Help with high goals

In the section titled "God - Not Human Devices - the Preserver of Man" (Christian Science versus Pantheism p 4) Mrs. Eddy, for me, equates pantheism simply with matter.

Moving forward to the section titled "Scientific Christianity Means One God": how about the “four first rules” page 9! Here I quote from line 8 ((numbers added)–

Is there a religion under the sun that hath demonstrated one God and the four first rules pertaining thereto, namely --

1.      "Thou shalt have no other gods before me";

2.      "Love thy neighbor as thyself";

3.      "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect";

4.      "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." (John xi. 26.)

It would seem impossible for mortals to live up to those rules; and of course, mortals cannot. But this is our goal in working out our own salvation in Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes the value of a high goal when she says, “The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures  426:5-8).

I love this phrase from Science and Health “But mortals did need this help…”. It is always helpful to quote Mrs. Eddy in full. This passage is part of a remarkable paragraph with many lessons to attend to -page 494:5-9:

Is it not a species of infidelity to believe that so great a work as the Messiah’s was done for himself or for God, who needed no help from Jesus’ example to preserve the eternal harmony?  But mortals did need this help, and Jesus pointed the way for them.  Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.  It is not well to imagine that Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number or for a limited period of time, since to all mankind and in every hour, divine Love supplies all good.

In my recent nightly reading of S&H’s chapter Science of Being, I found a helpful reference to pantheism:

Pantheism, starting from a material sense of God, seeks cause in effect, Principle in its idea, and life and intelligence in matter. (279:30)

The evening I came to that I had a healing brought about mostly, I think, by paying attention to the first thought that came to mind, “You do not have to think of a cause for this.”  I say, “came to mind,” but in reality it “came from Mind.”  It sometimes takes a while for me to realize that I do not come up with such truths; they come from Mind to Mind’s idea, man.

Joyce Voysey