"'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?/ Come to my arms my beamish boy!/ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'/ He chortled in his joy." (Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky") It is our divine right and duty to defeat each day, each hour if necessary, some aspect of mortal mind and be joyfully welcomed anew, like the prodigal son, into the loving arms of our Father-Mother God. I certainly can't imagine God chortling over anything or exchanging knee-slappers over spinach dip and chips, but His presence and love are always here to be felt sans chortle.
No day should pass without our gaining a fresh and spontaneous unfolding, however simple, of some aspect of God and His reflection, man. If the chewing gum of our inspiration has lost its flavor on the bedpost over night (as that silly song suggests) or over many years, we may need to claim more understandingly our oneness with the one Mind and pray and fast our way into greener pastures. I have commented before on the limitless possibilities for variations on a theme in music. The best variations are blessed with inspiration and spontaneity. No two of us understand and express God in exactly the same way. Unlimited individuality, and hence infinite variety, is the only way infinite Mind could be expressed, and the ability to do so is ours as expressions of divine Mind.
We must constantly demand of ourselves newness, freshness, and abundant fructification, which will assure that error is being overcome step by step, here a little and there a little, with Truth. Thinking of this activity in musical terms might help us deverbalize prayer and open our hearts more spontaneously to feeling the power of the Word, as Mrs. Eddy expected. It seems to me that the more "musical" our thinking becomes the less intellectual or literal it will be and the nearer we will come to enriching our affections with pure Christ, Truth, which cannot fail to save and heal.
Note: I regret giving the impression in my Terminator "review" that there would be a sequel. That statement was merely a feint at verisimilitude. No follow-up is simmering on a back burner, so that earlier entry will probably be a one-off.
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Love this blog post. Another fine offering, and I thank you.
(Sorry we're not getting part two of that other post, but you explained it.)
Kudos on another extremely well done blog posting. Like the thought of spontaneity. Couldn't agree more. It's not the letter of Science that does it,but the spiritual conviction underlying those wonderful truths.
Lovely thought, enriching our affections with more Christliness.
Absolutely the need, certainly in my case.
Thanks much,
Yet another worthwhile posting. You are certainly staying true to the objective listed under the title of your blog.
Appreciation from here,
This website of yours is such a help to me, and has been for many months. I am grateful to you, mystery person.
Yes, as our Leader says, the letter kills, and the spirit gives life. A most interesting discussion along these lines. You present your ideas very clearly.
Hi there,
You do give out the most substantive little essays, and I get a lot of bang out of them.
Thanks!
I've been checking you website for the sequel. I bet it would have been a corker. But this one will suffice. A lot to think about in your latest.
You are blessing many in the Field, and I for one am grateful you decided to start blogging on CS. Or rather, God led you to do it and you obeyed divine direction.
Your blog was recommended to me, and I can see why my friend is so impressed. There's such substance to what you write, and you write so well.
I'll be returning, I feel sure.
Well done, blogger. You are the most original writer on Christian Science i know of.
Keep it up!
You make a good point, that there should not be a day that goes by without our realizing more man's true (and only) being as God's reflection.
What a wonderful thing it is to be a student of our religion!
Dear Author,
I saw a posting on a search engine, something you wrote last November I think it was on becoming fishers of men. That was outstanding! I intend to read more of your postings.
You write so well.
I get such a kick out of the way you present metaphysical ideas. Quite original, not like we see in standard CS writing.
(And I almost always learn new words.)
Love and appreciation to you for doing so much to help students of Science get a better understanding.
Very uplifting blogging.
Your essays on CS are so fresh, quite unexpected at times, and they do cause me to think deeply after visiting your site.
Just wish our periodicals had pieces like the ones you regularly turn out. Nothing ho-hum about our thinking or writing!
Good work, blogger.
You've mentioned mortal mind quite a bit of late, and what I find helpful in putting off mortal beliefs is attention to one of our tenets: working and praying to have a Christly mind, which to Jesus meant only one Mind, God.
Your use of the term "infinite variety" called up Shakespeare's description of Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale,/ Her infinite variety."
Age and custom. One overt, the other a subtle, incursion of the death-mind. These two limiters are what work against freshness and spontaneity to wither and stale both. Thanks to Christian for providing the route to this insight, to MBE for the means to deal with these down-pullers.
On another subject, a young man visited our Reading Room this morning who is a serious student of classic poetry and even writes his own. Reading the article in the Nov Journal, MBE's Unknown Poetry (well enough left unknown) he recognized the first of three verses attributed to Mrs. Eddy (pagae 54 of the article)as a verse directly from Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat Omaar Kylaam. Since this first verse was mistakenly attributed to MBE, do you, perchance, recognize either of the other two verses from The MBE Collection?
I do wish they would stop the "publishing" prohibited in the Manual(p.82). This is just another example of the serious leadership problem in Boston.
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