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Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know,—as in heaven, so on earth,—God is omnipotent, supreme.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
http://christianscienceec.com/healing-prayer/the-lords-prayer/
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Again, she says,
"
prayer to a personal God is a hindrance "
(p. 635, ed. of 1893).
" I earnest
ly advise all Christian Scientists to remove from their ob
servation or study the personal sense of any one
"
(Id.).
But is it possible to pray without contemplating the Divine
personality? Once more,
" The prayer of faith shall save
the sick, says the Scripture. The only beneficial effect of
such prayer for the sick is in the human mind, making it
act more powerfullv on the body, through a blind faith in
God "
(p. 317, ed. of 1893). Yet again,
" God is not influenced by man
"
(Id.).
"
prayer to a personal God hinders
spiritual growth."
" This common custom of praying for
the sick finds help in blind unbelief "
(Id. p. 318, ed. of 1893).
https://ia801603.us.archive.org/30/i...4/25120204.pdf
https://ia801603.us.archive.org/30/i...4/25120204.pdf
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prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it. Goodness attains the demonstration of Truth. A request that God will save us is not all that is required. The mere habit of pleading with the divine Mind, as one pleads with a human being, perpetuates the belief in God as humanly circumscrided, --- an error with impedes spiritual growth.
http://christiansciencemedia.org/fil...Scriptures.pdf
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im·per·son·al
?im'p?rs(?)n(?)l/
adjective
1.
not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings.
"the impersonal march of progress"
synonyms: neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan, unprejudiced, objective, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, without favoritism More
2.
not existing as a person; having no personality.
"he gradually came to believe in an impersonal God"
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in·di·vid·u·al
?ind?'vij(o?o)?l/
adjective
1.
single; separate.
"individual tiny flowers"
synonyms: single, separate, discrete, independent, solo; More
2.
of or for a particular person.
"the individual needs of the children"
noun
1.
a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.
"boat trips for parties and individuals"
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per·son
'p?rs(?)n/
noun
1.
a human being regarded as an individual.
"the porter was the last person to see her"
synonyms: human being, individual, man/woman, child, human, being, (living) soul, mortal, creature; More
2.
GRAMMAR
a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker first person, the addressee second person, or a third party third person.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person
http://www.mbeinstitute.org/SAH/SAH.htm
compare editions of S&H online
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...istian%20union
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There is nothing but God.
Main Author: Williams, Vivian May.
Language(s): English
Published: Los Angeles, DeVorss, 1934.
Subjects: Christian Science.
New Thought.
Physical Description: 141 p.
Locate a Print Version: Find in a library
Viewability:
Full view (original from University of California)
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006517682
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Christian Science: The Impersonal Saviour (Summary)
Richard P. Verrall, C.S., of New York, New York
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
"Christian Science: The Impersonal Saviour" was the subject of a lecture on Christian Science given by Richard P. Verrall, C. S., of New York city last night at the Morris school, Rockville Centre. Mr. Verrall is a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
http://www.cslectures.org/Verrall/CS-The%20Impersonal%20Saviour-Verrall.htm
IMpersonAL HEALING
DORA M. KNAPP.
From the January 1898 issue of The Christian Science Journal
http://journal.christianscience.com/...898/1/15-10/impersonal-healing
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Do you mean by this that God is a person?
The word person affords a large margin for misapprehension, as well as definition. In French the equivalent word is personne. In Spanish, Italian, and Latin, it is persona. The Latin verb personare is compounded of the prefix per (through) and sonare (to sound).
In law, Blackstone applies the word personal to bodily presence, in distinction from one’s appearance (in court, for example) by deputy or proxy.
2 Other definitions of person, as given by Webster, are “a living soul; a self-conscious being; a moral agent; especially, a living human being, a corporeal man, woman, or child; an individual of the human race.” He adds, that among Trinitarian Christians the word stands for one of the three subjects, or agents, constituting the Godhead.
In Christian Science we learn that God is definitely individual, and not a person, as that word is used by the best authorities, if our lexicographers are right in defining person as especially a finite human being; but God is personal, if by person is meant infinite Spirit.
We do not conceive rightly of God, if we think of Him as less than infinite. The human person is finite; and therefore I prefer to retain the proper sense of Deity by using the phrase an individual God, rather than a personal God; for there is and can be but one infinite individual Spirit, whom mortals have named God.
Science defines the individuality of God as supreme good, Life, Truth, Love. This term enlarges our sense of Deity, takes away the trammels assigned to God by finite thought, and introduces us to higher definitions.
https://christianscience.com/read-on...divine-science
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The five material senses testify to the existence of 5matter. The spiritual senses afford no such evidence, but deny the testimony of the material senses. Which testimony is correct? The Bible says: “Let God be true, and every man a liar.” If, as the Scriptures imply, God is All-in-all, then all must be Mind, since God is Mind. Therefore in divine Science there is no material mortal man, for man is spiritual and eternal, he being made in the image of Spirit, or God.
https://christianscience.com/read-on...divine-science
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Jesus’ work was individual, and can never be repeated. His
reappearing must be impersonal. His second coming must be as an
idea, not as corporeality. He must present, not mind as incarnated
in matter, or soul as circled in the flesh, but a realization of Life,
Truth, and Love in their spiritual signification, as set forth in the
Scriptures and in Science and Health.
The mother who believes she gives, or can give, birth to a babe
whose career will be an improvement upon that of Jesus – or will
even reproduce his individuality – labors under a greater delusion
than is found in the widely diffused doctrine concerning the second
advent of Christ; because this implies that the infinite can be
embodied in the finite, and that there can be a material reappearance
of what Saint Paul called ‘the man Christ Jesus’; whereas the
Saviour proved that his growth was a progress upward out of
corporeality, into Spirit, not a retrogression downward, into the flesh.
http://christiansciencecct.org/RED_BOOK_COMPLETE.pdf
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God made them male and female from the beginning, but His
creation was not physical. He made qualities and formations of
character, which shall ever remain thus, as the reflection of God, the
Father and Mother of the universe. Not that God is male and female
in person, two in form, but as including in Himself all the qualities
of Mind. When we understand this, we shall have no outlined
personality, but shall have individuality all the same. This is
absolute Science, wherein there is but one Mind; and this Mind is
the unity of masculine and feminine and neuter, as Mind – as infinite
Mind, not finite. Here is the union again of man and woman, not
personal but impersonal, not physical but mental, not finite but
infinite. This must be so in the reflection of God, for He is neither
finite nor physical, and if we reflect God, we must become like Him
in our consciousness.
What is the Anti-Christ? Dear ones, I could tell you much concerning
that; but that must not be now. Some things must wait till
you can bear them. I cannot tell you what Anti-Christ is.
also, from Red Book,
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Religion based on a personal God, rests on the evidence of the
personal senses, and is therefore more finite, limited and material in
its doctrines, rites and ceremonies than Christianity can be, for
Christianity is supported alone by Spirit, impersonal and infinite
Truth and Love; therefore, Christianity is enlarged, liberal, charitable,
demonstrable, universal. It heals all sickness, destroys all sin, and
brings to light the unity of God and man.
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We will now consider the meaning of the terms which express
Principle, and not person, and in considering this we shall find the
true definition of God, and our conclusions will all be spiritual, and
not material, drawn from the standpoint of this impersonal instead
of the personal, even from Mind instead of matter. Our only true
conceptions of Principle are perfect contrasts to our personal views
of God, and of Principle, as we shall hereafter learn.
Also we shall learn that Science reverses what the five
also, from Red Book,
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Also we shall learn that Science reverses what the five personal
senses say, or conceive of God, or of His creation. For instance,
personal sense reports Principle as something limited, and a rule,
instead of an intelligence by which numbers, or laws, or systems of
worlds are governed. This is termed the science of astronomy, or of
music, or mathematics. But this is a limited view from the standpoint
of personality; it is a view that the mortal, limited and erring
gives, and not the idea of Principle that metaphysics gives us, but the
very reverse of this idea; hence, the great importance for you to
understand this in the beginning, that God is not only the Principle
of metaphysics, the study we have before us, but that this God is
impersonal and infinite Life, and infinite and universal Love, and an
infinite and eternal Truth. This Truth then you cannot fully comprehend
at once, or in these lessons, but we shall impart it best by
understanding, in the first place, the difference between views of
theology, physiology, materia medica, and so forth, and the Science
that explains God as Principle, and the way this Principle brings out
the harmony of being.
also, from Red Book,
http://christiansciencecct.org/RED_BOOK_COMPLETE.pdf
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
Current Version: 2004
... and Health with Key to the Scriptures , authorized textbook of Christian Science , published by Mary Baker Eddy in 1875 . In 1886 Mrs. Eddy employed the Rev. James Henry Wiggin , a former Unitarian minister and then an editor of the University Press at Cambridge, Mass., to rewrite large portions of the book. She continued to make slight changes from time to time, and at the time of her death more than 400,000 copies had been sold....
http://www.oxfordreference.com/searc...e%20Scriptures
The Following is based on S&H as it appeared then. What it comes down to, every time S&H was "reprinted" it was revised, rearranged and changed.
In fact, one of the editors was an Unitarian retired Minister by the name of Rev. James Henry Wiggin. When one checks for references using the current S&H, often you will not find your source because of this editing and re-arranging.
But, the old book quoted below is still vaild because it was based on S&H in his time frame.