Hymn 1 [Newest Supplement]

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 all the world

Love is the light that burns within us—

Let the life of Christ shine bright

We are one with God forever,

One with Love eternally—

A perfect bond that can’t be broken—

Let the truth of Christ shine bright

Matt. 5:2, 48 (NLT)

[Jesus] began to teach them. You are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Gen. 1:1-2, 27-28, 31 (KJV)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. . . . And the Spirit of God . . . . created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply. . . . God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

Ps. 18:30, 32-33(NLT)

God’s way is perfect. . . . God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect. He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.

Acts. 3:1-10, 12-13, (NLT)

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.), and a man who had been unable to walk from birth was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, so that he could beg alms from those entering the temple. So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking [them] for coins. . . But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have; but what I do have I give to you: In the name (authority, power) of Jesus Christ the Nazarene walk and go on walking!” . . . And at once his feet and ankles became strong and steady, and with a leap he stood up and began to walk; and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. All the people . . . were filled with wonder and amazement.

And Peter, seeing this, said to the people, “You men of Israel, why are you amazed at this. . . as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant and Son Jesus. . . . it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health and complete wholeness in your presence.

Deut. 32:3-4 (KJV)

Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Job 32:8 (KJV)

[T]here is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

I Cor 2:16 (KJV)

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Mark 5:1-8, 13 (NLT)

They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him . . . . For he had often been bound with shackles and with chains, and he tore apart the chains and broke the shackles into pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue and tame him. Night and day he was constantly screaming and shrieking among the tombs and on the mountains, and cutting himself with [sharp] stones. Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; and screaming with a loud voice, he said, “what business do we have in common with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me!” . .. [Jesus said,], “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” .. . And the unclean spirits came out. The herdsmen [tending the pigs] ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind.

Ex. 31:1, 3

And the Lord spake, . . . I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.

Phil 2:5 (KJV)

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Matt. 6:22 (KJV)

Mark 8:22-25 (NLT)

Then they came to Bethsaida; and some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged Him to touch him. Taking the blind man by the hand, He led him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he looked up and said, “I see people, but [they look] like trees, walking around.” Then again Jesus laid His hands on his eyes; . . . and [his sight] was [completely] restored, and he began to see everything clearly.

Heb. 7:19 (NLT)

[T]he law never made anything perfect. But now we have confidence in a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Eccl. 3:14 (NLT)

I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it.

Mark 5:22-24, 35-42 (NLT)

One of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up; and seeing Him, fell at His feet and begged anxiously with Him, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; [please] come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.” . . . While He was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue official’s house, saying [to Jairus], “Your daughter has died; why bother the Teacher any longer?” Overhearing what was being said, Jesus said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; only keep on believing.” . . . They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He looked at the uproar and commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing [in mourning]. . . . He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.” They began laughing [scornfully] at Him [because they knew the child was dead]. But He made them all go outside. . . .Taking the child’s hand, He said [tenderly] to her, “Talitha kum!”—which translated [from Aramaic] means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!” The little girl immediately got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And they [who witnessed the child’s resurrection] were overcome with great wonder and utter amazement.

Rom. 6:23 [NLT]

[T]he free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

I Pet 5:10 [KJV]

[T]he God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus . . . make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

SH 205:12-13

God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal.

SH 518:24-29

Genesis i. 31. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.

The divine Principle, or Spirit, comprehends and expresses all, and all must therefore be as perfect as the divine Principle is perfect.

SH 519:3

Deity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?

SH 115:15-16

Man: God’s spiritual idea, individual, perfect, eternal.

SH 475:6-13, 14-15, 19

Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. . . . He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; . . . that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.

SH 336:25-28, 30

God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God’s likeness are inseparable, harmonious, and eternal. The Science of being furnishes the rule of perfection, and brings immortality to light.. God is the parent Mind, and man is God’s spiritual offspring.

SH 247:15

Immortal men and women are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness which transcend all material sense.

SH 482:19-20

Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man.

SH 259:6-21

The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying. The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstration.

If man was once perfect but has now lost his perfection, then mortals have never beheld in man the reflex image of God. The lost image is no image. The true likeness cannot be lost in divine reflection. Understanding this, Jesus said: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

SH 258:19-30

The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.

Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him belongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate.

SH 260:13

Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one’s ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one’s wings and ensures failure at the outset.

SH 485:19

The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is perfect, even as the “Father which is in heaven is perfect.” If thought yields its dominion to other powers, it cannot outline on the body its own beautiful images, but it effaces them and delineates foreign agents, called disease and sin.

SH 292:10-12

A sinful, sick, and dying mortal is not the likeness of God, the perfect and eternal.

SH 168:15

Because man-made systems insist that man becomes sick and useless, suffers and dies, all in consonance with the laws of God, are we to believe it? Are we to believe an authority which denies God’s spiritual command relating to perfection, — an authority which Jesus proved to be false? He did the will of the Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called material law, but in accordance with God’s law, the law of Mind.

SH 209:1

Man, being immortal, has a perfect indestructible life. It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and diseased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or human will governs mortals.

SH 176:24-27, 31

One disease is no more real than another. All disease is the result of education, and disease can carry its ill-effects no farther than mortal mind maps out the way. Truth handles the most malignant contagion with perfect assurance.

SH 251:15-24

We must learn how mankind govern the body, — whether through faith in hygiene, in drugs, or in will-power. We should learn whether they govern the body through a belief in the necessity of sickness and death, sin and pardon, or govern it from the higher understanding that the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the so-called human mind through truth, leads the human mind to relinquish all error, to find the divine Mind to be the only Mind, and the healer of sin, disease, death.

SH 167:12-14

Drugs and hygiene cannot successfully usurp the place and power of the divine source of all health and perfection.

SH 248:8-18, 19-21,

Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb.

The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? …. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually.

SH 360:13 which

Which mind-picture or externalized thought shall be real to you, — the material or the spiritual? Both you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the real and the unreal.

SH 407:21

If delusion says, “I have lost my memory,” contradict it. No faculty of Mind is lost. In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.

SH 493:28-2

If Jesus awakened Lazarus from the dream, illusion, of death, this proved that the Christ could improve on a false sense. Who dares to doubt this consummate test of the power and willingness of divine Mind to hold man forever intact in his perfect state, and to govern man’s entire action

SH 428:22-26

The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal. We must hold forever the consciousness of existence, and sooner or later, through Christ and Christian Science, we must master sin and death.

SH 249:1-8

Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence.

Let the “male and female” of God’s creating appear. Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor material power as able to destroy.

SH 99:23-29

The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man.

Eternal Mind the Potter is,

And thought th’ eternal clay:

The hand that fashions is divine,

His works pass not away.

Man is the noblest work of God,

His beauty, power and grace,

Immortal; perfect as his Mind

Reflected face to face.

God could not make imperfect man

His model infinite;

Unhallowed thought He could not plan,

Love’s work and Love must fit.

Life, Truth and Love the pattern make,

Christ is the perfect heir;

The clouds of sense roll back, and show

The form divinely fair.

God’s will is done; His kingdom come;

The Potter’s work is plain.

The longing to be good and true

Has brought the light again.

And man does stand as God’s own child,

The image of His love.

Let gladness ring from every tongue,

And heaven and earth approve.

O Jesus, our dear Master,

Thy works, now understood,

Reveal their full effulgence

Through love and brotherhood.

Today Christ’s precious Science

Thy healing power makes plain:

With joy may all obey thee

And cast out sin and pain.

O Science, God-sent message

To tired humanity,

Thou art Love’s revelation

Of Truth that makes us free.

Thy kingdom, God, within us

Shows forth Love’s sweet control.

God’s idea, man, rejoices;

He knows the reign of Soul.