In SCIENCE AND HEALTH, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science rose high into the transcendental realm of spiritual reality. Here are some quotes from Eddy that have influenced me because of the potential the practical applications of her principles to real life situations:

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, the day is filled with blessings

Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, divine, and eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be a contradiction of reality.

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite mind, spirit, soul, principle, life, truth, and love. Furthermore, it is one absolute God that expresses the nature, essence, and wholeness of Deity. Among the attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, and goodness.

In her interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer, God is Mother-Father.

Divine Love has and will meet every human need.

Studying the works of the Western mystic and spiritual healer Joel S. Goldsmith has deepened my awareness of spiritual reality. In the Chapter, “The New Horizon”, in his book The Infinite Way he writes:

Understand fully that suggestion, belief, or hypnotism is the substance, or fabric of the whole mortal universe, and that human conditions of both good and evil are dream pictures having no reality or permanence. Be willing for the harmonious as well as the inharmonious conditions of mortal existence to disappear from your experience in order that reality may be known and enjoyed and lived

Goldsmith concluded that sin, disease, lack, and limitation are unreal in that they are no part of reality, and that the real or reality is of Spirit, Soul, and God.

Thomas Hora, MD was an existential psychiatrist, the founder of Meta-Psychiatry. He was rooted in the traditions of the Bible, European philosophy, and Zen Buddhism. He was well read in the works of Goldsmith. In his understanding of his patients, he asked two valid questions: “What is the meaning of what seems to be?” and “What is what really is?”

For him, unreality involved invalid modes of living such as misdirected materialism, sensuality, intellectualism, and self-involvement. “What really is” is our true nature as manifestations of God’s infinite love-intelligence. Every moment of the day God is pouring out his love and intelligence to anyone who is perceptive enough to hear it. Our purpose is to glorify God and be a beneficial presence in the world. This leads to peace, assurance, gratitude and love. Hence, the name of the organization he founded is the PAGL Foundation.

In one of Hora’s essays, “What Is Good” in the book Dialogues In Metapsychiatry, he says:

What does Buddha see? By looking at a statue of the Buddha, it is easy to see what he beholds and knows. He sees beauty, he sees harmony, he sees joy, he knows freedom, he knows peace, he knows perfection, he knows wisdom, he knows compassion. He sees everything that is real, everything that really is. He beholds reality and he is a manifestation of the reality he beholds. We become what we really can behold; therefore, every time we can fully behold something of reality, be it ever so little, something good must happen, because reality is all good.

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