What is Scientific in Life

September 23, 2008 at 10:32 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Something you find at the closing of every Christian Science church service the world over, is the reading of Mary Baker Eddy’s, Scientific Statement of Being. I grew up listening to this, repeating it, and praying with it. It is just lovely. This is how it goes:

“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth. Matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal. Matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore, man is not material, he is spiritual.” (page 468 in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures).

This statement attacks any claim that matter can be anything to fear. That matter can harm, hurt, destroy, create or express. Spirit is the opposite of matter, and Spirit is God, the All-in-all. Therefore, matter is nothing. Mary Baker Eddy’s textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, unfolds throughout, the meaning and relevance of the Scientific Statement of Being. It is the summary of that entire textbook of over 600 pages.

Although, I was healed on various occasions through praying using this passage by the discoverer, founder, demonstrator, and leader of Christian Science, I went through periods in which I felt that the Scientific Statement of Being was just nice words. This was until not too many years ago, I found how important it is, and how so many others were healed by this statement. Of all that Mrs. Eddy said, her divinely revealed Scientific Statement of Being is at the highest of her thinking. It is reality summed up in a few simple words, but wors that have to be seen from a spiritual starting-point in order for the message to be understood. That is why Mrs Eddy wrote so many pages. All these pages in her writings explain the Science of being and how it is expressed and demonstrated.

Every page of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures explains away matter, and sheds light on Spirit, good, God. The mortal senses would be offended by the statement of true being, and would attack anything opposing the supremacy of a material nature and kingdom. However, Genesis 1 in the Bible supports the claim in the Scientific Statement of Being that says, “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation.” In Genesis first chapter, Mind, the Creator, made all and made all good. No evil or matter appears. All appears as an idea of God, an expression of infinite intelligence, or Mind. My two companions are the first chapter of Genesis and the Scientific Statement of Being. Genesis can only be understood spiritually, not materially.

What is God’s Name if it is not Love

July 31, 2008 at 12:50 am | In Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, love | Leave a Comment
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I saw online someone asking a question, “What is God’s name?” This made me think of Pilate asking Jesus toward the end of Jesus’ life on earth, “What is Truth?” Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook that all Christian Scientists study, answers all throughout that book, the question of what God is, his nature, essence characteristics, lifestyle, aspects, foundation.

Mary Baker Eddy in her revelation of Christian Science, the science that proves Jesus’ words and healings, was led to write down seven names for God, and these seven are, “Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.” These names say it all, they are more than names, or seven synonymous terms for God. They are God’s seven characteristics as my Christian Science teacher, Glenn Evans, once said. I cherish that very much.

The seven characteristics of God, should be our starting-point everyday, every hour of every day. All is God, and that should be where our thought dwell. Our thought should be reflecting the ligth of Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth and Love. These are healing words when understood, and each characteristic has an infinity of ideas the define, and explain each name, characteristic for God, good.

A statement by Mary Baker Eddy, and one of my favorite because it disciplines my thinking, and tells me how to begin anything. It says:

“The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor mind,- that God is Love and therefore he is divine Principle.”

Think of the power, and glory in that spiritual truth. God is Spirit, and all, and Love, and Principle, and nothing else is. We begin with God, Spirit, all good, because God is All-in-all, and that is that. We begin with Good, the all-good, because he began with us, His image and likeness, as the book of Genesis in the Bible says.

After contemplating what God is, filling out consciousness with this spiritual food, we next acknowledge what God is not, and that removes sin, sickness, and even death. If God is Spirit, and All-in-all, and Spirit is not matter, than, the opposite of Spirit, which is matter, is not real. God alone is all, all that is real and eternal, and God is Spirit, not matter. He can’t be both sweet water and bitter. God is good, and good is Spirit, and Spirit is God, therefore, in syllogistic logic, there is no matter anywhere. The seven characteristics of God stated above eliminate any opportunity for matter, and the triad of sin, sickness, death, to be real. We have Spirit, and all good, all that is real, lasting, mighty, wonderful. We have God, and his image and likeness, spiritual, harmonious and perfect.

The last name for God, which Mary Baker Eddy gave in answering the question “What is Love”, is Love. God is Love. These are natural in all things. God is Love expressed as man, woman, child, animal, tree, sun, moon, seas, houses. God is doing one thing only: loving. God, good is loving eternally, infinitely, since God is Love. Love is the starting-point, my starting-point, and if you let it, your starting-point. It is only natural.

You can find so much about “Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love” by reading, and studying, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. This book is a scientific and spiritual explanation of what God, good, is. I make it a part of my day to study this book, and get more familiar with the nature, and essence of Mind, good, Love.

When we are filled with God’s names, nature, essence as reflection, it is easy to start wtih God, and to be the starting-point that says that “there is no other might nor mind,” only God, Spirit, Mind, Love, Principle.

Pages and passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
Page 275: 6-9; Page 465: 8-10

Our Most Important Questions Answered by Mary Baker Eddy

July 21, 2008 at 9:02 pm | In Christian Science, system | Leave a Comment
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In the chapter called Recapitulation, Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scripures, we find a series of questions and answeres starting with the most basic and important out the universe, to the more human, and local. The first question she asks is, “What is God?” This is the fundamental question.

Mary Baker Eddy’s books and many of her articles discuss the nature, essence and meaning of God from a purely scientific perspective. She names God as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love, and these seven names symbolize completeness, since seven in the Bible is the symbol for completeness. These seven synonymous terms for God include All-in-all, all there is to man, and the universe. All things are included in these seven.

When we make them a constant companion in thought, we see healings and Truth’s revelation of health and harmony. We see God present everywhere. The “I” is saying, “I am Mind, and I see as Mind sees. I am Spirit, and I see spiritually all the goodness around me, infinity. I am Soul, and I see joy, and spiritual understanding. I am Principle. Harmony is all. All is harmony: harmonious Principle, and harmonious idea. I am Life, and I see my idea man, living, and being, harmonious, and perfect. I am Truth, and I see the ideal of all, the real and eternal. I am Love, and I see only the infinite abundance of perfection.

Other questions in this chapter include: “What is the Scientific Statement of Being?” The answer to that question  is so profound, and should be our daily prayer. It is the foundation of life. It starts off  like this:

“There is no life, truth, intelligence or substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God, is All-in-all.”

Isn’t that a revolutionary statement to the mortal, erring senses that influence us. The first about matter just throws matter out the window. the second establishes what is already established in Genesis 1 in the Bible: God, the Creator, and his perfect, good creation.

Take time to ponder the many questions and answers in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The answers are healings, praise, prayers, truthful affirmation of the infinite good, which is Mind, Spirit, God.

Infinite Love Sustains Us

July 19, 2008 at 10:59 pm | In Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, Mind, Spirit, love | Leave a Comment
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Mary Baker Eddy in her classic work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, writes on page 567, “To infinite ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, sin, sickness and death.”

To God, who is infinite Love, all is Love, and that is all that God can see. God, Love only sees loveliness, and perfection in everything. The book of Genesis says that “God saw everything he had made, and behold it was very good.” Now that is not just good, but it says, “very good.” I interpret “very good” as Loveliness, and perfection. God could not see anything less than loveliness and perfection in everyone and everything, since he is the potter who formed the clay, the Creator who created all ideas in the Mind of Love. God is the Father-Mother of the universe, and his Kingdom is here right now, as Jesus even stated, in the phrase, “Thy kingdom come,” and “behold, the kingdom of God is at hand.”

If God is the Father and King of his infinite, perfect kingdom, that we are the sons and daughters of God, the King, and therefore, we have everything our father, the King has in his kingdom. Our blessings are wealth, and running over. We are the sons and daughters of the King, and our King is divine Love, infinite good, the perfect Creator, all-knowing, and all-seeing Mind.

Christian Science teaches all this, and makes this practical on a daily basis.

Mary Baker Eddy has a chapter in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, devoted to the Bible book, Genesis. That chapter is very important to study in light of the biblical seven days of creation, which are seven days of thought. In that chapter we learn that each day of creation is identified by one of the seven names for God that Mary Baker Eddy teaches: MInd, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. Together these seven names, and the seven days of creation represent the idea of perfection and completeness. Seven is seen in a number of places in the Bible under this meaning.  When we see ourselves as God’s creation, having all that God has as his image and likeness, or his reflection, we see our completeness, wholeness, loveliness and perfection, and behold, we were made “very good.”

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