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December 7, 2017 at 8:54 pm #5516

Colleen Mostika

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Mary Baker Eddy Her Spiritual Footsteps Chapter 9 pg 28. by Gilbert C. Carpenter and Gilbert. C Carpenter Jr.
Thank you so much, Parthens for this clear distinction and explanation. I came across this today and thought I might share it with you.

After Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter had a visit with Mary Baker Eddy on April 27, 1906, Mrs. Carpenter wrote down this unfoldment from a Bible lesson (Luke 9:56) given to them by Mrs. Eddy. This is a partial quote:

“Now we have got to get out of this house (mortal habitation). What holds us in it, pleasure or pain? The pleasures of sense hold us, not the pain of sense. I’ve got to get out of this old woman and you, Mrs. Carpenter, have got to get out of this young woman. Is this mortal existence real? No. Is there any mortal man? No. It is only the Adam-dream. Is it real, then? No. Then, is there any pain? No. Then we are out of it now.”

The next excerpt relates to another Bible lesson given by Mrs. Eddy on September 24, 1903: ( Also on pg.28)
“When you are on the housetop, don’t go down to take anything out of the house.’ I am a great way out of the house (body) and it will not do for me to go down into the house (argument); I gain more by holding to God; if you are in the house you will have to heal others (argue), and so get out of the house.”
I can see that Mrs. Eddy was urging her students to leave the mortal sense of existence for the spiritual sense of existence. In doing so, we don’t lose anything real, but gain everything that is real and lose only that which is unreal and unworthy of our attention.

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