“Life” includes only harmony
Mary Baker Eddy a pioneering thinker and author wrote something that really got me to thinking. It’s from her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Harmony in man is as real and immortal as in music. Discord is unreal and mortal.”
This points to a major misconception of life that we tend to carry around and just accept. When we think of music, we don’t ever think of discordant music, right? That would be an oxymoron “discordant music.” There is no such thing. If sounds are discordant or lack harmony we would never think of that as music. We wouldn’t even think of it as bad music. It doesn’t have anything to do with music.
Well, the same should be thought about life, except that we’ve been educated differently. We think that life includes concord AND discord, that it is a mix. This goes back to the Adam and Eve story in the Bible where the serpent (liar) tempted them to take from this tree of false knowledge and they would then know good AND evil. That story is about what is not true.
As Mrs. Eddy discovered, wrote about and proved, life is harmony and vise versa. Anything inharmonious is not life and has nothing to do with life, any more than it does with music.
I’m sure it was being clear about this fact that allowed her to heal like Jesus did. We too can begin to make this paradigm shift in our thought about life and heal spiritually. Thinking this way is key to helping me to heal.
When we think about any aspect of life it should include harmony. If it doesn’t, it is not really life, but rather a false mortal sense of life that can’t rule us.
