Mrs. Eddy hoped that the time would come when students would recognize that demonstration is a privilege, and not merely an obligation; that it is a universal benefaction that blesses the giver and receiver alike; that it means the spiritual growth of each member who demonstrates. Before this recognition can come, members must gain a knowledge of how to handle animal magnetism...
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“What should be the voices of Spring in the human heart? Resurrected and purified desires; praise, for man’s ability to seek and find the Kingdom of Heaven here,— the reign of harmony that furnishes glimpses of the great Source whence cometh all earth’s beautiful hieroglyphics of Love...”
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While the wakeful shepherds were faithfully protecting themselves and their flocks from every prowling danger, they were greeted by angelic visitants, and Love’s frequent footstep has ever marked the threshold of that heart from which hatred, with its noisome brood, is prayerfully and persistently excluded.
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... mortal man has misinterpreted these creeping things that were good, over which man has dominion, and often designates these creeping things as evil conditions which steal upon us slowly and stealthily, conditions which are not good, and over which we have no control.
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“Adam, where art thou?” is answered no longer in materiality; in flesh and blood; in sin, sickness, poverty, and death; in hatred, envy, lust, and jealousy; in terror and fear, but in the eternal knowledge that the first Adam was a mesmeric dream, nothingness, and the last Adam is a living consciousness of good.
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God is perfect Life, and Mind. You then are perfect animation and intelligence. Certainly He is diseaseless, ageless, free, and unconfined; so are you. This is the basis of Christian Science practice. Thinking these thoughts is a treatment, for you cannot contemplate these stimulating facts for a moment without bringing to yourself a degree of health and peace.
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Let the voice of Truth and Love be heard above the dire din of mortal nothingness, and the majestic march of Christian Science go on ad infinitum, praising God, doing the works of primitive Christianity, and enlightening the world.
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Your sense of entire forgiveness, or of absolution, will be attained only when your own consciousness is so purified, that evil of any sort will find no response, no lodgment or abiding place therein. When the “prince of this world shall come and find nothing” in you.
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If we’re faithful and do the best we know how, God requires only what we are able to do at this moment. One of our hymns says, “The distant scene I cannot see, one step enough for me.” One step at a time. Here I am, Father; show me Your will. Let everything I do be done with love, in loving obedience to You; and I obey You. I can trust that You will make my way perfect.
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We find God ever present, Good ever present, Life ever present. We know the Science of Being, — the oneness of God and man, Mind and consciousness, Soul and body. Nothing can ever dim our perception of it or disqualify us from demonstrating it, for man is the understanding of divine Science and I am that man.
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