Symbols Represent Underlying Spiritual Realities June 1, 2016 Hymns 142, 356, 449

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1 The Bible Symbols Represent Underlying Spiritual Realities June 1, 2016 Hymns 142, 356, 449 Gen. 1:26 (to :), 27 (to ;); 2:5 (to :) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: Gen. 1:31 (to 1st.) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Jer. 31:3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. I Tim. 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Matt. 17:1-3, 5-9 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. Mark 16:9, Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them. Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. John 16:29 (to 1st,), 29 now, 31, 33 2nd In His disciples said unto him, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Heb. 9:24 (to ;) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; II Cor. 4:17 (to 1st For), 18 we For we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. II Cor. 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. I Thess. 5:18 for For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy SH 70:15 Does Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? SH 71:6-7 Spirit Spirit, or the divine Principle of all, is not in Spirit s formations. SH 467:17-18 Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man but as reflected by man. SH 305:6 Man, in the likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light of being, the invisible God. As there is no corporeality in the mirrored form, which is but a reflection, so man, like all things real, reflects God, his divine Principle, not in a mortal body. SH 467:23-28 (to 1st.), 29-3 We reason imperfectly from effect to cause, when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit; but a priori reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind, through matter. Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human illusions. SH 117:7-10 Christian Science attaches no physical nature and significance to the Supreme Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do this. SH 475:13-14 Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. SH 509:20-24 So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances are no more contingent now on time or material structure than they were when the morning stars sang together. Mind made the plant of the field before it was in the earth. SH 503:22 But this Mind creates no element nor symbol of discord and decay. God creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love. SH 73:26-30 It is a grave mistake to suppose that matter is any part of the reality of intelligent existence, or that Spirit and matter, intelligence and non-intelligence, can commune together. This error Science will destroy. SH 204:3-5 (to ;) All forms of error support the false conclusions that there is more than one Life; that material history is as real and living as spiritual history; SH 551:7-8 In spiritual history, matter is not the progenitor of Mind. SH 503:20-22 Immortal and divine Mind presents the idea of God: first, in light; second, in reflection; third, in spiritual and immortal forms of beauty and goodness. SH 114:10-11 In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts.

3 SH 240:1-9 Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light. SH 205:12-13 God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. SH 245:32-1 The infinite never began nor will it ever end. Mind and its formations can never be annihilated. SH 191:4-7, As mortals give up the delusion that there is more than one Mind, more than one God, man in God s likeness will appear, and this eternal man will include in that likeness no material element. The human thought must free itself from self-imposed materiality and bondage. SH 240:10-11 In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord. SH 332:23 Jesus Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed to speak God s word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive. Mary s conception of him was spiritual, for only purity could reflect Truth and Love, which were plainly incarnate in the good and pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest type of divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age. Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image. SH 369:5 In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master. He enters into a diviner sense of the facts, and comprehends the theology of Jesus as demonstrated in healing the sick, raising the dead, and walking over the wave. All these deeds manifested Jesus control over the belief that matter is substance, that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any form of existence. SH 69:2-10 The scientific fact that man and the universe are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease. Mortals can never understand God s creation while believing that man is a creator. God s children already created will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being. Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears. SH 282:3-17 The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight line. The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact. A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. Similarly, matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has no place in matter.

4 SH 309:24-26, 29 The Science of being shows it to be impossible for infinite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to have an intelligence separate from his Maker. Life is never for a moment extinct. Therefore it is never structural nor organic, and is never absorbed nor limited by its own formations. SH 331:1-3 God, 5-6 God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow. Life is Mind, the creator reflected in His creations. SH 257:27; 258:1-3 Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form, or Mind would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth. A mortal, corporeal, or finite conception of God cannot embrace the glories of limitless, incorporeal Life and Love. SH 256:24-25, 28-3 No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love. A limitless Mind cannot proceed from physical limitations. Finiteness cannot present the idea or the vastness of infinity. A mind originating from a finite or material source must be limited and finite. Infinite Mind is the creator, and creation is the infinite image or idea emanating from this Mind. If Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind; and this definition is scientific. SH 468:8 What (only), 9-14 There What is the scientific statement of being? There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. SH 302:25 God (only) God is Love. SH 256:24-25 No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love. SH 172:10 Spirit can form no real link in this supposed chain of material being. But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be realized only as the false sense of being disappears. SH 509:29-31 (to :); 510:2 Knowing the Science of creation, in which all is Mind and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his fellow-countrymen: How much more should we seek to apprehend the spiritual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual. SH 261:24-30 Breaking away from the mutations of time and sense, you will neither lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own identity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight. SH 509:24 The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind s creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness yea, the divine nature appear in man and the universe never to disappear. SH 525:20-24 Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make, hence its unreality. In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, and, behold, it was very good.

5 SH 306:21-29 The myriad forms of mortal thought, made manifest as matter, are not more distinct nor real to the material senses than are the Soul-created forms to spiritual sense, which cognizes Life as permanent. Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal. SH 310:6-8 Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments. SH 77:5-9 Existence continues to be a belief of corporeal sense until the Science of being is reached. Error brings its own self-destruction both here and hereafter, for mortal mind creates its own physical conditions. SH 76:6, When being is understood, Life will be recognized as neither material nor finite, but as infinite, as God, universal good; and the belief that life, or mind, was ever in a finite form, or good in evil, will be destroyed. Then it will be understood that Spirit never entered matter and was therefore never raised from matter. When advanced to spiritual being and the understanding of God, man can no longer commune with matter; neither can he return to it, any more than a tree can return to its seed. Neither will man seem to be corporeal, but he will be an individual consciousness, characterized by the divine Spirit as idea, not matter. The sinless joy, the perfect harmony and immortality of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness without a single bodily pleasure or pain, constitutes the only veritable, indestructible man, whose being is spiritual. This state of existence is scientific and intact, a perfection discernible only by those who have the final understanding of Christ in divine Science.