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Andrew

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08/19/2014 07:59

my thoughts are not your thoughts

"my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD."RR
This morning it came to me that this statement addresses the human mode of operation, referred to in 1st Edition of S&H as personal sense - in a word, a mixture of good and evil, matter and spirit, etc.
But God's thoughts are not so: "The exterminator of error...one Mind" "Life, Truth and Love...a law of annihilation" "Truth decapitates error" (S&H) - there is no room for personal sense, personality, human good with unintended consequences, drugs, food that are sometimes good and sometimes bad...
This is Mrs. Eddy's revelation - in Science (God's thoughts and ways), Omnipotence does not share its power! ALL power. Love ALL-power, etc. Hatred is consumed by, utterly annihilated by Love - not from some force, but by uncovering hatred's illegitimacy, its powerlessness - as light annihilates darkness.
In Science, we are not claiming a greater portion of power, presence, science for God! We are claiming ALL of it, so help me God!!!

Edited by Andrew - 08/19/2014 08:01




 
MaryBeth

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08/19/2014 09:33

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

Speaking of food I found this helpful from Spiritual Precepts by Gilbert Carpenter, "a wise and alert student does daily work on the matter of food, and this not only for his own sake , but for the sake of the whole world. As he relates food to God, by taking it out of the grasp of matter, he thereby spares himself and others much discord and suffering . One of the wiles of animal magnetism is to take that which students need at the present time, and attach beliefs to it that cause it to become a medium for inharmony and fear; whereas it should be a channel for the manifestation of God's love and care."



 
Fairlie

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08/19/2014 14:10

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

In Science and Health,in the chapter "Creation," Mrs. Eddy points out , "In league with material sense, mortals take limited views of all things." Then in the chapter, "Teaching Christian Science", she speaks of a state devoutly to be wished, "If mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown." Much gratitude for all that's being taught at Plainfield to enable us to know how to work step by step to strive to hold "human thought in line with unselfed love" so that we can receive "directly the divine power."(192)



 
Lenni

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08/20/2014 16:11

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

"a wise and alert student does daily work on the matter of food ... As he relates food to God, by taking it out of the grasp of matter, he thereby spares himself and others much discord and suffering. One of the wiles of animal magnetism is to take that which students need at the present time, and attach beliefs to it that cause it to become a medium for inharmony and fear; whereas it should be a channel for the manifestation of God's love and care."


Thank you, Mary, for finding and posting that! (We could probably turn that into a good watch - certainly the world needs it.) I had never thought about doing daily work on food - but here again, if Christian Scientists had been taught to watch in this way, I doubt we'd have the multitude or seeming severity of problems related to food/weight now. It is most enlightening to me to think of food as a manifestation of God's love and not a material substance that can help or harm, etc. I continue to be grateful for what we're learning here!




 
jacob45

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08/23/2014 22:19

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

During the watch this saturday night, it became clear to me that there are no such thoughts. There is no evil thinking. There is no such person. There is no such thought. God is all there is. The only thoughts which are not illusions and lies, are those thoughts which originate in the divine Mind. Love´s Self-awareness constitutes reality. There is nothing else. Anything besides All which claims to exist is a lie.

The watching points from the WPA are like laserbeams, destroying all claims of darkness.




 
MaryBeth

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08/24/2014 08:47

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

Also to keep in mind - "Animal magnetism is powerless- but you must declare against it as though it had all power." !!
Mary Baker Eddy (Precepts iV page 149)




 
jacob45

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08/24/2014 11:02

Re: my thoughts are not your thoughts

A.M seems to constitute the world, and constantly tries to convince us it is real. Interesting point! Often the evangelical Christians talk about a SUPERNATURAL God. A natural world of sickness, sin and murder.

What could be more natural than God, Source of all reality and being?

The mortal mind makes sick, and the divine Mind heals. It is as simple and as challenging as that.