Reply To: Growth by Subtraction

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Reply To: Growth by Subtraction

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February 22, 2019 at 11:03 am #8197

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I love this!

“Christian Science calculus teaches me that self-subtraction automatically activates the principle of multiplication of God’s benefits, blessings, and increase of God’s presence in my life. Christ-radiation intensifies to the degree in which self-absorption subsides.

At the beginning of his reign, Solomon grew by self-subtraction. And Solomon said….O Lord my God…I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. (1 Kings 3:6.).

But as time passed, Solomon grew in matter-mindedness, self-enlargement, moving in the very opposite direction of the footsteps of his youth.”

This morning I was reading the following from Christian Science Versus Pantheism, p 11: 16-19, and it seems to fit what happened to Solomon and what he needed to do:

“If man is spiritually fallen, it matters not what he believes; he is not upright, and must regain his native spiritual stature in order to be in proper shape, as certainly as the man who falls physically needs to rise again.”