SOUL

expressed by:
Beauty

Art
Music
Dance

Poetry
Prose

Nature,
and more...

Question. -- What are body and Soul?

Answer. – Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.  Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter.  Soul can never reflect anything inferior to Spirit.

Man is the expression of Soul.  The Indians caught some glimpses of the underlying reality, when they called a certain lake ‘the smile of the great Spirit.‘    

--Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key

to the Scriptures, p 477—




Wait patiently for divine Love [Soul] to move upon
the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.
Patience must "have her perfect work."
--Science and Health, p. 454--

Water calm, dark caves’ recesses,

Solemn light and mountain peaks,

Strange how this our soul addresses

And with awesome import speaks.

Nature thus herself has shown,

Sensed by artist’s eye alone.

--Goethe--

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

 --Seneca—

The 

recipe for beauty is to have less illusion 

and more Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 247—

Great wisdom is generous; 

petty wisdom contentious.  

Great speech is impassioned,

small speech cantankerous. 

–Chuang-Tzu—

There is moral freedom in Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 58—

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable… . 

–Socrates—

miniature painting (late 1980) -- Canadian Geese-- by Eva-Maira Hogrefe


The divine Mind is the Soul of man, 
and gives man dominion over all things.  
Science and Health, p. 307--

ink-drawing with white crayon on brown paper -- ARTIST (in the 1970) -- by Eva-Maria Hogrefe

Humor:

An artist, who had an exhibit in a gallery, was present to answer questions about his work.  A man standing in front of one of his big canvases, titled “Lamb grazing,” asked, “Where is the grass?”  The artist replied, “The lamb has eaten it.”  “But,” said the man, “Where is the lamb?” The artist, “Would you stay around after you had eaten all the grass?”

Soul has infinite resources

with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, 

if sought in Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 60—

Some lessons from nature --

Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature.   Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, -- all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity.  Sun and planets teach grand lessons.  The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally toward the lights.

--Science and Health, p. 240—

A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music 

he teaches in order to show the learner the way 

by practice as well as precept.

--S&H, p. 26—

Mozart experienced more than he expressed.  The rapture of his grandest symphonies was never heard.  He was a musician beyond what the world knew.  This was even more strikingly true of Beethoven, who was so long hopelessly deaf. 

Mental melodies and strains of sweetest music supersede conscious sound.  Music is the rhythm of head and heart.  Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine.

--Science and Health, p. 213--

Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed by its Principle, furnishes food for thought.  Through astronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics, thought passes naturally 

from effect back to cause.

--Science and Health, p. 195—

--painting by Grant King ...

architect, artist, and enthusiastic fisherman.  He taught me how to catch a sand-shark 

@ the beach in Del Mar, California.  Grant & Emma were dear friends of mine.  One day, Grant showed me how to throw a fish line.  He then said, "Come, throw the line."  I did.  Somehow I managed doing it right, and an obliging hungry sand shark took the bait.  Dangling outside of my open car window, 
the shark and I drove home.  
It was the first and last time I went fishing.  O not to forget, yes, Emma, Grant, and I, we continued to be the best of friends.

Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penmanship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can all be taken from pictorial thought and memory as readily as from objects cognizable by the senses.  Mortal mind sees what it believes as certainly as it believes what it sees.  It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts.  Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas.  So is it with all material conceptions.  Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought.

--Science and Health, p. 86--

Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes.  

It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, 

and the power of expressing them.

The influence or action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.  Science and Health, p. 89--

True idealism is a divine Science, which combines in logical sequences, nature, reason, and revelation.  An effect without a cause is inconceivable.

--Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 217—

“We see our purpose clearly and fulfill it as we use every opportunity that presents itself to express such God-like qualities as alertness, honesty, poise, intelligence, love, and strength.  These qualities, steadily put into practice, reveal the tangible presence of infinite harmony.  We feel more peace and dominion.  This is the result of spiritual growth, which leads naturally to success in our activities – be it in school or on the job.  The torment of uncertainty and fear of failure disappear.

“Anxiety and doubt are impositions obscuring our view of God’s purpose for us.  …Such feelings merely call attention to the presences of spiritual solutions.  They make it a necessity to be on the lookout for the good that flows from the source of all good – God.”

--An excerpt from an article, Certainty of Purpose, by Eva-Maria Hogrefe, C. S.,

published in the Christian Science Sentinel,

September 25, 1995—

Climbing Rose

As my doings

--serene or slow or speedy—

begin with God,

                                    the healing Christ-idea

appears,

                                    to move me to pasture lushly green

(for my expectation is of Thee).

Oh radiant sweetness,

blessed Prince of peace,

by now I know with humble certainty,

God rejoices over me.

-Eva-Maria--