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Reflecting Spirit's Infinitude

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Announcements Forums Spirit – August 11th, 2019 Reflecting Spirit's Infinitude

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    parthens
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    “In Christian Science, Spirit, as a proper noun, is the name of the Supreme Being. It means quantity and quality, and applies exclusively to God.” (SH 93:22-25.)

    The jurisdiction of Spirit is not quantifiable because the Allness of Spirit is not quantifiable.

    My purpose is to reflect Spirit as All: no lesser quantity is acceptable. This is a step-by-step process of repeated withdrawals of a portion of self from mortal self-hood’s bank account to purchase and make room for an equivalent “quantity” or measure of Christ-expression. The sum of all these withdrawals is the ransom that I must pay in order to redeem my life from matter-consciousness. (Job 33:24, SH 276:1-4.) Reflecting God’s Allness means refusing to put up with the slightest negative thought or emotion that would add to personal self’s bank account. At any given moment of thinking or feeling, where am I investing my energy?

    Another practical example of reflecting Allness is refusing to limit God in a particular sphere of my “outer” life; for example, refusing to put up with partial healing, partial reflection of the totality of Well-Being that is God, not allowing a minor symptom to grow stronger, but rather banishing it outright – immediately – and replacing it with consciousness of the Allness of Well-Being that takes up all space.

    “The understanding that Life is God, Spirit, lengthens our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality.” (SH 487:27-29.) With every footstep, Enoch “walked with God”, following the first great commandment (and the second which is like unto it), so ardently that he was at last able to express God’s Allness completely, by transforming belief in mortal life’s limited span of days into limitless length of days. (Gen. 5:24, Heb. 11:5.)

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    JoanneF
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    Thank you for all your inspiring and helpful posts!

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