0.0 – Christian Science S&H with Key to the Scriptures – 1910 Edition – Subtitles

  	11   But I certify you, brethren,
  	       that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 
  	12   ...For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,
  	       but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. — Paul. 

  	33   The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,
  	       and hid in three measures of meal, ...till the whole was leavened. — Jesus. 

 1	    In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or
  	divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and	              ...          Christian
 3	named my discovery Christian Science. God	                Science
  	had been graciously preparing me during many	        discovered 
  	years for the reception of this final revelation of the ab-
 6	solute divine Principle of scientific mental healing. 

  	    This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of
  	Immanuel, "God with us," — the sovereign ever-pres-
 ...9	ence, delivering the children of men from	                  Mission of
  	every ill "that flesh is heir to." Through	                          Christian
  	Christian Science, religion and medicine are	                  Science 
12	inspired with a diviner nature and essence; fresh pinions
  	are given to faith and understanding, and thoughts ac-
  	quaint themselves intelligently with God. 

15	    Feeling so perpetually the false consciousness that life
  	inheres in the body, yet remembering that in	        ...             Discontent
  	reality God is our Life, we may well tremble	                     with life 
18	in the prospect of those days in which we must say, "I
  	have no pleasure in them." 
 1	    Whence came to me this heavenly conviction, — a con-
  	viction antagonistic to the testimony of the physical senses? 
 3	According to St. Paul, it was "the gift of the grace of
  	God given unto me by the effectual working of His power." 
  	It was the divine law of Life and Love, unfolding to me
 6	the demonstrable fact that matter possesses neither sen-
  	sation nor life; that human experiences show the falsity
  	of all material things; and that immortal cravings, "the
 9	price of learning love," establish the truism that the
  	only sufferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind cannot
  	suffer. 

12	    My conclusions were reached by allowing the evidence
  	of this revelation to multiply with mathematical certaint...y
  	and the lesser demonstration to prove the	                    Demonstrable
15	greater, as the product of three multiplied by	                    evidence 
  	three, equalling nine, proves conclusively that three times
  	three duodecillions must be nine duodecillions, — not
18	a fraction more, not a unit less. 

  	    When apparently near the confines of mortal existence,
  	standing already within the shadow of the death-valley,...
21	I learned these truths in divine Science: that                     Light shining
  	all real being is in God, the divine Mind, and	                   in darkness 
  	that Life, Truth, and Love are all-powerful and ever-
24	present; that the opposite of Truth, — called error, sin,
  	sickness, disease, death, — is the false testimony of false
  	material sense, of mind in matter; that this false sense
27	evolves, in belief, a subjective state of mortal mind which
  	this same so-called mind names matter, thereby shutting
  	out the true sense of Spirit. 

30	    My discovery, that erring, mortal, misnamed	             New lines
  	mind produces all the organism and action o...f	             of thought 
  	the mortal body, set my thoughts to work in new channels,
 1	and led up to my demonstration of the proposition that
  	Mind is All and matter is naught as the leading factor in
 3	Mind-science. 

  	    Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind
  	is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Min...d
 6	and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen	          Scientific
  	to be supported by sensible evidence, until its	          evidence 
  	divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and
 9	thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen,
  	no other conclusion can be reached. 

  	    For three years after my discovery, I sought the solu-
12	tion of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scr...ip-
  	tures and read little else, kept aloof from so-	                     Solitary
  	ciety, and devoted time and energies to dis-	                     research 
15	covering a positive rule. The search was sweet, calm, and
  	buoyant with hope, not selfish nor depressing. I knew
  	the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God,
18	and that cures were produced in primitive Christian
  	healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the
  	Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute
21	conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and dem-
  	onstration. The revelation of Truth in the understand-
  	ing came to me gradually and apparently through divine
24	power. When a new spiritual idea is borne to earth, the
  	prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled:
  	"Unto us a child is born, . . . and his name shall be
27	called Wonderful." 
  	    Jesus once said of his lessons: "My doctrine is not
  	mine, but His that sent me.  If any man will do His will,
30	he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
  	whether I speak of myself."  (John vii. 16, 17.) 

  	    The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omni-
1	presence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power,...
  	filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict
 3	forever the belief that matter can be actual. 	                 God's
  	These eternal verities reveal primeval exist-	                 allness
  	ence as the radiant reality of God's creation,	                 learned 
 6	in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wis-
  	dom good. 
  	    Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful
 9	unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought
  	to light another glorious proposition, — man's perfecti-
  	bility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on
12	earth. 

  	    In following these leadings of scientific revelation,
  	the Bible was my only textbook. The Scriptures were
15	i...llumined; reason and revelation were recon-	                  Scriptural
  	ciled, and afterwards the truth of Christian	                  foundations 
  	Science was demonstrated. No human pen nor tongue
18	taught me the Science contained in this book, SCIENCE
  	AND HEALTH; and neither tongue nor pen can over-
  	throw it. This book may be distorted by shallow criti-
21	cism or by careless or malicious students, and its ideas
  	may be temporarily abused and misrepresented; but the
  	Science and truth therein will forever remain to be dis-
24	cerned and demonstrated. 

  	    Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to
  	heal mortal minds and bodies. But this power was lost
2...7	sight of, and must again be spiritually dis-	                   The
  	cerned, taught, and demonstrated according	                   demonstration
  	to Christ's command, with "signs following." 	                   lost and found 
30	Its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe
  	on Christ and spiritually understand Truth. 

  	    No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of
1	agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or
  	mill...enarianism and the demonstrable truths of Chris-
 3	tian Science; and I find the will, or sensuous	              Mystical
  	reason of the human mind, to be opposed to	              antagonists 
  	the divine Mind as expressed through divine Science. 

6	    Christian Science is natural, but not physical. The
  	Science of God and man is no more supernatural than
  	is t...he science of numbers, though departing	                   Optical
 9	from the realm of the physical, as the Science	           illustration
  	of God, Spirit, must, some may deny its right to	           of Science 
  	the name of Science. The Principle of divine metaphysics
12	is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utiliza-
  	tion of the power of Truth over error; its rules demon-
  	strate its Science. Divine metaphysics reverses perverted
15	and physical hypotheses as to Deity, even as the ex-
  	planation of optics rejects the incidental or inverted
  	image and shows what this inverted image is meant to
18	represent. 

  	    A prize of one hundred pounds, offered in Oxford Uni-
  	versity, England, for the best essay on Natural Science,...
21	 — an essay calculated to offset the tendency of	          Pertinent
  	the age to attribute physical effects to physical	          proposal 
  	causes rather than to a final spiritual cause, — is one of
24	many incidents which show that Christian Science meets
  	a yearning of the human race for spirituality. 

  	    After a lengthy examination of my discovery and its
27	demonstration in healing the sick, this fact became evi-
 ... 	dent to me, — that Mind governs the body,	                Confirmatory
  	not partially but wholly. I submitted my	                        tests 
30	metaphysical system of treating disease to the broad-
  	est practical tests. Since then this system has gradually
  	gained ground, and has proved itself, whenever scien-
 1	tifically employed, to be the most effective curative agent
  	in medical practice. 

3	    Is there more than one school of Christian Science? 
  	Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, there-
  	fo...re, be but one method in its teaching. Those who de-
 6	part from this method forfeit their claims to	                     One school
  	belong to its school, and they become adher-	             of Truth 
  	ents of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some
 9	other school. By this is meant that they adopt and ad-
  	here to some particular system of human opinions. Al-
  	though these opinions may have occasional gleams of
12	divinity, borrowed from that truly divine Science which
  	eschews man-made systems, they nevertheless remain
  	wholly human in their origin and tendency and are not
15	scientifically Christian. 

  	    From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one
  	Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude...
18	come spiritual rules, laws, and their demon-	                  Unchanging
  	stration, which, like the great Giver, are "the	                  Principle 
  	same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;" for thus are
21	the divine Principle of healing and the Christ-idea charac-
  	terized in the epistle to the Hebrews. 

  	    Any theory of Christian Science, which departs from
24	what has already been stated and proved to be true, af-
  ...	fords no foundation upon which to establish	                   On sandy
  	a genuine school of this Science. Also, if any                    foundations 
27	so-called new school claims to be Christian Science, and
  	yet uses another author's discoveries without giving that
  	author proper credit, such a school is erroneous, for it
30	inculcates a breach of that divine commandment in the
  	Hebrew Decalogue, "Thou shalt not steal." 

  	    God is the Principle of divine metaphysics. As there
 1	is but one God, there can be but one divine Principle of
...  	all Science; and there must be fixed rules for the demon-
 3	stration of this divine Principle. The letter	                 Principle and
  	of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day,	         practice 
  	but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part,
 6	the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. With-
  	out this, the letter is but the dead body of Science, — 
  	pulseless, cold, inanimate. 

9	    The fundamental propositions of divine metaphysics
  	are summarized in the four following, to me, self-evident
  ...	propositions. Even if reversed, these proposi-	Reversible
12	tions will be found to agree in statement and	propositions 
  	proof, showing mathematically their exact relation to
  	Truth. De Quincey says mathematics has not a foot to
15	stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. 
  	    1.  God is All-in-all. 
  	    2.  God is good.  Good is Mind. 
18	    3.  God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 
  	    4.  Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin,
  	disease. — Disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, omnipo-
21	tent God, Life. 
  	    Which of the denials in proposition four is true? Both
  	are not, cannot be, true. According to the Scripture,
24	I find that God is true, "but every [mortal] man a
  	liar." 
  	    Which of the denials in proposition four is true? Both
  	are not, cannot be, true. According to the Scripture,
24	I find that God is true, "but every [mortal] man a
  	liar." 

  	    The divine metaphysics of Christian Science, like the
27	method in mathematics, proves the rule by inversion. 
  ...	For example: There is no pain in Truth, and	              Metaphysical
  	no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no	              inversions 
30	mind in nerve; no matter in Mind, and no mind in mat-
  	ter; no matter in Life, and no life in matter; no matter
  	in good, and no good in matter. 

1	    Usage classes both evil and good together as mind;
  	therefore, to be understood, the author calls sick and sin-
... 3	ful humanity mortal mind, — meaning by this	                   Definition of
  	term the flesh opposed to Spirit, the human	                   mortal mind 
  	mind and evil in contradistinction to the divine Mind, or
 6	Truth and good. The spiritually unscientific definition
  	of mind is based on the evidence of the physical senses,
  	which makes minds many and calls mind both human and
 9	divine. 
	    In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phe-
  	nomena, God and His thoughts. 

12	    Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an
  	improper use of the word mind. As Mind is immortal,
  	...the phrase mortal mind implies something un-	          Imperfect
15	true and therefore unreal; and as the phrase	                  terminology 
  	is used in teaching Christian Science, it is meant to
  	designate that which has no real existence. Indeed, if
18	a better word or phrase could be suggested, it would
  	be used; but in expressing the new tongue we must
  	sometimes recur to the old and imperfect, and the new
21	wine of the Spirit has to be poured into the old bottles of
  	the letter. 

  	    Christian Science explains all cause and effect as men-
24	tal, not physical. It lifts the veil of mystery from S...oul and
  	body. It shows the scientific relation of man	                 Causation
  	to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities	         mental 
27	of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought. In divine
  	Science, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmoni-
  	ous, and eternal. Science shows that what is termed mat-
30	ter is but the subjective state of what is termed by the
  	author mortal mind. 

  	    Apart from the usual opposition to everything new,
1	the one great obstacle to the reception of that spiritual-
 ... 	ity, through which the understanding of Mind-science
 3	comes, is the inadequacy of material terms for	Philological
  	metaphysical statements, and the consequent	inadequacy 
  	difficulty of so expressing metaphysical ideas as to make
 6	them comprehensible to any reader, who has not person-
  	ally demonstrated Christian Science as brought forth in
  	my discovery. Job says: "The ear trieth words, as the
 9	mouth tasteth meat." The great difficulty is to give the
  	right impression, when translating material terms back
  	into the original spiritual tongue. 

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12	SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF IMMORTAL MIND 

  	GOD: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love,                 ...            Divine
  	          Soul, Spirit, Mind.                                                       synonyms 
15	MAN: God's spiritual idea, individual, per-                           Divine
  	          fect, eternal.                                                               image 
  	IDEA: An image in Mind; the immediate                              Divine
18	          object of understanding. — Webster.                        reflection 


  	SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF MORTAL MIND 

  	First Degree: Depravity. 

21	PHYSICAL.  Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear,
  	          depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, de-         Unreality 
  	          ceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease,
24	          death. 

  	Second Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing. 

  	MORAL.  Humanity, honesty, affection, com-                      Transitional
27	          passion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance.           qualities 

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 1	Third Degree: Understanding. 

  	SPIRITUAL.  Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding,
 3	          spiritual power, love, health, holiness.                        Reality 

  	    In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as
  	God's image appears. Science so reverses the evidence
 6	before the corporeal human senses, as to make                 Spiritual
  	this Scriptural testimony true in our hearts,                          universe 
  	"The last shall be first, and the first last," so that God
 9	and His idea may be to us what divinity really is and
  	must of necessity be, — all-inclusive.

  	    A correct view of Christian Science and of its adapta-
12	tion to healing includes vastly more than is at first s...een. 
  	Works on metaphysics leave the grand point	                 Aim of
  	untouched. They never crown the power of	                 Science 
15	Mind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against
  	physical enemies, — even to the extinction of all belief in
  	matter, evil, disease, and death, — nor insist upon the fact
18	that God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an
  	image in mortal mind. 

  	    Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that
21	God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, — that is,	   ...         Divine
  	bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is	                    personality 
  	incorporeal. 
24	    As the words person and personal are commonly and
  	ignorantly employed, they often lead, when applied to
  	Deity, to confused and erroneous conceptions of divinity
27	and its distinction from humanity. If the term personality,
  	as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is
  	infinite Person, — in the sense of infinite personality, but
30	not in the lower sense. An infinite Mind in a finite form
  	is an absolute impossibility. 
1	    The term individuality is also open to objections, be-
  	cause an individual may be one of a series, one of many,
 3	as an individual man, an individual horse; whereas God
  	is One, — not one of a series, but one alone and without
  	an equal. 

6	    God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must
  	be, and is, spiritual. Christian Science attaches no physi...-
  	cal nature and significance to the Supreme	                  Spiritual
 9	Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do	                  language 
  	this. God's essential language is spoken of in the last
  	chapter of Mark's Gospel as the new tongue, the spir-
12	itual meaning of which is attained through "signs
  	following." 

  	    Ear hath not heard, nor hath lip spoken, the pure lan-
15	guage of Spirit. Our Master taught spirituality by simi...li-
  	tudes and parables. As a divine student he	               The miracles
  	unfolded God to man, illustrating and demon-	       of Jesus 
18	strating Life and Truth in himself and by his power over
  	the sick and sinning. Human theories are inadequate to
  	interpret the divine Principle involved in the miracles
21	(marvels) wrought by Jesus and especially in his mighty,
  	crowning, unparalleled, and triumphant exit from the
  	flesh. 

24	    Evidence drawn from the five physical senses relates
  	solely to human reason; and because of opaci-	           ...Opacity of
  	ty to the true light, human reason dimly re-	                   the senses 
27	flects and feebly transmits Jesus' works and words. Truth
  	is a revelation. 

  	    Jesus bade his disciples beware of the leaven of the
30	Pharisees and of the Sadducees, which he de-	           L...eaven
  	fined as human doctrines. His parable of the	                   of Truth 
  	"leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures
 1	of meal, till the whole was leavened," impels the infer-
  	ence that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of Christ
 3	and its spiritual interpretation, — an inference far above
  	the merely ecclesiastical and formal applications of the
  	illustration. 
 6	    Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy,
  	foretelling the second appearing in the flesh of the
  	Christ, Truth, hidden in sacred secrecy from the visi-
 9	ble world? 
  	    Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It
  	must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally
12	glorified in man's spiritual freedom. 

  	    In their spiritual significance, Science, Theology, and
  	Medicine are means of divine thought, which include sp...irit-
15	ual laws emanating from the invisible and in-	                     The divine
  	finite power and grace. The parable may	                     and human
  	import that these spiritual laws, perverted by                       contrasted 
18	a perverse material sense of law, are metaphysically pre-
  	sented as three measures of meal, — that is, three modes
  	of mortal thought. In all mortal forms of thought, dust
21	is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and
  	modes of material motion are honored with the name of
  	laws. This continues until the leaven of Spirit changes
24	the whole of mortal thought, as yeast changes the chemical
  	properties of meal. 

  	    The definitions of material law, as given by natural
27	science, represent a kingdom necessarily divided against
...  	itself, because these definitions portray law as	            Certain
  	physical, not spiritual. Therefore they con-	                    contradictions 
30	tradict the divine decrees and violate the law of Love, in
  	which nature and God are one and the natural order of
  	heaven comes down to earth. 

 1	    When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, — 
  	that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we...
 3	cannot really endow matter with what it does	                   Unescapable
  	not and cannot possess, — we disown the Al-	           dilemma 
  	mighty, for such theories lead to one of two things. They
 6	either presuppose the self-evolution and self-government
  	of matter, or else they assume that matter is the product
  	of Spirit. To seize the first horn of this dilemma and con-
 9	sider matter as a power in and of itself, is to leave the cre-
  	ator out of His own universe; while to grasp the other
  	horn of the dilemma and regard God as the creator of
12	matter, is not only to make Him responsible for all disas-
  	ters, physical and moral, but to announce Him as their
  	source, thereby making Him guilty of maintaining perpet-
15	ual misrule in the form and under the name of natural
  	law. 

  	    In one sense God is identical with nature, but this na-
18	ture is spiritual and is not expressed in matter. The ...law-
  	giver, whose lightning palsies or prostrates in	          God and
  	death the child at prayer, is not the divine ideal	          nature 
21	of omnipresent Love. God is natural good, and is repre-
  	sented only by the idea of goodness; while evil should be
  	regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature
24	of Spirit, God. 

  	    In viewing the sunrise, one finds that it contradicts
  	the evidence before the senses to believe that the earth...
27	is in motion and the sun at rest. As astron-	                   The sun
  	omy reverses the human perception of the	                   and Soul 
  	movement of the solar system, so Christian Science re-
30	verses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes
  	body tributary to Mind. Thus it is with man, who
  	is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it
 1	seems otherwise to finite sense. But we shall never under-
  	stand this while we admit that soul is in body or mind in
 3	matter, and that man is included in non-intelligence. 
  	Soul, or Spirit, is God, unchangeable and eternal; and
  	man coexists with and reflects Soul, God, for man is God's
 6	image. 

  	    Science reverses the false testimony of the physical
  	senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the funda-...
 9	mental facts of being. Then the question in-	                  Reversal of
  	evitably arises: Is a man sick if the material	                  testimony 
  	senses indicate that he is in good health? No! for matter
12	can make no conditions for man. And is he well if the
  	senses say he is sick? Yes, he is well in Science in which
  	health is normal and disease is abnormal. 

15	    Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor
  	can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the s...ub-
  	ject of health. The Science of Mind-healing	                     Health and
18	shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind	                     the senses 
  	to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. There-
  	fore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi-
21	mony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously
  	existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and
  	thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows
24	false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic. 
  	    Any conclusion pro or con, deduced from supposed sen-
  	sation in matter or from matter's supposed consciousness
27	of health or disease, instead of reversing the testimony of
  	the physical senses, confirms that testimony as legitimate
  	and so leads to disease. 

30	    When Columbus gave freer breath to the	                  Historic
  	globe, ignorance and superstition chained th...e	          illustrations 
  	limbs of the brave old navigator, and disgrace and star-
 1	vation stared him in the face; but sterner still would have
  	been his fate, if his discovery had undermined the favor-
 3	ite inclinations of a sensuous philosophy. 
  	    Copernicus mapped out the stellar system, and before
  	he spake, astrography was chaotic, and the heavenly fields
 6	were incorrectly explored. 

  	    The Chaldean Wisemen read in the stars the fate of
  	empires and the fortunes of men. Though no higher
 9	revela...tion than the horoscope was to them dis-	      Perennial
  	played upon the empyrean, earth and heaven	      beauty 
  	were bright, and bird and blossom were glad in God's
12	perennial and happy sunshine, golden with Truth. So
  	we have goodness and beauty to gladden the heart; but
  	man, left to the hypotheses of material sense unexplained
15	by Science, is as the wandering comet or the desolate
  	star — "a weary searcher for a viewless home." 

  	    The earth's diurnal rotation is invisible to the physical
18	eye, and the sun seems to move from east to west, in...stead
  	of the earth from west to east. Until rebuked	                       Astronomic
  	by clearer views of the everlasting facts, this	                       unfoldings 
21	false testimony of the eye deluded the judgment and in-
  	duced false conclusions. Science shows appearances often
  	to be erroneous, and corrects these errors by the simple
24	rule that the greater controls the lesser. The sun is the
  	central stillness, so far as our solar system is concerned,
  	and the earth revolves about the sun once a year, besides
27	turning daily on its own axis. 
  	    As thus indicated, astronomical order imitates the
  	action of divine Principle; and the universe, the reflec-
30	tion of God, is thus brought nearer the spiritual fact, and
  	is allied to divine Science as displayed in the everlasting
  	government of the universe. 

 1	    The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the
  	real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discor...d, — 
 3	assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and	              Opposing
  	death; but the great facts of Life, rightly un-	                      testimony 
  	derstood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false
 6	witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven, — the actual
  	reign of harmony on earth. The material senses' re-
  	versal of the Science of Soul was practically exposed nine-
 9	teen hundred years ago by the demonstrations of Jesus;
  	yet these so-called senses still make mortal mind tributary
  	to mortal body, and ordain certain sections of matter, such
12	as brain and nerves, as the seats of pain and pleasure,
  	from which matter reports to this so-called mind its status
  	of happiness or misery. 

15	    The optical focus is another proof of the illusion of
  	material sense. On the eye's retina, sky and tree-tops
 ... 	apparently join hands, clouds and ocean meet	           Testimony of
18	and mingle. The barometer, — that little	                           the senses 
  	prophet of storm and sunshine, denying the testimony of
  	the senses, — points to fair weather in the midst of murky
21	clouds and drenching rain. Experience is full of instances
  	of similar illusions, which every thinker can recall for
  	himself. 

24	    To material sense, the severance of the jugular vein
  	takes away life; but to spiritual sense and	             ...  Spiritual
  	in Science, Life goes on unchanged and	               sense of life 
27	being is eternal. Temporal life is a false sense of
  	existence. 

  	    Our theories make the same mistake regarding Soul
30	and body that Ptolemy made regarding the solar system. 
  	T...hey insist that soul is in body and mind therefore tribu-
  	tary to matter. Astronomical science has destroyed the
 1	false theory as to the relations of the celestial bodies, and
  	Christian Science will surely destroy the greater error as
 3	to our terrestrial bodies. The true idea and	                   Ptolemaic
  	Principle of man will then appear. The Ptole-	                   and psychical
  	maic blunder could not affect the harmony of	                   error 
 6	being as does the error relating to soul and body, which
  	reverses the order of Science and assigns to matter the
  	power and prerogative of Spirit, so that man becomes
 9	the most absolutely weak and inharmonious creature in
  	the universe. 

  	    The verity of Mind shows conclusively how it is that
12	matter seems to be, but is not. Divine Science,	         ...  Seeming
  	rising above physical theories, excludes matter,	           and being 
  	resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of
15	material sense with spiritual ideas. 
  	    The term CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was introduced by
  	the author to designate the scientific system of divine
18	healing. 
  	    The revelation consists of two parts: 
  	    1. The discovery of this divine Science of Mind-
21	healing, through a spiritual sense of the Scriptures and
  	through the teachings of the Comforter, as promised by
  	the Master. 
24	    2. The proof, by present demonstration, that the so-
  	called miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a
  	dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an
27	ever-operative divine Principle. The operation of this
  	Principle indicates the eternality of the scientific order
  	and continuity of being. 

30	    Christian Science differs from material sci-	              Scientific
  	ence, but not on that account is it less... scien-	              basis 
  	tific. On the contrary, Christian Science is pre-emi-
 1	nently scientific, being based on Truth, the Principle of
  	all science. 

 3	    Physical science (so-called) is human knowledge, — a
  	law of mortal mind, a blind belief, a Samson shorn of h...is
  	strength. When this human belief lacks organ-	           Physical
 6	izations to support it, its foundations are gone. 	           science a
  	Having neither moral might, spiritual basis,	                   blind belief 
  	nor holy Principle of its own, this belief mistakes effect
 9	for cause and seeks to find life and intelligence in matter,
  	thus limiting Life and holding fast to discord and death. 
  	In a word, human belief is a blind conclusion from material
12	reasoning. This is a mortal, finite sense of things, which
  	immortal Spirit silences forever. 

  	    The universe, like man, is to be interpreted by Science
15	from its divine Principle, God, and then it can be und...er-
  	stood; but when explained on the basis of	                 Right
  	physical sense and represented as subject to	         interpretation 
18	growth, maturity, and decay, the universe, like man, is,
  	and must continue to be, an enigma. 

  	    Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of
21	Mind. They belong to divine Principle, and support
  	the... equipoise of that thought-force, which	            All force
  	launched the earth in its orbit and said to the	            mental 
24	proud wave, "Thus far and no farther." 
  	    Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all
  	things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and
27	creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them
  	forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they
  	belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this
30	Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and
  	classification. 

  	    The elements and functions of the physical body and
 1	of the physical world will change as mortal mind changes
 ... 	its beliefs. What is now considered the best condition
 3	for organic and functional health in the human	          Corporeal
  	body may no longer be found indispensable	                  changes 
  	to health. Moral conditions will be found always har-
 6	monious and health-giving. Neither organic inaction
  	nor overaction is beyond God's control; and man will
  	be found normal and natural to changed mortal thought,
 9	and therefore more harmonious in his manifestations than
  	he was in the prior states which human belief created and
  	sanctioned. 
12	    As human thought changes from one stage to an-
  	other of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and
  	joy, — from fear to hope and from faith to understand-
15	ing, — the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-
  	erned by Soul, not by material sense. Reflecting God's
  	government, man is self-governed. When subordinate
18	to the divine Spirit, man cannot be controlled by sin or
  	death, thus proving our material theories about laws of
  	health to be valueless. 

21	    The seasons will come and go with changes of time and
  	tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The agri-
 ... 	culturist will find that these changes cannot	                  The time
24	affect his crops. "As a vesture shalt Thou	                  and tide 
  	change them and they shall be changed." The mariner
  	will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great
27	deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. 
  	The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars, — 
  	he will look out from them upon the universe; and the
30	florist will find his flower before its seed. 

  	    Thus matter will finally be proved nothing more
  	than a mortal belief, wholly inadequate to affect a man
 1	thr...ough its supposed organic action or supposed exist-
  	ence. Error will be no longer used in stating truth. The
 3	problem of nothingness, or "dust to dust," will	          Mortal
  	be solved, and mortal mind will be without	                  nothingness 
  	form and void, for mortality will cease when man beholds
 6	himself God's reflection, even as man sees his reflection
  	in a glass. 

  	    All Science is divine. Human thought never pro-
 9	jected the least portion of true being. Human belief
  	has so...ught and interpreted in its own way	                  A lack of
  	the echo of Spirit, and so seems to have	                  originality 
12	reversed it and repeated it materially; but the human
  	mind never produced a real tone nor sent forth a positive
  	sound. 

15	    The point at issue between Christian Science on the
  	one hand and popular theology on the other is this:  Shall...
  	Science explain cause and effect as being	                     Antagonistic
18	both natural and spiritual? Or shall all that	                     questions 
  	is beyond the cognizance of the material senses be called
  	supernatural, and be left to the mercy of speculative
21	hypotheses? 

  	    I have set forth Christian Science and its application
  	to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered t...hem. 
24	I have demonstrated through Mind the effects	             Biblical
  	of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals	                     basis 
  	of men; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern
27	systems on which to found my own, except the teachings
  	and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of
  	prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only au-
30	thority. I have had no other guide in "the straight and
  	narrow way" of Truth. 

  	    If Christendom resists the author's application of the
 1	word Science to Christianity, or questions her use of t...he
  	word Science, she will not therefore lose faith in Chris-
 3	tianity, nor will Christianity lose its hold upon	                Science and
  	her. If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of	                Christianity 
  	the spiritual universe, including man, then everything
 6	entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be
  	comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for
  	there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity. 

9	    The terms Divine Science, Spiritual Science, Christ
  	Science or Christian Science, or Science alone, she em-
  	...ploys interchangeably, according to the re-	                  Scientific
12	quirements of the context. These synony-	                  terms 
  	mous terms stand for everything relating to God, the in-
  	finite, supreme, eternal Mind. It may be said, however,
15	that the term Christian Science relates especially to
  	Science as applied to humanity. Christian Science re-
  	veals God, not as the author of sin, sickness, and death,
18	but as divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind, exempt
  	from all evil. It teaches that matter is the falsity, not
  	the fact, of existence; that nerves, brain, stomach, lungs,
21	and so forth, have — as matter — no intelligence, life, nor
  	sensation. 

  	    There is no physical science, inasmuch as all truth
24	proceeds from the divine Mind. Therefore truth is not
  	h...uman, and is not a law of matter, for matter	               No physical
  	is not a lawgiver. Science is an emanation of                science 
27	divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. 
  	It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. It is a divine
  	utterance, — the Comforter which leadeth into all truth. 
30	    Christian Science eschews what is called natural science,
  	in so far as this is built on the false hypotheses that matter
  	is its own lawgiver, that law is founded on material con-
 1	ditions, and that these are final and overrule the might of
  	divine Mind. Good is natural and primitive. It is not
 3	miraculous to itself. 

  	    The term Science, properly understood, refers only to
  	the laws of God and to His government of the universe,
 ...6	inclusive of man. From this it follows that	                  Practical
  	business men and cultured scholars have found              Science 
  	that Christian Science enhances their endurance and
 9	mental powers, enlarges their perception of character,
  	gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an
  	ability to exceed their ordinary capacity. The human
12	mind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes
  	more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes
  	somewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowl-
15	edge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities
  	and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of
  	thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher
18	realms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight
  	and perspicacity. 
  	    An odor becomes beneficent and agreeable only in pro-
21	portion to its escape into the surrounding atmosphere. 
  	So it is with our knowledge of Truth. If one would
  	not quarrel with his fellow-man for waking him from
24	a cataleptic nightmare, he should not resist Truth, which
  	banishes — yea, forever destroys with the higher testi-
  	mony of Spirit — the so-called evidence of matter. 

27	    Science relates to Mind, not matter. It rests on fixed
  	Principle and not upon the judgment of false sensation.... 
  	The addition of two sums in mathematics must	               Mathematics
30	always bring the same result. So is it with	                       and scientific
  	logic. If both the major and the minor propo-	                       logic 
  	sitions of a syllogism are correct, the conclusion, if properly
 1	drawn, cannot be false. So in Christian Science there
  	are no discords nor contradictions, because its logic is as
 3	harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syl-
  	logism or of a properly computed sum in arithmetic. 
  	Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in
 6	premise or conclusion. 

  	    If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can dis-
  	cover it by reversing the material fable, be the	   Truth... by
 9	fable pro or con, — be it in accord with your	           inversion 
  	preconceptions or utterly contrary to them. 

  	    Pantheism may be defined as a belief in the intelli-
12	gence of matter, — a belief which Science overthrows. 
...  	In those days there will be "great tribulation	               Antagonistic
  	such as was not since the beginning of the	               theories 
15	world;" and earth will echo the cry, "Art thou [Truth]
  	come hither to torment us before the time?" Animal
  	magnetism, hypnotism, spiritualism, theosophy, agnos-
18	ticism, pantheism, and infidelity are antagonistic to true
  	being and fatal to its demonstration; and so are some
  	other systems. 

21	    We must abandon pharmaceutics, and take up ontol-
  	ogy, — "the science of real being." We must look deep
  	i...nto realism instead of accepting only the out-	        Ontology
24	ward sense of things. Can we gather peaches	        needed 
  	from a pine-tree, or learn from discord the concord of
  	being? Yet quite as rational are some of the leading
27	illusions along the path which Science must tread in its
  	reformatory mission among mortals. The very name,
  	illusion, points to nothingness. 

30	    The generous liver may object to the author's small
  	estimate of the pleasures of the table. The sinner sees,
 ... 	in the system taught in this book, that the demands of
 1	God must be met. The petty intellect is alarmed by con-
  	stant appeals to Mind. The licentious disposition is dis-
 3	couraged over its slight spiritual prospects. 	                  Reluctant
  	When all men are bidden to the feast, the ex-	          guests 
  	cuses come. One has a farm, another has merchandise,
 6	and therefore they cannot accept. 

  	    It is vain to speak dishonestly of divine Science, which
  	destroys all discord, when you can demonstrate	      ...     Excuses for
 9	the actuality of Science. It is unwise to doubt 	           ignorance 
  	if reality is in perfect harmony with God, divine Principle,
  	 — if Science, when understood and demonstrated, will
12	destroy all discord, — since you admit that God is om-
  	nipotent; for from this premise it follows that good and
  	its sweet concords have all-power. 

15	    Christian Science, properly understood, would dis-
  	abuse the human mind of material beliefs which war
  	again...st spiritual facts; and these material	                 Children
18	beliefs must be denied and cast out to make	                 and adults 
  	place for truth. You cannot add to the contents of a
  	vessel already full. Laboring long to shake the adult's
21	faith in matter and to inculcate a grain of faith in God, — 
  	an inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body har-
  	monious, — the author has often remembered our Master's
24	love for little children, and understood how truly such as
  	they belong to the heavenly kingdom. 

  	    If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science
27	for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the su-
 ... 	premacy of good, ought we not, contrari-	                   All evil
  	wise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims	                   unnatural 
30	of evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to
  	love sin and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine
  	evil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should
 1	not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error
  	should not seem so real as truth. Sickness should not seem
 3	so real as health. There is no error in Science, and our
  	lives must be governed by reality in order to be in har-
  	mony with God, the divine Principle of all being. 

6	    When once destroyed by divine Science, the false evi-
  	dence before the corporeal senses disappears. Hence the
 ... 	opposition of sensuous man to the Science of	             The error of
 9	Soul and the significance of the Scripture, "The	             carnality 
  	carnal mind is enmity against God." The central fact of
  	the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power.