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Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.
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The phrase, Science of being, is always spelt with a capital S for Science because it is God's Science, and with a little b for being, because, you might say, it is our being. (The textbook always reserves the capitalized letter for God and the uncapitalized for man as the activity of God.) If Science is the truth of our being and all comes from God, this is the Science of our being God's Being. God's Being is our very being. This is a long chapter full of beautiful details of how the divine comes with Christ power to illuminate, and to transform, and to redeem all the details of our human sense of being. It finishes with thirty-two numbered sections, called "the platform." Mrs Eddy introduces this by saying, "When the following platform is understood and the letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated" (330:8). The word platform is derived from two words, plat and form, and plat is an interweaving. So the platform offers us interwoven spiritual precepts about the nature of God, the nature of Christ, the nature of the human, and the resolving of the problem of evil. This therefore must be something on which we can safely stand. ~ DISSOLVING BARRIERS, The Healing Work of Christian Science by John L. MorganSHOW ALL
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1 | 155 | 330 | The requirement to successfully demonstrate divine metaphysics |
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Introduction to the Platform - MBESI | When the following platform is understood and the 9 letter and the spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated. | |
2 | 156 | 330 | Platform Plank 1: The deific supremacy | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The deific supremacy | I. God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or 12 Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man. Eye hath neither seen God nor His image and The deific likeness. Neither God nor the perfect man supremacy 15 can be discerned by the material senses. The individ- uality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, and thus a knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or to the 18 revelation of divine Science. SHOW ALL |
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3 | 157 | 330 | Platform Plank 2: The deific definitions | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The deific definitions | II. God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine 21 Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and The deific Mind is not both good and bad, for God is definitions Mind; therefore there is in reality one Mind only, be- 24 cause there is one God. SHOW ALL |
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4 | 158 | 330 | Platform Plank 3: Evil obsolete | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Evil obsolete | III. The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. 27 Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. Evil As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, obsolete nothing claiming to be something, — for lust, dishonesty, 30 selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes. SHOW ALL |
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5 | 159 | 331 | Platform Plank 4: Life the creator | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Life the creator | 1 IV. God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its 3 shadow. If life were in mortal man or mate- Life the rial things, it would be subject to their limi- creator tations and would end in death. Life is Mind, the creator 6 reflected in His creations. If He dwelt within what He creates, God would not be reflected but absorbed, and the Science of being would be forever lost through a mortal 9 sense, which falsely testifies to a beginning and an end. SHOW ALL |
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6 | 160 | 331 | Platform Plank 5: Allness of Spirit | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Allness of Spirit | V. The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From 12 this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas. The Allness of Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit. Spirit 15 Therefore in Spirit all is harmony, and there can be no discord; all is Life, and there is no death. Everything in God's universe expresses Him. SHOW ALL |
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7 | 161 | 331 | Platform Plank 6: The universal cause | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The universal cause | 18 VI. God is individual, incorporeal. He is divine Prin- ciple, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence. He is all- The universal 21 inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real cause and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and in- 24 dividuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual. SHOW ALL |
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8 | 162 | 331 | Platform Plank 7: Divine trinity | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Divine trinity | VII. Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person 27 called God, — that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in Divine one, — the same in essence, though multi- trinity 30 form in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spirit- ual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essen- 1 tial nature of the infinite. They also indicate the divine Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God 3 to man and the universe. SHOW ALL |
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9 | 163 | 332 | Platform Plank 8: Father-Mother | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Father-Mother | VIII. Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which in- dicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation. 6 As the apostle expressed it in words which he Father- quoted with approbation from a classic poet: Mother "For we are also His offspring." SHOW ALL |
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10 | 164 | 332 | Platform Plank 9: The Son of God | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The Son of God | 9 IX. Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speak- ing to the human consciousness. The Christ The Son 12 is incorporeal, spiritual, — yea, the divine of God image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and 15 casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death. As Paul says: "There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." The corporeal 18 man Jesus was human. SHOW ALL |
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11 | 165 | 332 | Platform Plank 10: Holy Ghost or Comforter | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Holy Ghost or Comforter | X. Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost 21 or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, or Comforter Love, and leading into all truth. | |
12 | 166 | 332 | Platform Plank 11: Christ Jesus | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Christ Jesus | XI. Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed 24 to speak God's word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand Christ as well as perceive. Mary's conception of Jesus 27 him was spiritual, for only purity could reflect Truth and Love, which were plainly incarnate in the good and pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest type of 30 divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age. Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence, 1 or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image. SHOW ALL |
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13 | 167 | 333 | Platform Plank 12: Messiah or Christ | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Messiah or Christ | 3 XII. The word Christ is not properly a synonym for Jesus, though it is commonly so used. Jesus was a human name, which belonged to him in common with Messiah 6 other Hebrew boys and men, for it is identical or Christ with the name Joshua, the renowned Hebrew leader. On the other hand, Christ is not a name so much as the divine 9 title of Jesus. Christ expresses God's spiritual, eternal nature. The name is synonymous with Messiah, and al- ludes to the spirituality which is taught, illustrated, and 12 demonstrated in the life of which Christ Jesus was the embodiment. The proper name of our Master in the Greek was Jesus the Christ; but Christ Jesus better sig- 15 nifies the Godlike. SHOW ALL |
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14 | 168 | 333 | Platform Plank 13: The divine Principle and idea |
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The divine Principle and idea | XIII. The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is 18 without beginning of years or end of days. The divine Throughout all generations both before and Principle after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spirit- and idea 21 ual idea, — the reflection of God, — has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets 24 caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love. The divine image, idea, or Christ was, is, and 27 ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God. Jesus referred to this unity of his spiritual identity thus: "Before Abraham was, I am;" "I and my Father are 30 one;" "My Father is greater than I." The one Spirit includes all identities. SHOW ALL |
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15 | 169 | 333 | Platform Plank 14: Spiritual oneness | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Spiritual oneness | XIV. By these sayings Jesus meant, not that the hu- 1 man Jesus was or is eternal, but that the divine idea or Christ was and is so and therefore antedated Abraham; 3 not that the corporeal Jesus was one with the Spiritual Father, but that the spiritual idea, Christ, oneness dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God, from 6 which it illumines heaven and earth; not that the Father is greater than Spirit, which is God, but greater, infinitely greater, than the fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was 9 brief. SHOW ALL |
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16 | 170 | 334 | Platform Plank 15: The Son’s duality | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The Sons duality | XV. The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a 12 bodily existence. This dual personality of the The Son's unseen and the seen, the spiritual and mate- duality rial, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest 15 in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in 18 the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes. SHOW ALL |
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17 | 171 | 334 | Platform Plank 16: Eternity of the Christ | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Eternity of the Christ | 21 XVI. This was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," — slain, that is, according to the testi- mony of the corporeal senses, but undying in Eternity of 24 the deific Mind. The Revelator represents the the Christ Son of man as saying (Revelation i. 17, 18): "I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead 27 [not understood]; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, [Science has explained me]." This is a mystical state- ment of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference 30 to the human sense of Jesus crucified. SHOW ALL |
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18 | 172 | 334 | Platform Plank 17: Infinite Spirit | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Infinite Spirit | XVII. Spirit being God, there is but one Spirit, for there can be but one infinite and therefore one God. 1 There are neither spirits many nor gods many. There is no evil in Spirit, because God is Spirit. The theory, 3 that Spirit is distinct from matter but must Infinite pass through it, or into it, to be individualized, Spirit would reduce God to dependency on matter, and establish 6 a basis for pantheism. SHOW ALL |
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19 | 173 | 335 | Platform Plank 18: The only substance | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The only substance | XVIII. Spirit, God, has created all in and of Him- self. Spirit never created matter. There is nothing in 9 Spirit out of which matter could be made, The only for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, substance the Aeon or Word of God, "was not anything made 12 that was made." Spirit is the only substance, the in- visible and indivisible infinite God. Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal 15 are insubstantial. SHOW ALL |
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20 | 174 | 335 | Platform Plank 19: Soul and Spirit one | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Soul and Spirit one | XIX. Soul and Spirit being one, God and Soul are one, and this one never included in a limited mind or a 18 limited body. Spirit is eternal, divine. Noth- Soul and ing but Spirit, Soul, can evolve Life, for Spirit Spirit one is more than all else. Because Soul is immortal, it does 21 not exist in mortality. Soul must be incorporeal to be Spirit, for Spirit is not finite. Only by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain the eternal unfolding of Life as 24 immortality brought to light. SHOW ALL |
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21 | 175 | 335 | Platform Plank 20: The one divine Mind | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The one divine Mind | XX. Mind is the divine Principle, Love, and can pro- duce nothing unlike the eternal Father-Mother, God. 27 Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, The one immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspirit- divine Mind ual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, 30 and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be contradictions of reality. SHOW ALL |
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22 | 176 | 335 | Platform Plank 21: The divine Ego | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The divine Ego | XXI. The Ego is deathless and limitless, for limits 1 would imply and impose ignorance. Mind is the I AM, or infinity. Mind never enters the finite. Intelligence 3 never passes into non-intelligence, or matter. The divine Good never enters into evil, the unlimited into Ego the limited, the eternal into the temporal, nor the im- 6 mortal into mortality. The divine Ego, or individuality, is reflected in all spiritual individuality from the infini- tesimal to the infinite. SHOW ALL |
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23 | 177 | 336 | Platform Plank 22: The real manhood | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The real manhood | 9 XXII. Immortal man was and is God's image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immor- tal man is coexistent and coeternal with that The real 12 Mind. He has been forever in the eternal manhood Mind, God; but infinite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man. The spiritual man's consciousness 15 and individuality are reflections of God. They are the emanations of Him who is Life, Truth, and Love. Im- mortal man is not and never was material, but always 18 spiritual and eternal.SHOW ALL |
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24 | 178 | 336 | Platform Plank 23: Indivisibility of the infinite | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Indivisibility of the infinite | XXIII. God is indivisible. A portion of God could not enter man; neither could God's fulness be reflected 21 by a single man, else God would be manifestly Indivisibility finite, lose the deific character, and become of the infinite less than God. Allness is the measure of the infinite, and 24 nothing less can express God. SHOW ALL |
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25 | 179 | 336 | Platform Plank 24: God the parent Mind | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
God the parent Mind | XXIV. God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God's likeness are inseparable, harmonious, and eternal. 27 The Science of being furnishes the rule of per- God the fection, and brings immortality to light. God parent Mind and man are not the same, but in the order of divine Sci- 30 ence, God and man coexist and are eternal. God is the parent Mind, and man is God's spiritual offspring. SHOW ALL |
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26 | 180 | 336 | Platform Plank 25: Man reflects the perfect God |
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Man reflects the perfect God | XXV. God is individual and personal in a scientific 1 sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense. Therefore man, reflecting God, cannot lose his individuality; but as 3 material sensation, or a soul in the body, blind Man reflects mortals do lose sight of spiritual individuality. the perfect Material personality is not realism; it is not God 6 the reflection or likeness of Spirit, the perfect God. Sen- sualism is not bliss, but bondage. For true happiness, man must harmonize with his Principle, divine Love; the 9 Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with Christ. According to divine Science, man is in a degree as perfect as the Mind that forms him. The truth of be- 12 ing makes man harmonious and immortal, while error is mortal and discordant. SHOW ALL |
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27 | 181 | 337 | Platform Plank 26: Purity the path to perfection |
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Purity the path to perfection | XXVI. Christian Science demonstrates that none but 15 the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel Purity the teaches. In proportion to his purity is man path to perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial perfection 18 being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life's spiritual ideal. SHOW ALL |
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28 | 182 | 337 | Platform Plank 27: True idea of man | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
True idea of man | XXVII. The true idea of man, as the reflection of the 21 invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses as is man's infinite Principle. The visible uni- True idea verse and material man are the poor counter- of man 24 feits of the invisible universe and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the 27 thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the oppo- site of the real or the spiritual and eternal. SHOW ALL |
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29 | 183 | 337 | Platform Plank 28: Truth demonstrated | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Truth demonstrated | XXVIII. Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule 30 of health and holiness in Christian Science, Truth and you ascertain that this Science is demon- demonstrated strably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no 1 other system can. Christian Science, rightly under- stood, leads to eternal harmony. It brings to light the 3 only living and true God and man as made in His like- ness; whereas the opposite belief — that man originates in matter and has beginning and end, that he is both 6 soul and body, both good and evil, both spiritual and material — terminates in discord and mortality, in the error which must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality 9 of material man proves that error has been ingrafted into the premises and conclusions of material and mortal humanity. SHOW ALL |
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30 | 184 | 338 | Platform Plank 29: Adam not ideal man | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Adam not ideal man | 12 XXIX. The word Adam is from the Hebrew adamah, signifying the red color of the ground, dust, nothingness. Divide the name Adam into two syllables, Adam not 15 and it reads, a dam, or obstruction. This ideal man suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind in solution. It further suggests the thought of that 18 "darkness . . . upon the face of the deep," when mat- ter or dust was deemed the agent of Deity in creating man, — when matter, as that which is accursed, stood 21 opposed to Spirit. Here a dam is not a mere play upon words; it stands for obstruction, error, even the sup- posed separation of man from God, and the obstacle 24 which the serpent, sin, would impose between man and his creator. The dissection and definition of words, aside from their metaphysical derivation, is not scien- 27 tific. Jehovah declared the ground was accursed; and from this ground, or matter, sprang Adam, notwith- standing God had blessed the earth "for man's sake." 30 From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was revealed in due time, and was known as Christ Jesus. SHOW ALL |
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31 | 185 | 339 | Platform Plank 30: Divine pardon | Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
Divine pardon | 1 XXX. The destruction of sin is the divine method of pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys 3 error, and Love destroys hate. Being de- Divine stroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness. pardon Does not God's pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy 6 and involve the final destruction of all sin? SHOW ALL |
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32 | 186 | 339 | Platform Plank 31: Evil not produced by God |
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Evil not produced by God | XXXI. Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it 9 good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, Evil not is unreal, and cannot be the product of God. produced by God A sinner can receive no encouragement from the fact that 12 Science demonstrates the unreality of evil, for the sinner would make a reality of sin, — would make that real which is unreal, and thus heap up "wrath against the 15 day of wrath." He is joining in a conspiracy against himself, — against his own awakening to the awful un- reality by which he has been deceived. Only those, who 18 repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the unreality of evil. SHOW ALL |
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33 | 187 | 339 | Platform Plank 32: Basis of health and immortality |
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Basis of health and immortality | XXXII. As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded 21 to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite Basis of gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, health and 24 sin to holiness, and God's kingdom comes "in immortality earth, as it is in heaven." The basis of all health, sin- lessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is 27 the only Mind; and this Mind must be not merely be- lieved, but it must be understood. To get rid of sin through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind 30 or reality, and never to admit that sin can have intelli- gence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose 1 their imaginary power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony 3 and God. SHOW ALL |
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34 | 188 | 340 | Love and keep His Commandments | Section 3 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please See below for complete Text Content of this SUBTITLE. |
The conclusion of the whole matter - MBESI | This text in the book of Ecclesiastes conveys the Christian Science thought, especially when the word 6 duty, which is not in the original, is omitted: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole 9 duty of man." In other words: Let us hear the con- clusion of the whole matter: love God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole of man in His 12 image and likeness. Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His love. SHOW ALL |
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35 | 189 | 340 | One God, one Mind fulfills “on earth as it is in heaven.” - MBESI |
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The foundation and superstructure of Christian Science - MBESI | 15 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus xx. 3.) The First Commandment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science. It inculcates the tri- 18 unity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that man shall have no other spirit or mind but God, eternal good, and that all men shall have one Mind. The divine Principle 21 of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con- 24 stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, "Love thy neighbor as thyself;" annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in 27 social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.SHOW ALL |