Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord.

  • Henrietta Frances Lord
Date:
1888
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    temple for the Spirit of God, than renunciation of action. But the right renunciation, the natural dropping off of action, is superior to its performance, inasmuch as it is immediately followed by everlasting life. Wise-hearted people have reason to remark constantly, that when they have finished some task or duty, it drops off. God never wastes our time for us ; it is we who waste it by clinging to all we do with such tenacity, such ' morbid love of duty] that the word of freedom does not reach our ears. CHAPTER VI. RIGHT KNOWLEDGE OF MEDITATION. The self of the man who is self-subdued and free from desire and anger, is as the Supreme Self; and remains equal in heat and cold, and also in honour and disgrace. Here follow directions for training yourself in meditation, and among them is the suggestion that it is injurious to attempt to fix the mind on the Supreme Spirit; by which is meant that you should begin by fixing your mind on some ennobling thought more or less co7inected with action, or what you do love, and understand. He, whose heart is at rest through meditation, and who everywhere perceives the unity, perceives the Ego, which is in every creature, and every creature in the Ego. Who sees Me everywhere, and sees everything in Me, for him I am not lost, nor is he lost for Me. (John xvii. 20-23.) Neither here nor hereafter is there destruction for him ; never, my son, does a worker of righteousness come to an evil end. And even a man who failed in some particulars connected with meditation or aspiratioji, will, we read, be born in a fa?nily favour- able to high aims. Thus ; There he gains union with that knowledge spiritual character ; aspirations God-ward, which belonged to the former body, and with that he again strives for perfection. CHAPTER VII. RIGHT KNOWLEDGE OF REALISATION. With heart devoted to Me, practising meditation, de- pending on Me, how thou shalt know Me completely—to that listen.