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Purity Purifies

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Announcements › Forums › Soul and Body — November 21st, 2021 › Purity Purifies

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  • November 19, 2021 at 10:03 am #13761
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    Plainfield’s weekly homepage quotations emphasize purity, which is also high on Paul’s list of essential thought-items (Phil. 4:8) – “. . . whatsoever things are pure . . . think on these things.”

    “We become what we think about all day long.” (Emerson)

    “[T]he corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity.” (Science and Health, by Mrs. Eddy, 1910, 241)

    “It is chastity and purity . . . which really attest the divine origin and operation of Christian Science.”
    (Ibid, 272)

    While it is true that Jesus, our examplar, asserted, “I am the light of the world,” he also asserted, “Ye [referring to you and me] are the light of the world.” This momentous word cannot return empty.

    Jesus never spoke of his I-AM-ness as person, but only as Principle. Likewise, as you and I follow in Christ’s footsteps, “The ‘I’ will go to the Father when meekness, purity, and love, informed by divine Science, the Comforter, lead to the one God: then the ego is found not in matter but in Mind, for there is but one God, one Mind; and man will then claim no mind apart from God.” (Miscellaneous Writings, by Mrs. Eddy, 195)

    Casting out many-mindedness, emerging into single-mindedness, is purity.

    It is this I-AM-ness — and this alone — that is the great light which disinfects, cleanses, and purifies a suffering world.

    “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” (Isaiah 9, Matthew 4)

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