God of creation and Lord of my soul

Be to me ever my One and my All.

Your presence surrounds me by day and by night;

While waking or sleeping, I live in Your light.

You are my wisdom and You are my wealth,

You are my substance, my joy, and my health,

My Father and Mother, my haven of peace,

My comfort, my healer, my place of release.

Is. 54:5 (NLT)

Your Creator will be your husband; . . . the God of all the earth.

Jer. 31:3

I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

John 14:15; 15:9-10

Jesus said, “If you love me, obey my commandments. . . . I have loved you even as the Fathr has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.”

John 1:29

John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world

Matt. 22:1-3, 8

Jesus . . . said, The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come! And he said to his servants, The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor.

Rev. 2:1, 2, 4

The Message to the Church in Ephesus. I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. . . . But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!

Jer. 3:1, 2, 14 (KJV)

You have prostituted yourself with many lovers. . . . Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? Return home, you wayward children,” says the Lord, for I am married unto you.”

I John 2:15-17

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

Jer. 31:31-34

The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

Is. 54: 6-8, 10

The Lord has called you back from your grief—as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,”says your God. With great compassion I will take you back. . . . with everlasting love I will have compassion on you . For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

Is. 62:5

God will rejoice over you as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

Luke 5:17, 18, 20, 25

One day while Jesus was teaching, . . . Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.” . . .. “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” And immediately, as everyone watched, the man jumped up, picked up his mat, and went home praising God.

John 10:30

Jesus said, The Father and I are one.

John 17:1, 10-11, 16, 20-21, 23

After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, . . . All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me. . . . [P]rotect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. They do not belong to this world any more than I do. “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. . . . May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.

Rev. 21:1-6, 9-10, 22-25, 27

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. . . . . And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “They will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. . . . To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come with me! I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” So he took me in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light. The nations will walk in its light, and . . . Its gates will never be closed at the end of day because there is no night there. Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Rev. 21:1-2 [KJV]

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, … and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

SH 61:30-31

The scientific morale of marriage is spiritual unity.

SH 64:17 Marriage (only)

Marriage should signify a union of hearts.

SH 9:17

Dost thou “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”? This command includes much, even the surrender of all merely material sensation, affection, and worship. This is the El Dorado of Christianity. It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the divine control of Spirit, in which Soul is our master, and material sense and human will have no place.

SH 18:3-5

Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man’s oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage.

SH 588:11-15

EGO. . . . There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle.

SH 516:21-23

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

SH 57:4-5, 8-10

Union of the masculine and feminine qualities constitutes completeness. These different elements conjoin naturally with each other, and their true harmony is in spiritual oneness.

SH 124:25-26 (to 1st .)

Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things.

SH 102:9

There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind.

SH 536:11-16

If man’s spiritual gravitation and attraction to one Father, in whom we “live, and move, and have our being,” should be lost, and if man should be governed by corporeality instead of divine Principle, by body instead of by Soul, man would be annihilated.

SH 470:32

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.

SH 564:12-16

The Revelator speaks of Jesus as the Lamb of God and of the dragon as warring against innocence. Since Jesus must have been tempted in all points, he, the immaculate, met and conquered sin in every form.

SH 590:9-10

Lamb of God. The spiritual idea of Love; self-immolation; innocence and purity; sacrifice.

SH 51:28

Jesus was unselfish. His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead.

SH 52:4

His affections were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.

SH 459:3-8

Paul and John had a clear apprehension that, as mortal man achieves no worldly honors except by sacrifice, so he must gain heavenly riches by forsaking all worldliness. Then he will have nothing in common with the worldling’s affections, motives, and aims.

SH 548:1

“The Spirit and the bride say, Come! . . . and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Christian Science separates error from truth, and breathes through the sacred pages the spiritual sense of life, substance, and intelligence. In this Science, we discover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony.

SH 64:18 (the)

The time cometh of which Jesus spake, when he declared that in the resurrection there should be no more marrying nor giving in marriage, but man would be as the angels. Then shall Soul rejoice in its own, in which passion has no part. Then white-robed purity will unite in one person masculine wisdom and feminine love, spiritual understanding and perpetual peace.

SH 561:8-21

The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision. Purity was the symbol of Life and Love. The Revelator saw also the spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love. To John, “the bride” and “the Lamb” represented the correlation of divine Principle and spiritual idea, God and His Christ, bringing harmony to earth.… In divine revelation, material and corporeal selfhood disappear, and the spiritual idea is understood.

SH 576:9-11, 14-15, 18-20, 31

[T]he beloved Disciple writes:– And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. ….The word temple also means body. ….What further indication need we of the real man’s incorporeality than this, that John saw heaven and earth with “no temple [body] therein”? This human sense of Deity yields to the divine sense, even as the material sense of personality yields to the incorporeal sense of God and man as the infinite Principle and infinite idea, — as one Father with His universal family, held in the gospel of Love. The Lamb’s wife presents the unity of male and female as no longer two wedded individuals, but as two individual natures in one; and this compounded spiritual individuality reflects God as Father-Mother, not as a corporeal being. In this divinely united spiritual consciousness, there is no impediment to eternal bliss, — to the perfectibility of God’s creation.

SH 574:5-9, 16-19, 27-3 (including the Marginal NOTE)

He writes, in Revelation xxi. 9: —And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love, carried John away in spirit. It exalted him till he became conscious of the spiritual facts of being and the “New Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven,” — the spiritual outpouring of bliss and glory, which he describes as the city which “lieth foursquare.” The beauty of this text is, that the sum total of human misery, represented by the seven angelic vials full of seven plagues, has full compensation in the law of Love. Note this, — that the very message, or swift-winged thought, which poured forth hatred and torment, brought also the experience which at last lifted the seer to behold the great city, the four equal sides of which were heaven-bestowed and heaven-bestowing.

[Spiritual Wedlock]

Think of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sackcloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft-winged dove descending upon you. The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares. Then cometh the marriage feast, for this revelation will destroy forever the physical plagues imposed by material sense. Then thought gently whispers: “Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb’s wife, — Love wedded to its own spiritual idea.”

Through pure love, God has commanded

Healing light to shine on earth.

And in our hearts there beams the same love—

Let the love of Christ shine bright.

Refrain:

Rise and shine, your light has come,

God the everlasting sun.

Christ has given us this light

Radiate God’s glory.

Jesus’ grace revealed God’s goodness,

Giving hope to al lthe world

Love is the light that burns within us—

Let the life of Christ shine bright.

Refrain

God has made us in Love’s image,

Perfect Christ-like, pure and free.

We all reflect this strength and power—

Let the mind of Christ shine bright.

Refrain

Refrain

Love the Lord thy God:

Love is staff and rod

For heart and soul and mind.

In this command forever strong,

To silence thoughts of wrong

All laws fulfillment find.

Here we rest content:

Good from God is sent

Where seeds of Love are sown.

Who as himself his neighbor loves,

By constant purpose proves

His neighbor’s good his own.