JR Blog: LOVE-forces

JR Blog: LOVE-forces: LOVE-forces For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (ESV, Gal. 5:14) "Now thank we a...

LOVE-forces

LOVE-forces


For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (ESV, Gal. 5:14)

"Now thank we all our God ... From His eternal car we never shall remove, encompassed by His grace, enfolded in His love." (poem by M. Rinkart)

Eddy: "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship." And, "Being is holiness, harmony, immortality."

LOVE-PRINCIPLE compels and suffuses man and all. By expressing our LOVE-propelled identities, which are filled with love, vigor and brilliance, we nullify sickly and harmful conditions, and defeat malicious attacks. Our supernal compositions are flourishing in an “ocean” of LOVE’s excellence and bountiful resources. Our Christ-synchronized thinking makes it possible for us to experience divine goodness in innumerable ways.

JR Blog: TRUTH-LIGHT

JR Blog: TRUTH-LIGHT: TRUTH-LIGHT "In Love divine all earth-born fear and sorrow fade as the dark when dawn pours forth her light ... then in this radian...

TRUTH-LIGHT cancels the myopia, mesmerism and obfuscation of matter-shackled thinking and its concomitant distresses. TRUTH-MIND alights our lives with supra goodness. 

TRUTH-LIGHT

TRUTH-LIGHT


"In Love divine all earth-born fear and sorrow fade as the dark when dawn pours forth her light ... then in this radiant light of adoration, we know that man beloved is in God's care, not wrapt in fear nor bowed with tired labor, but satisfied, complete, divinely fair." (poem/hymn by S. F. Campbell)

Eddy: “When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, and needing no other consciousness.”

TRUTH-LIGHT cancels the myopia, mesmerism and obfuscation of matter-shackled thinking and its concomitant distresses. TRUTH-MIND alights our lives with supra goodness. Christ-induced sapience causes us to actualize LOVE's multitudinous gifts of health, intelligence, abundance and peace.

JR Blog: We Are SPIRIT'S Shimmering

JR Blog: We Are SPIRIT'S Shimmering: We Are SPIRIT'S Shimmering  For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So...

SPIRIT coruscates through our Christ-nature. We are SPIRIT’s discarnate, sublime and perennial treasures. Flesh-time-cycles are nullified by our discernment of our dynamic LIFE-being.

We Are SPIRIT'S Shimmering

We Are SPIRIT'S Shimmering 

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. (ESV, Thes.5:5-6)

Eddy: “Because man is the reflection of his Maker he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not divine.” 

SPIRIT coruscates through our Christ-nature. We are SPIRIT’s discarnate, sublime and perennial treasures. Flesh-time-cycles are nullified by our discernment of our dynamic LIFE-being. PRINCIPLE-TRUTH is compelling our wholeness, purity and fruitfulness. By identifying with our SOUL-status we eject carnal imperfection and suffering.

JR Blog: Not Afraid

JR Blog: Not Afraid: Not Afraid “Our Father which art in heaven.” Dear FATHER-PRINCIPLE and MOTHER-LOVE, you are multitudinous GOOD. Your comprehensive ALL-LIF...

Not Afraid

Not Afraid

“Our Father which art in heaven.”

Dear FATHER-PRINCIPLE and MOTHER-LOVE, you are multitudinous GOOD. Your comprehensive ALL-LIFE generates and subsumes an outstanding and immortal man and universe. You give us your exorbitant health, strength and wisdom. We are your cherished and protected ideas. You are bestowing on us limitless love, power and harmony. Your measureless and mighty grace is our hope and fortitude. We are cradled by your incessant tenderness and redeemed by your all-potency. Therefore, we are not afraid!

JR Blog: SPIRIT's Luminescence in Man

JR Blog: SPIRIT's Luminescence in Man: SPIRIT's Luminescence in Man For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So ...

TRUTH is rousing us from the nightmare of flesh-bound hardship to the everlasting wholeness, vigor and luminescence of SPIRIT's man. We are SPIRIT’s discarnate, immaculate and perennial masterpieces. 

SPIRIT's Luminescence in Man

SPIRIT's Luminescence in Man


For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. (ESV, Thes.5:5-6)

Eddy: “Because man is the reflection of his Maker he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not divine.” 

TRUTH is rousing us from the nightmare of flesh-bound hardship to the everlasting wholeness, vigor and luminescence of SPIRIT's man. We are SPIRIT’s discarnate, immaculate and perennial masterpieces. Christ-sense is empowering us with LIFE's ever-expanding health and fruition. Withering and death are unknown to TRUTH and they never affect our vibrant, spiritual substance. By identifying with our SOUL-implanted excellence we eject the lies of carnal imperfection, decay and suffering.

JR Blog: Join Christ's Cadence

JR Blog: Join Christ's Cadence: Join Christ's Cadence "When we touch Truth's healing garment and behold Life's purity, when we find in Love the refuge t...

Join Christ's Cadence

Join Christ's Cadence

"When we touch Truth's healing garment and behold Life's purity, when we find in Love the refuge that is man's security, when we turn from earth to Spirit, and from self have won release, then we see the risen Saviour; then we know his promised peace." (Hymn/poem by F. T. Hill)

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." (KJ, Phil. 2:5)

Our inner, transcendent being belongs to and is part of Christ.  When we join Christ's universal, harmony-multiplying cadence then we benefit from its imperial and efficacious goodness.  Our bodies, relationships and undertakings enjoy outstanding results.

JR Blog: Christ-fullness

JR Blog: Christ-fullness: Christ-fullness The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclai...


"Immortal Love, forever full, forever flowing free, forever shared, forever whole, a never ebbing sea" (hymn/poem by J. G. Whittier)

SPIRIT fills us with Christ-substance-might, and assures us that everything good is here and now.  Our Christ-nature is anointed by LOVE-PRINCIPLE with immeasurable grace, valor, wisdom, resources and authority.  This Christ-fullness is a magnum force of wellness to ourselves and others.  

JR Blog: Christ-fullness

JR Blog: Christ-fullness: Christ-fullness The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclai...


"Immortal Love, forever full, forever flowing free, forever shared, forever whole, a never ebbing sea" (hymn/poem by J. G. Whittier)

SPIRIT fills us with Christ-substance-might, and assures us that everything good is here and now.  Our Christ-nature is anointed by LOVE-PRINCIPLE with immeasurable grace, valor, wisdom, resources and authority.  This Christ-fullness is a magnum force of wellness to ourselves and others.  

Christ-fullness

Christ-fullness


The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." (ASV, Luke 4:18-19)

Eddy: “Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life.  Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love.”

"Immortal Love, forever full, forever flowing free, forever shared, forever whole, a never ebbing sea" (hymn/poem by J. G. Whittier)

SPIRIT fills us with Christ-substance-might, and assures us that everything good is here and now.  Our Christ-nature is anointed by LOVE-PRINCIPLE with immeasurable grace, valor, wisdom, resources and authority.  This Christ-fullness is a magnum force of wellness to ourselves and others.  

JR Blog: MIND-infused Competencies

JR Blog: MIND-infused Competencies: Our MIND-infused Competencies “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [...

As MIND’s man we project brilliance, fruitfulness, soundness, loveliness and competence.

MIND-infused Competencies

Our MIND-infused Competencies

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.” (AB, II Tim. 1:7)

Eddy: “God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.” And “The spiritual man’s consciousness and individuality are reflections of God.”

Unrivaled, creative INTELLIGENCE-MIND’s effects are immaterial, vigorous and superlative man and universe. We are configured by MIND with a discarnate identity, filled with excellence of substance and function. As MIND’s man we project brilliance, fruitfulness, soundness, loveliness and competence.

Our Inward Voice

Our Inward Voice


Moses objected, “They won’t trust me. They won’t listen to a word I say. They’re going to say, ‘GOD? Appear to him? Hardly!’” So GOD said, “What’s that in your hand?” “A staff.” “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it. It became a snake; Moses jumped back—fast! GOD said to Moses, “Reach out and grab it by the tail.” He reached out and grabbed it—and he was holding his staff again. “That’s so they will trust that GOD appeared to you, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” GOD then said, “Put your hand inside your shirt.” He slipped his hand under his shirt, then took it out. His hand had turned leprous, like snow. He said, “Put your hand back under your shirt.” He did it, then took it back out—as healthy as before. (AB, Ex. 4:1-8)

"While His truth we are applying, and upon His love relying, God is every need supplying, All, all is well." (Poem/Hymn by M. Peters)

Eddy: “God had lessened Moses’ fear by this proof in divine Science, and the inward voice became to him the voice of God …. And so it was in the coming centuries, when the Science of being was demonstrated by Jesus, who showed his students the power of Mind by changing water into wine, and taught them how to handle serpents unharmed, to heal the sick and to cast out evils in proof of the supremacy of Mind.”

MIND-TRUTH is communicating to us wisdom, power and courage. This is the "inward voice" of TRUTH which reveals that material problems -- illness, terror, conflicts, limitations and insecurity -- are impotent, substance-less, carnal illusions. All troubles are eradicated by the “inward voice” of MIND which we all possess.

JR Blog: TRUTH-vision

JR Blog: TRUTH-vision: TRUTH-vision So Ananias set out; and as soon as he came into the house he laid his hands upon him, and said, Brother Saul, I have been se...

"Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence! Our God is good. False fears are foes -- truth tatters those, when understood. ... Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, Ayont hate's thrall: There Life is light, and wisdom might, And God is All." (poem by M. B. Eddy)

When thought is matter-enslaved and blinded by fear, self-righteousness, anger, revenge, pain and illness, let us open ourselves to LOVE's transmuting influence. 

TRUTH-vision

TRUTH-vision

So Ananias set out; and as soon as he came into the house he laid his hands upon him, and said, Brother Saul, I have been sent by that Lord Jesus who appeared to thee on thy way as thou camest here; thou art to recover thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And with that, a kind of film fell away from his eyes, and his sight was recovered. He rose up, and was baptized; (Knox, Acts 9:17-18)

"Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence! Our God is good. False fears are foes -- truth tatters those, when understood. ... Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, Ayont hate's thrall: There Life is light, and wisdom might, And God is All." (poem by M. B. Eddy)

When thought is matter-enslaved and blinded by fear, self-righteousness, anger, revenge, pain and illness, let us open ourselves to LOVE's transmuting influence. LOVE will exile these inveterate, matter-based distortions. LOVE-MIND will re-construct us with precious and intelligent ideas, and heal our bodies and relationships. We will experience gushing flows of health, spiritual vision and rich opportunities.

JR Blog: LOVE's Cycles of Goodness

JR Blog: LOVE's Cycles of Goodness: LOVE's Cycles of Goodness “LOVE is holding me tenderly within its unbounded wholeness.  I am enjoying the cycles of LOVE’s illimit...

LOVE is caressing my entire being with boundless health.  I can feel the gentleness of its mighty presence in me.  I am free in SOUL.   Illness and suffering are delusions of mortal sense that never interrupt my unity with SPIRIT.

LOVE's Cycles of Goodness

LOVE's Cycles of Goodness

“LOVE is holding me tenderly within its unbounded wholeness.  I am enjoying the cycles of LOVE’s illimitable health, life and joy.  The mistaken and feeble images of flesh-trapped thinking cannot affect my spiritual integrity and peace.  LOVE is caressing my entire being with boundless health.  I can feel the gentleness of its mighty presence in me.  I am free in SOUL.   Illness and suffering are delusions of mortal sense that never interrupt my unity with SPIRIT.  The Christ-influence is illuminating my consciousness with inviolate perfection.  My thought is rising higher to know and feel my healthy and vigorous substance.  The glory of Truth/Love encompasses and determines all of me.  And these divine facts flow out into the world to comfort and redeem all who need it.  For all these holy reasons I rest and am satisfied in the preponderance of Love.”

JR Blog: LOVE-energies

JR Blog: LOVE-energies: LOVE-energies Seeing her, the Lord had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” He went up and touched the coffin, and those who ...
"O sweet and tender as the dawn, with mighty power to heal and bless, is God's dear gift to all His own: the happy grace of gentleness. How quickly burdens fall away ... when Love with touch of gentleness uplifts the sinning and the sad. ... Self-love and harshness disappear beneath its tender, healing power." (poem/hymn by Ella Stone)

LOVE-energies

LOVE-energies

Seeing her, the Lord had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” He went up and touched the coffin, and those who carried it stopped. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. (MOUNCE, Luke 7:11-15)

"O sweet and tender as the dawn, with mighty power to heal and bless, is God's dear gift to all His own: the happy grace of gentleness. How quickly burdens fall away ... when Love with touch of gentleness uplifts the sinning and the sad. ... Self-love and harshness disappear beneath its tender, healing power." (poem/hymn by Ella Stone)

Eddy: “Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love.” And, “In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scripture declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God."

LOVE-PRINCIPLE is magnifying our Christ-like gentleness, unselfishness, benevolence and efficacy. LIFE-LOVE is supplanting loss, failure and death with gain, advancement and vibrancy. We are LOVE-energies of healing grace.

JR Blog: PRINCIPLE's Order

JR Blog: PRINCIPLE's Order: PRINCIPLE's Order Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against it. 25 And in the...


When destruction and terror surround us we can assert our SPIRIT imparted authority and restore peace, certainty, health and safety.

PRINCIPLE's Order

PRINCIPLE's Order

Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against it. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were frightened and said, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out in fear. 27 But right away Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Take courage, it is I! Do not be afraid. "28 And Peter answered him, saying, "Lord, if it is you, tell me to come to you on the water." 29 And he said, "Come!" So Peter got out of the boat, stepped out on the water and headed toward Jesus. 30 But when he realized that the wind was blustery, he became afraid; and starting to sink, he cried out, "Lord, save me!" 31 And immediately Jesus reached out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "0 you of little faith, why did you doubt?" 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind died down. (MOUNCE, Matt. 14: 24-32)

Eddy: "Jesus walked on the water, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law." And, "Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth."

When destruction and terror surround us we can assert our SPIRIT-imparted authority and restore peace, certainty, health and safety. As our spiritual comprehension of PRINCIPLE's imperial and ever-at-hand order develops we can do more to subjugate chaos, illness, fear, turmoil, pain and discord.

JR Blog: Our Christ-mandate

JR Blog: Our Christ-mandate: Our Christ-mandate "The Christian warrior, see him stand in all the armor of his God ... the panoply of truth complete .. with this ...

The EGO-SOUL produces the EGO-man, and we are this wondrous effect of SOUL's mastery and eminence. 

Our Christ-mandate

Our Christ-mandate

"The Christian warrior, see him stand in all the armor of his God ... the panoply of truth complete .. with this omnipotence he moves ... until he more than conqueror proves, through Christ, who gives him victory ..." (Poem/hymn by J. Montgomery)

Eddy: "The scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual sense and source of being. ... All that can exist is God and His idea." (Un. p. 46-47)

The EGO-SOUL produces the EGO-man, and we are this wondrous effect of SOUL's mastery and eminence.  By applying our Christ-reasoning, which obtains its superb intelligence, bounty and mandate from SOUL-MIND, we triumph over fright, confusion, affliction and limitations.

JR Blog: Christ-grace Is Salubrious

JR Blog: Christ-grace Is Salubrious: Christ-grace Is Salubrious Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. And the crowds with one accord paid...


The Christ-grace in us recognizes, proclaims and enforces the sovereignty and preponderance of SOUL-LIFE-HEALTH. 

MIND Detonates Goodness

MIND Detonates Goodness


"Spirit of truth and love, Life-giving, holy, dove, speed forth thy flight; move on the waters' face, bearing the lamp of grace, and in earth's darkest place let there be light." (Poem/hymn by John Marriott)

Eddy: "The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, 'as when a lion roareth.' It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear." And, "The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness."

Despair, terror, dead-ends, conflicts, decrepitude and affliction are terminated by MIND. The all-powerful detonations of MIND are effective everywhere where matter-distortions claim a hold, yet they are gentle and healing to us. We are enlightened by TRUTH, beautified by LOVE, invigorated by LIFE, and provisioned by SOUL.

Christ-grace Is Salubrious

Christ-grace Is Salubrious


Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. So there was much joy in that city. (ESV, Acts. 8:5-8)

Eddy: “Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality.” Also, “Neither organic inaction nor overaction is beyond God’s control; and man will be found normal and natural to changed mortal thought, and therefore more harmonious in his manifestations than he was in the prior states which human belief created and sanctioned.”

The Christ-grace in us recognizes, proclaims and enforces the sovereignty and preponderance of SOUL-LIFE-HEALTH. Our Christ-sense knows that MIND has made us replete with august abilities, exempt from matter-sin-disease, and fructiferous in evincing GOOD-GOD. This is why noxious, ailing and harmful habits/conditions are expelled and we unite in celebrating the superbness of SOUL and its creation.

JR Blog: The EGO-LOVE shapes us

JR Blog: The EGO-LOVE shapes us: The EGO-LOVE shapes us Joining, then, Lord, in thy whole creation’s praise, let thy faithful servants bless thee; let them publish the gl...

Our Christ-sense knows that the EGO-LOVE shapes and interprets us. That our immortal animus and intent is to express SPIRIT-LOVE. And that we are graced by SOUL with its supra health, intelligence and riches. 

The EGO-LOVE shapes us

The EGO-LOVE shapes us

Joining, then, Lord, in thy whole creation’s praise, let thy faithful servants bless thee; let them publish the glory of thy kingdom, and discourse of thy power, making that power known to the race of men, the glory, the splendour of that kingdom! No age shall dawn but shall see thee reigning still; generations pass, and thy rule shall endure. O how true the Lord is to all his promises, how gracious in all his dealings! Prostrate though men may fall, the Lord will lift them up, will revive their crushed spirits. (Knox, Ps. 144:10-14)

"When we touch Truth's healing garment and behold Life's purity, when we find in Love the refuge that is man's security, when we turn from earth to Spirit, and from self have won release, then we see the risen Saviour; then we know his promised peace." (Poem/hymn by Frances T Hill)

The solipsism of matter-intoxicated thinking blinds it to SPIRIT and man's spiritual excellence. The eminence of SPIRIT and man's reflected resplendence is discernible to our spiritual sensibility. Our Christ-sense knows that the EGO-LOVE shapes and interprets us. That our immortal animus and intent is to express SPIRIT-LOVE. And that we are graced by SOUL with its supra health, intelligence and riches. This understanding banishes illness, deterioration, failure, guilt and death. It heals us and restores our divine crown.

JR Blog: Our Christ-ideal

JR Blog: Our Christ-ideal: Our Christ-ideal "I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." Then he said to the paralyzed...

A Christ-enlightened consciousness expunges character weaknesses, downfalls and physical malignancies.  It makes tangible our SPIRIT-triggered wholeness and plentiful means.  

Our Christ-ideal

Our Christ-ideal

"I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." Then he said to the paralyzed man, 'Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home.' So the man got up and went home. When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe and praised God for giving such authority to humans." (GW, Matt. 9:6-8)

Eddy: "In proportion to his purity is man perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial being which demonstrates life in Christ, Life’s spiritual ideal.” Also, “Spiritual, not corporeal, consciousness is needed. Man delivered from sin, disease, and death presents the true likeness or spiritual idea."

MIND's imperial authority over all and man's immaculate, spiritual composition are eternal facts which we can reify as integrity of mind, character and body.  A Christ-enlightened consciousness expunges character weaknesses, downfalls and physical malignancies.  It makes tangible our SPIRIT-triggered wholeness and plentiful means.  

SPIRIT Testifies

SPIRIT Testifies

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. If we are his children, we are also God's heirs. If we share in Christ's suffering in order to share his glory, we are heirs together with him. (GW, Rom. 8:16-17)

Eddy: "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. ... Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being."

Our divine constitution mirrors the super excellence of PRINCIPLE-LOVE. Being SPIRIT''s masterpiece we represent its magnificence and permanence. The acceptance of this matter-transcending reality rectifies our minds, bodies and relationships. This Christly understanding supplants material corruption and pain with superabundant goodness and satisfaction. Christ is our victory and crown.

JR Blog: Touching TRUTH

JR Blog: Touching TRUTH: Touching TRUTH This woman had heard about Jesus and came up behind him under cover of the crowd, and touched his cloak, “For if I can onl...

When, with love, receptivity and purity, we "touch" TRUTH, then we "feel" its transmuting power throughout our bodies, relationships and activities. The Christ-sense proclaims "Beloved, you are whole and at peace." 

Touching TRUTH

Touching TRUTH

This woman had heard about Jesus and came up behind him under cover of the crowd, and touched his cloak, “For if I can only touch his clothes,” she said, “I shall be all right.” The haemorrhage stopped immediately, and she knew in herself that she was cured of her trouble. … But he said to her, “Daughter, it is your faith that has healed you. Go home in peace, and be free from your trouble.” (Phillips, Mark 5:27-30, 34)

Eddy: “Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind.”  And, “The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness.”

When, with love, receptivity and purity, we "touch" TRUTH, then we "feel" its transmuting power throughout our bodies, relationships and activities. The Christ-sense proclaims "Beloved, you are whole and at peace." It convinces us of our impeccable and munificent SPIRIT-drawn essence. Longstanding and obdurate afflictions, addictions and foibles vanish spontaneously in the luminosity of TRUTH. We can actualize our divine inheritance -- our excellent health and wellness.

JR Blog: SPIRIT-image

JR Blog: SPIRIT-image: SPIRIT-image So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed ...

The ideal man corresponds to creation, to
intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love." And, "Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply -- to manifest His power. Man is not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion, not subjection."

Man and the universe are the effect of SPIRIT’s creative energy.  Through Christ we manifest SPIRIT’s creative power.  Spiritual thoughts make us fruitful, and we do multiply health, love and joy. 

SPIRIT-image

SPIRIT-image

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”... And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. (ESV, Gen. 1: 27, 28, 31)

Eddy: "The infinite has no beginning. … This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected." Also, "The life-giving quality of Mind is Spirit, not matter. The ideal man corresponds to creation, to
intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love." And, "Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply -- to manifest His power. Man is not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion, not subjection."

Man and the universe are the effect of SPIRIT’s creative energy.  Through Christ we manifest SPIRIT’s creative power.  Spiritual thoughts make us fruitful, and we do multiply health, love and joy.  MIND is feeding us with understanding, confidence, health and might.  By being cognizant of the inexhaustible and immeasurable goodness which MIND-LOVE is giving to us we are blessed and bless others.  MIND-LOVE is embracing and blessing us. 

JR Blog: MIND-fecundity

JR Blog: MIND-fecundity: MIND-fecundity "The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means "God...

We become fertile with MIND's fulgent, ingenious, perdurable and fructiferous concepts. We actualize these MIND-concepts as matter-eliding, Christ-in-action manifestations of bountiful and beautiful life, health, affection, generosity, inventiveness, talents, means and achievements.

MIND-fecundity

MIND-fecundity

"The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means "God is with us." (GW, Matt. 1:23) 

Eddy: "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and
needing no other consciousness."

The EGO-SOUL is always expressing its infinity. The effects of this unstoppable, indefatigable and supernal process are immaterial, man and universe. Also, MIND impregnates our pure, welcoming and expectant mental states with its own fecundity. We become fertile with MIND's fulgent, ingenious, perdurable and fructiferous concepts. We actualize these MIND-concepts as matter-eliding, Christ-in-action manifestations of bountiful and beautiful life, health, affection, generosity, inventiveness, talents, means and achievements.

JR Blog: Christ-sapience

JR Blog: Christ-sapience: Christ-sapience "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his" (KJ, Dan. 2:20) And, "the Lor...

This Christ-sapience elides evil’s deceptions. It bans material distresses and enforces LOVE’s irrepressible blessings.

Christ-sapience

Christ-sapience


"Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his" (KJ, Dan. 2:20) And, "the Lord give thee understanding in all things.' (KJ, II Tim. 2:7)

Eddy; “The maximum of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all. Evil is a suppositional lie.” And, “Mystery, miracle, sin and death will disappear when it becomes fairly understood that the divine Mind controls man and man has no Mind but God.”

The Christ-idea makes obvious that we are a spiritual composition, and that we are the product of the unparalleled magnificence of MIND-GOOD. The all-inclusive and beneficent mandate of MIND enforces superlative goodness -- intelligence, health, pulchritude, affection and joy. This Christ-sapience elides evil’s deceptions. It bans material distresses and enforces LOVE’s irrepressible blessings.

JR Blog: LOVE protects

JR Blog: LOVE protects: LOVE protects  "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:" (Heb. 8:10) Eddy: "Love is our refuge...

LOVE protects

LOVE protects 

"I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:" (Heb. 8:10)

Eddy: "Love is our refuge; only with mine eye can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: His habitation high is here, and nigh, His arm encircles me, and mine, and all."

LOVE-SOUL is the inclusive ALL. LOVE cherishes, shelters and franchises everyone. To our MIND-induced understanding we are immaterial, ageless, deathless, and thriving Christ-beings. SOUL has conferred on us the spiritual perspicacity and mandate to disable and eject the pernicious inveiglements of evil. Matter-ensnared thinking imagines and experiences suffering, sin and death, but these vanish in Christ. Wondrous goodness fills our lives when Christ-cognizance takes over our mental processes.

JR Blog: SOUL's Effulgence

JR Blog: SOUL's Effulgence: SOUL's Effulgence For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light. For the fruit of the Light...

SOUL's Effulgence

SOUL's Effulgence

For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light. For the fruit of the Light consists in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life. (Eph. 5: 8-9)

TRUTH's luminance is over all. It is in everything real and coruscates through spiritual manhood/womanhood. TRUTH-ignited sapience empowers us. It vanquishes matter-enfeebled thinking and terminates fear, sickness, failure, pain, calamity and persecution. The blaze of the Holy Spirit quashes personal sense (pride, insecurity, guilt, self-condemnation, inhibitions) and catalyzes us to express our multitudinous, SOUL-nourished competencies. Man emits the splendor of SOUL-TRUTH.

JR Blog: Our Christ-like Might

JR Blog: Our Christ-like Might: Our Christ-like Might It happened soon afterward that Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with h...

Our Christ-like Might

Our Christ-like Might

It happened soon afterward that Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. ¹² As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out—the only son of his mother (she was a widow). A large crowd from the town was with her.¹³ Seeing her, the Lord had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” ¹⁴ He went up and touched the coffin, and those who carried it stopped. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”¹⁵ The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. (MOUNCE, Luke 7:11-15)

Eddy: “Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life.  Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love.”  And, “In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor death, and the Scripture declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God.

LOVE-PRINCIPLE magnifies our spiritual sapience, and this induces greater health, power, affection and achievements.  LIFE-TRUTH vivifies us and abrogates illness, downfalls, fault and death. 

Through the magnitude of our Christly understanding of our harmonious substance we demonstrate the healing authority of divine LIFE.   Out of the amplitude of our Christly caring we can reject material lies and fear, and enjoy the transformative effects of LOVE.  In us and our loved ones there is no material error for Christ is revealing that we live, move and have our being in infinite SPIRIT.  

JR Blog: Satisfied in LOVE

JR Blog: Satisfied in LOVE: "Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, Ayont hate's thrall: There Life is light, and wisdom might, And God is All." (verse from &...

Satisfied in LOVE

"Love looseth thee, and lifteth me, Ayont hate's thrall: There Life is light, and wisdom might, And God is All." (verse from "Satisfied," poem by M. B. Eddy)

LOVE liberates us from the hatefulness and corruptness of matter-enslaved thought-patterns and their concomitant phantasms -- fright, pain, deterioration, debilities and despair. LIFE inundates us with divine light and wisdom, making clear that we are blossoming in the ALL of SPIRIT, and sparkling with SPIRIT-generated health, affection, talents and ingenuity.

JR Blog: Living SOUL’s Divine Choreography

JR Blog: Living SOUL’s Divine Choreography: Living SOUL’s Divine Choreography By Julio C. Rivas, CS I will think about the glorious honor of your majesty and the miraculous...

SOUL’s immeasurable, matter-excluding excellence upholds, feeds and characterizes us and everything in its infinite universe.  We are SPIRIT’s magnificent opus, endowed with MIND’s wonderful attributes, and we move in LIFE’s immortal and vibrant choreography. 

Living SOUL’s Divine Choreography

Living SOUL’s Divine Choreography

By

Julio C. Rivas, CS

I will think about the glorious honor of your majesty and the miraculous things you have done. … The Lord is good to everyone and has compassion for everything that he has made. (GW, Ps. 145: 5, 9)

Eddy: “God fashions all things, after His own likeness.  … Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”  And, “All of God’s creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, and indestructible.”

SOUL’s immeasurable, matter-excluding excellence upholds, feeds and characterizes us and everything in its infinite universe.  We are SPIRIT’s magnificent opus, endowed with MIND’s wonderful attributes, and we move in LIFE’s immortal and vibrant choreography.  We are integrated into the ALL of TRUTH.  To be certain of this supernal reality banishes material tribulations into their oblivion of emptiness.  

JR Blog: Off Your Cross

JR Blog: Off Your Cross: Off Your Cross "Christ was not crucified -- that doom was Jesus' part; For Sharon's rose must bud and blossom in human heart....

Off Your Cross

Off Your Cross

"Christ was not crucified -- that doom was Jesus' part; For Sharon's rose must bud and blossom in human heart." (from "Christ and Christmas" poem)

Our Christ-essence thrives forever in SPIRIT-LIFE. It is never affected by the betrayals, perfidy, pains, distresses, downfalls and deaths of deluded corporeal sense. LIFE-SPIRIT is impelling our eternal, Christ-composition to be manifested in our humanity as healing, joy, love and progress.

JR Blog: LOVE's Crescendo

JR Blog: LOVE's Crescendo: LOVE's Crescendo "No blight, no broken wing, no moan, Truth's fane can dim; Eternal swells Christ's music-tone, in heaven...

LOVE's Crescendo

LOVE's Crescendo

"No blight, no broken wing, no moan, Truth's fane can dim; Eternal swells Christ's music-tone, in heaven's hymn." ("Christ and Christmas" poem)

We are MIND-LOVE's harmonious and eternal composition, integrated into LIFE's never-ending crescendo of beauty, vigor and immortality. Deterioration, ruin, fragmentation, pain and mortality are the carnal mentality's self-deceptions and they can never corrupt our spiritual structure. As the intonations and vibrations of Christ play in our thought/heart then these matter-based discords fade away and we delight in ascending health and goodness.

JR Blog: LOVE's Healing Grace

JR Blog: LOVE's Healing Grace: LOVE's Healing Grace And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, and he said to him, What doest thou here, Elijah? 10 And he said...

And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, and he said to him, What doest thou here, Elijah? 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah: Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: Jehovah was not in the earthquake. 12 And after the earthquake, a fire: Jehovah was not in the fire. And after the fire, a soft gentle voice. (Darby, I Kings 19: 9-12)

Eddy: “The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man.” Also, “The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, -- the path which leads to the house built without hands ‘eternal in the heavens.’”

Self-righteous, condemnatory and prideful behavior appear in both religious and non-religious people. They act like a mental fog which robs us of kindness, empathy, compassion and healing power. Bad influences can be perniciously deceiving, or loud and intimidating. But because they lack TRUTH, they are false and impotent. On the other hand, spiritual thoughts -- the "voice" of TRUTH -- exude the preponderant power of LOVE-GOODNESS. They represent MIND reflected in us, and with them we exude grace, intelligence, and healing efficacy. They vanquish sickness, lack, fear, anger, insecurity, envy, resentment and vengeance. Divine grace is ultimate power because with its holy gentleness it blesses and redeems all.

LOVE's Healing Grace

LOVE's Healing Grace


And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, and he said to him, What doest thou here, Elijah? 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away. 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah: Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: Jehovah was not in the earthquake. 12 And after the earthquake, a fire: Jehovah was not in the fire. And after the fire, a soft gentle voice. (Darby, I Kings 19: 9-12)

Eddy: “The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man.” Also, “The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, -- the path which leads to the house built without hands ‘eternal in the heavens.’”

Self-righteous, condemnatory and prideful behavior appear in both religious and non-religious people. They act like a mental fog which robs us of kindness, empathy, compassion and healing power. Bad influences can be perniciously deceiving, or loud and intimidating. But because they lack TRUTH, they are false and impotent. On the other hand, spiritual thoughts -- the "voice" of TRUTH -- exude the preponderant power of LOVE-GOODNESS. They represent MIND reflected in us, and with them we exude grace, intelligence, and healing efficacy. They vanquish sickness, lack, fear, anger, insecurity, envy, resentment and vengeance. Divine grace is ultimate power because with its holy gentleness it blesses and redeems all.

JR Blog: Commissioned by LOVE

JR Blog: Commissioned by LOVE: Commissioned by LOVE

 In the synagogue was a man who had the spirit of an evil demon in him; he screamed out in a loud voice,     ...
When troubles besiege us and we are lost and disconnected from GOOD/GOD, let’s recall that GOD/SOUL needs us for its own existence.  This is why we are always connected to TRUTH/GOD.  

Commissioned by LOVE

Commissioned by LOVE

In the synagogue was a man who had the spirit of an evil demon in him; he screamed out in a loud voice,  Ah! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Are you here to destroy us? I know who you are: you are God's holy messenger! Jesus ordered the spirit, “Be quiet and come out of the man!” The demon threw the man down in front of them and went out of him without doing him any harm. The people were all amazed and said to one another, “What kind of words are these? With authority and power this man gives orders to the evil spirits, and they come out!” And the report about Jesus spread everywhere in that region. (GN, Luke 4: 33-37)

Eddy: “Jesus cast out evil spirits, or false beliefs.”  And, “He understood man, whose Life is God, to be immortal, and knew that man has not two live, one to be destroyed and the other to be made indestructible.”

PRINCIPLE has equipped us with Christ’s command to expel suffering and sin.  Irrespective of how bad conditions are, LIFE-TRUTH is infinitely more – in fact, it is the all-good of our lives.  TRUTH-impelled magnificence, intelligence and wholeness define us, overthrow all afflictions, and multiply our health and supply.  

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.  (ASV, Gen. 21:17-20)

Eddy: “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.”  Also, “In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine Principle of being.” And, “Love is impartial and universal in it adaptation and bestowals.”

When troubles besiege us and we are lost and disconnected from GOOD/GOD, let’s recall that GOD/SOUL needs us for its own existence.  This is why we are always connected to TRUTH/GOD.  LOVE/GOD’s prolific and empowering outpourings of comfort, health, wisdom and blessings are pervading our lives at every moment.  They liberate us from troubles, direct us in productive pathways, and generate victories.  LOVE is our inexhaustible well of dynamic and healing solutions. 

SOUL Sparkles in You

By

Julio C. Rivas, CS

There are individuals who express a high dosage of spiritual qualities, and do so even when they are being marginalized by others.  Whether these individuals believe in God or not, they are still expressing SOUL’s spiritual qualities. 

Have you ever heard of the 20^th century mathematical genius, Amalie Noether?  Most people haven’t.  She is one of those admirable individuals whose human character expressed so much of SOUL. 

Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time.  After Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1915, she invented her own theorem called Noether’s theorem.  It unites symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation.  To some physicists and mathematicians today her theorem is as important as Einstein’s general theory.  It underpins a great deal of today’s cutting edge research in physics. 

Lisa Randall, professor of particle physics and cosmology at Harvard says that Noether’s theorem elucidates critical relationships: “… energy, momentum and other quantities we take for granted gain meaning and even greater value when we understand how these quantities follow symmetry in time and space.”  Ranson Stephens, another physicist, says that her theorem “is the backbone on which all of modern physics is built.”

Emmy (as she was called) was persistent, resilient and disciplined.  Although her father was a distinguished math professor at the universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg, she was not allowed to matriculate because of rules barring women.  What did she do?  Emmy audited all the courses at the University of Erlangen and did so well on her final exams that she was granted a bachelor’s degree.  This opened doors for her to do graduate work at the University of Gottingen and later to earn a doctorate (summa cum laude) from the University of Erlangen. 

Emmy’s brilliance and friendly disposition earned her the respect and support of her male peers and superiors.  David Hilbert, a top mathematician of her day, tried to get her hired as a professor at the University of Gottingen but, because of the administration’s biases against women, she was refused.  So Hilbert hired her as one of his staff assistants and she became a permanent “guest lecturer” at the university.  Her relationships with her male peers were so strong that they welcomed her as a fellow swimmer at their male-only pool.

Emmy was devoted to her students and they were devoted to her.  Her students, who were primarily young men, were known at the university as Noether’s boys. 

She loved mathematics and cared nothing for personal possessions.  She often responded to challenges with a sense of humor.  She laughed and smiled often. 

Being a Jew she was fired from her post when Nazism took over in Germany.  But Einstein helped her secure a permanent position at Bryn Mawr College, where she was deeply valued by staff and students. 

Whether someone is religious, or not, SOUL is the delineator of their being, as it is of all being.  We are constructed of SOUL’s spiritual qualities and when we express them we can leap over troubles. 

LOVE-SOUL incites our Christly qualities and might into fructiferous action.  Our Christ-spirit obliterates hateful, ignorant, insidious and obstinate resistance to LOVE-enforced wisdom, health and progress.  Like it has done so always, man’s expression of MIND’s intelligent, valiant and loving ideas – the Christ-spirit -- will consistently produce salubrious and enhancing outcomes. 

MIND-instigated Victories

By

Julio C. Rivas, CS

Sometimes it seems that we are drowning in problems.  This is how many admirable and high-accomplishing people felt at various times in their lives. 

The apostle Paul, who experienced many setbacks, betrayals, abandonment and torture, must have found himself lost on many occasions.  There is, for example, the time when after experiencing several setbacks and sufferings he gets bitten by a venomous serpent.  Prior to the snake bite he had been enslaved, almost thrown overboard the sailing ship, and narrowly escaped a sea storm.  Although the ship was destroyed by the storm all the men were able to swim to shore.  Then while he’s making a fire to warm the men he gets bitten by the serpent.  But Paul yields to the imperial power of SPIRIT and this antidotes the serpent’s venom.  This experience impacted everyone around him and many of them became followers of the Christ-message. 

Because difficulties and setbacks can appear suddenly we should remain spiritually synchronized to the superlative presence of LOVE-SPIRIT. But even when our thinking is disconnected from SPIRIT-MIND, we can link up again because SPIRIT keeps us within its superlative grace.

Jesus, who knew extreme suffering up close, emboldens us with this statement: “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions (and dragons), and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” 

SOUL possesses and manifests maximum intelligence and power.  SOUL expresses us and we derive from SOUL outstanding spiritual intelligence and authority.   This makes us victorious over any and all disease, fear and distress. When we are working in rhythm with SOUL we express triumphant wisdom, health and love.

We also have this profound declaration by Jesus: “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” 

To accept that our names – our spiritual identities -- are written in heaven is to understand ourselves as MIND’s oeuvre, as its triumphant, eternal, incorporeal and beautiful ideas.  We overcome all hindrances when we yield to the matter-shattering and SPIRIT-glorifying revelations of MIND.  Clear spiritual reasoning, combined with conviction and grace, produces success after success. 

We can draw courage from the characters of early Christianity.  Jesus experienced and conquered the crucifixion.  The disciple John overcame many trials, including surviving being put into a vat of boiling oil.  The 1^st – 3^rd century Christians healed thousands, overcame extreme suffering, and resurrected many from sin and death.

Impressive theologian and healer, M. B. Eddy wrote: “To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, sin, sickness, nor death.”

“Serpents, scorpions and dragons” vanish before the realization that we are subsumed, defined and fueled by the all-intelligence and all-health-life of LOVE-MIND.