I knew that this prayer is not simply a petition to God, but is also an acknowledgment of His ever-present omnipotence. At a break, I decided to find a quiet place to sit down. One night we were playing at a local VFW Post filled with cigarette smoke, and during the performance, I became very ill. This brings health and resolution to the human situation.įor example: When I was in high school, I played clarinet in a jazz ensemble. It is not a question of mind over matter, but a yielding of fear and ignorance to the divine Mind’s understanding of our spiritual selfhood as the child of God. Since God is Spirit, man must be spiritual, made of the substance and qualities of God. In this spiritual understanding, our true being as man in God’s image and likeness is revealed to human consciousness.
Prayer in Christian Science is turning to God and acknowledging the presence and power of Deity. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” ( 3:5, 6).įar from advocating the human mind as a healing agent, Christian Science explains how the power of divine Mind, God, conquers fear and its resultant illness.Īctually, this second passage is a good definition of prayer. For instance, Psalms 147:5 states, “Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.” And in Proverbs we read: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. The designation of God as Mind has its origin in the Bible. What is this divine Mind? It is the infinitely good and wise God, Spirit. She wrote in her seminal work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “We should understand that the cause of disease obtains in the mortal human mind, and its cure comes from the immortal divine Mind” ( p. Mary Baker Eddy herself did not have much good to say about the action of the human mind. Instead, far from advocating the human mind as a healing agent, Christian Science explains how the power of divine Mind, God, conquers fear and its resultant illness and brings healing to the body.
The belief that Christian Science is “mind over matter” is a misconception. But I was even more surprised to read his characterization of the writings of the Discoverer of Christian Science as “Mary Baker Eddy’s texts explaining the importance of ‘mind over matter’ ” (Justice John Paul Stevens, The Making of a Justice, p. In a recent autobiography of a former Supreme Court justice, I was surprised to read that his mother and grandmother were devout Christian Scientists and that he had attended a Christian Science Sunday School.
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