Page 28 of Miscellaneous Writings:
Speaking
of her favourite text, the First Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods
before me,” Mrs. Eddy says the commandment means, “Thou shalt recognise no intelligence
nor life in matter…”, which says to me that we can equate the commandment with
the Scientific Statement of Being which holds such a prominent position in
Christian Science and in our church’s Sunday services.
It
may be well to repeat that immortal paragraph here:
There
is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite
Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is
immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal;
matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image
and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. S&H 468:9
And
with Hymn 58, Joy. Father, we Thy loving children, the Notes give us a
wonderful note on Beethoven. Such joy it expresses! The opening
sentence is a delight: “The work of Beethoven (1770-1827) expresses for many
people the fullness of music, its glory, joy, beauty, tenderness, sorrow,
mirth, struggle, and victory.”
And when an intruder appeared, the not yet five year old, who
had never spoken before, blurted out something he had obviously heard from his
family: “No other gods before you” (p. 59).
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