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Chapter 10a ~ Science of Being ~ Subtitles

Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.

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Textbook of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy

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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 SHOW ALL
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1 0b 268 Intro Quote 2 ~ Martin Luther Intro Quote 2 ~ Martin Luther Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me God! Amen! — MARTIN LUTHER.
2 0a 268 Into Quote 1 ~ John Into Quote 1 ~ John
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life, . . . That which we have seen and heard declare we unto 
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Materialistic challenge
 1	    In the material world, thought has brought to light
  	with great rapidity many useful wonders. With
 3	like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising
  	towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual	      
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Confusion confounded
  	    In this final struggle for supremacy, semi-metaphysi-
15	cal systems afford no substantial aid to scientific meta-
  	physics, for their arguments are based on	                 
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Divine metaphysics
 9	    Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian
  	Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter
  	is truth. Metaphysics is above physics, and	               
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Biblical foundations
21	    The testimony of the material senses is neither abso-
  	lute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly
  	on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of	              
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Rejected theories
  	    The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter;
30	(2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as	                     
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Prophetic ignorance
  	    The prophets of old looked for something higher than
15	the systems of their times; hence their fore-	                        
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Studious disciples
  	    In Latin the word rendered disciple signifies student;
12	and the word indicates that the power of healing was not
  	a supernatural gift to those learners, but the	             
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New Testament basis
  	    Our Master said, "But the Comforter . . . shall
21	teach you all things." When the Science of Christianity
  	appears, it will lead you into all truth. The	            
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Modern evangel
  	    Those, who are willing to leave their nets or to cast
27	them on the right side for Truth, have the opportunity
  	now, as aforetime, to learn and to practise	           
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Spirituality of Scripture
 3	    The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before
  	Truth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only
  	as we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek. 	            
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Unspiritual contrasts
  	    It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization
  	of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce
21	of material existence; it is chastity and purity,	            
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God the Principle of all
  	    The divine Principle of the universe must interpret the
  	universe. God is the divine Principle of all that repre-
30	sents Him and of all that really exists. Chris-	            
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Science versus sense
  	    Divine Science reverses the false testimony of the ma-
  	terial senses, and thus tears away the foun-	                      
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Spiritual law the only law
21	    God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual
  	law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose
  	the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the	           
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Material knowledge illusive
  	    Science shows that material, conflicting mortal opin-
30	ions and beliefs emit the effects of error at all times, but
  	this atmosphere of mortal mind cannot be destructive to
  	morals and health when it is opposed promptly and per-
 
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Five senses deceptive
12	    The senses of Spirit abide in Love, and they demon-
  	strate Truth and Life. Hence Christianity and the Sci-
  	ence which expounds it are based on spiritual	             
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Impossible partnership
  	    Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way
24	position in learning its Principle and rule — establishing
  	it by demonstration. The conventional firm,	                 
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Spirit the starting-point
 1	    Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A
  	partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipres-
 3	ent and omnipotent Mind. This shows that	              
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Divine synonyms
  	    To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,
  	you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle
12	of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,	          
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The divine completeness
  	    Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-
21	ing, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is
  	God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,	                  
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Universal brotherhood
  	    Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood. 
  	It casts out error and heals the sick. 
 1	    Having one God, one Mind, unfolds the power that
  	heals the sick, and fulfils these sayings of 
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Perfection requisite
  	    If God is admitted to be the only Mind and Life,
18	there ceases to be any opportunity for sin and death. 
  	When we learn in Science how to be perfect	         
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Like evolving like
  	    Nature and revelation inform us that like produces
30	like. Divine Science does not gather grapes	                         Like 
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Material error
24	    The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit
  	is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, — it is
  	a human concept. Matter is an error of state-	      
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Substance versus supposition
 1	    Is Spirit the source or creator of matter? Science re-
  	veals nothing in Spirit out of which to create matter. 
 3	Divine metaphysics explains away matter. 	             
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One cause supreme
12	    That matter is substantial or has life and sensation, is
  	one of the false beliefs of mortals, and exists only in a
  	supposititious mortal consciousness. Hence,	              
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Substance is Spirit
  	    All that we term sin, sickness, and death is a mortal
  	belief. We define matter as error, because it is the oppo-
30	site of life, substance, and intelligence. Mat-	           
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Material mortality 6 The doom of matter establishes the conclusion that matter, slime, or protoplasm never originated Material in the immortal Mind, and is therefore not mortality 9 eternal. Matter is neither created by Mind nor for the manifestation and support of Mind.
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Spiritual tangibility
  	    Ideas are tangible and real to immortal consciousness,
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Pantheistic tendencies
  	    Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and
  	medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic
24	belief that there is mind in matter; but this	               
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The things of God are beautiful
 1	    In the infinitude of Mind, matter must be unknown. 
  	Symbols and elements of discord and decay are not prod-
 3	ucts of the infinite, perfect, and eternal All. 	           
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Belief in many gods
  	    Through this error, human belief comes to have "gods
  	many and lords many." Moses declared as Jehovah's
18	first command of the Ten: "Thou shalt have	               
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Senstionless body
  	    Rightly understood, instead of possessing a sentient
  	material form, man has a sensationless body; and God,
27	the Soul of man and of all existence, being	               
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God and His image
  	    Error presupposes man to be both mind and matter. 
  	Divine Science contradicts the corporeal senses, rebukes
 9	mortal belief, and asks:  What is the Ego,	             
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The true new idea
27	    Divine Science does not put new wine into old bottles,
  	Soul into matter, nor the infinite into the finite. Our
  	false views of matter perish as we grasp	            
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Figures of being
 3	    The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called
  	material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical
  	symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight	            
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Opposite symbols
  	    A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a
15	curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. Similarly,
  	matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has	           
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Truth is not inverted
  	    Whatever indicates the fall of man or the opposite of
  	God or God's absence, is the Adam-dream, which is neither
30	Mind nor man, for it is not begotten of the	          
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Source of all life and action
  	    Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no
  	inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious
 6	action. Mind is the same Life, Love, and wis-	          
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Spiritual structure
21	    This false belief as to what really constitutes life so
  	detracts from God's character and nature, that the true
  	sense of His power is lost to all who cling to	          
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Mind never limited
  	    If God were limited to man or matter, or if the infinite
  	could be circumscribed within the finite, God would be
 6	corporeal, and unlimited Mind would seem	            
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material recognition impossible
  	    Is God's image or likeness matter, or a mortal, sin,
12	sickness, and death? Can matter recognize Mind? 
  	Can infinite Mind recognize matter? Can the	               
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Our physical insensibility to Spirit
21	    The physical senses can obtain no proof of God. They
  	can neither see Spirit through the eye nor hear it through
  	the ear, nor can they feel, taste, or smell Spirit. 	        
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The human counterfeit
  	    What, then, is the material personality which suffers,
  	sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness
 9	of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted	             
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Material misconceptions
15	    Is God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical. 
  	The belief that a material body is man is a false con-
  	ception of man. The time has come for a	         
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Salvation is through reform
  	    By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as
24	the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue
  	to seek salvation through pardon and not	              
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Goodness a portion of God
  	    In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term
  	for God. The Scriptures declare all that He	                    
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Spiritual thoughts
21	    God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance
  	and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human,
  	involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the	                
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Divine allness
 9	    We call the absence of Truth, error. Truth and error
  	are unlike. In Science, Truth is divine, and the infinite
  	God can have no unlikeness. Did God, Truth,	           
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Error unveiled
  	    Neither understanding nor truth accompanies error,
18	nor is error the offshoot of Mind. Evil calls itself some-
  	thing, when it is nothing. It saith, "I am man, but I am
  	not the image and likeness of God;" whereas 
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The great conflict
  	    Truth cannot be contaminated by error. The state-
 1	ment that Truth is real necessarily includes the correlated
  	statement, that error, Truth's unlikeness, is unreal. 
 3	    The suppositional warfare between truth and error is
  
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The chief stones in the temple
  	    The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are
21	to be found in the following postulates:  that Life is God,
  	good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not	         
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The Christ-element
27	    Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal
  	man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses. 	                    The Christ-
  	The Christ-element in 
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Wickedness is not man
  	    A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little
 9	else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,
  	lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life	          
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Death but an illusion
  	    The fact that the Christ, or Truth, overcame and still
15	overcomes death proves the "king of terrors" to be but
  	a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys	            
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Spiritual offspring
  	    The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are
  	contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the
27	material must be untrue. Life is not in matter. 	           
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Death no advantage
 3	    If the Principle, rule, and demonstration of man's being
  	are not in the least understood before what is termed death
  	overtakes mortals, they will rise no higher spir-	           
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Future purification
  	    If the change called death destroyed the belief in sin,
  	sickness, and death, happiness would be won at the mo-
18	ment of dissolution, and be forever permanent;	             
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Sin is punished
  	    The sin and error which possess us at the instant of
24	death do not cease at that moment, but endure until the
  	death of these errors. To be wholly spiritual,	          
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Salvation and probation
12	    Universal salvation rests on progression and probation,
  	and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a local-
  	ity, but a divine state of Mind in which all the	            
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Day of judgment
  	    No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-
  	day of wisdom comes hourly and continually,	                        
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Primitive error
  	    Truth will be to us "the resurrection and the life" only
  	as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only
 9	immortality of man, can be fettered by the	        
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Immortal man
27	    This carnal material mentality, misnamed mind, is
  	mortal. Therefore man would be annihilated, were it
  	not for the spiritual real man's indissoluble	                  
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Elementary electricity
 3	    Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material
  	form of illusive consciousness, — the material mindless-
  	ness, which forms no link between matter and	             
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The counterfeit forces
21	    There is no vapid fury of mortal mind — expressed in
  	earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity
  	 — and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. 	             
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Instruments of error
  	    The five physical senses are the avenues and instru-
 1	ments of human error, and they correspond with error. 
  	These senses indicate the common human belief, that life,
 3	substance, and intelligence are a unison of	    
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Mortal verdict
 9	    The belief that matter thinks, sees, or feels is not more
  	real than the belief that matter enjoys and suffers. This
  	mortal belief, misnamed man, is error, saying:	           
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Mythical pleasure
  	    The lines of demarcation between immortal man, repre-
  	senting Spirit, and mortal man, representing the error that
21	life and intelligence are in matter, show the	               
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Severed members 1 The belief that a severed limb is aching in the old loca- tion, the sensation seeming to be in nerves which Severed 3 are no longer there, is an added proof of the un- members reliability of physical testimony.
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Mortals unlike immortals
  	    God creates and governs the universe, including man. 
 6	The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He
  	evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind	             
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Goodness transparent
  	    The manifestation of God through mortals is as light
  	passing through the window-pane. The light and the
18	glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass	               
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Brainology a myth
  	    All that is called mortal thought is made up of error. 
  	The theoretical mind is matter, named brain, or mate-
27	rial consciousness, the exact opposite of real	            
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Scientific purgation
  	    Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of
  	mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for
 6	the immortal. Either here or hereafter, suf-	             
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Mixed testimony
  	    The knowledge obtained from the corporeal senses
  	leads to sin and death. When the evidence of Spirit
24	and matter, Truth and error, seems to com-	               
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Belief an autocrat
  	    Mortal belief is a liar from the beginning, not deserving
  	power. It says to mortals, "You are wretched!" and they
1	think they are so; and nothing can change this state, until
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Self-improvement
12	    Erroneous belief is destroyed by truth. Change the
  	evidence, and that disappears which before seemed real
  	to this false belief, and the human conscious-	                
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Faith higher than belief
  	    Faith is higher and more spiritual than belief. It is
21	a chrysalis state of human thought, in which spiritual
  	evidence, contradicting the testimony of mate-	               
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Truth’s witness
  	    What is termed material sense can report only a mor-
 9	tal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can
  	bear witness only to Truth. To material sense,	            
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Thought-angels
  	    Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving
  	animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial
27	visitants, flying on spiritual, not material,	                  
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Our angelic messengers
  	    My angels are exalted thoughts, appearing at the door
  	of some sepulchre, in which human belief has buried
 9	its fondest earthly hopes. With white fin-	              
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Knowledge and Truth
18	    Knowledge gained from material sense is figuratively
  	represented in Scripture as a tree, bearing the fruits of
  	sin, sickness, and death. Ought we not then	               
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Old and new man
  	    If man were solely a creature of the material senses,
  	he would have no eternal Principle and would be mutable
 1	and mortal. Human logic is awry when it attempts
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The tares and wheat
  	    The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and
  	real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the im-
15	mutable and perfect. The inharmonious and	                
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The divine reflection
  	    Spirit is God, Soul; therefore Soul is not in matter. If
24	Spirit were in matter, God would have no representative,
  	and matter would be identical with God. 	            
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Inverted images and ideas
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18	likeness, man should wish for, and in reality has, only
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Identity not lost
 3	    The material body and mind are temporal, but the
  	real man is spiritual and eternal. The identity of the
  	real man is not lost, but found through this	           
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Definition of man
  	    Continuing our definition of man, let us remember that
15	harmonious and immortal man has existed forever, and
  	is always beyond and above the mortal illu-	               
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Mental propagation
  	    Even in Christian Science, reproduction by Spirit's
  	individual ideas is but the reflection of the creative power
 1	of the divine Principle of those ideas. The reflection,
  	through mental manifestation, of the multitudinous
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Error defined 21 The belief that pain and pleasure, life and death, holi- ness and unholiness, mingle in man, — that Error mortal, material man is the likeness of God defined 24 and is himself a creator, — is a fatal error.
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Man’s entity spiritual
  	    God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would
  	be a nonentity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be
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Man inseparable from Love
 3	    It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material
  	sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and good-
  	ness. Understanding this, Paul said: "Nei-	              
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Harmony natural
  	    Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled
  	by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life
18	of man. Man's  happiness is not, therefore, at	            
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Human reflection
  	    A picture in the camera or a face reflected in the mirror
 6	is not the original, though resembling it. Man, in the
  	likeness of his Maker, reflects the central light	         
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Inverted images
  	    The inverted images presented by the senses, the de-
21	flections of matter as opposed to the Science of spirit-
  	ual reflection, are all unlike Spirit, God. In	             
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Jewish traditions
  	    The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrec-
  	tion, but not so blindly as the Pharisees, who believed
 1	error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought
  	that they could raise the spiritual from the material. They
 
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Divinity not childless
  	    Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes
  	man immortal. If God, who is Life, were parted for a
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Thought-forms
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  	as matter, are not more distinct nor real to the mate-
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The serpent’s whisper
  	    The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream,
 1	the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life
  	and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. 
 3	This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, in-	    
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Bad results from error
  	    This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found
15	to be not Life, but only a transient, false sense of an ex-
  	istence which ends in death. Error charges	        
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Higher statutes
  	    Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul
  	of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man
27	was not created from a material basis, nor	            
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The great question
  	    Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice
  	of Truth still calls: "Adam, where art thou? Conscious-
 1	ness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief
  	that mind is in matter, and that evil is 
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Wrestling of Jacob
  	    Jacob was alone, wrestling with error, — struggling
  	with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence
18	as existent in matter with its false pleasures	               
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Israel the new name
  	    The result of Jacob's struggle thus appeared. He had
  	conquered material error with the understanding of Spirit
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Life never structural
24	    The Science of being shows it to be impossible for in-
  	finite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body or for man to
  	have an intelligence separate from his Maker. 	       
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Thought seen as substance
 1	    The artist is not in his painting. The picture is the
  	artist's thought objectified. The human belief fancies
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The central intelligence
  	    Day may decline and shadows fall, but darkness flees
12	when the earth has again turned upon its axis. The sun
  	is not affected by the revolution of the earth. 	          
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Soul imperishable
18	    Soul changeth not. We are commonly taught that there
  	is a human soul which sins and is spiritually lost, — that
  	soul may be lost, and yet be immortal. If	          
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Sin only of the flesh
  	    Soul is immortal because it is Spirit, which has no ele-
  	ment of self-destruction. Is man lost spiritually? No,
 9	he can only lose a sense material. All sin is	          
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Soul impeccable
  	    Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense
15	and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a
  	sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spir-	           
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Sense-dreams
 1	    How true it is that whatever is learned through material
  	sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is
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Vain ecstasies
  	    People go into ecstasies over the sense of a corporeal
15	Jehovah, though with scarcely a spark of love in their
  	hearts; yet God is Love, and without Love,	            
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Man-made theories
  	    Our theories are based on finite premises, which can-
24	not penetrate beyond matter. A personal sense of God
  	and of man's capabilities necessarily limits	                
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The one anointed
  	    Jesus' spiritual origin and his demonstration of divine
  	Principle richly endowed him and entitled him to sonship
 1	in Science. He was the son of a virgin. The term
  	Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the 
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Jesus the Scientist
  	    Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that
24	ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material
  	surface of things, and found the spiritual	               
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The bodily resurrection
  	    The Jews, who sought to kill this man of God, showed
  	plainly that their material views were the parents of their
12	wicked deeds. When Jesus spoke of repro-	            
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Opposition of materialists
  	    Because of mortals' material and sinful belief, the
24	spiritual Jesus was imperceptible to them. The higher
  	his demonstration of divine Science carried	                  
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Hebrew theology
 3	    That saying of our Master, "I and my Father are one,"
  	separated him from the scholastic theology of the rabbis. 
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The true sonship
  	    The opposite and false views of the people hid from
12	their sense Christ's sonship with God. They could not
  	discern his spiritual existence. Their carnal	               
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Immaculate conception
21	    Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him
  	to demonstrate the facts of being, — to prove irrefutably
  	how spiritual Truth destroys material error,	                 
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Jesus as mediator
  	    Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed
30	to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother,
  	Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh,
  	between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrat-
 1	ing the 
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Spiritual government
12	    Jesus represented Christ, the true idea of God. Hence
  	the warfare between this spiritual idea and perfunctory
  	religion, between spiritual clear-sightedness	                   
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Deadness in sin
24	    The spiritual idea of God, as presented by Jesus, was
  	scourged in person, and its Principle was rejected. That
  	man was accounted a criminal who could	              
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The cup of Jesus
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  	and declares best the power of Christian Science, will
  	drink of his Master's cup. Resistance to	             
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Material skepticism
24	    To the materialistic Thomas, looking for the ideal
  	Saviour in matter instead of in Spirit and to the testi-
  	mony of the material senses and the body,	             
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What the senses originate
  	    Corporeal senses define diseases as realities; but the
 6	Scriptures declare that God made all, even while the cor-
  	poreal senses are saying that matter causes	              
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Sickness as discord
  	    Is the sick man sinful above all others? No! but
  	so far as he is discordant, he is not the image of God. 
18	Weary of their material beliefs, from which	         
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Unscientific introspection
 3	    Science depicts disease as error, as matter versus
  	Mind, and error reversed as subserving the facts of
  	health. To calculate one's life-prospects	                 
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God the only Mind
15	    The varied doctrines and theories which presuppose
  	life and intelligence to exist in matter are so many ancient
  	and modern mythologies. Mystery, miracle,	                 
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Scriptures misinterpreted
21	    The divine Science taught in the original language
  	of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs inspi-
  	ration to be understood. Hence the misappre-	                
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Interior meaning
  	    Metaphors abound in the Bible, and names are often
  	expressive of spiritual ideas. The most distinguished
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Job, on the resurrection
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  	spiritual. For example, the text, "In my flesh shall I
  	see God," gives a profound idea of the di-	             
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Fear of the serpent overcome
 6	    The Hebrew Lawgiver, slow of speech, despaired of
  	making the people understand what should be revealed
  	to him. When, led by wisdom to cast down his	             
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Leprosy healed
  	    It was scientifically demonstrated that leprosy was a
  	creation of mortal mind and not a condition of matter,
21	when Moses first put his hand into his bosom	             
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Standpoints changed
 3	    When understanding changes the standpoints of life and
  	intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall
  	gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over	           
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Saving the inebriate
  	    Man's  wisdom finds no satisfaction in sin, since God
15	has sentenced sin to suffer. The necromancy of yester-
  	day foreshadowed the mesmerism and hypno-	               
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Uses of suffering
  	    The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life
27	of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless
  	woes, turn us like tired children to the arms	             
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A bright outlook
 6	    Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we
  	are helped onward in the march towards righteousness,
  	peace, and purity, which are the landmarks	                 
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Need and supply
  	    In order to apprehend more, we must put into prac-
  	tice what we already know. We must recollect that
15	Truth is demonstrable when understood, and	               
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Childlike receptivity
  	    The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen
  	as felt. It is the "still, small voice" of Truth	                   
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Narrow pathway
  	    Unless the harmony and immortality of man are be-
  	coming more apparent, we are not gaining the true idea
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Pauls enlightenment
  	    Paul was not at first a disciple of Jesus but a perse-
  	cutor of Jesus' followers. When the truth first appeared
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Abiding in Life
  	    Jesus said substantially, "He that believeth in me
 1	shall not see death." That is, he who perceives the
  	true idea of Life loses his belief in death. He who has
 3	the true idea of good loses all sense 
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Indestructible being
  	    In Colossians (iii. 4) Paul writes: "When Christ, who
  	is our life, shall appear [be manifested], then shall ye also
12	appear [be manifested] with him in glory." 	            
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Consecration required
  	    Paul had a clear sense of the demands of Truth upon
21	mortals physically and spiritually, when he said: "Pre-
  	sent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac-	             
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Loving God supremely
 3	    If we wish to follow Christ, Truth, it must be in the
  	way of God's appointing. Jesus said, "He that believeth
  	on me, the works that I do shall he do also." 	      
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Conversion of Saul
  	    Saul of Tarsus beheld the way — the Christ, or Truth
24	 — only when his uncertain sense of right yielded to a
  	spiritual sense, which is always right. Then	          
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Image of the beast
  	    What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in re-
 9	venge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception
  	of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger. 	           
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Peremptory demands To the physical senses, the strict demands of Christian 18 Science seem peremptory; but mortals are has- Peremptory tening to learn that Life is God, good, and that demands evil has in reality neither place nor power in the human or 21 the divine economy.
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Moral courage
  	    Fear of punishment never made man truly honest. 
  	Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to
24	proclaim the right. But how shall we re-	             
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Final destruction of error
  	    Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness,
  	when God is good and the only real Life. What is the
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Promise perpetual
  	    This understanding of man's power, when he is
15	equipped by God, has sadly disappeared from Christian
  	history. For centuries it has been dormant, a	                
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Imitation of Jesus
  	    A little leaven leavens the whole lump. A little under-
 6	standing of Christian Science proves the truth of all that
  	I say of it. Because you cannot walk on the	         
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Error destroyed not pardoned
21	    There is no hypocrisy in Science. Principle is impera-
  	tive. You cannot mock it by human will. Science is a 
  	divine demand, not a human. Always right,	            
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The hopeful outlook
  	    Human resistance to divine Science weakens in pro-
 1	portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un-
  	derstanding of being supersedes mere belief. Until the
 3	author of this book learned the vastness of	    
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