For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.
~ Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 492
If you want to end up in the right place it helps to start from the right place.
As a child of God, you are a spiritual being. Reason out from Spirit, not from matter, and you’ll sooner understand who you are and what you’re all about.
Reason rightly. From Spirit.
Love this so much . Thank you.
Mary Baker Eddy’s book, UNITY OF GOOD, is a profound aid to understanding the all-power, all-presence and all-knowing of spirituality– wholly good, wholly innocent, entirely real.
She obliterates with Biblical authority the reasoning that materiality has any claim to existence at all. Yet, acknowledging how this understanding comes to us gradually, she concludes the first chapter with this proof of its Christly authority:
“Nevertheless, though I thus speak, and from my heart of hearts, it is due both to Christian Science and myself to make also the following statement: When I have most clearly seen and most sensibly felt that the infinite recognizes no disease, this has not separated me from God, but has so bound me to Him as to enable me instantaneously to heal a cancer which had eaten its way to the jugular vein….In the same spiritual condition I have been able to replace dislocated joints and raise the dying to instantaneous health. …
“…Certain self-proved propositions pour into my waiting thought in connection with these experiences; and here is one such conviction: that an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers a power nothing else can. An incontestable point in divine Science is, that because God is All, a realization of this fact dispels even the sense or consciousness of sin, and brings us nearer to God, bringing out the highest phenomena of the All-Mind.”
Later on she states:
“You cannot simultaneously serve the mammon of materiality and the God of spirituality. There are not two realities of being, two opposite states of existence. One should appear real to us, and the other unreal, or we lose the Science of being.” (Unity of Good, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 7:18; 49:8–19; 53:8; 54:7–16)
Right now we seem besieged with evidence of mortal error, the glorification of mammon and evil appearing to disdain and destroy innocence, justice and holy idealism, We must hold fervently to the unconquerable fact of Spirit’s allness. Let’s relentlessly wield this sword of spirituality’s truth against such error, knowing thoroughly that God’s kingdom IS come, the pure spirituality of Christ’s infinite goodness, –Mind’s, Love’s allness– is the only kingdom that was ever here, and IS here now, and always.
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A good and powerful reminder Diane. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. It helps so much.
When I REASON rightly, I express …
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