Prayer with our waking thought ascends

New Year’s Eve readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley

SH Eph 4:7 1st unto, 8: 7 …unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

SH John 6:53, 57, 58, 60-63: 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

SH John 3:5 1st I, 12, 13: 5 …I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

SH John 20:11-17 1st Mary: 11 …Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not where they have laid him. 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

SH Luke 24:45-49 (to 1st :), 50-53: 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: 50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

SH 292:31-2: In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed
that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood, and
that this unreal material mortality disappears in presence
of the reality.

SH 25:10-12: His true flesh and blood were his Life; and they truly eat
his flesh and drink his blood, who partake of that divine
Life.

SH 34:18-21: Through all the disciples experienced, they became more
spiritual and understood better what the Master had
taught. His resurrection was also their resur-
rection.

SH 46:13-17: The Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit,
and after his resurrection he proved to the physical senses
that his body was not changed until he himself
ascended, – or, in other words, rose even
higher in the understanding of Spirit, God.

SH 334:12-20: This dual personality of the
unseen and the seen, the spiritual and mate-
rial, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest
in flesh, continued until the Master’s ascension, when
the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared,
while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in
the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins
of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before
the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes.

SH 189:18-24: The human
mortal mind, by an inevitable perversion, makes all
things start from the lowest instead of from the highest
mortal thought. The reverse is the case with all the
formations of the immortal divine Mind. They proceed
from the divine source; and so, in tracing them, we con-
stantly ascend in infinite being.

SH 313:30-5: To show
that the substance of himself was Spirit and the body
no more perfect because of death and no less material
until the ascension (his further spiritual exaltation),
Jesus waited until the mortal or fleshly sense had re-
linquished the belief of substance-matter, and spiritual
sense had quenched all earthly yearnings.

SH 407:6-8, 11: Man’s enslavement to the most relentless masters –
passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge – is con-
quered only by a mighty struggle.
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.

SH 501:10-13: 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.

SH 502:9-20: Spiritually followed, the book of Genesis is the history
of the untrue image of God, named a sinful mortal. This
deflection of being, rightly viewed, serves to
suggest the proper reflection of God and the
spiritual actuality of man, as given in the first chapter
of Genesis. Even thus the crude forms of human thought
take on higher symbols and significations, when scien-
tifically Christian views of the universe appear, illuminat-
ing time with the glory of eternity.
In the following exegesis, each text is followed by its
spiritual interpretation according to the teachings of Chris-
tian Science.

SH 508:26-8: 13. And the evening and the morning were
the third day.
The third stage in the order of Christian Science is an
important one to the human thought, letting in the light
of spiritual understanding. This period corresponds to
the resurrection, when Spirit is discerned to be the Life of
all, and the deathless Life, or Mind, dependent
upon no material organization. Our Master
reappeared to his students, – to their apprehension he
rose from the grave, – on the third day of his ascending
thought, and so presented to them the certain sense of
eternal Life.

SH 509:9, 15, 24-28: 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years.
This text gives the idea of the rarefaction of
thought as it ascends higher. God forms and
peoples the universe. The light of spiritual understand-
ing gives gleams of the infinite only, even as nebulae indi-
cate the immensity of space.
The periods of
spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind’s
creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness
– yea, the divine nature – appear in man and the uni-
verse never to disappear.

Eph 4:7 unto, 8
John 6:53, 57, 58, 60-63
John 3:5 I, 12, 13
John 20:11-17 Mary
Luke 24:45-49 (to :), 50-53
SH 292:31-2
SH 25:10-12
SH 34:18-21
SH 46:13-17
SH 334:12-20
SH 189:18-24
SH 313:30-5
SH 407:6-8, 11
SH 501:10-13
SH 502:9-20
SH 508:26-8
SH 509:9, 15, 24-28

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New-born of Spirit

Christmas Eve, 12/24/14, readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley

SH Gen. 17:1-5 1st when, 15, 16 (to 1st ;): 1 …when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations;

SH Luke 2:15 2nd the, 16, 17, 32, 52: 15 …the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. 17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

SH Luke 4:14, 15: 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. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

SH John 9:1-4 (to 1st :), 5-7: 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.

SH John 3:3 1st Except, 6, 7: 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.

SH Isa. 66:9: 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.

SH I Pet. 2:2-5: 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

SH I Pet. 1:22, 23: 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.

SH Job 22:21: 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

SH 548:13: 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.

SH 305:22: In
the illusion of life that is here to-day and
gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were
it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in
divine Science, destroys all error and brings immor-
tality to light. Because man is the reflection of his
Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, de-
cay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not
divine.

SH 57:18: Happiness is spiritual,
born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore
it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to
share it.

SH 250:7-11: Spirit is the Ego which
never dreams, but understands all things;
which never errs, and is ever conscious; which
never believes, but knows; which is never born and
never dies.

SH 258:27-30: Never born and
never dying, it were impossible for man, under
the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his
high estate.

SH 16:20, 30: Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and
sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spir-
itual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s
Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.
Here let me give what I understand to be the spir-
itual sense of the Lord’s Prayer:
Thy kingdom come.
_Thy kingdom is come;

SH 296:4-6: Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of
mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for
the immortal.

SH 35:19-25 2nd Our: Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our
church is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can
unite with this church only as we are new-
born of Spirit, as we reach the Life which
is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth
the fruits of Love, – casting out error and healing the
sick.

SH 324:7-12: Unless the harmony and immortality of man are be-
coming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea
of God; and the body will reflect what gov-
erns it, whether it be Truth or error,
understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore
“acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.

SH 227:16-18: God made man free.
Paul said, “I was free born.” All men should
be free.

SH 273:29-3: 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.

SH 295:25-28, 31: All that is called mortal thought is made up of error.
The theoretical mind is matter, named brain, or mate-
rial consciousness, the exact opposite of real
Mind, or Spirit.
Thus error the-
orizes that spirit is born of matter and returns to mat-
ter, and that man has a resurrection from dust; whereas
Science unfolds the eternal verity, that man is the spiritual,
eternal reflection of God.

SH 535:15-17: When will man pass through the
open gate of Christian Science into the heaven of Soul,
into the heritage of the first born among men?

SH 552:13-19: Human experience in mortal life, which starts from an
egg, corresponds with that of Job, when he says, “Man
that is born of a woman is of few days, and
full of trouble.” Mortals must emerge from
this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck
open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward
and upward.

SH 557:18-21: “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” Divine
Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of
Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as
never dying, but as coexistent with his creator.

SH 482:19-22, 23: 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.
Angels announced to the Wisemen of
old this dual appearing, and angels whisper it, through
faith, to the hungering heart in every age.

Gen. 17:1-5 when, 15, 16 (to ;)
Luke 2:15 2nd the, 16, 17, 32, 52
Luke 4:14, 15
John 9:1-4 (to :), 5-7
John 3:3 Except, 6, 7
Isa. 66:9
I Pet. 2:2-5
I Pet. 1:22, 23
Job 22:21
SH 548:13
SH 305:22
SH 57:18
SH 250:7-11
SH 258:27-30
SH 16:20, 30
SH 296:4-6
SH 35:19-25 2nd Our
SH 324:7-12
SH 227:16-18
SH 273:29-3
SH 295:25-28, 31
SH 535:15-17
SH 552:13-19
SH 557:18-21
SH 482:19-22, 23

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Spiritual discernment and prophecy

Readings, Wed., 12/17/14, 2nd Church, Berkeley

SH Gen. 1:26 1st God (to 1st :), 27, 31 (to 1st .): 26 …God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

SH I Cor. 2:9 1st as: 9 …as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

SH Ps. 119:18: 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

SH Ps. 40:3: 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

SH Ps. 66:5 (to 1st :): 5 Come and see the works of God:

SH Ps. 69:30, 32: 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

SH II Kings 2:8, 12 (to 1st :), 14, 15 (to 1st .): 8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over. 15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.

SH II Kings 6:15 1st when, 16, 17: 15 …when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

SH Isa. 42:6, 7: 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

SH John 3:1-3: 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

SH Matt. 5:8: 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

SH Acts 2:14 1st Peter, 16 1st this, 17-19 (to 1st ;): 14 …Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 16 …this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath;

SH I Pet. 3:8 1st be, 9-12 (to 1st :), 13: 8 …be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

SH 129:22-24: We must look deep
into realism instead of accepting only the out-
ward sense of things.

SH 593:4-5: PROPHET. A spiritual seer; disappearance of mate-
rial sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth.

SH 585:9: ELIAS. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to mate-
rial sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned
the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold;
the basis of immortality.

SH 586:3-4: EYES. Spiritual discernment, – not material but
mental.

SH 561:1-4: The understanding of Truth
and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal
good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of
evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.

SH 98:4-7: The prophet of to-day beholds in the mental horizon
the signs of these times, the reappearance of the Chris-
tianity which heals the sick and destroys error,
and no other sign shall be given.

SH 324:4: The purification
of sense and self is a proof of progress. “Blessed are the
pure in heart: for they shall see God.

SH 241:27-30: The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all
the impurities of flesh, signifies that the pure in heart
see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its
demonstration.

SH 91:16: Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect
but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of
material selfhood aids the discernment of man’s spirit-
ual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous
knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed
the material senses.

SH 233:17-22: Ye who can discern the face of the sky, – the
sign material, – how much more should ye
discern the sign mental, and compass the de-
struction of sin and sickness by overcoming the thoughts
which produce them, and by understanding the spiritual
idea which corrects and destroys them.

SH 94:28-32 (to 1st .): cisive power injuriously? Our Master read mortal mind
on a scientific basis, that of the omnipresence of Mind.
An approximation of this discernment indicates spiritual
growth and union with the infinite capacities of the one
Mind.

SH 95:6-10: We approach
God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidel-
ity to Truth and Love; and in that ratio we know all
human need and are able to discern the thought of the
sick and the sinning for the purpose of healing them.

SH 258:31-1: Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of
divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the
generic term _man.

SH 310:29-31: Mind is God, and God is not seen by material sense,
because Mind is Spirit, which material sense cannot dis-
cern.

SH 505:20-21: Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual
good.

SH 209:31-32: Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to un-
derstand God.

SH 510:4-5: of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit
and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.

SH 519:11-14, 16-17: Hu-
man capacity is slow to discern and to grasp
God’s creation and the divine power and presence which
go with it, demonstrating its spiritual origin.
What
can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till,

SH 263:32-10: The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.
They have their day before the permanent facts and their
perfection in Spirit appear. The crude crea-
tions of mortal thought must finally give place
to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the
camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spir-
itual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading,
finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.
Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm
of Mind?

SH 292:1: When the last mortal fault is destroyed, then the final
trump will sound which will end the battle of Truth with
error and mortality; “but of that day and hour, knoweth
no man.” Here prophecy pauses. Divine Science alone
can compass the heights and depths of being and reveal
the infinite.

Gen. 1:26 God (to :), 27, 31 (to 1st .)
I Cor. 2:9 as
Ps. 119:18
Ps. 40:3
Ps. 66:5 (to :)
Ps. 69:30, 32
II Kings 2:8, 12 (to :), 14, 15 (to 1st .)
II Kings 6:15 when, 16, 17
Isa. 42:6, 7
John 3:1-3
Matt. 5:8
Acts 2:14 Peter, 16 this, 17-19 (to ;)
I Pet. 3:8 be, 9-12 (to :), 13
SH 129:22-24
SH 593:4-5
SH 585:9
SH 586:3-4
SH 561:1-4
SH 98:4-7
SH 324:4
SH 241:27-30
SH 91:16
SH 233:17-22
SH 94:28-32 (to 1st .)
SH 95:6-10
SH 258:31-1
SH 310:29-31
SH 505:20-21
SH 209:31-32
SH 510:4-5
SH 519:11-14, 16-17
SH 263:32-10
SH 292:1
SH 171:4-8 (to 4th ,)

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In the beginning was the Word

Wednesday, 12/10/14 readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley

SH Gen. 1:1: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

SH Ps. 119:160: 160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

SH Heb. 1:10 1st Thou: 10 …Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

SH Isa. 64:4: 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

SH John 1:1, 3, 4: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

SH Isa. 7:14 1st Behold: 14 …Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

SH Isa. 9:6, 7 (to 1st .): 6 For 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.

SH Mark 1:1: 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

SH John 15:1, 7-9, 12, 26 1st when, 27: 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 26 …when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

SH Mark 4:26-29: 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

SH John 4:35: 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

SH I John 1:1, 3, 4: 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

SH I John 2:24: 24 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

SH II John 1:6: 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

SH I John 3:11: 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

SH Heb. 3:14: 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

SH Rev. 21:5 1st he, 6: 5 …he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

SH 262:28-31 To: To begin rightly is to end rightly. Every
concept which seems to begin with the brain
begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause
or Principle of existence.

SH 275:10-12: To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
of all that really is.

SH 282:3, 15-20: The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called
material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical
symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight
line. The circle represents the infinite with-
out beginning or end; the straight line represents the
finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere
represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality
or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in
a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal
Mind and temporary material existence never unite in
figure or in fact.
Similarly,
matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has
no place in matter. Truth has no home in
error, and error has no foothold in Truth. Mind cannot
pass into non-intelligence and matter, nor can non-intel-
ligence become Soul.

SH 333:16-23 The: The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the
first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is
without beginning of years or end of days.
Throughout all generations both before and
after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spirit-
ual idea, – the reflection of God, – has come with some
measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive
Christ, Truth.

SH 338:1: Christian Science, rightly under-
stood, leads to eternal harmony. It brings to light the
only living and true God and man as made in His like-
ness; whereas the opposite belief – that man originates
in matter and has beginning and end, that he is both
soul and body, both good and evil, both spiritual and
material – terminates in discord and mortality, in the
error which must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality
of material man proves that error has been ingrafted
into the premises and conclusions of material and mortal
humanity.

SH 322:26-30: The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life
of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless
woes, turn us like tired children to the arms
of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life
in divine Science.

SH 384:5: Let us reassure
ourselves with the law of Love. God never
punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for
deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue,
cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty
through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not
an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his
protest against this belief in order to annul it. Through
this action of thought and its results upon the body, the
student will prove to himself, by small beginnings, the
grand verities of Christian Science.

SH 409:20-23: The real man is
spiritual and immortal, but the mortal and imperfect
so-called “children of men” are counterfeits from the
beginning, to be laid aside for the pure reality.

SH 463:12-16: 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.

SH 109:24-27: When a new spiritual idea is borne to earth, the
prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled:
“Unto us a child is born, . . . and his name shall be
called Wonderful.

SH 468:27-29: Life is without beginning and without end.
Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of
Life, and time is no part of eternity.

SH 479:18-19, 21-23: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
1, 2.) In the vast forever, in the
Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit
and its innumerable creations.

SH 502:24-28 (to 1st .): The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning
is employed to signify the only, – that is, the eternal ver-
ity and unity of God and man, including
the universe. The creative Principle – Life,
Truth, and Love – is God.

Gen. 1:1
Ps. 119:160
Heb. 1:10 Thou
Isa. 64:4
John 1:1, 3, 4
Isa. 7:14 Behold
Isa. 9:6, 7 (to 1st .)
Mark 1:1
John 15:1, 7-9, 12, 26 when, 27
Mark 4:26-29
John 4:35
I John 1:1, 3, 4
I John 2:24
II John 1:6
I John 3:11
Heb. 3:14
Rev. 21:5 he, 6
SH 262:28-31 To
SH 275:10-12
SH 282:3, 15-20
SH 333:16-23 The
SH 338:1
SH 322:26-30
SH 384:5
SH 409:20-23
SH 463:12-16
SH 109:24-27
SH 468:27-29
SH 479:18-19, 21-23
SH 502:24-28 (to 1st .)

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A pilgrim and a stranger

Wednesday readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley, Nov. 19, 2014

SH Isa. 60:18: 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

SH Lev. 19:33 1st if, 34: 33 …if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

SH Lev. 25:45: 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

SH Ruth 1:22 1st Naomi; 2:1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10-12: 22 …Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. 1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: 8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. 12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

SH Num. 15:15, 16: 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

SH Matt. 14:14: 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

SH Matt. 5:1, 2, 10-12 (to 2nd :): 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, 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven:

SH John 19:25-27: 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.

SH Eph. 2:8 1st by, 10-19: 8 …by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

SH 515:21-22 Man: Man is the family name
for all ideas, – the sons and daughters of God.

SH 469:30-5: With
one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which
constitute divine Science.

SH 467:11: Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact
becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brother-
hood of man will be established. Having no other gods,
turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide
him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, hav-
ing that Mind which was also in Christ.

SH 590:15-17: LORD. In the Hebrew, this term is sometimes em-
ployed as a title, which has the inferior sense of master,
or ruler.

SH 576:31-4: This human sense of Deity yields to the divine
sense, even as the material sense of personality yields
to the incorporeal sense of God and man as the infinite
Principle and infinite idea, – as one Father with His uni-
versal family, held in the gospel of Love.

SH 507:3: Spirit duly
feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line
of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the father-
hood and motherhood of God. Spirit names and blesses
all. Without natures particularly defined, objects and
subjects would be obscure, and creation would be full of
nameless offspring, – wanderers from the parent Mind,
strangers in a tangled wilderness.

SH 570:14-18: Millions of unprejudiced minds – simple seekers for
Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert – are wait-
ing and watching for rest and drink. Give
them a cup of cold water in Christ’s name,
and never fear the consequences.

SH 103:6-9: The destruction of the claims of mortal mind through
Science, by which man can escape from sin
and mortality, blesses the whole human fam-
ily.

SH 205:22-27, 31-3: When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law
of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded;
whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders
man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one
God, and leads human thought into opposite channels
where selfishness reigns.
Spirit, God, good, but of matter.
When we fully understand our relation to the Divine,
we can have no other Mind but His, – no other Love,
wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no con-
sciousness of the existence of matter or error.

SH 142:18-24: As in Jesus’ time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to
be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Sci-
ence to be welcomed in. The strong cords of
scientific demonstration, as twisted and wielded
by Jesus, are still needed to purge the temples of their
vain traffic in worldly worship and to make them meet
dwelling-places for the Most High.

SH 69:13: Spiritually to understand that there is but
one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scrip-
tures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain,
and of man deathless and perfect and eternal.

SH 146:20-22: Science is the “stranger that is within thy gates,”
remembered not, even when its elevating effects prac-
tically prove its divine origin and efficacy.

SH 174:14-16: Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is
a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for gen-
erations yet unborn.

SH 58:21-23: Home is the dearest spot on
earth, and it should be the centre, though not the bound-
ary, of the affections.

SH 254:31-32: Pilgrim on earth, thy home
is heaven;

Isa. 60:18
Lev. 19:33 if, 34
Lev. 25:45
Ruth 1:22 Naomi; 2:1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10-12
Num. 15:15, 16
Matt. 14:14
Matt. 5:1, 2, 10-12 (to 2nd :)
John 19:25-27
Eph. 2:8 by, 10-19
SH 515:21-22 Man
SH 469:30-5
SH 467:11
SH 590:15-17
SH 576:31-4
SH 507:3
SH 570:14-18
SH 103:6-9
SH 205:22-27, 31-3
SH 142:18-24
SH 69:13
SH 146:20-22
SH 174:14-16
SH 58:21-23
SH 254:31-32

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government upon his shoulder

Wed., 11/5/12 readings, Second Church, Berkeley

SH Ps. 55:22 (to 1st :): 22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee:

SH Isa. 9:6 1st unto (to 2nd :), 7 (to 1st .): 6 …unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: 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.

SH Acts 10:38 1st God (to 1st :): 38 …God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:

SH I Cor. 11:3 1st I (to 1st ;): 3 …I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ;

SH Eph. 4:1-3, 14, 15: 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

SH I Tim. 2:1-3, 5: 1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

SH Rev. 5:13 1st Blessing: 13 …Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

SH 587:25-26 (to 1st ;): HEAVEN. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government
by divine Principle;

SH 332:9-11 Christ, 19 Jesus (to ;), 29: Christ is the true idea
voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak-
ing to the human consciousness.
Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ
is the divine idea of God – the Holy Ghost,
or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle,
Love, and leading into all truth.
He expressed the highest type of
divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age.
Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot
enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence,
or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His
image.

SH 26:12-14: “I and my Father are one.” This Christ,
or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine
nature, the godliness which animated him.

SH 270:23-24: Meekness and charity have divine
authority.

SH 31:13-17: He attached
no importance to dead ceremonies. It is the
living Christ, the practical Truth, which makes
Jesus “the resurrection and the life” to all who follow him
in deed.

SH 49:21-25: He was to prove that the Christ
is not subject to material conditions, but is above the
reach of human wrath, and is able, through Truth,
Life, and Love, to triumph over sin, sickness, death, and
the grave.

SH 136:2: He taught
his followers that his religion had a divine
Principle, which would cast out error and heal
both the sick and the sinning. He claimed no intelli-
gence, action, nor life separate from God. Despite the
persecution this brought upon him, he used his divine
power to save men both bodily and spiritually.

SH 26:14: Divine Truth,
Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness,
and death. His mission was to reveal the Science of
celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does
for man.

SH 62:24 let: let no mortal inter-
fere with God’s government by thrusting in the laws of
erring, human concepts.

SH 168:15: Because man-made systems insist that man becomes
sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with
the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are
we to believe an authority which denies God’s
spiritual command relating to perfection, – an authority
which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the
Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called
material law, but in accordance with God’s law, the law
of Mind.

SH 125:16-17: Reflecting God’s
government, man is self-governed.

SH 128:4-6: The term Science, properly understood, refers only to
the laws of God and to His government of the universe,
inclusive of man.

SH 264:32-5: 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. Man understands spiritual existence
in proportion as his treasures of Truth and
Love are enlarged.

SH 378:22-24: Disease is not an intelligence to dispute the empire of
Mind or to dethrone Mind and take the government into
its own hands.

SH 381:28-4: It is man’s
moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never
inflicted by divine authority.
Christ Jesus overruled the error which would impose
penalties for transgressions of the physical laws of
health; he annulled supposed laws of matter, opposed
to the harmonies of Spirit, lacking divine au-
thority and having only human approval for
their sanction.

SH 340:23-25 (to ;): One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con-
stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the
Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;

SH 94:14: Tyranny, intolerance, and bloodshed, wherever found,
arise from the belief that the infinite is formed after the
pattern of mortal personality, passion, and impulse.

SH 106:6-11: 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.

SH 224:28: 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.

SH 230:6-8: This awakening is the for-
ever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth,
which casts out error and heals the sick.

SH 565:13-18: The impersonation of the
spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our
Master; but “of his kingdom there shall be no end,”
for Christ, God’s idea, will eventually rule all nations
and peoples – imperatively, absolutely, finally – with di-
vine Science.

Ps. 55:22 (to :)
Isa. 9:6 unto (to 2nd :), 7 (to 1st .)
Acts 10:38 God (to 1st :)
Matt. 5:1, 2, 17, 18; 6:20 lay, 21; 7:7, 8, 24 whosoever, 28, 29
I Cor. 11:3 I (to 1st ;)
I Cor. 12:4, 5, 6, 12 as, 20 now, 24 God, 25
Eph. 4:1-3, 14, 15
I Tim. 2:1-3, 5
Rev. 5:13 Blessing
SH 587:25-26 (to 1st ;)
SH 332:9-11 Christ, 19 Jesus (to ;), 29
SH 26:12-14
SH 270:23-24
SH 31:13-17
SH 49:21-25
SH 136:2
SH 26:14
SH 62:24 let
SH 168:15
SH 125:16-17
SH 128:4-6
SH 264:32-5
SH 378:22-24
SH 442:3 (only, to 2nd .)
SH 381:28-4
SH 340:23-25 (to ;)
SH 94:14
SH 106:6-11
SH 224:28
SH 230:6-8
SH 565:13-18

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Confiding all to God

Wed., 10/29/14 readings, 2nd Church Berkeley – sub-topics: “confidence in God as all” (SH 397); defending against mental malpractice

SH Ps. 27:1 2nd the, 3, 5: 1 …the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

SH Ps. 36:5, 6, 7 1st the: 5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. 7 …the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

SH Prov. 3:5, 6: 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

SH Mark 1:14 1st Jesus, 15 (to 1st :): 14 …Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:

SH Mark 7:25 1st a, 26 1st and, 27-30: 25 …a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26 …and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

SH Matt. 9:20-22: 20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

SH Phil. 2:5: 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

SH Gal. 5:10 (to 1st :): 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded:

SH Phil. 1:25, 27 2nd that: 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; 27 …that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

SH Heb. 3:14: 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

SH Heb. 10:35, 36: 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

SH II Cor. 9:8 1st God, 11: 8 …God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

SH Isa. 30:15 (to 1st :): 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:

SH I John 5:14: 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

SH 494:15-19 Jesus: Jesus
demonstrated the inability of corporeality, as well as the
infinite ability of Spirit, thus helping erring
human sense to flee from its own convictions
and seek safety in divine Science.

SH 495:16-24: Let neither
fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and
calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious – as
Life eternally is – can destroy any painful sense of, or
belief in, that which Life is not. Let Christian Science,
instead of corporeal sense, support your understanding of
being, and this understanding will supplant error with
Truth, replace mortality with immortality, and silence dis-
cord with harmony.

SH 428:3-12 A: A demonstra-
tion of the facts of Soul in Jesus’ way resolves the dark
visions of material sense into harmony and
immortality. Man’s privilege at this supreme
moment is to prove the words of our Master: “If a man
keep my saying, he shall never see death.” To divest
thought of false trusts and material evidences in order
that the spiritual facts of being may appear, – this is
the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep
away the false and give place to the true.

SH 455:8-10: You must utilize the moral
might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error
and support your claims by demonstration.

SH 155:21-25: The
human mind acts more powerfully to offset the discords
of matter and the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less
weight into the material or fleshly scale and more weight
into the spiritual scale.

SH 201:7-9 Truth: Truth
makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away
and “all things are become new.

SH 514:26: Understanding the control which Love held over all,
Daniel felt safe in the lions’ den, and Paul proved the
viper to be harmless. All of God’s creatures
moving in the harmony of Science, are harm-
less, useful, indestructible. A realization of this grand
verity was a source of strength to the ancient worthies.
It supports Christian healing, and enables its possessor
to emulate the example of Jesus. “And God saw that
it was good.

SH 397:12-22: When an ac-
cident happens, you think or exclaim, “I am hurt!”
Your thought is more powerful than your words, more
powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury
real.
Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt
and understand the reason why, and you will find the
ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your
disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine meta-
physics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures
declare Him to be.

SH 417:10-14, 16: Maintain
the facts of Christian Science, – that Spirit is God, and
therefore cannot be sick; that what is termed matter
cannot be sick; that all causation is Mind, acting
through spiritual law.
When you silence the witness against your
plea, you destroy the evidence, for the disease disap-
pears. The evidence before the corporeal senses is not
the Science of immortal man.

SH 387:5-12: Mind can be overworked? When we reach
our limits of mental endurance, we conclude
that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far;
but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active,
and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can
so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers
and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by
the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.

SH 23:32-2: The Hebrew verb to believe means also to be firm or
to be constant. This certainly applies to Truth and Love
understood and practised.

SH 569:6-11: The Scripture, “Thou hast been faithful over a few
things, I will make thee ruler over many,” is literally ful-
filled, when we are conscious of the supremacy
of Truth, by which the nothingness of error
is seen; and we know that the nothingness of error is in
proportion to its wickedness.

SH 487:27: The understanding that Life is God, Spirit, lengthens
our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless
reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality.

SH 105:22: 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.

SH 367:30-9: Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as
nothing. Because Truth is omnipotent in goodness,
error, Truth’s opposite, has no might. Evil is but the
counterpoise of nothingness. The greatest wrong is
but a supposititious opposite of the highest right. The
confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact
that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error
is a coward before Truth. Divine Science insists that
time will prove all this. Both truth and error have come
nearer than ever before to the apprehension of mortals,
and truth will become still clearer as error is self-
destroyed.

SH 442:30: Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental
malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when
awake.

SH 451:19: 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. He feels morally obligated to
open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the
nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any
subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. 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.

SH 451:2: nihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the con-
stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from
the material world and be separate. They must re-
nounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power.
Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow,
must be their queen of life.

SH 451:16: If our hopes and affec-
tions are spiritual, they come from above, not from be-
neath, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit.

Ps. 27:1 2nd the, 3, 5
Ps. 36:5, 6, 7 the
Prov. 3:5, 6
Mark 1:14 Jesus, 15 (to :)
Mark 7:25 a, 26 and, 27-30
Matt. 9:20-22
Phil. 2:5
Gal. 5:10 (to :)
Phil. 1:25, 27 2nd that
Heb. 3:14
Heb. 10:35, 36
II Cor. 9:8 God, 11
Isa. 30:15 (to :)
I John 5:14
SH 494:15-19 Jesus
SH 495:16-24
SH 428:3-12 A
SH 455:8-10
SH 155:21-25
SH 201:7-9 Truth
SH 514:26
SH 397:12-22
SH 417:10-14, 16
SH 387:5-12
SH 23:32-2
SH 569:6-11
SH 487:27
SH 105:22
SH 367:30-9
SH 442:30
SH 451:19
SH 451:2
SH 451:16

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Fear has no dominion

Wed., 10/22/14 readings, Second Church, Berkeley CA

KJV Ex. 14:13 1st Moses (to 1st :): 13 …Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day:

KJV Deut. 31:6 1st the: 6 …the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

KJV Josh. 1:9: 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

KJV II Chron. 20:15 1st Be: 15 …Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

KJV Ps. 56:11: 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

KJV Ps. 91:5: 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

KJV Ps. 23:4 1st though: 4 …though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

KJV Prov. 3:24: 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

KJV Isa. 40:9, 10 1st the, 11: 9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 10 …the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

KJV Matt. 14:27 1st Jesus: 27 …Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

KJV Matt. 17:7: 7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

KJV Matt. 28:10 (to 1st :): 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid:

KJV Mark 5:22 1st there, 23, 35 1st there, 36, 41, 42 (to 1st ;): 22 …there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, 23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. 35 …there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further? 36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. 41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. 42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked;

KJV John 14:27: 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

KJV Acts 18:9, 10 (to 1st :): 9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee:

KJV I Pet. 3:13: 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

KJV I John 4:16 2nd God, 18 (to 1st :): 16 …God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:

KJV 410:29-30: gins with Christ’s keynote of harmony, “Be not afraid!”; KJV 411:27-1; Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear; of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemp-; tion from disease and danger. Watch the re-; sult of this simple rule of Christian Science,; and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every; disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear,; your patient is healed.

KJV 410:17-19 (to .), 20: faith and the purer our love. The Apostle
John says: “There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love
casteth out fear.
Here is a definite and inspired proclama-
tion of Christian Science.

KJV 421:15-19 (to ;): chemicalization produces pain or disease. Insist vehe-
mently on the great fact which covers the whole ground,
that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside
Him. There is no disease. When the supposed suffer-
ing is gone from mortal mind, there can be no pain;

KJV 368:31-32: When fear disappears, the foundation of disease
is gone.

KJV 180:17-27: Doctors should not implant disease in the thoughts of
their patients, as they so frequently do, by declaring dis-
ease to be a fixed fact, even before they go to
work to eradicate the disease through the ma-
terial faith which they inspire. Instead of furnishing
thought with fear, they should try to correct this turbulent
element of mortal mind by the influence of divine Love
which casteth out fear.
When man is governed by God, the ever-present
Mind who understands all things, man knows that with
God all things are possible.

KJV 445:19-21: Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with
Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion
of the divine energy in healing the sick.

KJV 321:6-2: The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of
making the people understand what should be revealed
to him. When, led by wisdom to cast down his
rod, he saw it become a serpent, Moses fled be-
fore it; but wisdom bade him come back and
handle the serpent, and then Moses’ fear departed. In
this incident was seen the actuality of Science. Matter
was shown to be a belief only. The serpent, evil, under
wisdom’s bidding, was destroyed through understanding
divine Science, and this proof was a staff upon which to
lean. The illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him,
when he discovered that what he apparently saw was really
but a phase of mortal belief.
It was scientifically demonstrated that leprosy was a
creation of mortal mind and not a condition of matter,
when Moses first put his hand into his bosom
and drew it forth white as snow with the dread
disease, and presently restored his hand to its natural con-
dition by the same simple process. God had lessened
Moses’ fear by this proof in divine Science, and the in-
ward voice became to him the voice of God, which said:
“It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe
the voice of the latter sign.” And so it was in the coming
centuries, when the Science of being was demonstrated
by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind by
changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle
serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and cast out evils in
proof of the supremacy of Mind.

KJV 392:5-7: Fear,
which is an element of all disease, must be cast out to
readjust the balance for God.

KJV 454:5-9: The understanding,
even in a degree, of the divine All-power de-
stroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path,
– the path which leads to the house built without hands
“eternal in the heavens.

KJV 406:11-16: The Science of being unveils the errors of sense, and
spiritual perception, aided by Science, reaches Truth.
Then error disappears. Sin and sickness will
abate and seem less real as we approach the
scientific period, in which mortal sense is subdued and
all that is unlike the true likeness disappears.

KJV 390:32: Rise in the conscious strength of the
spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind,
alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.
Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in
sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the
judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, “Thou
art whole!”

KJV 596:20-27: VALLEY. Depression; meekness; darkness.
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil.” (Psalm xxiii.4.)
Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life
and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought,
the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Chris-
tian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud
and blossom as the rose.

Ex. 14:13 Moses (to :)
Deut. 31:6 the
Josh. 1:9
II Chron. 20:15 Be
Ps. 56:11
Ps. 91:5
Ps. 23:4 though
Prov. 3:24
Isa. 40:9, 10 the, 11
Matt. 14:27 Jesus
Matt. 17:7
Matt. 28:10 (to :)
Mark 5:22 there, 23, 35 there, 36, 41, 42 (to ;)
John 14:27
Acts 18:9, 10 (to :)
I Pet. 3:13
I John 4:16 2nd God, 18 (to :)
SH 410:29-30
SH 411:27-1
SH 410:17-19 (to .), 20
SH 421:15-19 (to ;)
SH 368:31-32
SH 180:17-27
SH 445:19-21
SH 321:6-2
SH 392:5-7
SH 454:5-9
SH 151:18 Fear (only, to 2nd .), 20-24, 26
SH 406:11-16
SH 390:32
SH 596:20-27

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Redemption and the Holy Spirit

Wed., 10/15/14 Readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley, CA

SH Ps. 3:8: 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people.

SH Ps. 9:14 2nd I: 14 …I will rejoice in thy salvation.

SH Luke 2:1, 3-7, 22, 25-32, 36 (to 1st :), 37-40: 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, 31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. 40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

SH Acts 10:38 1st God: 38 …God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

SH Rom. 8:14 1st as, 15-17 (to 2nd ;), 18, 22, 23: 14 …as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

SH I Cor. 1:27 1st God, 29-31: 27 …God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

SH Ps. 28:7: 7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

SH Ps. 67:1 (to 1st ;), 2: 1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; 2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

SH Ps. 118:14: 14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

SH 354:20: If our words
fail to express our deeds, God will redeem that
weakness, and out of the mouth of babes He will perfect
praise. The night of materiality is far spent, and with
the dawn Truth will waken men spiritually to hear and
to speak the new tongue.

SH 285:23: By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as
the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue
to seek salvation through pardon and not
through reform, and resort to matter instead
of Spirit for the cure of the sick. As mortals
reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher
sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from
the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ,
Truth, as the healing and saving power.

SH 442:19-25 When: 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.

SH 3:7: 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.

SH 315:29-7: Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed
to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother,
Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh,
between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrat-
ing the way of divine Science, he became the way of
salvation to all who accepted his word. From him mor-
tals may learn how to escape from evil. The
real man being linked by Science to his Maker,
mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal
selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to
God, and to recognize the divine sonship.

SH 506:18-21: Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their
proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts,
even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose
in order that the purpose may appear.

SH 510:4, 9: of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit
and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual.
Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose
“light shall we see light;” and this illumination is re-
flected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn
away from a false material sense.

SH 150:26-7: The doctrine that man’s harmony is gov-
erned by physical conditions all his earthly days, and that
he is then thrust out of his own body by the operation of
matter, – even the doctrine of the superiority of matter
over Mind, – is fading out.
The hosts of AEsculapius are flooding the world with
diseases, because they are ignorant that the human mind
and body are myths. To be sure, they sometimes treat
the sick as if there was but one factor in the case; but
this one factor they represent to be body, not
mind. Infinite Mind could not possibly create
a remedy outside of itself, but erring, finite, human mind
has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its
redemption and healing.

SH 463:32: It has been said to the author, “The world is bene-
fited by you, but it feels your influence without seeing
you. Why do you not make yourself more widely
known?” Could her friends know how little
time the author has had, in which to make
herself outwardly known except through her laborious
publications, – and how much time and toil are still re-
quired to establish the stately operations of Christian
Science, – they would understand why she is so secluded.
Others could not take her place, even if willing so to do.
She therefore remains unseen at her post, seeking no self-
aggrandizement but praying, watching, and working for
the redemption of mankind.

SH 442:25-28: 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.

Ps. 3:8
Ps. 9:14 2nd I
Luke 2:1, 3-7, 22, 25-32, 36 (to :), 37-40
Acts 10:38 God
Rom. 8:14 as, 15-17 (to 2nd ;), 18, 22, 23
I Cor. 1:27 God, 29-31
Ps. 28:7
Ps. 67:1 (to 1st ;), 2
Ps. 118:14
SH 354:20
SH 285:23
SH 442:19-25 When
SH 3:7
SH 315:29-7
SH 506:18-21
SH 510:4, 9
SH 150:26-7
SH 463:32
SH 442:25-28

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On Eagles’ Wings – No Contagion

Wednesday, 10/8/14 readings, 2nd Church, Berkeley CA

KJV Gen. 1:1, 20: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 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.

KJV Ex. 19:3 1st Moses, 4-6: 3 …Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

KJV Deut. 32:9 1st the, 10-12: 9 …the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 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.

KJV Ruth 2:12 1st a: 12 …a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

KJV Ps. 17:1 (to 1st 4th ,), 8: 1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

KJV Ps. 36:7: 7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

KJV Ps. 61:4 (to 1st .): 4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings.

KJV Ps. 91:4, 9-11: 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

KJV Ps. 139:7, 9, 10: 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

KJV Isa. 40:28, 31 1st they: 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 31 …they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

KJV Matt. 14:14 1st Jesus: 14 …Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

KJV Matt. 10:1 1st when, 16: 1 …when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

KJV Matt. 23:1, 37: 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

KJV Luke 12:6, 7 (to 1st .): 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? 7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

KJV Luke 3:21, 22: 21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

KJV Ps. 84:3: 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

KJV Mal. 4:2 1st unto (to 1st ;): 2 …unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;

KJV 384:6-12: God never
punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for
deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue,
cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty
through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not
an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his
protest against this belief in order to annul it.

KJV 220:8-9, 11-12 (to ;), 16: Instinct is better than misguided reason, as even na-
ture declares.
untired worshippers. The snowbird sings and soars
amid the blasts;
Colds, coughs, and contagion are engendered solely by
human theories.

KJV 392:27-32: When the condition is present
which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise,
heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office
as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears.
Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the
body cannot suffer from them.

KJV 393:4-21: The body seems to be self-acting, only because mortal
mind is ignorant of itself, of its own actions, and of their
results, – ignorant that the predisposing, re-
mote, and exciting cause of all bad effects is a
law of so-called mortal mind, not of matter. Mind is the
master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness,
sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take
possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.
Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike
good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing
can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on
man.
Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind
governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s govern-
ment. Have no fear that matter can ache,
swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law
of any kind, when it is self-evident that matter can have
no pain nor inflammation.

KJV 240:1-2, 10-11: Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love,
but human belief misinterprets nature.
In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above
what it reflects, all is one grand concord.

KJV 298:20: Spirit-
ual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle,
and admit no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead
up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense
of being.

KJV 261:27-30: Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will
rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird
which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a
skyward flight.

KJV 511:23-3: 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. 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.

KJV 574:3-30: The Revelator also takes in another view, adapted to
console the weary pilgrim, journeying “uphill all the way.”
He writes, in Revelation xxi. 9: –
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked
with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride,
the Lamb’s wife.
This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love,
carried John away in spirit. It exalted him till he be-
came conscious of the spiritual facts of being
and the “New Jerusalem, coming down from
God, out of heaven,” – the spiritual outpour-
ing of bliss and glory, which he describes as the city
which “lieth foursquare.” The beauty of this text is,
that the sum total of human misery, represented by
the seven angelic vials full of seven plagues, has full
compensation in the law of Love. Note this, – that the
very message, or swift-winged thought, which poured
forth hatred and torment, brought also the experience
which at last lifted the seer to behold the great city, the
four equal sides of which were heaven-bestowed and
heaven-bestowing.
Think of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sack-
cloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft-
winged dove descending upon you. The very
circumstance, which your suffering sense
deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel
entertained unawares.

KJV 584:26: DOVE. A symbol of divine Science; purity and peace;
hope and faith.

KJV 55:15-16: Truth’s immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries,
gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning.

KJV 323:6: Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we
are helped onward in the march towards righteousness,
peace, and purity, which are the landmarks
of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of
truth, we pause, – wait on God. Then we push onward,
until boundless thought walks enraptured, and concep-
tion unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory.

Gen. 1:1, 20
Ex. 19:3 Moses, 4-6
Deut. 32:9 1st the, 10-12
Ruth 2:12 a
Ps. 17:1 (to 4th ,), 8
Ps. 36:7
Ps. 61:4 (to 1st .)
Ps. 91:4, 9-11
Ps. 139:7, 9, 10
Isa. 40:28, 31 1st they
Matt. 14:14 Jesus
Matt. 10:1 when, 16
Matt. 23:1, 37
Luke 12:6, 7 (to 1st .)
Luke 3:21, 22
Ps. 84:3
Mal. 4:2 unto (to ;)
SH 384:6-12
SH 220:8-9, 11-12 (to ;), 16
SH 392:27-32
SH 393:4-21
SH 240:1-2, 10-11
SH 298:20
SH 261:27-30
SH 511:23-3
SH 574:3-30
SH 584:26
SH 55:15-16
SH 323:6

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