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jacob45

jacob45
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09/17/2015 10:25

Is substance called matter?

In my experience I am finding that the material senses are constantly arguing and suggesting that I live in a material body.
In Science and Health there is a passage that I have worked with a lot, and which is very meaningful. It is on page 38, and the part that stands out to me is: "...the material senses shut out Truth...."

The material senses shut out reality, Mind! In Christian Science we learn that the divine Mind, God´s Self-awareness, is the only thing that is real, the only thing that really exists. The divine Consciousness then must be the only substance. There is nothing else!

It must be my substance! I must think and feel as God does, or as the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2:16, I should have the mind of Christ.

Every time I am frustrated, annoyed, irritated, angry, or when I have feelings of dislike, hate, lust or fear, I am losing my substance, and become one with the substance of mortal mind, which is nothingness! Mortal mind is nothing! The divine Mind knows not such a thing.
It does not exist. But it constantly clamors for my attention, I have to scratch insect bites, I am hot, cold, hungry, sleepy, feeling not well and so on and on and on. Material sense is ever trying to draw me out of my substance into the lie of nothingness.

In 1 Corinthians 6:17 it says that he that is joined, or united to "the Lord" is one Spirit. Further on it says that the body is a temple of the Holy Ghost in us, or Mind in us, and that I should glorify God in my body and in my spirit, which are God´s.

Our substance is Mind only, and this is our daily constant warfare, not to lose our substance and become nothing. I realize I cannot accomplish this on my own, I need God´s help every moment.

Quiet Lord, my froward heart, ...make me as a little child.... Hymn 291.




 
Florence

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09/18/2015 13:19

Re: Is substance called matter?

Every time I am frustrated, annoyed, irritated, angry, or when I have feelings of dislike, hate, lust or fear, I am losing my substance, and become one with the substance of mortal mind, which is nothingness! Mortal mind is nothing! The divine Mind knows not such a thing.
It does not exist. But it constantly clamors for my attention, I have to scratch insect bites, I am hot, cold, hungry, sleepy, feeling not well and so on and on and on. Material sense is ever trying to draw me out of my substance into the lie of nothingness.

Quiet Lord, my froward heart, ...make me as a little child.... Hymn 291.


Thank you Jacob! What you share is probably what we are all confronted with daily. It's good that we have been given how we tread in overcoming error.Hymn 195 is ever helpful too.

We are to bind the strong man, as the parable says, that must be our everlasting quest with conviction of the supremacy of God’s power and All-ness.

The more grateful I am for the healing of the false sense of lack, the greater becomes my riches toward God; because some time ago that false sense felt so real and it seemed I would never see through it lies. But the mesmerism did break, the frozen ice did thin very gradually until its final melt. This healing is so significant in my life because when I think of it I am assured that all else can be healed if I do not stop knowing what is true! Whatever error calls itself, as listed above CAN be overcome because someday I can see it never really existed, and be free of its torment.

The article “The Frozen River” couldn’t be a better illustration of how, if we do not quit, error’s unreality yield to the supreme reality of good, God.

The parable of The Strong Man and His Goods, found in the useful links under General study on this website is extremely helpful. I find it useful to declare often; “I am ever conscious of my unity with God, I listen for His voice and hear no other call. I separate all error from my thought of man, I see myself and him only as my Father’s image.” (Some truths I have used along the way)