Golden Text
Romans 12:2 let
2. . . let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
The Golden Text is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation.
Responsive Reading
Proverbs 2:6 the, 10, 11; Proverbs 9:10; Psalms 25:4, 5, 9, 15; Psalms 119:10, 15, 18, 24, 27 (to :), 34
Prov. 2:6. . . the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
9:10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Ps. 25:4Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
15Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts:
34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Section 1
The Bible
Romans 11:33, 34 (to 1st ?), 36 (to :)
33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things:
Job 36:22
22Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Ecclesiastes 2:26 (to :)
26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy:
Psalms 104:24 (to :)
24O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
Psalms 139:17, 18 (to :)
17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
Psalms 51:6
6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy
311:4–6 (to 1st .)
God is Mind: all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He made all.
151:26
All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and follow the leadings of truth.
300:28–31
The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it.
205:32
When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.
Section 2
The Bible
Daniel 2:20 Blessed, 22 (to :)
20Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
22He revealeth the deep and secret things:
Genesis 41:1 Pharaoh (to :), 8, 15, 16, 29, 30, 39, 40, 46 And Joseph went, 48 (to :), 54
1Pharaoh dreamed:
8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
15And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
39And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
40Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
46And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:
54And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
II Timothy 2:7 the
7the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
Science and Health
505:22
Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind, — Life, Truth, and Love, — and demonstrates the divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science.
84:3–18, 28
Scientific
foreseeing
The ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing evil and mistaking fact for fiction, — predicting the future from a groundwork of corporeality and human belief. When sufficiently advanced in Science to be in harmony with the truth of being, men become seers and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spirits, or demigods, but by the one Spirit. It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future.
Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired, — yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind.
Scientific
foreknowing
All we correctly know of Spirit comes from God, divine Principle, and is learned through Christ and Christian Science. If this Science has been thoroughly learned and properly digested, we can know the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read the stars or calculate an eclipse. This Mind-reading is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the capacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the divine Mind.
Section 3
The Bible
Hebrews 4:12 the
12the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Daniel 5:1, 4, 5 (to :), 9, 13 (to .), 17 Daniel, 18, 20, 22, 23 (to 1st ;), 26 (to :), 27 Thou, 28 Thy
1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace:
9Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
13Then was Daniel brought in before the king.
17Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
22And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven;
26This is the interpretation of the thing:
27Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Science and Health
204:20
When will the ages understand the Ego, and realize only one God, one Mind or intelligence?
263:1–4
Human
egotism
Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be independent workers, personal authors, and even privileged originators of something which Deity would not or could not create.
405:1 (only)
The basic error is mortal mind.
186:28
Ignorant
idolatry
Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be self-deceived. If mortal mind knew how to be better, it would be better. Since it must believe in something besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity. The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning, having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind.
216:11–14
The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense.
250:7–11 (to 2nd .)
Spirit the
one Ego
Spirit is the Ego which never dreams, but understands all things; which never errs, and is ever conscious; which never believes, but knows; which is never born and never dies. Spiritual man is the likeness of this Ego.
Section 4
The Bible
I Corinthians 2:12, 16 we
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
16we have the mind of Christ.
Mark 3:7 Jesus (to :)
7Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea:
Mark 5:1–3 (to ;), 5–7 (to ?), 9–15 (to :)
1And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
2And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3Who had his dwelling among the tombs;
5And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God?
9And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
14And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind:
Science and Health
469:13–17 The
True sense of
infinitude
The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality.
42:19–21
The belief that man has existence or mind separate from God is a dying error. This error Jesus met with divine Science and proved its nothingness.
411:13–18
Evils cast
out
It is recorded that once Jesus asked the name of a disease, — a disease which moderns would call dementia. The demon, or evil, replied that his name was Legion. Thereupon Jesus cast out the evil, and the insane man was changed and straightway became whole.
332:9–11 Christ
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness.
414:7
Cure of
insanity
The arguments to be used in curing insanity are the same as in other diseases: namely, the impossibility that matter, brain, can control or derange mind, can suffer or cause suffering; also the fact that truth and love will establish a healthy state, guide and govern mortal mind or the thought of the patient, and destroy all error, whether it is called dementia, hatred, or any other discord.
423:8–12
Scientific
corrective
The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the truth of being, to destroy the error. This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part of the human system.
470:16 (only)
The children of God have but one Mind.
Section 5
The Bible
Matthew 11:1
1And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
Matthew 12:22–28
22Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Science and Health
422:2
Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: “If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?”
94:28–3
Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, that of the omnipresence of Mind. An approximation of this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. Jesus could injure no one by his Mind-reading. The effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal mind.
315:6–7
He knew of but one Mind and laid no claim to any other.
85:15–18
It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his students, “knew their thoughts,” — read them scientifically. In like manner he discerned disease and healed the sick.
95:6–10
We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our spirituality, our fidelity to Truth and Love; and in that ratio we know all human need and are able to discern the thought of the sick and the sinning for the purpose of healing them.
Section 6
The Bible
Romans 12:2 be
2be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
II Corinthians 5:17 if
17if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Hebrews 12:12, 13
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Science and Health
xi:1–14
Many imagine that the phenomena of physical healing in Christian Science present only a phase of the action of the human mind, which action in some unexplained way results in the cure of disease. On the contrary, Christian Science rationally explains that all other pathological methods are the fruits of human faith in matter, — faith in the workings, not of Spirit, but of the fleshly mind which must yield to Science.
The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.
482:27 Christian
Sickness
erroneous
Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease.
151:20–26
Man governed
by Mind
Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God’s man. 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.
201:7–9
We cannot build safely on false foundations. Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and “all things are become new.”
547:6
You can prove for yourself, dear reader, the Science of healing, and so ascertain if the author has given you the correct interpretation of Scripture.
Section 7
The Bible
Isaiah 25:1 (to 2nd ;)
1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;
Isaiah 26:3 (to :)
3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
II Corinthians 13:11
11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Science and Health
239:29–30
The perfect Mind sends forth perfection, for God is Mind.
506:10
Exalted
thought
Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites understanding to eternal harmony. The calm and exalted thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.