I came across two very special short videos last week that to me simply clarified what Mary Baker Eddy was meaning here:
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they that reflect Him--that reflect Love. (Miscellaneous Writings 150)
The first video is of a rabbi who walked into a Christian Science Reading Room to distract himself when his father was dying of terminal cancer; went back and told his father that he wasn’t going to die and within a week he was completely clear.
Sometimes, people who are open, unprejudiced and seeking, can just click, like he did and recognise it for what it is – the Science of metaphysical healing, based on the immutable law of God. Many people get confused with the denomination, the church of the same name, they reject the word "Christian" or they approach it with intellectualism, rather than our inner intuition, or perhaps compare it with their own set of beliefs and reject it when it does not conform to them; but this man was different. He just got it and in his own words, it “resurrected” his father in under a week. Then he had to learn about it!
His father’s healing of terminal cancer
[DLMURL] http://tmcyouth.com/media/media/a-jewish-rabbi/ [/DLMURL] (click on the screen)
He discusses how it does not conflict with his Jewish Kabala beliefs and discusses how it will help heal Israel.
What I love is the way he has glimpsed the universality of this Science of Being. He partly quoted one of the many definitions given by Mary Baker Eddy:
The heart that beats mostly for self is seldom alight with love. To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science. (Miscellany 160)
Here are a few more:
How would you define Christian Science?
As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony. (Rudimental divine Science 1)
… the natural law of harmony which overcomes discord,--not because this Science is supernatural or preternatural, nor because it is an infraction of divine law, but because it is the immutable law of God, good. (Science and Health 134)
… the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease. (Science and Health 482)
Science is divine: it is neither of human origin nor of human direction. That which is termed "natural science," the evidences whereof are taken in by the five personal senses, presents but a finite, feeble sense of the infinite law of God; which law is written on the heart, received through the affections, spiritually understood, and demonstrated in our lives. (Miscellaneous Writings 172)
Enjoy and be inspired!
Judy
This is an in-depth interview (to read, rather than listen to!) with Rabbi David Louis where he really illustrates Mary Baker Eddy’s words:
[COLOR="Blue"]“… to-day, Jew and Christian can unite in doctrine and denomination on the very basis of Jesus’ words and works” (Science and Health 360)
I love these two observations of his:
Christian Science is universal. It illuminates anything and everything. If I’m a rabbi, I become an illuminated rabbi. If you’re a businessman, you’re an illuminated one.
Christian Science extends to all religions because it is a meta-religion.
(As I said above, he just got it!) :p
[url]A rabbi talks about Christian Science[/url]
Love and peace,
Judy