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Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder. In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given
in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. - JESUS.
56:1 WHEN our great Teacher came to him for baptism,
John was astounded. Reading his thoughts, Jesus 56:3 added: “Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us
to fulfil all righteousness.” Jesus’ concessions (in certain
cases) to material methods were for the advancement of 56:6 spiritual good.
Marriage temporal
Marriage is the legal and moral provision for generation among human kind. Until the spiritual creation 56:9 is discerned intact, is apprehended and understood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision
of the Apocalypse, - where the corporeal sense of crea-56:12 tion was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from
heaven, - marriage will continue, subject to such moral
regulations as will secure increasing virtue.
Fidelity required
56:15 Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge
of all races, “the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
… the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” 56:18 The commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” is no less imperative than the one, “Thou
shalt not kill.”
57:1 Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress.
Without it there is no stability in society, and without it 57:3 one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mental elements
Union of the masculine and feminine qualities constitutes completeness. The masculine mind reaches a 57:6 higher tone through certain elements of the
feminine, while the feminine mind gains courage and strength through masculine qualities. These 57:9 different elements conjoin naturally with each other, and
their true harmony is in spiritual oneness. Both sexes
should be loving, pure, tender, and strong. The attrac-57:12 tion between native qualities will be perpetual only as it
is pure and true, bringing sweet seasons of renewal like
the returning spring.
Affection’s demands
57:15 Beauty, wealth, or fame is incompetent to meet the
demands of the affections, and should never weigh
against the better claims of intellect, good-57:18 ness, and virtue. Happiness is spiritual,
born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore
it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to 57:21 share it.
Help and discipline
Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even
though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, en-57:24 larging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry
blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance 57:27 of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to
God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases
to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for 57:30 heaven.
Marriage is unblest or blest, according to the disappointments it involves or the hopes it fulfils. To happify 58:1 existence by constant intercourse with those adapted to
elevate it, should be the motive of society. Unity of 58:3 spirit gives new pinions to joy, or else joy’s drooping
wings trail in dust.
Chord and discord
Ill-arranged notes produce discord. Tones of the 58:6 human mind may be different, but they should be con—
cordant in order to blend properly. Unselfish
ambition, noble life-motives, and purity, - 58:9 these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute individually and collectively true happiness, strength, and
permanence.
Mutual freedom
58:12 There is moral freedom in Soul. Never contract the
horizon of a worthy outlook by the selfish exaction of
all another’s time and thoughts. With ad-58:15 ditional joys, benevolence should grow more
diffusive. The narrowness and jealousy, which would
confine a wife or a husband forever within four walls, will 58:18 not promote the sweet interchange of confidence and love;
but on the other hand, a wandering desire for incessant
amusement outside the home circle is a poor augury for 58:21 the happiness of wedlock. Home is the dearest spot on
earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.
A useful suggestion
58:24 Said the peasant bride to her lover: “Two eat no more
together than they eat separately.” This is a hint that
a wife ought not to court vulgar extravagance 58:27 or stupid ease, because another supplies her
wants. Wealth may obviate the necessity for toil or the
chance for ill-nature in the marriage relation, but noth-58:30 ing can abolish the cares of marriage.
Differing duties
“She that is married careth … how she may please
her husband,” says the Bible; and this is the pleasantest 59:1 thing to do. Matrimony should never be entered into
without a full recognition of its enduring obligations on 59:3 both sides. There should be the most tender
solicitude for each other’s happiness, and mutual attention and approbation should wait on all the years 59:6 of married life.
Mutual compromises will often maintain a compact
which might otherwise become unbearable. Man should 59:9 not be required to participate in all the annoyances and
cares of domestic economy, nor should woman be expected to understand political economy. Fulfilling the 59:12 different demands of their united spheres, their sympathies should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each
partner sustaining the other, - thus hallowing the union 59:15 of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace
and home.
Trysting renewed
Tender words and unselfish care in what promotes the 59:18 welfare and happiness of your wife will prove more salutary
in prolonging her health and smiles than stolid
indifference or jealousy. Husbands, hear this 59:21 and remember how slight a word or deed may renew the
old trysting-times.
After marriage, it is too late to grumble over incompati-59:24 bility of disposition. A mutual understanding should
exist before this union and continue ever after, for deception is fatal to happiness.
Permanent obligation
59:27 The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as
its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency
of divorce shows that the sacredness of this re-59:30 lationship is losing its influence, and that fatal
mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation
never should take place, and it never would, if both 60:1 husband and wife were genuine Christian Scientists.
Science inevitably lifts one’s being higher in the scale of 60:3 harmony and happiness.
Permanent affection
Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary
to the formation of a happy and permanent companion-60:6 ship. The beautiful in character is also the
good, welding indissolubly the links of affection. A mother’s affection cannot be weaned from her 60:9 child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal
affection lives on under whatever difficulties. 60:12 From the logic of events we learn that selfishness
and impurity alone are fleeting, and that wisdom will
ultimately put asunder what she hath not joined 60:15 together.
Centre for affections
Marriage should improve the human species, becoming
a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to 60:18 man, and a centre for the affections. This,
however, in a majority of cases, is not its
present tendency, and why? Because the education of 60:21 the higher nature is neglected, and other considerations,
- passion, frivolous amusements, personal adornment,
display, and pride, - occupy thought.
Spiritual concord
60:24 An ill-attuned ear calls discord harmony, not appreciat—
ing concord. So physical sense, not discerning the true
happiness of being, places it on a false basis. 60:27 Science will correct the discord, and teach us
life’s sweeter harmonies.
Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, 60:30 and happiness would be more readily attained and would
be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul. Higher
enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal 61:1 man. We cannot circumscribe happiness within the
limits of personal sense. The senses confer no real 61:3 enjoyment.
Ascendency of good
The good in human affections must have ascendency
over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happi-61:6 ness will never be won. The attainment of
this celestial condition would improve our
progeny, diminish crime, and give higher aims to ambi-61:9 tion. Every valley of sin must be exalted, and every
mountain of selfishness be brought low, that the highway
of our God may be prepared in Science. The offspring 61:12 of heavenly-minded parents inherit more intellect, better
balanced minds, and sounder constitutions.
Propensities inherited
If some fortuitous circumstance places promising chil-61:15 dren in the arms of gross parents, often these beautiful
children early droop and die, like tropical
flowers born amid Alpine snows. If perchance 61:18 they live to become parents in their turn, they may reproduce in their own helpless little ones the grosser traits
of their ancestors. What hope of happiness, what noble 61:21 ambition, can inspire the child who inherits propensities
that must either be overcome or reduce him to a loathsome wreck?
61:24 Is not the propagation of the human species a greater
responsibility, a more solemn charge, than the culture of
your garden or the raising of stock to increase your flocks 61:27 and herds? Nothing unworthy of perpetuity should be
transmitted to children.
The formation of mortals must greatly improve to 61:30 advance mankind. The scientific morale of marriage is
spiritual unity. If the propagation of a higher human
species is requisite to reach this goal, then its material con-62:1 ditions can only be permitted for the purpose of generating. The foetus must be kept mentally pure and the 62:3 period of gestation have the sanctity of virginity.
The entire education of children should be such as to
form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, 62:6 with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease.
Inheritance heeded
If parents create in their babes a desire for incessant 62:9 amusement, to be always fed, rocked, tossed, or talked
to, those parents should not, in after years,
complain of their children’s fretfulness or fri-62:12 volity, which the parents themselves have occasioned.
Taking less “thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or
what ye shall drink”; less thought “for your body what 62:15 ye shall put on,” will do much more for the health of the
rising generation than you dream. Children should be
allowed to remain children in knowledge, and should 62:18 become men and women only through growth in the
understanding of man’s higher nature.
The Mind creative
We must not attribute more and more intelligence 62:21 to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and
healthy. The divine Mind, which forms the
bud and blossom, will care for the human 62:24 body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal interfere with God’s government by thrusting in the laws of
erring, human concepts.
Superior law of Soul
62:27 The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower;
if it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed.
Our false views of life hide eternal harmony, 62:30 and produce the ills of which we complain.
Because mortals believe in material laws and reject the
Science of Mind, this does not make materiality first and 63:1 the superior law of Soul last. You would never think
that flannel was better for warding off pulmonary disease 63:3 than the controlling Mind, if you understood the Science
of being.
Spiritual origin
In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beauti-63:6 ful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is
not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor
does he pass through material conditions prior 63:9 to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the
law of his being.
The
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