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Florence

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06/29/2015 12:13

Spiritual Man

Thanks to the Lesson writer for the wonderful citations about God's Allness and His idea man!

303 : 28-11 (to ;)Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle.

Understanding Spirit as my origin means much. This one crucial point gives the spiritual sense of who I am; from it can I see the nothingness of the erroneous beliefs that try to gain a foothold in my thinking as being real and having power!

S&H p63 In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.

Only accepting and thinking of myself this way can I claim to be the heir, expression, reflection, son/daughter, evidence and certainly manifestation of God.




 
Florence

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07/02/2015 18:47

Re: Spiritual Man

Identifying ourselves as spiritual man was of great importance to Mrs. Eddy. What she says in Misc. p 185 needs revisiting often. A few excerpts are presented below:

1.Self renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man, and the acknowledgment and achievement of his spiritual identity as the child of God, is Science that opens the very flood-gates of heaven; whence good flows into every avenue of being, cleansing mortals of all uncleanness, destroying all suffering, and demonstrating the true image and likeness.

2.There is no other way under heaven whereby we can be saved,and man be clothed with might, majesty, and immortality.

Edited by Florence - 07/02/2015 18:55