The Great and Only “I AM”
Hymn 378
We turn to Thee, O Lord,
And sing in sweet accord;
We would Thy beauty see,
Lifting our lives to Thee,
Thou art God.
Our hearts redeemed from strife,
And comforted in grief,
Healing and joy are ours,
Blessings of peaceful hours,
Thou art Life.
O God, we bless Thy name,
Thy wondrous power acclaim,
Lord, Thy salvation strong,
Now is become our song,
Great I AM.
THE HOLY BIBLE
Rev. 1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Isa. 45:5, 9, 11
I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. . . . Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? . . . . Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, . . .I have made the earth, and created man upon it.
Isa. 44:8-10
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Dan. 4:4-5, 19, 24-25, 28-30, 33-37
I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Then Daniel . . . answered and said. … This is the interpretation, . . : they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? … The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.
Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 23:13, 14
He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me.
Prov. 8:10, 14, 34
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Isa. 55:8-11
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isa. 43:10-11
Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no savior.
Isa. 51:11-13
I am he that comforteth you.
Ex. 3:10
God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Ex. 6:6
I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments.
Ex. 20:3, 4, 5
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image . . . .Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.
Ex 15:26
For I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Jer. 46:11
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
Jer. 30:17
I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.
Ps. 46:1-2, 10
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Matt. 19:1-2, 16, 17
Jesus departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. One came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
John 5:19, 30
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. NLT: The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing.
John 9:1, 7-8, 10, 25, 32-33
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. … And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, . .. How were thine eyes opened? He answered and said. . . one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. . . . Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Isa 45:22
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Mark Baker Eddy
SH 587:5
God. The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal. . . .
SH 588:20-21
I Am. God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine Principle; the only Ego.
SH 275:6-12, 14-15, 17
The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle. To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.
SH 142:28-31
God being All-in-all, He made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been matter, which departs from the nature and character of Mind, God.
SH 276:1-4
Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of Scripture, “I am the Lord that healeth thee,” and “I have found a ransom.”
SH 186: 28-30, 32
Mortal mind is ignorant of self, or it could never be self-deceived. . . . Since it must believe in something besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity. The human mind has been an idolater from the beginning, having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind.
SH 468:9-11
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.
SH 218:9
The body is supposed to say, “I am ill.” The reports of sickness may form a coalition with the reports of sin, and say, “I am malice, lust, appetite, envy, hate.” What renders both sin and sickness difficult of cure is, that the human mind is the sinner, disinclined to self-correction, and believing that the body can be sick independently of mortal mind and that the divine Mind has no jurisdiction over the body.
SH 307:31
Above error’s awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: “Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?” Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind governing man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the beginning, and will hide from the demand, “Where art thou?” This awful demand, “Adam, where art thou?” is met by the admission from the head, heart, stomach, blood, nerves, etc.: “Lo, here I am, looking for happiness and life in the body, but finding only an illusion, a blending of false claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and death.”
SH 210:25-28
What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say, “I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well.” It is the so-called mortal mind which voices this and appears to itself to make good its claim.
SH 194:6-13
If mortal mind says, “I am deaf and blind,” it will be so without an injured nerve.
SH 430:17-28; 431:21 (only), 22, 25-26, 29; 432:1-2, 7
Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried in court. A man is charged with having committed liver-complaint. The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences. The evidence for the prosecution being called for, a witness testifies thus: — I am Coated Tongue. . . .Morbid Secretion hypnotized the prisoner and took control of his mind, making him despondent. Another witness takes the stand and testifies: — I am Sallow Skin. I practise daily ablutions and perform my functions as usual, but I am robbed of my good looks. The next witness testifies: — I am Nerve, . .. I convey messages from my residence in matter, alias brain, to body.
SH 436:20-21
It was Fear who handcuffed Mortal Man and would now punish him.
SH 433:31-1
Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free.
SH 437:8; 438:25
At the bar of Truth, in the presence of divine Justice, before the Judge of our higher tribunal, the Supreme Court of Spirit, and before its jurors, the Spiritual Senses, I proclaim this witness, Nerve, to be destitute of intelligence and truth and to be a false witness. When the Court of Truth summoned Furred Tongue for examination, he disappeared and was never heard of more.
SH 441:33-1; 442:3, 5-8
We have no trials for sickness before the tribunal of divine Spirit. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.
SH 391:18-26
When the body is supposed to say, “I am sick,” never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind which speaks; therefore meet the intimation with a protest. If you say, “I am sick,” you plead guilty. Then your adversary will deliver you to the judge (mortal mind), and the judge will sentence you. Disease has no intelligence to declare itself something and announce its name. Mortal mind alone sentences itself.
SH 397:12-22
When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, “I am hurt!” Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real. Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be.
SH 427:14-16, 29-3
Nothing can interfere with the harmony of being nor end the existence of man in Science. The dream of death must be mastered by Mind here or hereafter. Thought will waken from its own material declaration, “I am dead,” to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, “There is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.” Life is real, and death is the illusion.
SH 290:1-2
Life is the everlasting I am, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.
SH 267:10-11
The great I am made all “that was made.”
SH 252:15-20, 24-28, 31
The false evidence of material sense contrasts strikingly with the testimony of Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice with the arrogance of reality and says: I am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. The world is my kingdom. I am enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. But a touch, an accident, the law of God, may at any moment annihilate my peace, for all my fancied joys are fatal.
Spirit, bearing opposite testimony, saith: I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the infinite understanding, for I am Infinity. The beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable glory, — all are Mine, for I am God. I give immortality to man, for I am Truth. I include and impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give life, without beginning and without end, for I am Life. I am supreme and give all, for I am Mind. I am the substance of all, because I am that I am.
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Hymn 267
Our God is All-in-all,
His children cannot fear;
See baseless evil fall,
And know that God is here.
Our God is All; in space
No subtle error creeps;
We see Truth’s glowing face,
And Love that never sleeps.
We see creative Mind,
The Principle, the Life;
And Soul and substance find,
But never discord, strife.
O, Perfect and Divine,
We hear Thy loving call,
And seek no earthly shrine
But crown Thee Lord of all.
Hymn 444 – Supplement
I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
I girded thee, I girded thee,
Though thou hast not even known Me.
But know that from the rising sun
To the west there is none beside Me,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
I am the Truth, there is none else;
There is no Truth beside Me.
Infinite light, bountiful, bright,
Is ever present to guide thee.
Beloved and free, eternally,
Perfect peace and joy I provide thee,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.
Innocent one, sinless and pure,
Nothing can ever divide thee.
Governed by Love, you’re safe and secure;
I am forever beside thee.
So rest and know wher-e’er you go,
Home and heav’n cannot be denied thee,
For I am the Lord, there is none else;
There is no God beside Me.