Money in these times
Did Jesus know the economy of man? Indeed, he did.
It was the economy of Truth and Love!
Live in Grace, Truth and Love, always,
Lucinda
Security & Safety
Can we say, ‘I live in a place of peace, in a space of security and safety?’
‘Yes, we can,’ for ‘We…live and move and have our being in Spirit, God’!
The very space you stand on is holy ground.
Grace be with you, always,
Lucinda
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy was an influential American author, teacher, and religious leader, noted for her groundbreaking ideas about spirituality and health, which she named Christian Science. She articulated those ideas in her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, first published in 1875.
Four years later she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which today has branch churches and societies around the world. In 1908 she launched The Christian Science Monitor, a leading international newspaper, the recipient, to date, of seven Pulitzer Prizes.
Mary Baker Eddy
Born on a farm in Bow, New Hampshire, she was the youngest of Mark and Abigail Baker’s six children. Her formal education was interrupted by periods of sickness, but when not in school she read and studied extensively at home, writing prose and poetry from an early age. Her parents sought help from physicians for her ailments, but the treatments brought only temporary relief. Raised in a deeply religious Congregational home, she rebelled against the Calvinist doctrine of predestination at an early age, and regularly turned to the Bible and prayer for hope and inspiration.
In December 1843, Mary Baker married a promising young building contractor, George Washington Glover, moving with him to the Carolinas. He died the following June, three months before the birth of their son, George. She found shelter and support for herself and the boy back in her parents’ New Hampshire home until her mother’s death in late 1849. In 1850, still suffering from recurring bouts of illness and no longer having her mother’s help, she found she had no choice but to place George in the care of the family’s former nurse and her husband.
In 1853, Mary Baker Glover married Daniel Patterson, an itinerant dentist who proved to be unreliable and unfaithful. He abandoned her in 1866, and, after years of living apart, she divorced him in 1873 on grounds of desertion.
Struggling with chronic illness compounded by personal loss, Mary Patterson was preoccupied with questions of health. Like many in her day, she avoided the harsh treatments of conventional nineteenth-century medicine and its dangerous side effects. She sought relief in various alternative treatments of the day, from diets to hydropathy (water cure). During Patterson’s long absences, she studied homeopathy in depth and became intrigued by its emphasis on diluting drugs to the point where they all but disappear from the remedy. At one point, she experimented with unmedicated pellets (now known as placebos) and concluded that a patient’s belief plays a powerful role in the healing process. While investigating such new cures, she continued to seek comfort and insights in the Bible, still drawn by the healing record contained in its pages.
In 1862, as the Civil War raged, Mary Patterson sought help from Phineas Quimby, a popular healer in Portland, Maine. Her health initially improved radically under his treatment, which included a combination of mental suggestion and what might now be called therapeutic touch, but she soon suffered a relapse. She returned to Quimby not only for treatment but also to learn more about his approach. Thinking that he had rediscovered Jesus’ healing method, she spent hours discussing and exchanging ideas with him. In time, she concluded that Quimby’s technique depended largely on his vigorous personality and his training in hypnosis rather than on some divine principle, which she sensed lay behind Jesus’ healing work.
A turning point occurred in 1866 when a severe fall on an icy sidewalk left her in bed in critical condition. Quimby had died just one month earlier so she could not turn to him for help. She asked for her Bible and, while reading an account of Jesus’ healing, found herself suddenly well. Eventually, she referred to this as the moment she discovered Christian Science.
Mary Patterson could not explain to others what had happened, but she knew it was the result of what she had read in the Bible. Her conviction grew in the coming weeks and months as setbacks were met with even stronger proofs of spiritual healing. This led to nine years of intensive scriptural study, healing activity, and teaching, culminating in the publication of Science and Health in 1875. In this book she marked out what she understood to be the “science” behind Jesus’ healing method. As she saw it, his works were divinely natural, and repeatable.
Over the years Mary Baker Eddy taught her system of healing to hundreds of women and men who in turn established successful healing practices across the United States and abroad. In 1877 she married one of her students, Asa Gilbert Eddy, who gave her unflinching support and the name by which she became best known. He died in 1882.
Disappointed that existing Christian churches would not embrace her discovery, Eddy started her own. In 1879 she secured a charter for the Church of Christ, Scientist, established “to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” Two years later, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught her classes until 1889, when she closed the institution to focus on a major revision of Science and Health.
As teacher, author, and preacher, Mary Baker Eddy was leader of the burgeoning Christian Science movement. In 1888, a reading room for her writings and other publications opened in Boston. In 1894, Boston-area Christian Scientists moved into their own first church edifice (The Mother Church), built under Eddy’s direction. In 1895 she published a church manual, establishing guidelines that are followed to this day. It is in this slim volume that she made provisions for a lay ministry in Christian Science churches around the world, with locally elected readers who read a weekly “Bible Lesson-Sermon” of passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Eddy went on to found The Christian Science Publishing Society in 1898, which became the publishing home for numerous publications launched by her and her followers.
It is of note that Mary Baker Eddy made her discovery of Christian Science mid-way through her long life, at a time when women could not vote and were generally barred from pulpits, seminaries, and the medical profession. She continued her work until her last days. It was at age 87, responding to “yellow” journalism (the tabloid news of her day), that she started The Christian Science Monitor, designed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.”
Mary Baker Eddy passed away on December 3, 1910. She was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By that time, her church was growing nationally and internationally, and her best-selling book was in the process of being translated for the first time (into German). Hundreds of tributes appeared in newspapers around the world, including The Boston Globe, which wrote, “She did a wonderful—an extraordinary work in the world and there is no doubt that she was a powerful influence for good.”
The Infinite Way
The Infinite Way is a spiritual teaching of universal principles introduced to the world by the internationally recognized mystic and spiritual teacher, Joel S. Goldsmith.
In 1948, Mr. Goldsmith published a book containing these principles which, he called The Infinite Way. Soon after its publication, groups of students began to arrive asking for classes about the message contained in the book. This was the beginning of what was to be a worldwide ministry. For the rest of his life, Goldsmith traveled the world teaching others the spiritual reality underlying these principles and a higher, more harmonious way of life.
At the heart of the Infinite Way message is the premise there is a living presence within every person, an inherent spirituality, which is the substance and source of their life. Through practice and with dedication, this living presence can be experienced directly and vividly. Goldsmith taught his students that the experience – that which he called the “realization of oneness” – is not a one-time event, rather an unfolding “infinite way” of life, where any individual, regardless of age, religion or circumstance, may come into his or her natural life of clarity, harmony, love and freedom. As he writes in the introduction to The Infinite Way,
“Be assured inner peace will come as one turns to the spiritual consciousness of life, and an outer calm will follow in one’s human affairs. The outer world will conform to the inner awareness of Truth. … The authority for all of this revelation will be you – as you yourself experience this change within and without.”
Though Mr. Goldsmith was adamant that the Infinite Way never be organized with a set of rules or a charter, today, growing numbers of individuals and groups around the world continue to study and practice the principles embodied in the message.
The Infinite Way Study Group
meets in Eureka Springs
every Sunday at 11:30 am.
For more information email Lucinda
Joel S. Goldsmith
Joel S. Goldsmith, an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, is recognized as the leading figure in bringing mysticism to the Western world in the 20 th and 21 st centuries. Today, authors and lecturers from all walks of life consider Goldsmith a key influence of their own spiritual growth, including The Secret’s, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, who uses Joel S. Goldsmith’s books as course material in his Spiritual Foundation Classes. Following are quotes by others:
“A new generation of mature seekers, receptive to spiritual truth, is now discovering Joel Goldsmith’s teaching’s, which have lost none of their relevance, aliveness and power. I foresee that those teachings will reach and impact even more people in the 21st century than during his lifetime.
Joel Goldsmith’s inspired and profoundly inspiring books represent a vital contribution to the spiritual awakening of humanity.”- Eckhart Tolle Author of: The Power of Now
“I have an 8×10 picture of Joel Goldsmith on my writing table. I feel his presence with me everyday - I consider Joel to be one of my most important teachers. His wisdom guides me in all of my work.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer Author of: The Power of Intention
“Joel Goldsmith has opened a door in my soul. He has helped me immeasurably in my search for peace.”
- Marianne Williamson Author of The Gift of Change
Mr. Goldsmith taught the principles that are contained in the New Testament, but presented them in a way that revealed their inner secret. The core of his work was dedicated to spiritual healing, the nature of error and meditation. His message was clear – the quest for the Holy Grail, for enlightenment or ultimate fulfillment, was to be found, through commitment and dedication, within ones own Self.
Joel S. Goldsmith, author of The Infinite Way
Goldsmith was born in New York City on March 10, 1892. As a young man, he left school before graduating, and traveled the world, practicing principles that brought him a successful business career. Struck by his observations during his journeys, seeing man’s inhumanity to man and the ravages of poverty and injustice in the cities of the world, he began to search for the reasons man has to suffer and fear, to war and die.
A pivotal moment in his life occurred when, as a young man, he visited a Christian Science practitioner and received an instantaneous healing of an illness. From that time, Goldsmith dedicated his life to seeking the principles underlying that healing. This was the beginning of what was to be a long and fruitful healing practice and spiritual ministry, years in which he immersed himself in a deep study of the scriptures of the world.
In 1948, Mr. Goldsmith wrote a book he called The Infinite Way. He felt this book was the culmination of his long career of teaching and healing and after its publication he prepared to retire and lead a life of contemplation. The message in this book, however, was explosive and soon individuals and then groups of individuals were coming to Goldsmith’s doorstep asking for instruction. This led to talks and classes given to small groups in his home. Soon, larger rooms had to be obtained to accommodate the many who were coming to learn more about this revolutionary message of enlightenment. And so Goldsmith, continuing his active healing practice, now added lecturing and teaching classes to his “retirement”, a spiritual journey which was to take him around the world many times over. Mr. Goldsmith never advertised, organized, or promoted his work, but within his eighteen years of presenting this message, he sold millions of books to hundreds of thousands of readers and students around the world. His spiritual teachings are also contained in hundreds of hours of recorded class and lecture work. He passed away in London in 1964.