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Cast Out

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Announcements › Forums › Mind – August 25th, 2019 › Cast Out

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  • August 22, 2019 at 5:11 pm #9208
    spencel
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    “It is recorded that once Jesus asked the name of a disease, — a disease which moderns would call dementia. The demon, or evil, replied that his name was Legion. Thereupon Jesus cast out the evil, and the insane man was changed and straightway became whole. The Scripture seems to import that Jesus caused the evil to be self-seen and so destroyed.”

    Cast out: to drive out, expel – Synonyms for cast out: banish, kick out, throw out, drive out, to cause or force to leave, eject, driving away especially permanently. (Webster’s 1828)

    We are instructed not to tolerate any error, to “cast out evil”. When I do not kick out suggestions such as envy, resentment, self pity, lazy thinking, self love, etc. I have invited demons, not harmless thoughts, into my consciousness in place of God. Is this the company I want to keep? Is the devil more important to me than God and His angels? We were instructed recently that this type of thinking pollutes the world. If I could see the pollution of these thoughts would I prefer this to the beauty of God’s creation? The man “changed” and was “made whole” when the evil was cast out and seen (Beheld; observed; understood) and destroyed. I am grateful for the lessons I am learning at Plainfield that are teaching me how error operates, how to watch thought, be honest, etc.

    August 23, 2019 at 8:15 am #9210
    Michael Pupko
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    “We were instructed recently that this type of thinking pollutes the world. If I could see the pollution of these thoughts would I prefer this to the beauty of God’s creation?”

    A person in the milk business once stated; “The solution to pollution is dilution.” In other words when a milk processing company received a load of contaminated milk they didn’t pay the farmer that caused the issue and then turned around and still used the contaminated milk by diluting it to where the contamination tested under ‘the legal limit!'(still adultery!!) So true that wrong thinking pollutes the world so then obviously the solution to pollution is divine Mind, correct thinking. The solution for all of societies ‘pollution/ills’ is abiding by true, Christian Science Principles.

    Thanks for Plainfields’ teachings, watches, and this post!

    August 23, 2019 at 10:04 am #9211
    JPalmer
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    Thank you for these posts.

    I just found this in Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts by Gilbert Carpenter, and it seems a pertinent addition here:

    The practice of Christian Science is a highly dangerous profession, since the practitioner is daily confronted by sick folks who have such a conviction of the seriousness of their afflictions, which are supported by the evidence of the senses, that, if the healer becomes careless or too mentally lazy to reject and challenge every illusion that attempts to fasten itself upon him, so that he acknowledges its existence, he may find himself partaking of the same error! It is plain, therefore, why Mrs. Eddy did not want the students to fall a victim to the error…by looking at it, “talking about it, thinking it over, and how to meet it,” as we read on page 130 of Miscellaneous Writings, since she says that this “has the same power to make you a sinner that acting thus regarding disease has to make a man sick.”

    It has become increasingly clear to me that if I fail to meet a claim at first, it will come to me aggressively soon after. Where but here would I be learning about this, and how to properly handle it? What a blessing to be a member of this church! Thank you!

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