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Study
Topics
For
more information on the teachings of Christian
Science, explore the following study
topics:
Angels
Animal
Magnetism
Baptism
The
Bible
CS
vs. Evolution and
Creationism
Christ
Jesus
Death
Devil
God
Heaven
Hell
Holy
Ghost
Marriage
Mortals
and Immortals
The
New Tongue
Purity
Salvation
The
Term "Science"
"Science
and Health"
Stages
of Advancement
The
Tenets of Christian
Science
The
Trinity
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An Introduction to Christian
Science
ANGELS
References
for Study
The following passages are from the Bible (King
James Version) and the Christian Science textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Psalms
91:9-12
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my
refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There
shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his
angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest
thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Science
and Health, p. 581:4
ANGELS. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual
intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of
goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting
all evil, sensuality, and mortality.
Science
and Health, p. 298:25-17
Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving
animal qualities in their wings; but they are
celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not
material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from
God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what
their individualism may be. Human conjecture
confers upon angels its own forms of thought,
marked with superstitious outlines, making them
human creatures with suggestive feathers; but this
is only fancy. It has behind it no more reality
than has the sculptor's thought when he carves his
"Statue of Liberty," which embodies his conception
of an unseen quality or condition, but which has no
physical antecedent reality save in the artist's
own observation and "chambers of imagery."
My
angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door
of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried
its fondest earthly hopes. With white fingers they
point upward to a new and glorified trust, to
higher ideals of life and its joys. Angels are
God's representatives. These upward-soaring beings
never lead towards self, sin, or materiality, but
guide to the divine Principle of all good, whither
every real individuality, image, or likeness of
God, gathers. By giving earnest heed to these
spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we
entertain "angels unawares."
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