In looking up some references in the Concordance on dreams, I loved what Mrs. Eddy had to say in Misc. Writings p.331:30:
“As mortals awake from their dream of material sensation, this adorable, all-inclusive God, and all earth’s hieroglyphics of Love, are understood; and infinite Mind is seen kindling the stars, rolling the worlds, reflecting all space and Life,–but not life in matter. Wisely governing, informing the universe, the Mind is Truth,–not laws of matter. Infinitely just, merciful, and wise, this Mind is Love,–but not fallible love.”
And again, in Retrospection, p.21
“It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man’s real existence, and the dream has no place in the Science of being. It is “as a tale that is told,” and “as the shadow when it declineth”. The heavenly intent of earth’s shadows is to chasten the affections, to rebuke human consciousness and turn it gladly from a material, false sense of life and happiness, to spiritual joy and true estimate of being.
The awakening from a false sense of life, substance, and mind in matter, is as yet imperfect; but for those lucid and enduring lessons of Love which tend to this result, I bless God.
Mere historic incidents and personal events are frivolous and of no movement, unless they illustrate the ethics of Truth. To this end, and only to this end, such narrations may be admissible and advisable, but if spiritual conclusions are separated from their premises, the nexus is lost, and the argument, with its rightful conclusions becomes correspondingly obscure. The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged.”
I’m so thankful to Plainfield for stressing the importance of other writings by Mrs. Eddy. I’m finding a better understanding as I read on. Also I’m staying more alert to this being a dream and therefore not reacting but standing in the Truth that it has no power.
“In dreams, things are only what mortal mind makes them; and the phenomena of mortal life are as dreams; and this so-called life is a dream told.” (Misc. Writings, 28:8)
Thank you for the Bible lesson.
Joyful blessings!