“The Creation chapter…shines an undimmable light on all the circumstances that seem so entrenched.”
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Be a witness to God’s man. Look for that evidence, both where you expect to find it and where you don’t.
Responses to assignment
“…the admonition that we MUST gravitate Godward is so helpful.”
/Beginning and end, time and space, mortality and self—none of these have a place in God’s creation.
Read More“Mrs. Eddy debunks the belief that there can be two creations, one spiritual and one material.”
/Creation is infinitely complete and expresses only the qualities of God its Creator, qualities such as perfection, peace, permanence, intelligence, power, science, substance, joy, freedom, health, holiness, happiness and goodness which permeate the entire fabric of being and are reflected by man and the universe.
Read More"When we lift our thought to view this chapter from a purely spiritual standpoint we begin to grasp the enormity of what MBE discovered.”
/I have seen a positive change in my study of the weekly Bible Lessons. The work has become significantly richer, deeper and more meaningful. Each study session now seems less repetitive, less “work”, more original and far more joyful. A welcomed change.
Read More“How I am demonstrating the truth of Creation right now is more about yielding than flying.”
/I do sooner head for the mountain view when confronted with problems. I am grateful for more dominion and less fear. I am catching myself before I let situations take away my peace or cause an angry reaction.
Read More“I felt confident that one thought lifted above human suggestions of age-related stuff leavens the whole atmosphere of thought regarding age.”
/Some of the verbs and verb phrases that Mrs. Eddy uses to express God’s spiritual creation within the chapter are: expands, sprang, takes off, advancing, rises, emanating, forever developing, broadening, improve, breaking away, gained.
Read More“The Creation chapter teaches us to discern the real and actual from the lies…that make up the common idea of life.”
/I have found it useful lately, especially when discussing Science with those who are unfamiliar, to pair the idea of creation with others such as the universe and a sense of everything that is. This tends to broaden thought and conversation beyond what appears immediately before the mortal senses and leads naturally to the idea that the truth of creation is found nowhere in matter - and so must be sought elsewhere.
Read More“And Her spiritual expression (that's us--the real man) can only act in consonance with the perfect spiritual reality.”
/God's creation is all good action. It is omni-action, the only real action that is.
Read More“I have been spending my daily life with greater expectation and newness.”
/The “Creation” chapter instructs us so clearly and practically how we should be born again from a material self to spiritual reality.
Read More“As a CS nurse I need to witness the perfect model of God's creation.”
/Keeping the pure, perfect Source in thought, we see His conception (His idea) reflecting purity and perfection.
Read More“There’s high degree of care I felt, in this chapter, for ‘tired humanity.’”
/“The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstration.” (p. 259)
I’ve always valued how this citation helps get me back to basics, how to start praying.
“Creation is immortality, purity, perfection, completion, satisfaction, wholeness.”
/Creation implies an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God loving and supporting His children in the kingdom of heaven, ruling with harmony, Principle, wisdom, and compassion.
Read More“I felt the conviction that harmony is the law of God.”
/Understanding the incorporeality of God and His Love is freeing and uplifting.
Read More“More than just an exercise in English 101…Mrs. Eddy used these vivid, contrasting terms to wake us up.”
/Creation implies the unbounded totality of the reality of Spirit and its formations, which is only, and increasingly, visible to me in proportion to my spiritual discipline and altitude.
Read More“How God is bigger than the whole human situation.”
/I want to take off any shackles, I want to "rise spontaneously, even as light emits light without effort." (p. 262) And I want to see and acknowledge that "Eternal Truth is changing the universe." (p. 255)
Read More“The wonderful thing about 'Science and Health' is the 'newness' each time you read it.”
/He had extra copies of Science and Health, by Mrs. Eddy, marble edition, so he gave me one—It was my first copy! He didn't tell me how to read it and I didn’t start at the beginning or the chapter on Prayer. I would open Science and Health at random and read specific sections or sentences.
Read More“God ‘IS’ so we ‘are’”
/How do I think correctly or spiritually about people who haven’t asked me to pray for them or for events that seem to be out of my control? One answer comes from the “Creation” chapter. It explains that God “corrects error with truth” pg. 259.
Read More“The burst of light in paragraph one—the full spectrum of God—and the seven rainbow colors of God appearing!”
/I think of this chapter “Creation” as a revelation of Revelation, expression of Expression that has come the only way it could come--through pure self-effacement. The mental swaddling clothes -- self-consciousness, fear, trust in matter--aren’t here.
Read More“The ongoing ever-present sense of where we truly live is what the chapter of creation emphasizes to me.”
/The importance of knowing that there is only one creator and one creation in my life revolves not around a particular day or healing. It is a daily understanding of where my thought should be. In storm or shine we have only one life. We truly do live in heaven right now – untouched by the clamoring of mortal thoughts. As we surrender our sense of a personal self (with all the problems that a belief in mortal existence brings), we can be calm in the face of the storm. We can feel the Life, Truth and Love that is always present. So rather than point to a particular day or a particular healing (which is important), the ongoing ever-present sense of where we truly live is what the chapter of creation emphasizes to me. We are always at home with God.
“So, even though creation is complete and perfect…we demonstrate it newly every day.”
/Creation isn’t inert—it’s not something God made and then left stagnant. It’s complete and finished, but our understanding of it is constantly improving and broadening.
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