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it is hard to wrap our (mortal) mind around, but error, evil, matter and its conditions, and mortal mind itself, are and must be, complete nothingness. God, in all His synonyms, is the only thing that exists and is, and will be. Thank God! pweff…what a relief to know that!
Yes. I felt God explaining to me:”NOT AS LONG AS I AM THE ONLY REAL CONSCIOUSNESS!” All that….you know what..all that….is not real, as long as God is our only consciousness. I gave my puppy a treat, and she wagged her tail. How often do we wag our tail in joy and gratitude? God wants to and does give us treats continually. God is Love! (Don´t tell anyone!)
In my understanding is a God who rewards and punishes scholastic theology. Error brings its own punishment, every lie agains Truth will reap what it sows. But yes, I have experienced this shepherding and the rod and the staff, but on the other hand, Mind knows not about our mortal dream. Sin, or missing the mark, is experiencing the mortal nightmare, darkness, and the light beckones and attracts, and pulls us.
But I would like to hear other understandings about this.
I had maybe a rather childish inspiration a couple of days ago. It goes something like this: God is saying, “If all this were real, surely I would do something about it. I would heal all disease, eliminate all evil and correct all error and lies, and be done with this opposing mortal mind and its world. But I, God, cannot fix anything that does not exist. That is why I sent my Son, to show you it is not real.”
I feel sad when I realize how millions of good Christians have implored heaven to “fix things,” and heal loved ones. But evil and matter always was their reality, and as long as we think it is reality, it will be. So much unanswered prayer, so much suffering. It takes constant work to keep ourselves above it, because it does seem very real and normal to our senses.
Isn’t it an insult to God to think He has anything to do with “this?” That He could know it, be aware of it, allow it? God knows only His perfect Mind or creation, harmonious, perfect, wonderful, sweet, happy, good. And Love is reflected in love.
Your heart has been quickened! It never was really slow, just waiting for the right impulse.
Yes, it claims to be us. Right! That is what I always felt was wrong when I hear songs that state that Jezus died for “my” sins. Jesus destroyed all sin, but they are never anyone´s sins. I like it when my posts get a reaction, because I don´t know it all. Thank you, Mary.
Yes, I think Mrs. Eddy wrote that the things that are possible to God, are possible to His image.
I understand that God can only help us in the proportion that we have allowed Him to be our consciousness, in the coincidence of God and man. Our very own human, carnal, mortal mind is the only enemy we face. The kingdom is within, and so is hell, or the world.
Did he go away? Yes, in my life experiences definitely, but I am endeavouring to get hold of “him.”
I believe that infinite Mind has no connection with mortal mind and its supposed activities. Evil and lies DO sway the judgment of the people, and they have done it wrong many times. The only mind we have anything to do with, is our own, and it better be in tune with the divine. The world continues to be the province of mortal mind, and must be as thus completely unreal. The only thing that exists, which IS, is the divine Consciousness. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation. And in this Mind all is harmony and light.
if you drink, do it well, LOL.
And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was His very own Consciousness. No material world, bodies, minds many, God created only His own Self-awareness, with includes all the 7 synonyms. How comforting!
I always longed and prayed for this oneness with the divine Mind, but without really achieving to give up my human mind, my human sense of self, and it does not work very well. Just denying matter does not much good either. I found that I have to realize that the divine Consciousness is All, my body, the forest, the clear mountain river, all that is good and true. I have to share God´s Self-awareness. There is nothing else. The divine “us.”
Mind´s awareness of itself is reality, eternity. It does not include the hectic confusion of this world or the human, mortal, and illusive mind.
I want to thank Carol again for reading Martha Wilcox´ articles on body. Reading and listening along does me much good.
Yesterday I read this from Dorus Henty, and it struck me. “Mind beholds and experiences with rapture the infinite range of its glory.” And: “The divine I, aware of its won perfection and glory, what joy I Am, what harmony I Am, what completeness, wholeness, beauty, perfection I Am. Waht satisfaction I feel.” Also she writes: “God´s understanding of Himself is man.”
“Since Mind is the only Mind, there is no human consciousness, there is no human mind at all. Mind tolerates no suggestion of a human mind.”
So, our sense of self, our human sense of reality, is nothingness, an illusion, a dream. Nowhere no time. God experiences Herself, Love´s Self-awareness. And it is gorgeous, wonderful, beyond discription. And YOU are it!
Actually in the context of Leviticus it is limited to fellow tribe´s men, and not to humanity as a whole. The Jews felt themselves God´s favorites, and looked down on the heathen nations. That is why they thought God told them to commit ethnic cleansing. Jesus Christ changed all that, and brought Truth to this dark, illusive world of mortal mind. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them ….” Matthew 5:43,44.
It is difficult to separate between what people do and what they really are.
It must be that Saul took off his robe before he went to the “Bathroom.”
It can be the hardest thing to do, everyday we read and come to the knowledge of sad, evil things that want to rip your heart out. We cannot ignore all this evil, suffering and horror. What should we do?
We should know that evil proceedeth not from God, good, but is a false belief of the personal senses, and if we deny the claims of these senses and recognize man as governed by God, Spirit, the temptation to sin will disappear. (Misc.198.)
The Christ never was and never could be aware of even one of the myriad suggestions of the carnal mind. Because the divine Mind has no awareness of sin, disease and death, this triad of errors can never be your experience. “Such PREPOSTEROUS DELUSIONS as accident, sin, disease, old age, and death.”
To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death. To Truth there is no error, – all is Truth.
Our efforts are directed at having no mind before Mind. The kingdom, or Christ-consciousness, is Life living itself wholly unaware of any mortal, material sense of living. (Keeps me busy and on my toes.)
God´s kingdom is everywhere and surpreme, and it follows that the human kingdom is nowhere, and must be unreal. (No and Yes, p.35)
Mind´s awareness is your experience, the glorious, everlasting here and now of all perfection, in which the myth of material existence does not exist even as a belief.
I Am God´s Self-awareness. You are that I Am. Mind´s infinite awareness of itself is your only status. You experience God´s Self-awareness.
You can have no experience but the divine. That which is not divine does not exist.
Earnest in this Bible context means a pledge of pawn.
The commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery, to me it holds a very wide prohibition, namely never to be unfaithful or untrue. I believe this is what the Hebrew word implies.
It is a problem I have, when I see people doing something I dislike, I get mad and …… But then Jesus said a few unkind things too.
Obsessive thinking about a problem which needs healing is counterproductive too.
And know that your brother sees you correctly too.
Yes, that is what often is missed, we try to see others as perfect children of our Father, but we still think they see us as imperfect mortals, or worse maybe.
The lawyers for error and discord are very convincing and aggressive, constantly attacking my consciousness with messages of evil and dismay, whether it is things from the news, or acts from people around me, or from my own belief in a material body-selfhood. Lies seem reality.
Then I have to pray and think deeply, to realize that God is Mind, He is a Thinker, and can create and give only thoughts and ideas. I have to blot out all sense of a personal, material self, and persistently allow only His thoughts, the presence of that Love which is All-in-all.
Divine thought constitutes Truth, or reality. There is nothing else.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
It is no small matter for mortal mind and physical sense-based consciousness to realize reality, the glorious reality of Love´s Allness! I must teach myself to be obedient to Truth, and listen and hear it. I spend time, in bed and during the day, meditating on these things; nothing exists except the divine Mind and its ideas. Nothing exists! All the trouble and mayhem and suffering…it does not exist, period.
What a glorious realization. My Mind knows it not, my Mind is happy, free, joyful, harmonious, my Mind sings. (not so fast, there still are stumblings and work to do, LOL.)
a few healing statements I found in my notebook: God knows “me” as Himself, Mind´s true image and likeness. I cannot be something Mind does not know or cause. Absolute oneness with Mind is our only way to escape.
The Mind that destroys sickness is never the mind that first admits its existence, and then believes that God can heal it.
If Mind is absolutely All, how can I not experience this?
Yes, for so many years I understood Science with my brain, but my body had a different agenda. But..I never gave up, I knew it was true.
Pride and fear are poisonous illusions of mortal mind, imaginations, nothingness. Such a waste of time and energy.
We must BE God, BE Mind. God is not something or someone outside of us. God, Mind, should be our consciousness and reality, and so become us. I am working on it.
The article “Oneness” by Bicknell Young makes all this so crystal clear! I sent an audio version of it to Jeremy, I think it is essential for us to work with this teaching, it is so strong and useful.
The last few days I have this understanding that since Mind is All, I should experience Mind only. My Father-Mother Love, I experience you, I see you, perceive you everywhere. I just have to ditch this suggestion of personal, mortal, material non-sense. Which is the only enemy we face. Often we are more like a pendulum, swinging between evil and good. (S&H 246.) selfishness and sensuality causing constant retrogression (S&H 22) swinging between nothing and something. (S&H 23) swinging between the real and the unreal. (S&H 360)
How can we fail to experience All?
I just listened to the wednesdaynight meeting on Youtube, and I enjoyed the readings and the testimonies, and of cause singing along with the hymns. I realized that because God is All, in reality I cannot experience anything else, even as mortal mind constantly tries to suck us back in. God is my experience, not personal sense and the world´s perceived reality.
Let us rejoice that divine Being, the only Being – our Being – ….. is beyond depletion or impairment. It remains infinite and perfect, irrespective of all that claims to be happening in so-called mortal existence. Material conditions, “be the fable pro or con,” are of no account.
The dignity of divine Allness is beyond the influence of human policy, human ways and means.
The restricting, barren misconceptions of the mortal view hide the glories of divine Life, – the effortless, spontaneous welling up, from within of all that means divine completeness, bliss and heaven.
“the water that the Christ shall give you shall be in you a well of water SPRINGING UP into everlasting Life.”
From Doris Henty and the Bible, with minor adjustments.
Yes! constantly we are bombarded with all the evil, nastiness and illness of this “world,” we are told is real. Our healing prayer must be that the opposite us true. It is all lies, God does not think it, know it, feel it. We must outthink and thus destroy this false sense of reality.
God is and is the Creator of consciousness only. In “Oneness” by Bicknell Young it is explained very clearly that we must not accept the world as suggested to us by the media and what we think we know as reality. The consciousness which God IS and creates knows only perfection, no evil persons, places, things. We must be one with our Mind, and know only His “world.”.
I copied this from Bicknell Young´s “Oneness.” God is with us as long as Mind is our Mind.
The belief that we are mortals or human beings is not Christian Science treatment. What authority over sin, disease and death would a human being have? None. What authority would what we call “spiritual man” have, if he believed his thinking separate from God? None. As we know what this Mind knows, what is taking place? We find Mind taking place — we find Mind in. full operation. We find that Mind being ourselves. We find the oneness of Being taking place, Principle and its idea operating as ONE, not two.
I am learning the importance of preventive prayer, or keeping the door to error closed. You hear all kinds of comments on virus and diseases, people around you say they suffer from it, and if you do not build a wall of Truth around your consciousness, you will find yourself a victim of these beliefs. Once you are suffering from the symptoms, it is much harder to dig yourself out, as they can be very aggressive and real.
Why o why do we get involved with that which Love does not know nor cause? We must feel and think as Love, Truth, as God, with the whole heart and mind. As soon as we think as mortals, we get involved with the whole of error and unreality.
it was a video on facebook, LOL.
Yes, reality, or eternity, has already started and is always now. Anything else never really existed.
As the textbook explains, God needs us to express “Itself.” The relation is like the sun and sunlight.
Florence, I beat you to it by one minute.
It is Hymn 108. I spent half an hour searching, time well spent. Another hymn that stood out sings: So Truth reveals the perfect whole, its radiance shall overflow the world,- (363)
The second coming…. of reality? Reality never went way, it is always real, but for the thralldom of mortal sense.
You choose the right food and drink, Christ´s flesh and blood, the living bread, as per John 6:54.
I wonder if taking up one´s cross was a common saying in Jesus´ days. Or was it added after the crucifixion, as the gospels date from several decades later. But the intention of Christ´s words is clear, “self-renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man.” The yielding of mortal mind to the divine Mind, of this sense of false selfhood to our real, eternal identity. Sometimes it seems more than I can handle!