"And Immediately He Received His Sight"

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“…And immediately he received his sight” ( Luke 18:43)

“If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow into it the ‘river of His pleasure,’ the tributary of divine Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow, - even that joy which finds one’s own in another’s good.” (Miscellaneous Writings, page 12, and also Miscellany, page 18.) Finding that joy is an important part of the resurrection experience that automatically follows the crucifixion of personal sense: “Resurrection[:] Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding” (SH 593:9-11). This short video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38S9o_6qnc — helps to explain it, and most especially, Mrs. Eddy’s article, “Demonstration”.

[MaryBeth]

Thank you parthens. The utube video also applies to what Mrs. Eddy wrote on pages 94-95 in S&H, “Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, that of the omnipresence of Mind. An approximation of this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. Jesus could injure no one by his Mind-reading. The effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal mind.” We too, should be acquiring this skill as we claim and demonstrate our oneness with the Divine Mind. We will feel the need of our fellow man and by the grace of God be ready to answer that need with His healing presence and power. This is also why Mrs. Eddy gives the definition of “EYES” in the GLOSSARY as “Spiritual discernment, –not material but mental. Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, ‘Having eyes, see ye not?’ (Mark viii. 18.)”

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