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Perfection

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Announcements › Forums › Substance – September 10th, 2017 › Perfection

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  • September 8, 2017 at 1:07 pm #4907
    parthens
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    Mrs. Eddy’s counsel to an overtaxed Judge Hannah as written in his Memoirs:

    “I ask you to keep a time for meditation every day. Ponder in thought your infinite, harmonious, Christ-expressing self-hood and claim it as you. Drink in its perfection, its moral beauty, its integrity, its worth, its unspeakable safety; all the truth and beauty of God’s creation is yours and you. Enjoy it in sincere prayer and thanksgiving. Preserve your human sense of yourself rightly by dwelling in a definite treatment every day, within the sanctity and integrity of your real self-hood.” To Mrs. Eddy, these qualities are not only more substantial than anything in the physical world, they are the Substance of reality itself.

    It would do us all well to memorize all of her instructions here: http://articles.plainfieldcs.com/various-authors/judge-hanna/excerpts-from-judge-hannas-memoirs/.)

    Mrs. Eddy certainly must have had Noah Webster’s soaring definition of “perfection” in his monumental 1828 dictionary as she was formulating her definition of “Substance” –

    “2. Metaphysical or transcendental perfection, is the possession of all the essential attributes or all the parts necessary to the integrity of a substance. This is absolute, where all defect is precluded, such as the perfection of God; or according to its kind, as in created things.”

    Both Paul (Philippians 4) and Mrs. Eddy tell me to “Think on these things”! Thank you for this lesson…

    September 9, 2017 at 12:34 pm #4910
    Florence
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    Thank you for this post! A wonderful reminder to help us keep the correct view of ourselves ever in thought. Mortal mind is a robber and would have us “forget” what we are learning as our true selves. Mrs. Eddy’s counsel to Judge Hanna is for us all, an invaluable discipline. If we obey it helps us maintain our conscious oneness with God.

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