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Chapter 8 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Please refer to SUBTITLE Text content below. 

  	    Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Be-
  	ing possesses its qualities before they are perceived hu-
21	manly. Beauty is a thing of life, which	                                        The divine
  	dwells forever in the eternal Mind and re-	                                loveliness 
  	flects the charms of His goodness in expression, form,
24	outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal
  	with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches
  	the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with
27	starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness. 
  	    The embellishments of the person are poor substitutes
  	for the charms of being, shining resplendent and eternal
30	over age and decay. 
  	    The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and
  	more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure
  1	in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious free-
  	dom of spiritual harmony.