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Mary Baker Eddy

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1875 & 1910 Textbooks

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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed.

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Science and Health

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Recapitulation

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Mind - What is Mind?

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QA 10 of 24, true sense of infinitude, the sole governor, the divine standard of perfection, indestructible relationship, celestial evidence, The power to destroy founded in the understanding that Mind is infinite, The power derived from that God, Mind is all, The eternal standard of perfection founded in one infinite wholly good Mind termed God, The unbreakable unity of God and man, Error, the unlikeness of Truth, the evidence of the five physical senses is to be rejected and the facts of divine Science to be admitted

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QA 10 of 24. The subtitles for this question are listed below. 

1. Question. — What is Mind?
2. Infinitude - True sense of infinitude
3. Governor - The sole governor
4. Perfection - The divine standard of perfection
5. Relationship - Indestructible relationship
6. Evidence - Celestial evidence

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12 Question. — What is Mind?

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12 Question. — What is Mind?
Answer. — Mind is God. The exterminator of error
is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and
15 that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind True sense of
— called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not infinitude
Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There
18 can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and
if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other,
sin would be unknown. We can have but one Mind, if
21 that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude,
when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a
place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all
24 space is filled with God.
We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when
after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and
27 has all-power, we still believe there is another The sole
power, named evil. This belief that there governor
is more than one mind is as pernicious to divine theology
30 as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With
1 one Father, even God, the whole family of man would
be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good,
3 the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth,
and have unity... of Principle and spiritual power which
constitute divine Science. The supposed existence of
6 more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This
error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the
spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an
9 unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and
universal.
Divine Science explains the abstract statement that
12 there is one Mind by the following self-evident propo-
sition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the The divine
unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can standard of
15 only seem to be real by giving reality to the perfection
unreal. The children of God have but one Mind. How
can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man,
18 never sins? The standard of perfection was originally
God and man. Has God taken down His own standard,
and has man fallen?
21 God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle
of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection,
man, remains perfect. Man is the expression Indestructible
24 of God's being. If there ever was a moment relationship
when man did not express the divine perfec-
tion, then there was a moment when man did not express
27 God, and consequently a time when Deity was unex-
pressed — that is, without entity. If man has lost per-
fection, then he has lost his perfect Principle, the divine
30 Mind. If man ever existed without this perfect Principle
or Mind, then man's existence was a myth.
6 The unlikeness of Truth, — named error, — the op-
posite of Science, and the evidence before the five cor-
poreal senses, afford no indication of the grand Celestial
9 facts of being; even as these so-called senses evidence
receive no intimation of the earth's motions or of the
science of astronomy, but yield assent to astronomical
12 propositions on the authority of natural science.
The facts of divine Science should be admitted, —
although the evidence as to these facts is not supported
15 by evil, by matter, or by material sense, — because the
evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by
spiritual sense. Man is, and forever has been, God's re-
18 flection. God is infinite, therefore ever present, and
there is no other power nor presence. Hence the spirit-
uality of the universe is the only fact of creation. "Let
21 God be true, but every [material] man a liar."
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