Sep 13th, 2023
From The Bible
Isa. 42:5 (to 3rd ,), 5 3rd he, 6 (to 4th ,), 7 (to 1st ,), 7 and
¶ Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, ... he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, ...
To open the blind eyes, ... and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.Jer. 31:31 (to 4th ,), 33 2nd I
¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, ...
... I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Lev. 11:44 (to 1st :), 44 and (to 2nd :)
For I am the Lord your God: ... and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: ...
Mark 1:1
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Acts 10:38 God
... God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Luke 12:13–15 (to 1st ,), 29 seek, 31 (to ;), 32
¶ And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, ...
... seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. ...
... ¶ But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; ...
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.John 9:1–4 (to 1st ,), 6, 7
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, ...
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.Matt. 9:20–22
¶ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
John 5:1–3 and (to 1st ,), 3 waiting, 4–6 whosoever (to 1st ,), 6 2nd he, 7 (to :), 8, 9 (to :)
... and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, ... waiting for the moving of the water.
... whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, ... he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: ...
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: ...Luke 17:12 (to 2nd ,), 13–16 (to :), 19
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, ...
And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them,he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: ...
And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.Luke 7:21 (to ;)
And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; ...
John 6:28, 29
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John 14:12 (to 1st ;)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; ...
Matt. 4:23 (to 2nd ,); 5:2, 44 I (to 1st ,), 48; 10:8
¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ...
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, ...
... I say unto you, ...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ...
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.Acts 9:32 (to 2nd ,), 33 he, 34 (to 3rd ,), 34 3rd And
¶ And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, ...
... he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, ... And he arose immediately.Ex. 15:26 3rd I
... I am the Lord that healeth thee.
James 3:11, 12
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Col. 2:6 (to ,), 10 ye (to ,); 3:4
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, ...
... ye are complete in him, ...
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.Ps. 9:1 (to ;)
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; ...
Acts 17:24, 28 (to ;), 28 2nd For
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; ...
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; ... For we are also his offspring.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by MARY BAKER EDDY
SH 63:5In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.
SH 518:1–2
His birthright is dominion, not subjection.
SH 307:25 The
The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind.
SH 306:32–2
The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter.
SH 259:22–24, 26
Mortal thought transmits its own images, and forms its offspring after human illusions. God, Spirit, works spiritually, not materially. ... Immortal ideas, pure, perfect, and enduring, are transmitted by the divine Mind through divine Science, which corrects error with truth and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results.
SH 227:30–13
If God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material conditions.
The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncrasies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact of being were learned, — namely, that nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God. Heredity is a prolific subject for mortal belief to pin theories upon; but if we learn that nothing is real but the right, we shall have no dangerous inheritances, and fleshly ills will disappear.
The enslavement of man is not legitimate. It will cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom, his God-given dominion over the material senses.SH 226:18
Human codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine Science rends asunder these fetters, and man’s birthright of sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.
SH 275:6–12, 20
The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.
To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is. ...
Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science. Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.SH 492:7–12, 14–21 (to 1st .)
Being is holiness, harmony, immortality. It is already proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree, will uplift the physical and moral standard of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify and elevate character. Thus progress will finally destroy all error, and bring immortality to light. ... These two contradictory theories — that matter is something, or that all is Mind — will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: “I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.” Science says: All is Mind and Mind’s idea. You must fight it out on this line.
SH 136:1–5, 9–10 (to ?)
Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning. ...
The question then as now was, How did Jesus heal the sick?SH 94:1–3
Jesus taught but one God, one Spirit, who makes man in the image and likeness of Himself, — of Spirit, not of matter.
SH 475:10–11 (to ;), 19–20 that (to ;), 28–29 (to ,), 31–1 (to 1st .)
The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; ... that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; ...
Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, ... A mortal sinner is not God’s man.SH 476:4, 9–11, 32–5
In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.
... God is the Principle of man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not mortal nor material. ...
... Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.SH 259:11, 17 2nd The
The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstration.
... The true likeness cannot be lost in divine reflection. Understanding this, Jesus said: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”SH 482:27–29 Christian
Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God.
SH 192:27–29
We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by following the example of our Master in the understanding of divine metaphysics.
SH 287:9 (only), 10
We call the absence of Truth, error. ... In Science, Truth is divine, and the infinite God can have no unlikeness. Did God, Truth, create error? No! “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent or suggest the absence of omnipresence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all?
SH 188:11–12 (to ;)
Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; ...
SH 417:20–21
To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened.
SH 342:21–23
Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless invalid.
SH 375:21
Palsy is a belief that matter governs mortals, and can paralyze the body, making certain portions of it motionless. Destroy the belief, show mortal mind that muscles have no power to be lost, for Mind is supreme, and you cure the palsy.
SH 390:27–28 (to 1st ,), 32–2; 391:4
“Agree to disagree” with approaching symptoms of chronic or acute disease, ... Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. ... Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, “Thou art whole!”
SH 369:32–5
To be every whit whole, man must be better spiritually as well as physically. To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind.
SH 455:28–30
This strong point in Christian Science is not to be overlooked, — that the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet waters and bitter.
SH 151:23–28
The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness. The human mind is opposed to God and must be put off, as St. Paul declares. All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal.
SH 325:10–12, 15–18 (to 2nd ,)
In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also appear [be manifested] with him in glory.” ... The absolute meaning of the apostolic words is this: Then shall man be found, in His likeness, perfect as the Father, indestructible in Life, “hid with Christ in God,” — with Truth in divine Love, ...
SH 99:23
The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.
SH 276:1–3 (to ,)
Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of Scripture, “I am the Lord that healeth thee,” ...
SH 208:5–6
The Scriptures say, “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.”
Christian science hymnals
If on our daily course, our mind / Be set to hallow all we find, / New treasures still, of countless price, / God will provide for sacrifice.
Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, / As more of heaven in each we see; / Some softening gleam of love and prayer / Shall dawn on every cross and care.
New mercies, each returning day, / Around us hover while we pray; / Old fears are past, old sins forgiven, / New thoughts of God reveal our heaven.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 140)
Shepherd, show me how to go / O’er the hillside steep, / How to gather, how to sow,— / How to feed Thy sheep; / I will listen for Thy voice, / Lest my footsteps stray; / I will follow and rejoice / All the rugged way.
Thou wilt bind the stubborn will, / Wound the callous breast, / Make self-righteousness be still, / Break earth’s stupid rest. / Strangers on a barren shore, / Lab’ring long and lone, / We would enter by the door, / And Thou know’st Thine own;
So, when day grows dark and cold, / Tear or triumph harms, / Lead Thy lambkins to the fold, / Take them in Thine arms; / Feed the hungry, heal the heart, / Till the morning’s beam; / White as wool, ere they depart, / Shepherd, wash them clean.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 574)
In Thee, my God and Saviour, / Forevermore the same, / My spirit hath rejoicing, / For holy is Thy name. / My soul doth magnify the Lord, / Sing all in glad accord! / Praise Him who lifts the lowly, / For faithful is His word. / I magnify and bless Thee, / For faithful is Thy word.
Thou who alone art mighty / Hast done to me great things, / Remembrance of Thy mercy / Sure help to Israel brings. / Thy power, O Lord, will I extol, / Who hast redeemed my soul; / I praise Thee, Lord, with gladness, / For Thou hast made me whole. / I magnify and bless Thee, / For Thou hast made me whole.
(Christian Science Hymnal, No. 153)
