Core Concepts Flashcards
Oneness
ALL THERE IS, IS GOD.
God is the Source of all that is, and God is all that is. Everything in the Universe is a unique, individualized expression of God.
Each of us is an incarnation of the One Spirit, thus all life is inseparably One. Despite occasional feeling of separateness, this Oneness is irrevocable and eternal. It is WHO I AM. All humans are One with God, One with each other, and One with all Life, animate and inanimate.
Triune Nature
GOD EXPRESSES ITSELF IN THREE ASPECTS - SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY
God as Spirit is Universal Mind in the conscious mode. God as Spirit is Love, the Presence, Infinite Personhood: Self-knowing, spontaneous, originating, reasoning, directing, exercising will, volition, and choice.
God as Soul is Universal Mind in the subjective mode (i.e. Universal Subjective, sometimes called Universal Law or Creative Medium). Without volition of Its own, It manifests impersonally the directives implanted by Spirit.
God as Body is the physical universe and all the forms it contains. These have been called “the thought of God held as form.” Form is always an effect, never a cause.
Each human being also has these same three aspects.
Creative Process
THE THOUGHT OF GOD, ACTING THROUGH LAW, CONTINUOUSLY BRINGS FORTH FORM OUT OF THE UNFORMED.
God thinks, and the world comes into being. The Word, or thought, of God eternally initiates the Divine Creative Process. In this process Law is set in motion to create the thought-patterns of Spirit as form.
Likewise, all human thought is creative. Through my conscious thinking and subjective beliefs, I co-create the conditions of my life.
Prayer
PRAYER ACTIVATES THE FLOW OF GOOD.
All Good is eternally available and ready to flow into human experience. We activate this flow by means of prayer (faith, belief, acceptance).
Affirmative prayer, or spiritual mind treatment, is an effective way through which we increase our belief in and acceptance of the Universal Good eternally flowing to us.
Wholeness
ALL SEEMING OPPOSITES EXIST WITHIN THE ONE.
Spirit is a transcendent, perfect Whole that contains and embraces all seeming opposites.
As human beings, we have free will and can choose what we experience, whether it be positive or negative. What we call “evil” is not an entity or force of any kind. I am not punished for my mistakes of ignorance or negative behavior. But I must experience, through the impersonal action of the Law, the results of the choices I have made.
Abundance
THIS IS A UNIVERSE OF INFINITE ABUNDANCE.
All that anyone will ever need or desire is already provided by Universal Abundance.
This applies to everybody, not just some people. Every person is heir to the riches of Creation, without regard to merit.
Reciprocal Universe
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. WHAT WE SOW, WE REAP.
For every visible form there is an invisible counterpart. Nature tends to equalize itself.
This means that what we receive corresponds to what we imagine and believe we can receive, the Law of Mental Equivalents. This also is the Golden Rule: that what we do to others will be done also to us, the Law of Cause and Effect. Like attracts like.
Forgiveness
THE UNIVERSE EXISTS IN THE ETERNAL NOW; JUSTICE WITHOUT JUDGEMENT IS AUTOMATIC.
In the Eternal Now, there can be no place for Divine anger or punishment.
If we perceive a need for forgiveness, this is a human condition. Human forgiveness is the process that frees us to live in the Eternal Now. It is the essential step before real spiritual growth can flourish.
Immortality
MY ESSENCE IS ETERNAL.
The Universal Truth about life is that life never ends. What we call death is simply the changing of one form of life for another.
Death, the belief and perception that life must come to an end, is a human concept. As in birth the invisible becomes visible, so in dying the visible again becomes invisible. Life continues on another plane when the body has outlived its usefulness.
Christ Consciousness
I AM OF GOD.
Christ is not a person, but a Principle, a Universal Presence, the Universal Image of God that is present in all Creation.
Each human individual partakes of the Christ nature to the degree that he or she recognizes the Cosmic Christ within and lives out of that revelation.
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One third creates prayerful wholeness, abundantly reciprocating forgiving immortal Christ.
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