June 19, 1903. ‘Lovest thou me?’ Yes. ‘Feed my sheep.’ Can you separate the Principle from its idea? No. Can you love the Principle and not its idea? No. Can you love the idea and not the Principle? No. Jesus was teaching this all the way along. It is the same today – that is the handle.    Mary Baker Eddy  (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.7-8)

The wise man saith, ‘When I was a child I thought as a child, etc.’ The wisdom of this and of every period is temperance, to wait on the divine energy’s development of moral strength and human possibilities. To push a fact to its ultimate sometimes so injures the predicate as to lose instead of to gain time in the unfolding of God’s plan. The absolute in divine Science is an infinite fact approachable in time by degrees; its ultimate is eternity, its footsteps are time. Marriage and offspring are mortal conditions which take their origin in the human, and not in the divine Mind. It is a great and solemn question how far to press the divine facts of being, and their manifestation, into a present human experience and practice.   Mary Baker Eddy   (Oakes, Richard, Essays and Bible Lessons, (Red Book), p.80)

Why is it a student will be so brave in the work in one direction and not in another? Because there is not enough love in the heart; it should be EVER-present, always ready. If a mother has a beautiful child which she loves, and another deformed, weakly one, can she not love that one, too? If she doesn’t she has not the mother-love. Love not person, but love; it is always present for all occasions.   Mary Baker Eddy    (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.7)

I don’t care what mortal sense has done; I don’t care how it has beat me, and worked me, and insulted me, wronged me and lied to me, and tortured me. It is all past and it is a dream. I have found Love at last. I can lie down in the Father’s arms and be at peace. I love God supremely. Mortal sense has done its worst. I have passed through the Red Sea and under the rod, and been nailed to the cross, and still I am God’s own child, hid with Christ in His arms, safe in green pastures. Life, Truth and Love, Mind, Spirit, Soul – all these express God. My dear ones, when, oh! when, will you realize what these mean?   Mary Baker Eddy   (Oakes, Richard, Essays and Bible Lessons, (Red Book, p.80)

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Matter never represented God; geology cannot explain the earth, nor one of its formations, for these formations are dependent alone on Spirit, that gave them forth the eternal heavens, earth and man. Intelligence formed and peopled the universe. The scripture gives no record of solar light, until after time had been divided into day and night, and vegetation was formed; showing you light was the symbol of the Life-giving creator, and not a source of Life to the vegetable kingdom.

                                “All are but parts of one stupendous whole,

                                Whose body nature is, and God the Soul.”

(Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p,232-233)

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“And God made two great lights, the greater to rule the day, and the lesser the night; he made the stars also.” The sun is figurative of Soul, of the Principle of man, and the universe; of the Life and Intelligence outside of matter, that governs the entire creation. Stars represent scintillations of Truth, that appear in the twilight of understanding, or darkness of belief.    (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p,232-233)

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“And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, for days and years.” Hereby we learn the continuance of vegetation, and the years or age of man are not contingent on seasons, measured by our solar years, or governed in the least by the so-called laws of matter, for the light of understanding was to govern every idea of Intelligence. There was but one law-giver, when the stars first sang together, and harmony was the anthem of creation.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p.232)

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This most important idea of creation constituted the “third day,” and was the third epoch; a number corresponding to the resurrection; the third and seventh periods reveal the advanced ideas, whereby Intelligence is seen the Life of the grass, the herb, the tree, etc., and every manifestation of Life understood not Substance but the idea of the creative Life and Intelligence, in no way contingent on organization or matter. This is manifestly the science of being brought to light in our Master’s reappearing on the third day, when the idea named man, appeared to his students, independent of matter-conditions. And also the finished figure of creation on the seventh day.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, 1st ed., p,232)