February 13, 2019 Hymn 260, 542, 467 Bible 1. Prov. 19:8 2nd he... he that keepeth understanding shall find good. 2. Prov. 23:7 (to :) For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:... 3. Ps. 139:1, 2 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 4. Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 5. Amos 4:13 he (to 5th,), 13 6th The... he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought,... The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name. 6. II Kings 6:8 17 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they
came by night, and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 7. Isa. 14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 8. Matt. 14:14 (to 2nd,) And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude,... 9. Matt. 17:14 20 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. 10. I Cor. 13:11, 12 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 11. I Chron. 28:9 Solomon (to 2nd :)... Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts:... 12. II Cor. 10:3 5 though... though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 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;
13. Phil. 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 14. Rev. 21:2 (to John) And I John... 15. Rev. 21:1 saw, 3 (to 3rd,), 4 for, 5 Behold (to 1st.)... saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.... And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,...... for the former things are passed away.... Behold, I make all things new.... Science and Health 1. SH 213:3 Of a man it has been said, As he thinketh in his heart, so is he; hence as a man spiritually understandeth, so is he in truth. 2. SH 248:13 18, 19 We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it?... Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models. 3. SH 165:1 PHYSIOLOGY is one of the apples from the tree of knowledge. Evil declared that eating this fruit would open man's eyes and make him as a god. Instead of so doing, it closed the eyes of mortals to man's God-given dominion over the earth. 4. SH 212:29 3 The realities of being, its
normal action, and the origin of all things are unseen to mortal sense; whereas the unreal and imitative movements of mortal belief, which would reverse the immortal modus and action, are styled the real. Whoever contradicts this mortal mind supposition of reality is called a deceiver, or is said to be deceived. 5. SH 306:21-25 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. 6. SH 264:3-7 The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal. 7. SH 573:3 The Revelator was on our plane of existence, while yet beholding what the eye cannot see, that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material. This shows unmistakably that what the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness. 8. SH 166:3 As a man thinketh, so is he. Mind is all that feels, acts, or impedes action. Ignorant of this, or shrinking from its implied responsibility, the healing effort is made on the wrong side, and thus the conscious control over the body is lost. 9. SH 248: 25-29 To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. 10. SH 407:24-26 Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. 11. SH 155:21-25 The human mind acts more powerfully to offset the discords of matter and the ills of flesh, in proportion as it puts less weight into the material or fleshly scale and more weight into the spiritual scale. 12. SH 168:4 10
If the scales are evenly adjusted, the removal of a single weight from either scale gives preponderance to the opposite. Whatever influence you cast on the side of matter, you take away from Mind, which would otherwise outweigh all else. Your belief militates against your health, when it ought to be enlisted on the side of health. 13. SH 445:15 You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God. 14. SH 191:16-17 The human thought must free itself from self-imposed materiality and bondage. 15. SH 478:24-26 From beginning to end, whatever is mortal is composed of material human beliefs and of nothing else. 16. SH 323:32-2 Willingness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. 17. SH 66:14 Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love. 18. SH 536:1 8 In the Apocalypse it is written: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. In St. John's vision, heaven and earth stand for spiritual ideas, and the sea, as a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts advancing and receding, is represented as having passed away. 19. SH 267:1-2 Every object in material thought will be destroyed, but the spiritual idea, whose substance is in Mind, is eternal. 20. SH 125:12-16 As human thought changes from one stage to another of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and joy, from fear to hope and from faith to understanding, the visible manifestation will at last be man governed by Soul, not by material sense. 21. SH 276:19 When we learn in Science how to be perfect
even as our Father in heaven is perfect, thought is turned into new and healthy channels, towards the contemplation of things immortal and away from materiality to the Principle of the universe, including harmonious man. 1. Hymn. 260:1-4 One thought I have, my ample creed, / So deep it is and broad, / And equal to my every need, / It is the thought of God. / Each morn unfolds His blessings new, / I take in trust my road; / And rising freshly to my view, / Shines forth the thought of God. / To this their secret strength they owed, / The martyr's path who trod; / The fountains of their patience flowed / From out their thought of God. / Be still the light upon my way, / My pilgrim staff and rod, / My rest by night, my strength by day, / O blessed thought of God. 2. Hymn. 542:1-4 O Life that maketh all things new, / The blooming earth, the thoughts of men; / Our pilgrim feet, wet with Your dew, / In gladness hither turn again. / From hand to hand the greeting flows, / From eye to eye the signals run, / From heart to heart the bright hope glows, / The seekers of the Light are one: / One in the freedom of the truth, / One in the joy of paths untrod, / One in the heart's perennial youth, / One in the larger thought of God; / The freer step, the fuller breath, / The wide horizon's grander view; / The sense of Life that knows no death, / The Life that maketh all things new. 3. Hymn. 467:1-3 Eternal Mind the Potter is, / And thought th' eternal clay: / The hand that fashions is divine, / His works pass not away. / Man is the noblest work of God, / His beauty, power and grace, / Immortal; perfect as his Mind / Reflected face to face. / God could not make imperfect man / His model infinite; / Unhallowed thought He could not plan, / Love's work and Love must fit. / Life, Truth and Love the pattern make, / Christ is the perfect heir; / The clouds of sense roll back, and show / The form divinely fair. / God's will is done; His kingdom come; / The Potter's work is plain. / The longing to be good and true / Has brought the light again. / And man does stand as God's own child, / The image of His love. / Let gladness ring from every tongue, / And heaven and earth approve.
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