Hi, this is Marsha from Loveheals.us
Come study the platform with me from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy in the chapter called Science of Being, page 330. We’ll take one part of the platform each day for the next 32 days. We’ll read the words Mrs. Eddy has given us. Then, I’ll share with you some ideas that have come to me and then you get to share your ideas in the blog online in the comment area below.
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III. (Evil obsolete) The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming to be something, — for lust, dishonesty, selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes. S&H 330: 25
Marsha: Because God is ALL good, in fact goodness itself, and is the only power, this handles the insidious belief that evil could be real. Evil is nothing. It is a lie. Whether you call it devil, demon, Satan, talking serpent, Lucifer, or Red Dragon, it is a lie. That’s what Christ Jesus called it. And we must let it end. I like to use the acronym, L. I. E., which stands for “L. let, I. it, E. end”.
I love how Mrs.Eddy says, “God is filling all space, there’s no vaccums.” It really helps to know that good is surrounding us wherever we are.
Thank you, Maxine H., for making the following post…
“Thank you for doing this. I especially love the desert stream environment, with water, big rocks, and palm trees, for your Platform III talk on evil. Evil has no real power. Yay!”
Kenahora – no evil eye
Thank you to
Brooke N., for making the following post…
Thank you Marsha for sharing these platforms with us. The acronym LIE is a useful reminder that we all have God-given dominion to “stand porter at the door of thought” (S&H 392: 24).
The first mention of evil is in first geniuses “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” A place where the Knowledge of such a concept could be consumed. It becomes a choice. You can see the options and then choose what to eat; what we want to be apart of our consciousness. There is an idea that there can be evil cosmic events. And that such an event could rip a hole into the very matter that we stand on creating big rifts in the earth. But if we go to a beautiful river valley and are inspired by the wonder of Gods creation, you might have forgotten, or not known that this inspiration was the results of one of theses so called evil events. The evil here was short lived in cosmic evolution, and in fact never really existed except in our own perception. “Nothing calming to be something” is then easily destroyed by answering the question; did God create evil? To answer “NO!” is the anodyne to cleansing the false perception.
If something is obsolete, then it is no longer in use. Because evil is a condition of thought that is intentionally used, we have the choice not to use it or acknowledge that it has a place in any given situation. As a concept it exists, but because we choose to make it obsolete, it no longer has a place to reside in this conscious moment. And because it does not have a place in this moment it has no existence and is not pulpable. Therefore, because all we have is this moment, then it has no history or future and therefor no existence.