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The purpose of the Questions & Answers section is for me to give specific answers to your personal questions from a metaphysical point of view. This could include questions about well being, work, community, social life, commerce, home, parenting, health and relationships.

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14th Mar 2010
Question: How can I best serve God ?. P M A England.

Answer: S&H 52:1
From early boyhood he was about his "Father's business." His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His master was Spirit; their master was matter. He served God; they served mammon. His affections were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.

S&H 346:29
Material beliefs must be expelled to make room for spiritual understanding. We cannot serve both God and mammon at the same time; but is not this what frail mortals are trying to do? Paul says: "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh." Who is ready to admit this?

S&H 14:1
If we are sensibly with the body and regard omnipotence as a corporeal, material person, whose ear we would gain, we are not "absent from the body" and "present with the Lord" in the demonstration of Spirit. We cannot "serve two masters." To be "present with the Lord" is to have, not mere emotional ecstasy or faith, but the actual demonstration and understanding of Life as revealed in Christian Science. To be "with the Lord" is to be in obedience to the law of God, to be absolutely governed by divine Love,--by Spirit, not by matter.

Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

John 12:26
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Have a wonderful adventure.


13th Mar 2010
Question: Can you explain, "Diety, which outlines but is not outlined" ?. M Mc United States

Answer:
S&H 591:16
MIND.The only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined.


S&H 248:12
The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your life-work, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models.

S&H 298:25
Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be. Human conjecture confers upon angels its own forms of thought, marked with superstitious outlines, making them human creatures with suggestive feathers; but this is only fancy. It has behind it no more reality than has the sculptor's thought when he carves his "Statue of Liberty," which embodies his conception of an unseen quality or condition, but which has no physical antecedent reality save in the artist's own observation and "chambers of imagery."

Have a wonderful adventure.


13th Mar 2010
Question: How do I claim my perfection ? . M E England.

Answer: " Every time you declare you are perfect in God there goes through the body an health giving power.
When you realize this truth of Truth that you are now (not shall be) perfect in God, without a single doubt, wonderful changes will come to pass; but let me urge you however difficult it may seem to declare that all is right, deny all physical suffering, say times without number that you are perfect, joyful, triumphant; say often God is my strenth, my life, my health, my understanding.
You have dominion in Him over the world, the flesh, the devil and dominion that is omnipotent. You cannot be overthrown for He is not only omnipotent but omnipresent. your life is in Him, no power can bind you. God is the only Life, Spirit is the only substance, Love is the only cause, Harmony is the only law. Now is the only time ".

Mary Baker Eddy.
The Christian Science Journal 1883.

S&H 463:5
Teacher and student should also be familiar with the obstetrics taught by this Science. To attend properly the birth of the new child, or divine idea, you should so detach mortal thought from its material conceptions, that the birth will be natural and safe. Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive. The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying. When this new birth takes place, the Christian Science infant is born of the Spirit, born of God, and can cause the mother no more suffering. By this we know that Truth is here and has fulfilled its perfect work.

Have a wonderful adventure.


12th Mar 2010
Question: How close is God to me ?. W M C Germany

Answer: Claim--Claim--Claim.

I'm not concerned about anything, because I am included in God's majestic plan.

My will,
Be still.
Let go the thrill
Of I and my and me,
Await God's plan,
Of greater span
Than mine could ever be.

Wonderful things are happening every nanosecond,NOW!

Admiral Grace Hopper (Nanosecond).

She famously handed out foot-long lenths of wire to students to illustrate how far an electrical signal can travel in a nanosecond.

A billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a 1 followed by 12 zeros.

A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one millionth of a second.

That is how close God is to YOU!


11th Mar 2010
Question: Please can you explain the basic principles of Christian Science and how does it work? A M United Kingdom.

Answer: The basic principle of Christian Science is that God is All.
We all need to work from the consciousness of the first commandment. "Thou shalt have no other God's before me."

This Science works by CLAIMING, CLAIMING, CLAIMING.

Who ?.

Why ?.

What we are ?.

In creation of The King James Bible it says

Gen 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

S&H 259:15
If man was once perfect but has now lost his perfection, then mortals have never beheld in man the reflex image of God. The lost image is no image. The true likeness cannot be lost in divine reflection. Understanding this, Jesus said: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

Ret 59:18
Christian Science reveals Mind, the only living and true God, and all that is made by Him, Mind, as harmonious, immortal, and spiritual: the five material senses define Mind and matter as distinct, but mutually dependent, each on the other, for intelligence and existence. Science defines man as immortal, as coexistent and coeternal with God, as made in His own image and likeness; material sense defines life as something apart from God, beginning and ending, and man as very far from the divine likeness. Science reveals Life as a complete sphere, as eternal, self-existent Mind; material sense defines life as a broken sphere, as organized matter, and mind as something separate from God. Science reveals Spirit as All, averring that there is nothing beside God; material sense says that matter, His antipode, is something besides God. Material sense adds that the divine Spirit created matter, and that matter and evil are as real as Spirit and good.

Have a wonderful adventure.



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