark 1:9-13
\nMatt. 27:1, 35, 50, 51, 54, 55
\nMatt. 28:1, 2, 5, 6 (to 1st .)
\nPs. 68:17 (to :)
\nHeb. 13:1, 2
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\nSH 174:9-14
\nSH 298:25-30
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Hymns:
\n181 Loving Father, we Thy children;
\n9 All glory be to God most high
\n158 It came upon the midnight clear

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God’s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.\n\n\nSH 174:9-14\n The footsteps of thought, rising above material stand- points, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller; but the angels of His presence – the spiritual intuitions that tell us when “the night is far spent, the day is at hand” – are our guardians in the gloom.\n\n\nSH 298:25-30\n Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their indi- vidualism may be.\n\n\nSH 299:7\n My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried its fondest earthly hopes. With white fin- gers they point upward to a new and glo- rified trust, to higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels are God’s representatives. These upward-soaring beings never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but guide to the divine Principle of all good, whither every real indi- viduality, image, or likeness of God, gathers. By giving earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain “angels unawares.\n\n\nSH 372:14-17\n When man demonstrates Christian Science absolutely, he will be perfect. He can neither sin, suffer, be subject to matter, nor disobey the law of God. There- fore he will be as the angels in heaven.\n\n\nSH 482:19\n Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, – the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This enabled Jesus to demonstrate his con- trol over matter. Angels announced to the Wisemen of old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through faith, to the hungering heart in every age.\n\n\nSH 501:10-13\n The incarnation of Truth, that amplifi- cation of wonder and glory which angels could only whisper and which God illustrated by light and har- mony, is consonant with ever-present Love.\n\n\nSH 512:8-16\n Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These an- gels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and consequently reproduce their own character- istics. Their individual forms we know not, but we do know that their natures are allied to God’s nature; and spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding.\n\n\nSH 548:12\nEarth 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 which men may entertain angels, the true ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being.\n\n\nSH 566:25-8\nAnd there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. The Old Testament assigns to the angels, God’s divine messages, different offices. Michael’s charac- teristic is spiritual strength. He leads the hosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and fights the holy wars. Gabriel has the more quiet task of imparting a sense of the ever-presence of ministering Love. These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong faith or spiritual strength wrestles and prevails through the understanding of God. The Gabriel of His presence has no contests. To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDan. 9:20-22, 23 for (to :)\nLuke 1:5-7, 11-13, 18, 19, 24-32 (to :)\nMark 1:9-13\nMatt. 27:1, 35, 50, 51, 54, 55\nMatt. 28:1, 2, 5, 6 (to 1st .)\nPs. 68:17 (to :)\nHeb. 13:1, 2\nSH 581:4-7\nSH 174:9-14\nSH 298:25-30\nSH 299:7\nSH 372:14-17\nSH 482:19\nSH 501:10-13\nSH 512:8-16\nSH 548:12\nSH 566:25-8\nHymns:\n181 Loving Father, we Thy children;\n9 All glory be to God most high\n158 It came upon the midnight clear\n\nLink to share this: https://pleasantviewer.org/invite-angels-to-appear/", "date_published": "2016-11-25T09:14:35-08:00", "date_modified": "2016-11-25T09:14:35-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Marilyn", "url": "https://pleasantviewer.org/author/marilyn/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc60f889061228d9c665a693d3131435ba49639be5576c169b7e06797312aa90?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "Wednesday Readings" ] } ] }