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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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Christian Science Versus Spiritualism

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Derivatives of spirit

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The impossibility of Spirit being both finite and infinite

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finite, infinite, Spirit, Supreme Being, quantity and quality, derivative

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Infinite Spirit, God cannot be contained in a finite form

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     The belief that Spirit is finite as well as infinite has darkened all history. In Christian Science, Spirit, as a proper noun, is the name of the Supreme Being. It means quantity and quality, and applies exclusively to God. The modifying derivatives of the word spirit refer only to quality, not to God. Man is spiritual. He is not God, Spirit. If man were Spirit, then men would be spirits, gods. Finite spirit would be mortal, and this is the error embodied in the belief that the infinite can be contained in the finite. This belief tends to becloud our apprehension of the kingdom of heaven and of the reign of harmony in the Science of being.