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Announcements › Forums › Adam and Fallen Man – May 7th, 2017 › plunge

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  • May 4, 2017 at 8:40 am #4093
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    “If men understood their real spiritual source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mortal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to spirituality, till error yields to Truth.” Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy

    Mrs. Wilcox writes in her book that we must handle material resistance to Truth within our own consciousness. So no matter what seems to be going on outside of us we are responsible for how we think about it. The word “plunged” in the above citations from our lesson this week caught my attention.

    In Webster’s 1828 edition it says:
    PLUNGE:
    1. to immerse in a fluid;

    2. To thrust or drive into any state in which the thing is considered as enveloped or surrounded;

    PLUNGE

    1. To rush into distress or any state or circumstances in which the person or thing is enveloped, inclosed or overwhelmed;

    2. throw one’s self headlong.

    1. a state of being surrounded or overwhelmed with difficulties.

    [In this sense, the word is now little used.]

    As soon as I saw this I could see that every time I am drawn into anything unlike God, good I am plunging myself into error and therefore am putting energy into opposition to the Truth. The deeper I go into this mesmerism the more work I am making for myself. This is the time to yield to Truth, (handle material resistance to error) and affirm God’s ever present perfect control and government of His creation which He saw and “behold, it was very good.”

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