0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 4 – Rudimental Divine Science – Chpt 10 – Material and Spiritual Man

  	    Is man material or spiritual? 

 9	    In Science, man is the manifest reflection of God, per-
  	fect and immortal Mind. He is the likeness of God; and
  	His likeness would be lost if inverted or perverted. 
12	    According to the evidence of the so-called physical
  	senses, man is material, fallen, sick, depraved, mortal. 
  	Science and spiritual sense contradict this, and they afford
15	the only true evidence of the being of God and man, the
  	material evidence being wholly false. 
  	    Jesus said of personal evil, that "the truth abode not
18	in him," because there is no material sense. Matter, as
  	matter, has neither sensation nor personal intelligence. 
  	As a pretension to be Mind, matter is a lie, and "the
21	father of lies;" Mind is not in matter, and Spirit cannot
  	originate its opposite, named matter. 
  	    According to divine Science, Spirit no more changes its
24	species, by evolving matter from Spirit, than natural
  	science, so-called, or material laws, bring about altera-
  	tion of species by transforming minerals into vegetables
27	or  plants into animals, — thus confusing and confounding
 
   
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 1	the three great kingdoms. No rock brings forth an apple;
  	no pine-tree produces a mammal or provides breast-milk
 3	for babes. 
  	    To sense, the lion of to-day is the lion of six thousand
  	years ago; but in Science, Spirit sends forth its own harm-
 6	less likeness. SHOW ALL