What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch.
May 14, 2012 Leave a comment
“I” -3
When will it be understood that “I” is impersonal, even mind and not matter? Until this point is gained in the science of being, man will go on in belief, a pendulum between joy and sorrow, sickness and health, Life and death, even as at present. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st Edition., p.213)
May 13, 2012 Leave a comment
“I” -2
The question at present is, whether this “I” is Principle or person, Soul or body, yea, God or man? Principle is Soul, Intelligence, the “I am,” but where do we place the “I”; is it Spirit in matter, Soul in body, Life in the flower, or the outside Intelligence and Life, that form these; is it man or the Soul of man, outside of matter? The science of being reveals God not in matter, therefore this “I” not body, nor in body, but Soul outside of matter, the infinite, and not finite, yea, Spirit and not person, and through this reckoning, man gains eternal identity. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st Edition., p.65)
May 12, 2012 Leave a comment
“I” -1
When we are Spirit we shall have gained the high import of this Scripture, “I and the Father are one,” and shall find, too, this oneness occasions no loss of identity, but that “I” signifies Spirit and not matter, Principle and not person, Soul and not body, even the Intelligence represented by all ideas, symbolizing harmony from the blade of grass to a star. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st Edition., p.65)
May 11, 2012 Leave a comment
THE TRANSFIGURATION – 33
The transfiguration is taking place to-day, no less than it did eighteen hundred years ago. It is taking place in our own consciousness, if so be that, with eyes open to behold its illuminated meaning, we discern in the Christ therein revealed the Jesus who is revealing to us the only perfect, complete sense of manhood and womanhood. Thus it is, that the transfiguration becomes a revelation, an unfolding of the spiritual creation. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
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THE TRANSFIGURATION – 32
Out of many practical suggestions which could be drawn from this lesson, but one is offered. The transfiguration is for us, and for all mankind. Its significance is to impress upon our feeble, sick, sinning, dying senses that these senses cannot behold the real Christ. He is to be discerned only as we rise completely above the illusions of the material mind which is of the flesh. The Jesus of human speculation and human systems is not the Jesus who reveals the Christ of God. That Jesus is divine, perfect and immortal ; and he is the way-shower out of the mortal and sinful senses which the mind of man conceives itself to be. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
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THE TRANSFIGURATION – 31
In the higher unfolding Moses had disappeared, Elias had disappeared; showing that Jesus alone remained to express the perfect idea, or conception of a complete, rounded, symmetrical man — the real man of God’s creating who forever has existed. In the divine individuality of Jesus, they beheld united their fragmentary sense of Moses and Elias ; but in larger, more spiritual manifestation, so that they became better able to discern who and what the real Man is. The Christ now made manifest to their purified vision is shown to them to be the only begotten of God — the spiritual Man. Thus Jesus became the “elder brother,” and “princely leader.” Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
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THE TRANSFIGURATION - 30
You remember it has already been declared that these three disciples went up onto the mount of transfiguration with no sense of their Master other than the human, material one, which is held by the world to-day,— the impression entertained by the religious world. Little by little this has faded out, until they reach a point whence they are beginning to catch a sense of him as he really is. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
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THE TRANSFIGURATION – 29
They have reached a plane where, on looking up, they saw no man but Jesus only; but who is the Jesus whom they now perceive ? Is it the one seen at the commencement of the glorious unfolding? No; for to them that Jesus has disappeared,— or rather their former sense of that Jesus has faded away. They now are beginning to gaze upon the impersonal Lord and Master, — a higher manifestation of the Christ than had ever been disclosed to them. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
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THE TRANSFIGURATION – 28
This blinded them to the higher significance of what was taking place before their eyes; but that they did emerge from it afterwards, and saw the higher lesson which this transfiguration scene contained, is made apparent by the last point which remains to be considered. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
May 5, 2012 Leave a comment
THE TRANSFIGURATION – 27
They certainly were not asleep in the common meaning of that term ; but were undergoing that spiritual transformation which must come to every one passing out of darkness into light. There must have been such a stirring up of ” the old man ” in them, that they were completely overpowered by it. All the errors of their past lives were coming to the surface : so that the lusts of the fleshly nature were beginning vividly to show themselves to their awakened sense. Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, April, 1892)
