TestimonyTestimony
Testimony from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
p. 669
"Glad to get away from my own poor thoughts, I opened the "little book" and began to read. I had read only a short time when such a wonderful transformation took place! I was renewed; born again. Mere words cannot tell the story of the mighty up-lifting that carried me to the very gates of heaven. When I began to read the book, life was a burden, but before I had finished reading it the first time, I was doing all my housework and doing it easily; and since that glorious day I have been a well woman. My health is splendid, and I am striving to let my light so shine that others may be led to the truth. There have been some mighty struggles with error, and I have learned that we cannot reach heaven with one long stride or easily drift inside the gate, but that the "asking" and the "seeking" and the "knocking" must be earnest and persistent.
For a long time I was always looking back to see if the error had gone, until one day when I realized that to catch a glimpse of what spiritual sense means I must put corporeal sense behind me. I then set to work in earnest to find the true way. I opened Science and Health and these words were before me, "If God were understood, instead of being merely believed, this understanding would establish health" (p. 203). I saw that I must get the right understanding of God! I closed the book and with head bowed in prayer I waited with longing intensity for some answer. How long I waited I do not know, but suddenly, like a wonderful burst of sunlight after a storm, came clearly this thought, "Be still, and know that I am God." I held my breath - deep into my hungering thought sank the infinite meaning of that "I." All self-conceit, egotism, selfishness, everything that constitutes the mortal "I," sank abashed out of sight. I trod, as it were, on holy ground. Words are inadequate to convey the fullness of that spiritual uplifting, but others who have had similar experiences will understand.
From that hour I have had an intelligent consciousness of the ever-presence of an infinite God who is only good."
Please
consider this:
Imagine watching God look at Himself in the mirror...He beholds, by
reflection, His Majesty, His Glory, His Infinite Perfection. Now watch
as He declares: "I am Spirit!" Observe the reflection...is
it trying to say, "I am a spiritual idea", "I am one
with Spirit, or even "I am the effect of Spirit"?? OR, is
His Reflection ONLY capable of reflecting His Self-expression - "I
am Spirit"?!
Is there one Mind to say "I am Cause", and another mind to say, "I am effect"?
There has only been a false impression that "man" is a "thinker", "speaker", "seeker". "I, of mine own self, can do nothing." (Notice, no qualifications NOT "some", no - thing. "Man is THAT WHICH - (not "he who") has no quality underived from Deity."(S&H 475:19-20)