In the past (I hope) I was very hypocritical of Christians who appear very hypocritical. After the number of years here participating at Plainfield and all the classes on how to do things correctly, I’ve come to the point where I realize that rather than “retard (my) their spiritual progress by refusing to take the next step” I’m capable of being grossly ignorant of applying what I’m learning to take the next step. Thus why ‘forgiveness’ is such an important trait because while holding a critical view of my fellow generic man I exhibit those very traits (hypocrisy in this case).

This citation from our Lesson Sermon sums up my mental state as Mrs. Eddy has the ability to always, universally do:
6. 263 : 1-20
Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privileged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create. The creations of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man alone represents the truth of creation.

When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence with the spiritual and works only as God works, he will no longer grope in the dark and cling to earth because he has not tasted heaven. Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involuntary hypocrite, — producing evil when he would create good, forming deformity when he would outline grace and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a semi-god. His “touch turns hope to dust, the dust we all have trod.” He might say in Bible language: “The good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”

Thankfully with all that is shared here such as the above Journal article is providing me ways of ‘rolling away the stone’ which has seemed to be entombing my thought. Grateful to finally learn which part of the ‘walls of my tomb’ is the stone that needs to be and the only thing that can be rolled away:)