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.
Thank you Diane! Inspiring!
Thank you, Diana w.a. for those very pertinent selections from Unity of Good. They are so clearly
stated with such authority from one who understands how important it is for us to start and stay with the spiritual facts, and never to let ourselves be dragged down into the false claims of matter.
It is clear that if we begin reasoning from matters’ sickly claims, we will get nowhere. We will remain in the belief that we have problems from which need healing.. God’s creation is intact, man is
spiritual and intact as God’s beloved child.
It is futile to try and fix material problems as something, when they are nothing.
As Evan says, we need to claim our spiritual
existence as the fact of our being, and reason out
from there, and accept no other claim to existence separate from our divine spiritual source.
I haven’t read Unity of Good for some time, but i
will revisit it now.
When I REASON rightly, I express …
Radiance | Enterprise | Activity | Spontaneity | Organization | Newness
“Freedom through spiritual reasoning” By Warren Berckmann. From the July 2021 issue of The Christian Science Journal:
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/271dbs71hm6?s=copylink
Thanks so much for this RIGHT ON reminder. As we say “start right and it ends right.”
In opening the CS hymnal this morning, looking for a hymn that corresponds
with today’s wonderful message, the first that randomly opened #375, puts spiritual
reason rightly into perspective and in thanking God, Evan and Spiritviewers
and everyone, would like to share:
“We thank Thee and we bless Thee, O Father of us all,
That e’en before we ask Thee Thou hearest Thy children’s call.
We praise Thee for Thy goodness And tender, constant care
We thank Thee, Father – Mother, That Thou has heard our prayer ….
We thank Thee and we bless Thee, O Lord of all above,
That now Thy children know Thee As everlasting Love,
And Love is not the author Of discord, pain and fear;
O Love divine, we thank Thee That good alone is here ….
We thank Thee, Father-Mother, For blessings, light and grace
Which bid mankind to waken And see Thee face to face.
We thank Thee, when in anguish We turn from sense to Soul,
That we may hear Thee calling; Rejoice, for thou are whole” ….
Thanks Angel, I love this hymn! Very uplifting.
Thank for this reminder to begin rightly each day and the lovely Journal article included.
Thanks Marcel, your words reminded me of this classic lecture by Daniel Jensen, CSB, ‘To Begin Rightly.’ This is a transcript of his talk given in 1990.
https://spiritualhealing.tripod.com/lectures/beginrightly.htm
As Evan says in today’s message, start in the right place to end up in the right place. Our right place is basking in the understanding of our oneness with God, wrapped in His Love. CS teaches that the correct order of our thinking should be, “Perfect God, perfect man.” “Perfect Mind, perfect idea.” No material problem that is real and needs to be fixed. Continuous good, continuous God.
Love and thanks to everyone here.
o wow, dear Rose, that seems to be the whole lecture, wonderful ! Will print it out and read it tomorrow.
thank you Rose. ! ♡
Thank you dear Evan, for reminder to reason righty, namly reason totally from Spirit. Am working on it!
Also thanks dearly to J for the artcle and to Angel for the loved hymn 375!! ♡
Divine Love Truth Life Mind encompass and radiate above beyond and reign,
rain down ..a picture speaks a 1000 words, Thank you Evan ..
The perfect view, from the Divine view master.. we’re all clicked in Heaven,
Space mass timeless existence ….on the mark … get up.. GO forever