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There is no physical law that has any reality to oper­ate through my personality to harm me, to separate me from my true spiritual being in the Truth, to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus, to separate me from harmo­ny.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea Of items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.64)

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Once Mrs. Eddy expressed this point as follows, in connection with Isaiah 43:2: “Our work is not to change God’s work, for that is finished and perfect.  Neither is it to make error nothing, for it is that already; but to stand (apparently) in the midst of it unmoved, knowing its nothingness.”  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #229)

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Perfect Love casteth out fear.  If we love God, we love the idea.  If we love the idea, we love God.  Cannot love one without the other.  And that Love giveth perfect peace, rest, and healing.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items, p.73)

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     In treating we become dead or lost to the false sense of body and then we say we have a healing. The body does not exist as a living thing. It is merely objective, and the same with money. The dollar — it does not exist. Only in seeing it in this way can you ever become dead to its false claims, for just as the human body seems to be life, so also money seems to be life. That is, we believe we do not have sufficient of it, that we will starve to death, and that the body as life actually depends upon money.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science. p.32)

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In the morning of the day when Mrs. Eddy took her last drive, Mrs. Sargent opened her Bible and thought, “I wish I might ask Mother what this means.” As Mrs. Eddy was arrang­ing her bonnet, she said, “Laura, do not bring your questions to me, take them to God. You lose your answer if you take them to me.”   Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.81)

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Christian Scientists, on this anniversary of the nativity of our Master, we question thee. Has the light of divine Science gone before you a star in the heavens of Soul till it came and stood over where the young child was, to break the solemn night?  Was it a divine hope, springing exultant on triumphant wing, sovereign o’er sin, the victor over sickness yielding glad fruition, a sublime understanding whose upward tendency told you it was a child of heaven born not of the flesh, but of the Spirit clothed with white winged charity and on the door of heaven and face radiant with goodbye (God be with you)?  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.20)

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[The Ladies' Home Journal]

WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME

     To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few – or by none – and unutterable except in Christian Science. Christ was not born of the flesh. Christ is the Truth and Life born of God – born of Spirit and not of matter. Jesus, the Galilean Prophet, was born of the Virgin Mary’s spiritual thoughts of Life and its manifestation.

     God creates man perfect and eternal in His own image. Hence man is the image, idea, or likeness of perfection – an ideal which cannot fall from its inherent unity with divine Love, from its spotless purity and original perfection.

     Observed by material sense, Christmas commemorates the birth of a human, material, mortal babe – a babe born in a manger amidst the flocks and herds of a Jewish village.

     This homely origin of the babe Jesus falls far short of my sense of the eternal Christ, Truth, never born and never dying.  I celebrate Christmas with my soul, my spiritual sense, and so commemorate the entrance into human understanding of the Christ conceived of Spirit, of God and not of a woman – as the birth of Truth, the dawn of divine Love breaking upon the gloom of matter and evil with the glory of infinite being.

     Human doctrines or hypotheses or vague human philosophy afford little divine effulgence, deific presence or power. Christmas to me is the reminder of God’s great gift, – His spiritual idea, man and the universe, – a gift which so transcends mortal, material, sensual giving that the merriment, mad ambition, rivalry, and ritual of our common Christmas seem a human mockery in mimicry of the real worship in commemoration of Christ’s coming.

     I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

     The splendor of this nativity of Christ reveals infinite meanings and gives manifold blessings. Material gifts and pastimes tend to obliterate the spiritual idea in consciousness, leaving one alone and without His glory. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellany, p.261 :21-263:2)

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To First Church, Kansas City, Mo. (telegram)

(Dec. 1898) My heart greets you with Christmas joy. Continue, fellow-worshippers, vigilant in that whereto God calleth thee. Unity imparts the spirit of the trinity. Opinions of men are not substitutes for Science. Be patient with misjudgment. Christ, Truth, overcometh error. Today is tomorrow understood. Love maketh right pros­perous. Pure hearts and clean hands upbuild the cause and Church of Christ, Scientist. Have one God; live in conformity therewith, obedient thereto, governed thereby. (See Journal, Vol. XXX, p. 227.)

Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity And General Collectanea, p.130)

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(12/27/03) My beloved Students: May this dear Christmas season be to you a Christ risen, a morn, the break of day. There is nothing jubilant attached to the birth of a mortal – that suffers and pays the penalty of his parents’ misconception of man and of God’s creation. But there is a joy unutterable in knowing that Christ had no birth, no death, and that we may find in Christ, in the true sense of being, life apart from birth, sorrow, sin and death. O may your eyes not be holden, but may you discern spiritually what is our Redeemer.

     I thank you, dear ones, for your kind remembrance of me – the most lone and perhaps the most loved and hated of earth! May you watch and pray that you keep the Commandments, and live the Sermon in the Mount this coming year. Watch, too, that you keep the commandments that experience has compelled to be written for your guidance and the safety of Christian Science, in our Church Manual.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity And General Collectanea, p.128)

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“Christ hath overcome the grave. Truth and Love, God, our Father, as taught by Jesus, hath taken away death; for He hath shown us that all the evidence or testimony of the senses is untrue, unreal! Now let us rejoice this Christmas morn that Christ hath so risen to our understanding that all sense material is hushed; and the great facts spiritual of Life and Love are more apparent. All else, which belongs only to human, mortal belief, is false.” Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity And General Collectanea, p.115)