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

 1	    Eternal Truth is changing the universe. As mor-
  	tals drop off their mental swaddling-clothes, thought
 3	expan...ds into expression. "Let there be light,"	                         Inadequate
  	is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love,	                         theories of
  	changing chaos into order and discord into the	                 creation 
 6	music of the spheres. The mythical human theories of
  	creation, anciently classified as the higher criticism, sprang
  	from cultured scholars in Rome and in Greece, but they
 9	afforded no foundation for accurate views of creation by
  	the divine Mind. 

  	    Mortal man has made a covenant with his eyes to be-
12	little Deity with human conceptions. In league	           ...       Finite views
  	with material sense, mortals take limited views	                  of Deity 
  	of all things. That God is corporeal or material, no man
15	should affirm. 
  	    The human form, or physical finiteness, cannot be
  	made the basis of any true idea of the infinite Godhead. 
18	Eye hath not seen Spirit, nor hath ear heard His voice. 

1	    Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must
  	yield to the infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of ac-
 3...	tion, thought rises from the material sense to	                      No material
  	the spiritual, from the scholastic to the in-	                      creation 
  	spirational, and from the mortal to the immortal. All
 6	things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the
  	creator. Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and
  	Mother of the universe, including man. 

 9	    The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a per-
  	sonal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polythe-	        ...                Tritheism
  	ism, rather than the one ever-present I AM. 	                        impossible 
12	"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." 

  	    The everlasting I AM is not bounded nor compressed
  	within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can
15	H...e be understood aright through mortal con-	                           No divine
  	cepts. The precise form of God must be of	                           corporeality 
  	small importance in comparison with the sublime ques-
18	tion, What is infinite Mind or divine Love? 
  	    Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in
  	the language of Scripture, "doeth according to His will
21	in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the
  	earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him,
  	What doest Thou?" 
24	    No form nor physical combination is adequate to rep-
  	resent infinite Love. A finite and material sense of God
  	leads to formalism and narrowness; it chills the spirit of
27	Christianity. 

  	    A limitless Mind cannot proceed from physical limita-
  	tions. Finiteness cannot present the idea or the vast-
3...0	ness of infinity. A mind originating from a	                       Limitless
  	finite or material source must be limited and	                       Mind 
  	finite. Infinite Mind is the creator, and creation is the
 1	infinite image or idea emanating from this Mind. If
  	Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind;
 3	and this definition is scientific. 

  	    If matter, so-called, is substance, then Spirit, matter's
  	unlikeness, must be shadow; and shadow cannot produc...e
 6	substance. The theory that Spirit is not the	                              Matter is not
  	only substance and creator is pantheistic het-	                      substance 
  	erodoxy, which ultimates in sickness, sin, and death; it is
 9	the belief in a bodily soul and a material mind, a soul
  	governed by the body and a mind in matter. This be-
  	lief is shallow pantheism. 
12	    Mind creates His own likeness in ideas, and the sub-
  	stance of an idea is very far from being the supposed sub-
  	stance of non-intelligent matter. Hence the Father Mind
15	is not the father of matter. The material senses and
  	human conceptions would translate spiritual ideas into
  	material beliefs, and would say that an anthropomorphic
18	God, instead of infinite Principle, — in other words, divine
  	Love, — is the father of the rain, "who hath begotten the
  	drops of dew," who bringeth "forth Mazzaroth in his sea-
21	son," and guideth "Arcturus with his sons." 

  	    Finite mind manifests all sorts of errors, and thus
  	proves the material theory of mind in matter to be the
24	...antipode of Mind. Who hath found finite life	                           Inexhaustible
  	or love sufficient to meet the demands of human	                   divine Love 
  	want and woe, — to still the desires, to satisfy the aspira-
27	tions? Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form,
  	or Mind would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible
  	Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth. 

30	    It would require an infinite form to contain infinite
  	Mind. Indeed, the phrase infinite form involves a con-
 ... 	tradiction of terms. Finite man cannot be the image and
 1	likeness of the infinite God. A mortal, corporeal, or
  	finite conception of God cannot embrace the glories of
 3	limitless, incorporeal Life and Love. Hence	                      Infinite
  	the unsatisfied human craving for something	                      physique
  	better, higher, holier, than is afforded by a	                      impossible 
 6	material belief in a physical God and man. The insuffi-
  	ciency of this belief to supply the true idea proves the
  	falsity of material belief. 

 9	    Man is more than a material form with a mind inside,
  	which must escape from its environments in	              ...                Infinity's
  	order to be immortal. Man reflects infinity,	                              reflection 
12	and this reflection is the true idea of God. 
  	    God expresses in man the infinite idea forever develop-
  	ing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from
15	a boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in
  	the infinitude of Truth. We know no more of man as
  	the true divine image and likeness, than we know of
18	God. 
  	    The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea
  	and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses
21	have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The
  	human capacities are enlarged and perfected in propor-
  	tion as humanity gains the true conception of man and
24	God. 

  	    Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual
  	man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him
27	b...elongs eternal Life. Never born and	                                    Individual
  	never dying, it were impossible for man, under	                    permanency 
  	the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his
30	high estate. 

  	    Through spiritual sense you can discern the heart of
  	divinity, and thus begin to comprehend in Science the
 ...1	generic term man. Man is not absorbed in Deity, and
  	man cannot lose his individuality, for he re-	                         God's man
 3	flects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, soli-	                         discerned 
  	tary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all
  	substance. 
 6	    In divine Science, man is the true image of God. The
  	divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who
  	threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted
 9	their lives higher than their poor thought-models would
  	allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick,
  	sinning, and dying. The Christlike understanding of
12	scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Prin-
  	ciple and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the
  	basis of thought and demonstration. 

15	    If man was once perfect but has now lost his perfection,
  	then mortals have never beheld in man the reflex imag...e
  	of God. The lost image is no image. The	                            The divine
18	true likeness cannot be lost in divine reflection. 	                    image
  	Understanding this, Jesus said: "Be ye there-	                    not lost 
  	fore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
21	perfect." 

  	    Mortal thought transmits its own images, and forms
  	its offspring after human illusions. God, Spirit, works
24	...spiritually, not materially. Brain or matter	                       Immortal
  	never formed a human concept. Vibration is	                       models 
  	not intelligence; hence it is not a creator. Immortal
27	ideas, pure, perfect, and enduring, are transmitted by
  	the divine Mind through divine Science, which corrects
  	error with truth and demands spiritual thoughts, divine
30	concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious
  	results. 
  	    Deducing one's conclusions as to man from imperfec-
 1	tion instead of perfection, one can no more arrive at the
  	true conception or understanding of man, and make him-
 3	self like it, than the sculptor can perfect his outlines from
  	an imperfect model, or the painter can depict the form
  	and face of Jesus, while holding in thought the character
 6	of Judas. 

  	    The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give
  	way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Throu...gh
 9	many generations human beliefs will be attain-	                    Spiritual
  	ing diviner conceptions, and the immortal and	                    discovery 
  	perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as
12	the only true conception of being. 
  	    Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good,
  	and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already
15	done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness
  	desired and to bring out better and higher results, often
  	hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the
18	outset. 

  	    Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve
  	their models. A sick body is evolved from	               ...            Requisite
21	sick thoughts. Sickness, disease, and death	                           change of
  	proceed from fear. Sensualism evolves bad	                           our ideals 
  	physical and moral conditions. 
24	    Selfishness and sensualism are educated in mortal
  	mind by the thoughts ever recurring to one's self, by
  	conversation about the body, and by the expectation of
27	perpetual pleasure or pain from it; and this education
  	is at the expense of spiritual growth. If we array
  	thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal
30	nature. 

  	    If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for
  	Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spir...it,
 1	we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action. 
  	Look away from the body into Truth and Love,	               Thoughts
 3	the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and	                       are things 
  	immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the endur-
  	ing, the good, and the true, and you will bring these
 6	into your experience proportionably to their occupancy
  	of your thoughts. 

  	    The effect of mortal mind on health and happiness is
 9	seen in this:  If one turns away from the body with such
...  	absorbed interest as to forget it, the body	                            Unreality
  	experiences no pain. Under the strong im-	                            of pain 
12	pulse of a desire to perform his part, a noted actor was
  	accustomed night after night to go upon the stage and
  	sustain his appointed task, walking about as actively
15	as the youngest member of the company. This old man
  	was so lame that he hobbled every day to the theatre, and
  	sat aching in his chair till his cue was spoken, — a signal
18	which made him as oblivious of physical infirmity as if
  	he had inhaled chloroform, though he was in the full pos-
  	session of his so-called senses. 

21	    Detach sense from the body, or matter, which is only
  	a form of human belief, and you may learn the meaning
  	...of God, or good, and the nature of the immu-          	               Immutable
24	table and immortal. Breaking away from the	                               identity
  	mutations of time and sense, you will neither	                               of man 
  	lose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own iden-
27	tity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will
  	rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird
  	which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a
30	skyward flight. 

  	    We should forget our bodies in remembering good and
  	the human race. Good demands of man every hour, in
 1	whic...h to work out the problem of being. Consecration
  	to good does not lessen man's dependence on God, but
 3	heightens it. Neither does consecration di-	                            Forgetfulness
  	minish man's obligations to God, but shows	                            of self 
  	the paramount necessity of meeting them. Christian
 6	Science takes naught from the perfection of God, but it
  	ascribes to Him the entire glory. By putting "off the old
  	man with his deeds," mortals "put on immortality." 
 9	    We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's
  	creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We
  	must reverse our feeble flutterings — our efforts to find
12	life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony
  	of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal
  	idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the God-
15	like man to reach the absolute centre and circumference
  	of his being. 

  	    Job said: "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the
18	ear:  but now mine eye seeth Thee." Mortals will echo
  ...	Job's thought, when the supposed pain and	                              The true
  	pleasure of matter cease to predominate. They	                      sense 
21	will then drop the false estimate of life and happiness, of
  	joy and sorrow, and attain the bliss of loving unselfishly,
  	working patiently, and conquering all that is unlike God. 
24	Starting from a higher standpoint, one rises spontane-
  	ously, even as light emits light without effort; for "where
  	your treasure is, there will your heart be also." 

27	    The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of
  	man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly. Every
 ... 	concept which seems to begin with the brain	                           Mind the
30	begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause	                           only cause 
  	or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter,
  	in mortal mind, or in physical forms. 

1	    Mortals are egotists. They believe themselves to be
  	independent workers, personal authors, and even privi-
 3	l...eged originators of something which Deity	                        Human
  	would not or could not create. The creations	                        egotism 
  	of mortal mind are material. Immortal spiritual man
 6	alone represents the truth of creation. 

  	    When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence
  	with the spiritual and works only as God works,
 9	he will no... longer grope in the dark and cling	                       Mortal man
  	to earth because he has not tasted heaven. 	                       a mis-creator 
  	Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involun-
12	tary hypocrite, — producing evil when he would create
  	good, forming deformity when he would outline grace
  	and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless. He
15	becomes a general mis-creator, who believes he is a
  	semi-god. His "touch turns hope to dust, the dust we
  	all have trod." He might say in Bible language: "The
18	good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would
  	not, that I do." 

  	    There can be but one creator, who has created all. 
21	Whatever seems to be a new creation, is but the discovery
...  	of some distant idea of Truth; else it is a	                                        No new
  	new multiplication or self-division of mor-	                                creation 
24	tal thought, as when some finite sense peers from its
  	cloister with amazement and attempts to pattern the
  	infinite. 
27	    The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of per-
  	sons and things is not creation. A sensual thought, like
  	an atom of dust thrown into the face of spiritual im-
30	mensity, is dense blindness instead of a scientific eternal
  	consciousness of creation. 

 	    The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and ma-
 1	terial earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind.... 
  	They have their day before the permanent facts and their
 3	perfection in Spirit appear. The crude crea-	                             Mind's true
  	tions of mortal thought must finally give place	                     camera 
  	to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the
 6	camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spir-
  	itual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading,
  	finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. 
 9	Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm
  	of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we
  	must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we
12	have our being. 

  	    As mortals gain more correct views of God and man,
  	multitudinous objects of creation, which before were
15	inv...isible, will become visible. When we	                                      Self-
  	realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of	                                      completeness 
  	matter, this understanding will expand into self-com-
18	pleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other
  	consciousness. 

  	    Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being. 
21	Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit. ...Sin
  	is unsustained by Truth, and sickness and	                               Spiritual
  	death were overcome by Jesus, who proved	                               proofs of
24	them to be forms of error. Spiritual living	                               existence 
  	and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can
  	recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace
27	which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love. 
  	    When we learn the way in Christian Science and rec-
  	ognize man's spiritual being, we shall behold and under-
30	stand God's creation, — all the glories of earth and heaven
  	and man. 

  	    The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,
 1	and its government is divine Science. Man is the off-...
  	spring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of
 3	Mind. Man understands spiritual existence	                          Godward
  	in proportion as his treasures of Truth and	                          gravitation 
  	Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward,
 6	their affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near
  	the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper
  	sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality
 9	may be put off. 
  	    This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for
  	Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity
12	and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en-
  	larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action,
  	a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent
15	peace. 

  	    The senses represent birth as untimely and death as
  	irresistible, as if man were a weed growing apace or a
18	...flower withered by the sun and nipped by	                          Mortal birth
  	untimely frosts; but this is true only of a	                                  and death 
  	mortal, not of a man in God's image and likeness. The
21	truth of being is perennial, and the error is unreal and
  	obsolete. 

  	    Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained
24	stronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration af...ter
  	heavenly good comes even before we discover	                       Blessings
  	what belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss	                               from pain 
27	of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending
  	path of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform
  	us that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is
30	spiritual. 

	    The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away
  	false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections
 1	...from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good,
  	"rejoicing the heart." Such is the sword of	                               Decapitation
 3	Science, with which Truth decapitates error,	                               of error 
  	materiality giving place to man's higher individuality and
  	destiny. 

 6	    Would existence without personal friends be to you
  	a blank? Then the time will come when you will be
  	solita...ry, left without sympathy; but this	                                   Uses of
 9	seeming vacuum is already filled with divine	                           adversity 
  	Love. When this hour of development comes, even if
  	you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will
12	force you to accept what best promotes your growth. 
  	Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the
  	lesson is sufficient to exalt you; for "man's extremity
15	is God's opportunity." The author has experienced the
  	foregoing prophecy and its blessings. Thus He teaches
  	mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality. 
18	This is done through self-abnegation. Universal Love
  	is the divine way in Christian Science. 
  	    The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the
21	saint his own heaven by doing right. The opposite per-
  	secutions of material sense, aiding evil with evil, would
  	deceive the very elect. 

24	    Mortals must follow Jesus' sayings and his demonstra-
  	tions, which dominate the flesh. Perfect and infinite
  ...	Mind enthroned is heaven. The evil beliefs	                            Beatific
27	which originate in mortals are hell. Man is the	                    presence 
  	idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming
  	the universe with light. Man is deathless, spiritual. He
30	is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers
  	of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with
  	God and the universe. 

 1	    Every object in material thought will be destroyed, but
  	the spiritual idea, whose substance is in Mind, is ete...rnal. 
 3	The offspring of God start not from matter	The infinitude
  	or ephemeral dust. They are in and of Spirit,	of God 
  	divine Mind, and so forever continue. God is one. The
 6	allness of Deity is His oneness. Generically man is one,
  	and specifically man means all men. 
  	    It is generally conceded that God is Father, eternal, self-
 9	created, infinite. If this is so, the forever Father must
  	have had children prior to Adam. The great I AM made
  	all "that was made." Hence man and the spiritual uni-
12	verse coexist with God. 
  	    Christian Scientists understand that, in a religious
  	sense, they have the same authority for the appellative
15	mother, as for that of brother and sister. Jesus said:
  	"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which
  	is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and
18	mother." 

  	    When examined in the light of divine Science, mortals
  	present more than is detected upon the surface, since
21...	inverted thoughts and erroneous beliefs must	                   Waymarks
  	be counterfeits of Truth. Thought is bor-	                                   to eternal
  	rowed from a higher source than matter, and	                           Truth 
24	by reversal, errors serve as waymarks to the one Mind,
  	in which all error disappears in celestial Truth. The
  	robes of Spirit are "white and glistering," like the raiment
27	of Christ. Even in this world, therefore, "let thy gar-
  	ments be always white." "Blessed is the man that en-
  	dureth [overcometh] temptation: for when he is tried,
30	[proved faithful], he shall receive the crown of life,
  	which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."
         (James 1: 12.)