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

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    Together with realisation, a new and mysterious consciousness will be given, and not mere information. this knowledge I shall fully declare unto thee; know- ing which, there shall remain nothing else to be known. (John xiv. 17 ; Col. ii. 3.) By the delusion of opposites, arising from attraction and hatred, all creatures at the time of birth fall into delusion. By attraction towards birth and repulsion from it, the incarnating Ego loses its previous knowledge. And, in the same way, it may be regained by fiious habits of mind which bring about a calm mind. CHAPTER VIII. THE SUPREME SPIRIT NAMED AS OM. Those of moderate spirituality are counselled to practise meditation upon the Supreme Spirit in the way described there. CHAPTER IX. RIGHT KNOWLEDGE OF THE ROYAL MYSTERY. For those whose spiritual condition is lower than that, and who are in consequence unable to restrain the mind, to meditate with concen- tration, what hope is there ? This chapter gives the answer. As air existing in space always goes everywhere, and is unlimited, so are all things in Me. Whoever in love offers to Me a leaf, or flower, or fruit,— that given in love by the pure-hearted, I accept. The yoke of God is very light indeed. None need do any special thing for Him ; but in the performance of the ordinary acts of life He is fully worshipped, if they are performed for His sake alone; the interior Spirit is superior to all works. I am equal to all creatures; there is none hated or beloved [?preferred] by Me. But those who worship Me in love, they are in Me and in them I am. (John xiv. 23.) As the fire warms those who approach it, and not those who are far from it, so God loves those who love Him. He is free from desire Himself. Such an one quickly becomes righteous-souled, for he comes to perpetual peace.