In the next post Im going to give a wonderful healing of blindness, but I just wanted to share with you the understanding that Mary Baker Eddy had of the All-ness of God, good and therefore the subsequent nothingness of evil or disease. This was how she was able to heal so quickly and effectively.
I often read (or am told) on HP of how we need the negative for balance, of how we need the bad to appreciate the good, light and darkness etc. This is a law of mortality or matter, not of divinity. It will keep you firmly on earth with all its problems. For instance, if you believe in fate or luck in a "law" of chance, (rather than understanding that omnipotent God, good, governs all), then you are accepting into your experience not only the hoped-for good, but also evil and suffering.
This materialistic thinking is graphically described in the allegory of Adam and Eve as I explained in my thread "A spiritual view of Genesis" https://www.healthypages.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4113
I tried to elaborate there on the huge difference between the spiritual account of creation in Genesis 1 and the material allegory of Adam and Eve, (mans attempt to explain how evil came into the world.) This account (with its corresponding wrathful depiction of a deity who sends punishment and suffering) has been accepted into all three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, so has influenced the thinking of countless generations throughout the world.
Jesus overturned so many of the old Jewish theological traditions and beliefs. He proved Gods unconditional love over and over again (while still insisting on obedience to the two great commandments). For instance, in Genesis 3, Jehovah curses Eve for her disobedience and says:"I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;" (the origin of the term curse for menstruation), yet, the purity and divinity of Jesus instantaneously healed the woman who had "an issue of blood twelve years." Paul too has some interesting things to say about this allegory in I Corinthians 15, especially this: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Yet, orthodox Christianity still clings to this idea of being born in "original sin" and cursed to a life of suffering.
In her article SPIRIT AND LAW in her book Miscellaneous Writings, Mary Baker Eddy explains clearly about the difference between the law of Spirit, God, and the material so-called "law" of nature:
The law of God is the law of Spirit, a moral and spiritual force of immortal and divine Mind. The so-called law of matter is an immoral force of erring mortal mind, alias the minds of mortals. This so-called force, or law, at work in nature as a power, prohibition, or license, is cruel and merciless. It punishes the innocent, and repays our best deeds with sacrifice and suffering.
Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the nature of God, is not law, but is what Jesus declared it, "a liar, and the father of it." God is the law of Life, not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim. The consciousness of good has no consciousness or knowledge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or eliminated by good: (Miscellaneous Writings p 256-9)
Eddy elaborates this theme in the following passage. Im going to put the first sentence into bold as it is so important:
God's law is in three words: I am All,";" and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law. God pities our woes with the love of a Father for His child,--not by becoming human, and knowing sin, or naught, but by removing our knowledge of what is not. He could not destroy our woes totally if He possessed any knowledge of them. His sympathy is divine, not human. It is Truth's knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no darkness,--not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of light is like the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else. (No and Yes p. 30)
The healing on my next post will illustrate all this so beautifully.
Love and peace,
Judy
As promised this wonderful healing of blindness. I copied this (that was an act of love!) from a inspiring little book called Christian Science in Germany by a remarkable woman, Frances Thurber Seal who went out to Germany in 1897, not speaking a word of the language, in order to introduce to that nation the re-discovery of the method of Christian healing as contained in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
One of the cases of healing at this time was that of a lady who was totally blind. She was sixty-seven years of age and believed she had reached the period when life and hope were behind her. Like the woman whom Jesus healed, she "had suffered many things of many physicians," and had at last been told there was no possibility of recovering her sight because the optic nerve was atrophied. This case of healing proved so conclusively that error cannot stand in the presence of spiritual consciousness that I give it here that all who read may know the condition of thought that will enable us always to heal scientifically and instantaneously, as did Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy.
I had been so constantly busy many hours of each day, that, while I read some of the books and studied the Sunday Lessons, it seemed difficult to lose my self and lay aside the problems of the practice and the church long enough to go into the mountain to refresh my thought, as did the Master of the hills of Galilee. After a time there came to me a sense of barrenness, together with spiritual hunger that could be appeased only by deep draughts of Truth and conscious communion with God.
I arranged for a time of quiet one day, after seeing patients during the morning hours. Just before noon I was called to the door to speak with someone, and found there a lady who told me that her mother suffered with her eyes, and that she had been told that if she would bring her mother to me I would heal her. I told her briefly to bring her mother the following day.
The entire afternoon and evening until midnight were spent with my books, the Bible, Science and Health, and Miscellaneous Writings. I read and pondered. In thought I walked with Jesus and received his teaching. I entered in some degree into the spirit of Mrs Eddys teaching, and went to sleep toward morning conscious of Gods presence, and awakened with the same uplifted thought.
After breakfast I went into the kitchen to arrange the flowers that had been sent in. The doorbell rang, and the maid went to the door. She returned rather excited and began telling me something, but I asked her to be quiet and continued my thinking. Then I took some flowers out to the living room. As I opened the door I found two ladies sitting there the one who had come the day before, and a beautiful white-haired woman. The younger one told me that it was her mother and she was blind, and the mother echoed this statement.
Not for one instant did the suggestion enter my thought. Immediately came the thought, "No, no, no not in Gods whole universe!" The mother talked for some time and I sat looking out in the sunshine, happy in the presence of divine Love, and with no consciousness of what she was saying. When she paused I took her hands to help her to her feet and told her that she might go. She said that if God would let her look upon her daughters face she would be willing to die. I replied that God would let her look upon her daughters face and live. I then bade them good morning and left the room and did not think of them again until the following morning when I entered my study to begin the days work. I found the mother there, radiant with happiness; and when I asked her if her daughter was waiting in the other room she told me no, she had come alone, that her sight had been restored and she could see as she did when a young girl.
I then asked her if she had been blind. Truth had so filled my consciousness that the statement of error had not reached me; and, not withstanding the story they told me the day before, I was entirely unconscious of what conditions had seemed to be. She told me of her past sorrows, and said that when she had left my house the morning before, her daughter had led her to the street car and placed her in a seat, and that she had looked out of the window and seen the street and the trees and the flowers and for a moment forgot that she had been blind. She spoke of what she saw, then her daughter screamed and told the people that her mother had not been able to see for many years.
It must have been a thrilling experience for the people on that streetcar, for both mother and daughter talked, telling of her past affliction, and that God had healed her. No words could describe the awe that filled my thought in the presence of this demonstration of Christ power.
(From Christian Science in Germany, by Frances Thurber Seal, Longyear Museum Press)
In fact, all the people in that streetcar attended the church service the following Sunday!
When I have most clearly seen and most sensibly felt that the infinite recognizes no disease, this has not separated me from God, but has so bound me to Him as to enable me instantaneously to heal a cancer which had eaten its way to the jugular vein.
In the same spiritual condition I have been able to replace dislocated joints and raise the dying to instantaneous health. People are now living who can bear witness to these cures. Herein is my evidence, from on high, that the views here promulgated on this subject are correct.
Certain self-proved propositions pour into my waiting thought in connection with these experiences; and here is one such conviction: that an acknowledgment of the perfection of the infinite Unseen confers a power nothing else can. An incontestable point in divine Science is, that because God is All, a realization of this fact dispels even the sense or consciousness of sin, and brings us nearer to God, bringing out the highest phenomena of the All-Mind. (Mary Baker Eddy Unity of Good p. 7)
Love and peace,
Judy
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RE: Healing through the Christ-consciousness
Tonight I came across two gentle and natural examples of exactly what I am trying to describe with this thread. I have copied parts tha really spoke to me, but do read the articles to see them in context.
Timeless Healing
Once I had a hacking cough that persisted for a long time—at least that’s the mortal measurement I assigned the condition. I just couldn’t seem to shake it. Then one day while I was praying about the unreality of time, I felt a sense of freedom from mortality, a kind of immortality, or heaven. It was as though the nurturing influence of the Christ liberated me from the confines of time as I pondered the powerlessness of "mortal measurements" and "matter."
The cough suddenly stopped. I believe time stopped. I glimpsed and felt a sense of eternity. In that moment, God became more real to me than the cough. A spiritual view of reality overtook mortality. I could cough in time, but not in eternity!
Feel the power
At night, from the 16th floor of my building, the city sprawls below me, an enormous, shining jewel. This particular evening, I’m struck by what seems to be an infinity of lights. Big, little, multiple, single, blinking, steady—and every color. Suddenly I am exquisitely aware that all these lights draw their power from the same place. They can’t exist on their own but are, rather, evidence of just one source of power expressing itself everywhere I look.
In this instant, I see the spiritual relevance of my observation: that existence itself is proof of just one source of power expressing itself infinitely and all-inclusively.
I'm part of the divine source expressing itself as brightness and glory.
I find that I’m conscious of this divine source. Conscious of nothing else. I’m not a sick mortal looking out over a stunning cityscape. I’m part of that one, infinite source expressing itself in nothing but brightness and glory.
Love and peace,
Judy
RE: Healing through the Christ-consciousness
Hello Judy, Thank you so much for posting all these healings ! When I read healings like these a great sense of wellbeing comes over me, it seems as if my hearth opens wide with the realization that the phrase “God is Love” is truly true and practical also !!! That way these testimonies of healing have a healing influence themselves !? So please continue to post them. Thank you, Ivo
RE: Healing through the Christ-consciousness
Hi Judy! I was just browsing since I haven't had time for awhile. It was lovely to read your posts again. I didn't get through all of them - I admit! I think I was meant to re-read your teachings. As you know, you have helped me quite a bit. Remember my sinus headaches? (a thing of the past!) I do remember you and try to put into practice what I have learned from the books you so kindly sent me. I don't always understand the wording but I do get the gist. These teachings tie in with what I have come to believe over the past few years. I needed the reminder-thanks! love beej