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Love—The Antidote for Tyranny / Christian Science Sentinel

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Deep, unselfed spiritual love counteracts effectively the tyranny of mortal mind. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, speaking in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures of the time when mankind will understand God and His incorporeality, states: "Religion will then be of the heart and not of the head. Mankind will no longer be tyrannical and proscriptive from lack of love,—straining out gnats and swallowing camels." Science and Health, p. 140: A large proportion of the heartache and disease among mankind today is based on some form of tyranny: the tyranny of one person under the influence of the carnal mind over another or a group, the tyranny of one nation over another, the tyranny of evil over good, the tyranny of immorality and lust over purity, and on and on. Love—spiritual love—is the answer. Mortal mind cannot tyrannize when love is lived. The tyranny of ignorance causes many a heartache and much hopelessness. The individual reflection of Love refreshes, stimulates, energizes, inspires, strengthens.

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Love is the liberator [!] SH 225.21

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You can be fearless / Christian Science Sentinel

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There’s more reported anxiety and outright fear today attributed to increased access to news. While headlines that are skewed to the dramatic don’t help, we also don’t have to be held hostage by fear—from the news or anything else.

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As I prayed for Goma, DRC, acknowledging the fact that “as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme”, it came clear to me how the Bible story in this weeks lesson on Love about Elisha and the Syrian army is a perfect statement of truth for Goma, DRC.

The Syrian’s appeared to be aggressively in control of the place that Elisha and his servant were dwelling and yet when they were physically surrounded, Elisha stated the real facts of the situation “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.”II Kings: 8. So it is for the good folks in Goma, DRC- they that be with them (the angels of God,) are more than the aggressors.

Also , when the army of Syria and the aggressive situation had been neutralized there was no further aggression, revenge, or violence, only the power of Love was in control. The Syrian’s needs were met ( fed from a “great provision”) and sent home. Order was restored, ideas of God were all in their right places and peace prevailed.

All that really exists is divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal.

SH 151: 26-28

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Enable us to know, As in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

Open his eyes that he may see [us, them on both sides of the border]

Just as last weeks Bible lesson was clearly focused on the needs of that week, this one is on today's call.

I love that the attackers were moved by spiritual seeing back home, cared for, nourished and restored to rightful authority.

This is the day the Lord hath made. We live in none other.

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One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 340:23)

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Goma is where all the refugees from the Rwanda Civil War went because they had refugee camps there, but after the end of the Rwanda civil war, Rwanda made great progress towards peace and reconciliation. The Christian Science church and the CS college organization (CSO) grew rapidly there. This sounds more like a rebel group and not the Rwanda army.

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

(Psalms 139:7–11)

“ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.”
(Psalms 46:1–11)

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Evil is not supreme; good is not helpless; nor are the so-called laws of matter primary, and the law of Spirit secondary.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 207:10–13)