what have we accepted?

[jacob45]

Man is what he has accepted as his mind. “What is the model before mortal mind? Have you accepted the mortal model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually.” (S&H, 248) I realized that is what has been happening most of my life, with an intermittent dose of antidote from Christian Science the last 25 years. I think most of us should have no illusions about our mental state, the world’s model is so persuasive and invasive, that it feels like we are swimming in it as a fish in the sea, and it requires our constant effort to breathe and to keep our eyes above the waves. Pray without ceasing.

“Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but FAINTLY the substance of Mind.” Bicknell Young wrote: “Man is the individual appearing of Mind.” We can ask ourselves: for how far am I this “man?”

[Gary]

This is why it is so important to have a correct understanding of what God is. Mrs. Eddy states in S&H (258): “We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God.”

I find that when I take the time to really get something from the lesson first thing in the morning, I have more confidence and dominion during the day. I can discern the false from the true more easily and discard the false more readily. I also find it true that when I have the right concept of God foremost in my thought, I can trust in it, receive its instruction, as we are told in Proverbs.

This lesson is full of the practical instruction for trusting in the substantial things of Spirit, God, rather than believing the false supposition that there is substance in matter.

We can be truly grateful to Mrs. Eddy for bringing these Biblical treasures to life and pointing the way to a consistent and disciplined way of thinking and living.

[Florence]

Thanks for this post! For a long time I did not understand that in Science I must embrace the only man (spiritual man) as my true identity since from that standpoint could I work to realize what that true selfhood is. Without that understanding, I used to struggle with material identification trying to be what my spiritual nature includes; like spiritual man being immune from sickness.

313 …he and the Father were inseparable as God and His reflection or spiritual man.
This is the Perfect God, perfect man which is “the basis of thought and demonstration.” Is that the man I am knowing I am in Truth? I cannot stop striving for the REALIZATION of this right identification; since material man will never be the perfection inseparable from God, Spirit.

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