Moral Chemicalization

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Something which is emphasized, in both A Course in Miracles and Christian Science, is the difference in believing and understanding. Perceptions influence what we see and feel, so we do our best to see with purer eyes — divine Mind’s eyes, God’s eyes. I know that we are each the center of our own universe, and I regularly make an effort to see past my belief bubble. For instance, today I decided to listen to a presidential press conference with ears of innocence, as though I knew nothing of current events. If what I heard was all I knew, it could sound very nice. And I allowed that to happen. But then I pondered the points the pretty lady had made, and allowed a different story to play out in my thoughts. As I sit in my living room, watching my cat sleep, knowing my children are happy, listening to calm music accompanying beautiful tropical birds, I send Love to anyone who needs to feel it, to everyone willing to receive it. No exceptions. And I see a world of safety and comfort …

“Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.

“As this consummation draws nearer, he who has shaped his course in accordance with divine Science will endure to the end. As material knowledge diminishes and spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be apprehended mentally instead of materially.

“During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 96:21-4

“The ego analyzes; the Holy Spirit accepts. The appreciation of wholeness comes only through acceptance, for to analyze means to break down or to separate out. The attempt to understand totality by breaking it down is clearly the characteristically contradictory approach of the ego to everything. The ego believes that power, understanding and truth lie in separation, and to establish this belief it must attack. Unaware that the belief cannot be established, and obsessed with the conviction that separation is salvation, the ego attacks everything it perceives by breaking it into small, disconnected parts, without meaningful relationships and therefore without meaning. The ego will always substitute chaos for meaning, for if separation is salvation, harmony is threat.”
A Course in Miracles T-11.V.13:1-6