0.0 – Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy Chapter 13 – Teaching Christian Science Subtitles

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 1	    When the discoverer of Christian Science is con-
  	sulted by her followers as to the propriety, advan-
 3	tage, and consistency of systematic medical	                              Study of
  	study, she tries to show them that under ordi-	                     medicine 
  	nary circumstances a resort to faith in corporeal means
 6	tends to deter those, who make such a compromise, from
  	entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as really possessing
  	all power. While a course of medical study is at times
 9	severely condemned by some Scientists, she feels, as she
  	always has felt, that all are privileged to work out their
  	own salvation according to their light, and that our motto
12	should be the Master's counsel, "Judge not, that ye be
  	not judged." SHOW ALL

  	    If patients fail to experience the healing power of
15	Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by
  	certain ordinary physical methods of medical	                             Failure's
  	treatment, then the Mind-physician should	                            lessons 
18	give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to
  	whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief. 
  	Thus such invalids may learn the value of the apostolic
21	precept: "Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering
  	and doctrine." If the sick find these material expedients
 1	unsatisfactory, and they receive no help from them, these
  	very failures may open their blind eyes. In some way,
 3	sooner or later, all must rise superior to materiality, and
  	suffering is oft the divine agent in this elevation. "All
  	things work together for good to them that love God," is
 6	the dictum of Scripture.SHOW ALL

  	    If Christian Scientists ever fail to receive aid from
  	other Scientists, — their brethren upon whom they may
 9	call, — God will still guide them into the right	                                Refuge and
  	use of temporary and eternal means. Step by	                       strength 
  	step will those who trust Him find that "God is our refuge
12	and strength, a very present help in trouble." SHOW ALL

  	    Students are advised by the author to be charitable
  	and kind, not only towards differing forms of religion
15	and medicine, but to those who hold these dif-	                             Charity
  	fering opinions. Let us be faithful in pointing	                                    to those
  	the way through Christ, as we understand it,	                                    opposed 
18	but let us also be careful always to "judge righteous judg-
  	ment," and never to condemn rashly. "Whosoever shall
  	smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." 
21	That is, Fear not that he will smite thee again for thy for-
  	bearance. If ecclesiastical sects or medical schools turn
  	a deaf ear to the teachings of Christian Science, then part
24	from these opponents as did Abraham when he parted
  	from Lot, and say in thy heart: "Let there be no strife, I
  	pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herd-
27	men and thy herdmen; for we be brethren." Immortals,
  	or God's children in divine Science, are one harmonious
  	family; but mortals, or the "children of men" in material
30	sense, are discordant and ofttimes false brethren. SHOW ALL

The teacher must make clear to students the Science
  	of healing, especially its ethics, — that all is Mind, and
 1	that the Scientist must conform to God's requirements. 
  	Also the teacher must thoroughly fit his students to  defend
 3	themselves against sin, and to guard against the	                           Conforming
  	attacks of the would-be mental assassin, who	                           to explicit
  	attempts to kill morally and physically. No	                                   rules 
 6	hypothesis as to the existence of another power should
  	interpose a doubt or fear to hinder the demonstration of
  	Christian Science. Unfold the latent energies and capac-
 9	ities for good in your pupil. Teach the great possibilities
  	of man endued with divine Science. Teach the dangerous
  	possibility of dwarfing the spiritual understanding and
12	demonstration of Truth by sin, or by recourse to material
  	means for healing. Teach the meekness and might of life
  	"hid with Christ in God," and there will be no desire for
15	other healing methods. You render the divine law of
  	healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in
  	the scale with the divine, or limit in any direction of
18	thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.SHOW ALL

 	    Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with
  	Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion
21	of the divine energy in healing the sick. Self-	                                 Divine
  	seeking, envy, passion, pride, hatred, and	                                energy 
  	revenge are cast out by the divine Mind which heals
24	disease. The human will which maketh and worketh a lie,
  	hiding the divine Principle of harmony, is destructive to
  	health, and is the cause of disease rather than its cure. SHOW ALL

27	    There is great danger in teaching Mind-healing indis-
  	criminately, thus disregarding the morals of the student
  	and caring only for the fees. Recalling Jeffer-	                                  Blight of
30	son's words about slavery, "I tremble, when I	                                 avarice 
  	remember that God is just," the author trembles whenever
  	she sees a man, for the petty consideration of money,
 1	teaching his slight knowledge of Mind-power, — per-
  	haps communicating his own bad morals, and in this way
 3	dealing pitilessly with a community unprepared for self-
  	defence. 
  	    A thorough perusal of the author's publications heals
 6	sickness. If patients sometimes seem worse while read-
  	ing this book, the change may either arise from the alarm
  	of the physician, or it may mark the crisis of the disease. 
 9	Perseverance in the perusal of the book has generally
  	completely healed such cases.SHOW ALL

  	    Whoever practises the Science the author teaches,
12	through which Mind pours light and healing upon this
  	generation, can practise on no one from sin-	                           Exclusion of
  	ister or malicious motives without destroying	                          malpractice 
15	his own power to heal and his own health. Good must
  	dominate in the thoughts of the healer, or his demon-
  	stration is protracted, dangerous, and impossible in Sci-
18	ence. A wrong motive involves defeat. In the Science
  	of Mind-healing, it is imperative to be honest, for victory
  	rests on the side of immutable right. To understand
21	God strengthens hope, enthrones faith in Truth, and
  	verifies Jesus' word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even
  	unto the end of the world." SHOW ALL

24	    Resisting evil, you overcome it and prove its nothing-
  	ness. Not human platitudes, but divine beatitudes, re-
  	flect the spiritual light and might which heal	                                  Iniquity
27	the sick. The exercise of will brings on a	                                 overcome 
  	hypnotic state, detrimental to health and integrity of
  	thought. This must therefore be watched and guarded
30	against. Covering iniquity will prevent prosperity and the
  	ultimate triumph of any cause. Ignorance of the error
  	to be eradicated oftentimes subjects you to its abuse.SHOW ALL

 1	    The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon
  	man's individual right of self-government. We have no
 3	authority in Christian Science and no moral	                             No trespass
  	right to attempt to influence the thoughts of	                            on human
  	others, except it be to benefit them. In men-	                            rights 
 6	tal practice you must not forget that erring human opin-
  	ions, conflicting selfish motives, and ignorant attempts
  	to do good may render you incapable of knowing or
 9	judging accurately the need of your fellow-men. There-
  	fore the rule is, heal the sick when called upon for aid,
  	and save the victims of the mental assassins.SHOW ALL

12	    Ignorance, subtlety, or false charity does not for-
  	ever conceal error; evil will in time disclose and pun-
  	ish itself. The recuperative action of the	                                         Expose sin
15	system, when mentally sustained by Truth,	                                without
  	goes on naturally. When sin or sickness — 	                                believing in it 
  	the reverse of harmony — seems true to material sense,
18	impart without frightening or discouraging the pa-
  	tient the truth and spiritual understanding, which de-
  	stroy disease. Expose and denounce the claims of
21	evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no
  	reality in them. A sinner is not reformed merely
  	by assuring him that he cannot be a sinner because
24	there is no sin. To put down the claim of sin,
  	you must detect it, remove the mask, point out the
  	illusion, and thus get the victory over sin and so prove
27	its unreality. The sick are not healed merely by
  	declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that
  	there is none.SHOW ALL

30	    A sinner is afraid to cast the first stone. He may
  	say, as a subterfuge, that evil is unreal, but to know it,
  	he must demonstrate his statement. To assume that
 1	there are no  claims of evil and yet to indulge them, is
  	a moral offence. Blindness and self-righteousness cling
 3	fast to iniquity. When the Publican's wail	                               Wicked
  	went out to the great heart of Love, it won his	                       evasions 
  	humble desire. Evil which obtains in the bodily senses,
 6	but which the heart condemns, has no foundation; but if
  	evil is uncondemned, it is undenied and nurtured. Under
  	such circumstances, to say that there is no evil, is an evil
 9	in itself. When needed tell the truth concerning the lie. 
  	Evasion of Truth cripples integrity, and casts thee down
  	from the pinnacle. SHOW ALL

12	    Christian Science rises above the evidence of the cor-
  	poreal senses; but if you have not risen above sin your-
  	self, do not congratulate yourself upon your	                             Truth's
15	blindness to evil or upon the good you know	                            grand results 
  	and do not. A dishonest position is far from Christianly
  	scientific. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper:
18	but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have
  	mercy." Try to leave on every student's mind the strong
  	impress of divine Science, a high sense of the moral and
21	spiritual qualifications requisite for healing, well knowing
  	it to be impossible for error, evil, and hate to accomplish
  	the grand results of Truth and Love. The reception or
24	pursuit of instructions opposite to absolute Christian
  	Science must always hinder scientific demonstration. SHOW ALL

  	    If the student adheres strictly to the teachings of Chris-
27	tian Science and ventures not to break its rules, he can-
  	not fail of success in healing. It is Christian	                            Adherence to
  	Science to do right, and nothing short of right-	                   righteousness 
30	doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and
  	live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most
  	harm. Fettered by sin yourself, it is difficult to free
 1	another from the fetters of disease. With your own wrists
  	manacled, it is hard to break another's chains. A little
 3	leaven causes the whole mass to ferment. A grain of
  	Christian Science does wonders for mortals, so omnip-
  	otent is Truth, but more of Christian Science must be
 6	gained in order to continue in well doing. SHOW ALL

  	    The wrong done another reacts most heavily against
  	one's self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. 
 9	Think it "easier for a camel to go through	                                  Right adjusts
  	the eye of a needle," than for you to benefit	                                 the balance 
  	yourself by injuring others. Man's  moral mercury, ris-
12	ing or falling, registers his healing ability and fitness to
  	teach. You should practise well what you know, and
  	you will then advance in proportion to your honesty
15	and fidelity, — qualities which insure success in this
  	Science; but it requires a higher understanding to teach
  	this subject properly and correctly than it does to heal
18	the most difficult case. SHOW ALL

	    The baneful effect of evil associates is less seen than
  	felt. The inoculation of evil human thoughts ought to
21	be understood and guarded against. The	                             Inoculation
  	first impression, made on a mind which is	                            of thought 
  	attracted or repelled according to personal merit or de-
24	merit, is a good detective of individual character. Cer-
  	tain minds meet only to separate through simultaneous
  	repulsion. They are enemies without the preliminary
27	offence. The impure are at peace with the impure. 
  	Only virtue is a rebuke to vice. A proper teacher of Chris-
  	tian Science improves the health and the morals of his
30	student if the student practises what he is taught, and
  	unless this result follows, the teacher is a Scientist only
  	in name. SHOW ALL

 1	    There is a large class of thinkers whose bigotry and
  	conceit twist every fact to suit themselves. Their creed
 3	teaches belief in a mysterious, supernatural	                               Three classes
  	God, and in a natural, all-powerful devil. An-	                              of neophytes 
  	other class, still more unfortunate, are so depraved that
 6	they appear to be innocent. They utter a falsehood,
  	while looking you blandly in the face, and they never
  	fail to stab their benefactor in the back. A third class
 9	of thinkers build with solid masonry. They are sincere,
  	generous, noble, and are therefore open to the approach
  	and recognition of Truth. To teach Christian Science
12	to such as these is no task. They do not incline long-
  	ingly to error, whine over the demands of Truth, nor
  	play the traitor for place and power. SHOW ALL

15	    Some people yield slowly to the touch of Truth. Few
  	yield without a struggle, and many are reluctant to ac-
  	knowledge that they have yielded; but un-	                                 Touchstone
18	less this admission is made, evil will boast	                                of Science 
  	itself above good. The Christian Scientist has enlisted
  	to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome
21	them by understanding their nothingness and the allness
  	of God, or good. Sickness to him is no less a temptation
  	than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding
24	God's power over them. The Christian Scientist knows
  	that they are errors of belief, which Truth can and will
  	destroy. SHOW ALL

27	    Who, that has felt the perilous beliefs in life, substance,
  	and intelligence separated from God, can say that there
  	is no error of belief? Knowing the claim of	                            False claims
30	animal magnetism, that all evil combines in	                           annihilated 
  	the belief of life, substance, and intelligence in matter,
  	electricity, animal nature, and organic life, who will deny
 1	that these are the errors which Truth must and will an-
  	nihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the con-
 3	stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from
  	the material world and be separate. They must re-
  	nounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power. 
 6	Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow,
  	must be their queen of life. SHOW ALL

  	    Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter
 9	and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make
  	shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly	                              Treasure
  	awry. They must not only seek, but strive,	                              in heaven 
12	to enter the narrow path of Life, for "wide is the gate,
  	and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and
  	many there be which go in thereat." Man walks in the
15	direction towards which he looks, and where his treasure
  	is, there will his heart be also. If our hopes and affec-
  	tions are spiritual, they come from above, not from be-
18	neath, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit. SHOW ALL

 	    Every Christian Scientist, every conscientious teacher
  	of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will
21	is not Christian Science, and he must recog-	                                 Obligations
  	nize this in order to defend himself from the	                                of teachers 
  	influence of human will. He feels morally obligated to
24	open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the
  	nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any
  	subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental
27	malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. 
  	It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling
  	another from wrong motives, and it is practised either
30	with a mistaken or a wicked purpose. SHOW ALL

  	    Show your student that mental malpractice tends to
  	blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct
 1	him how to bar the door of his thought against this
  	seeming power, — a  task not difficult, when one under-
 3	stands that evil has in reality no power. 	                                    Indispensable
  	Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. 	                            defence 
  	The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a
 6	chance to manifest itself. SHOW ALL

	    Walking in the light, we are accustomed to the light
  	and require it; we cannot see in darkness. But eyes ac-
 9	customed to darkness are pained by the light. 	                      Egotistic
  	When outgrowing the old, you should not fear	                     darkness 
  	to put on the new. Your advancing course may pro-
12	voke envy, but it will also attract respect. When error
  	confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explana-
  	tion which destroys error. Never breathe an immoral
15	atmosphere, unless in the attempt to purify it. Better is
  	the frugal intellectual repast with contentment and virtue,
  	than the luxury of learning with egotism and vice. SHOW ALL

18	    Right is radical. The teacher must know the truth
  	himself. He must live it and love it, or he cannot impart
  	it to others. We soil our garments with con-	                            Unwarranted
21	servatism, and afterwards we must wash them	                   expectations 
  	clean. When the spiritual sense of Truth unfolds its
  	harmonies, you take no risks in the policy of error. Ex-
24	pect to heal simply by repeating the author's words, by
  	right talking and wrong acting, and you will be disap-
  	pointed. Such a practice does not demonstrate the
27	Science by which divine Mind heals the sick. SHOW ALL

  	    Acting from sinful motives destroys your power of
  	healing from the right motive. On the other hand, if
30	you had the inclination or power to practise	                                Reliable
  	wrongly and then should adopt Christian	                               authority 
  	Science, the wrong power would be destroyed. You do
 1	not deny the mathematician's right to distinguish the cor-
  	rect from the incorrect among the examples on the black-
 3	board, nor disbelieve the musician when he distinguishes
  	concord from discord. In like manner it should be granted
  	that the author understands what she is saying. SHOW ALL

Winning the field, battle until truth  wins, mental chemicalization, spiritual remedy
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 6	    Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in
  	the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of
  	invincible truth. Mental chemicalization fol-	                               Winning
 9	lows the explanation of Truth, and a higher	                              the field 
  	basis is thus won; but with some individuals the morbid
  	moral or physical symptoms constantly reappear. I
12	have never witnessed so decided effects from the use of
  	material remedies as from the use of spiritual. SHOW ALL

  	    Teach your student that he must know himself be-
15	fore he can know others and minister to human needs. 
  	Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is	                             Knowledge
  	human weakness, which forfeits divine help. 	                            and honesty 
18	You uncover sin, not in order to injure, but in order
  	to bless the corporeal man; and a right motive has
  	its reward. Hidden sin is spiritual wickedness in high
21	places. The masquerader in this Science thanks God
  	that there is no evil, yet serves evil in the name of
  	good. SHOW ALL

24	    You should treat sickness mentally just as you would
  	sin, except that you must not tell the patient that he is
  	sick nor give names to diseases, for such a	                                Metaphysical
27	course increases fear, the foundation of dis-	                               treatment 
  	ease, and impresses more deeply the wrong mind-picture. 
  	A Christian Scientist's medicine is Mind, the divine Truth
30	that makes man free. A Christian Scientist never recom-
  	mends material hygiene, never manipulates. He does
  	not trespass on the rights of mind nor can he practise
 1	animal magnetism or hypnotism. It need not be added
  	that the use of tobacco or intoxicating drinks is not in
 3	harmony with Christian Science. SHOW ALL

  	    Teach your students the omnipotence of Truth, which
  	illustrates the impotence of error. The understanding,
 6	even in a degree, of the divine All-power de-	                                Impotence
  	stroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path,	                       of hate 
  	 — the path which leads to the house built without hands
 9	"eternal in the heavens." Human hate has no legiti-
  	mate mandate and no kingdom. Love is enthroned. 
  	That evil or matter has neither intelligence nor power,
12	is the doctrine of absolute Christian Science, and this is
  	the great truth which strips all disguise from error.SHOW ALL

  	    He, who understands in a sufficient degree the Princi-
15	ple of Mind-healing, points out to his student error as
  	well as truth, the wrong as well as the right	                                 Love the
  	practice. Love for God and man is the true	                                incentive 
18	incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires,
  	illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives
  	give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to
21	speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of
  	Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the
  	waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. 
24	Patience must "have her perfect work." SHOW ALL

	    Do not dismiss students at the close of a class term,
  	feeling that you have no more to do for them. Let your
27	loving care and counsel support all their feeble	                        Continuity
  	footsteps, until your students tread firmly in	                               of interest 
  	the straight and narrow way. The superiority of spir-
30	itual power over sensuous is the central point of Chris-
  	tian Science. Remember that the letter and mental
  	argument are only human auxiliaries to aid in bringing
 1	thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love,
  	which heals the sick and the sinner. SHOW ALL

 3	    A mental state of self-condemnation and guilt or a
  	faltering and doubting trust in Truth are unsuitable
  	conditions for healing the sick. Such mental	                                Weakness
 6	states indicate weakness instead of strength. 	                       and guilt 
  	Hence the necessity of being right yourself in order to
  	teach this Science of healing. You must utilize the moral
 9	might of Mind in order to walk over the waves of error
  	and support your claims by demonstration. If you are
  	yourself lost in the belief and fear of disease or sin, and
12	if, knowing the remedy, you fail to use the energies of
  	Mind in your own behalf, you can exercise little or no
  	power for others' help. "First cast out the beam out
15	of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast
  	out the mote out of thy brother's eye."SHOW ALL

  	    The student, who receives his knowledge of Christian
18	Science, or metaphysical healing, from a human teacher,
  	may be mistaken in judgment and demonstra-	                         The trust of
  	tion, but God cannot mistake. God selects	                                the All-wise 
21	for the highest service one who has grown into such a
  	fitness for it as renders any abuse of the mission an im-
  	possibility. The All-wise does not bestow His highest
24	trusts upon the unworthy. When He commissions a mes-
  	senger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself. No per-
  	son can misuse this mental power, if he is taught of God
27	to discern it. SHOW ALL

  	    This strong point in Christian Science is not to be
  	overlooked, — that the same fountain cannot send forth
30	both sweet waters and bitter. The higher	                                Integrity
  	your attainment in the Science of mental	                               assured 
  	healing and teaching, the more impossible it will be-
 1	come for you intentionally to influence mankind adverse
  	to its highest hope and achievement.SHOW ALL

 3	    Teaching or practising in the name of Truth, but con-
  	trary to its spirit or rules, is most dangerous quackery. 
  	Strict adherence to the divine Principle and	                             Chicanery
 6	rules of the scientific method has secured	                            impossible 
  	the only success of the students of Christian Science. 
  	This alone entitles them to the high standing which
 9	most of them hold in the community, a reputation ex-
  	perimentally justified by their efforts. Whoever af-
  	firms that there is more than one Principle and method
12	of demonstrating Christian Science greatly errs, igno-
  	rantly or intentionally, and separates himself from the
  	true conception of Christian Science healing and from
15	its possible demonstration. SHOW ALL

  	    Any dishonesty in your theory and practice betrays a
  	gross ignorance of the method of the Christ-cure. Science
18	makes no concessions to persons or opinions. 	                            No dishonest
  	One must abide in the morale of truth or he	                                   concessions 
  	cannot demonstrate the divine Principle. So long as
21	matter is the basis of practice, illness cannot be effica-
  	ciously treated by the metaphysical process. Truth does
  	the work, and you must both understand and abide by the
24	divine Principle of your demonstration.SHOW ALL

 	    A Christian Scientist requires my work SCIENCE AND
  	HEALTH for his textbook, and so do all his students and
27	patients. Why? First: Because it is the voice	                                This volume
  	of Truth to this age, and contains the full	                               indispensable 
  	statement of Christian Science, or the Science of healing
30	through Mind. Second: Because it was the first book
  	known, containing a thorough statement of Christian
  	Science. Hence it gave the first rules for demonstrating
 1	this Science, and registered the revealed Truth uncon-
  	taminated by human hypotheses. Other works, which
 3	have borrowed from this book without giving it credit,
  	have adulterated the Science. Third: Because this book
  	has done more for teacher and student, for healer and
 6	patient, than has been accomplished by other books.SHOW ALL

	    Since the divine light of Christian Science first dawned
  	upon the author, she has never used this newly discovered
 9	power in any direction which she fears to have	                             Purity of
  	fairly understood. Her prime object, since	                                    science 
  	entering this field of labor, has been to prevent suffering, 
12	not to produce it. That we cannot scientifically both
  	cure and cause disease is self-evident. In the legend of
  	the shield, which led to a quarrel between two knights
15	because each of them could see but one face of it, both
  	sides were beautiful according to their degree; but to
  	mental malpractice, prolific of evil, there is no good as-
18	pect, either silvern or golden. SHOW ALL

  	    Christian Science is not an exception to the general
  	rule, that there is no excellence without labor in a direct
21	line. One cannot scatter his fire, and at the	                              Backsliders
  	same time hit the mark. To pursue other	                                     and mistakes 
  	vocations and advance rapidly in the demonstration of
24	this Science, is not possible. Departing from Christian
  	Science, some learners commend diet and hygiene. 
  	They even practise these, intending thereby to initiate
27	the cure which they mean to complete with Mind, as if
  	the non-intelligent could aid Mind! The Scientist's
  	demonstration rests on one Principle, and there must
30	and can be no opposite rule. Let this Principle be ap-
  	plied to the cure of disease without exploiting other
  	means. SHOW ALL

 1	    Mental quackery rests on the same platform as all
  	other quackery. The chief plank in this platform is the
 3	doctrine that Science has two principles in	                             Mental
  	partnership, one good and the other evil, — 	                            charlatanism 
  	one spiritual, the other material, — and that these two 
 6	may be simultaneously at work on the sick. This
  	theory is supposed to favor practice from both a mental
  	and a material standpoint. Another plank in the plat-
 9	form is this, that error will finally have the same effect
  	as truth.SHOW ALL

  	    It is anything but scientifically Christian to think of
12	aiding the divine Principle of healing or of trying to sus-
  	tain the human body until the divine Mind	                              Divinity
  	is ready to take the case. Divinity is always	                             ever ready 
15	ready. Semper paratus is Truth's motto. Having seen
  	so much suffering from quackery, the author desires to
  	keep it out of Christian Science. The two-edged sword
18	of Truth must turn in every direction to guard "the tree
  	of life." SHOW ALL

  	    Sin makes deadly thrusts at the Christian Scientist as
21	ritualism and creed are summoned to give place to higher
  	law, but Science will ameliorate mortal malice. 	                          The panoply
  	The Christianly scientific man reflects the	                                 of wisdom 
24	divine law, thus becoming a law unto himself. He does
  	violence to no man. Neither is he a false accuser. The
  	Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is hon-
27	est and consistent in following the leadings of divine
  	Mind. He must prove, through living as well as heal-
  	ing and teaching, that Christ's way is the only one
30	by which mortals are radically saved from sin and
  	sickness. SHOW ALL

  	    Christianity causes men to turn naturally from matter
 1	to Spirit, as the flower turns from darkness to light. 
  	Man then appropriates those things which "eye hath
 3	not seen nor ear heard." Paul  and John	                                      Advancement
  	had a clear apprehension that, as mortal man	                      by
  	achieves no worldly honors except by sacrifice,	                      sacrifice 
 6	so he must gain heavenly riches by forsaking all worldli-
  	ness. Then he will have nothing in common with the
  	worldling's affections, motives, and aims. Judge not the
 9	future advancement of Christian Science by the steps
  	already taken, lest you yourself be condemned for fail-
  	ing to take the first step. SHOW ALL

12	    Any attempt to heal mortals with erring mortal mind,
  	instead of resting on the omnipotence of the divine
  	Mind, must prove abortive. Committing the	                            Dangerous
15	bare process of mental healing to frail mor-	                           knowledge 
  	tals, untaught and unrestrained by Christian Science,
  	is like putting a sharp knife into the hands of a blind
18	man or a raging maniac, and turning him loose in
  	the crowded streets of a city. Whether animated by
  	malice or ignorance, a false practitioner will work mis-
21	chief, and ignorance is more harmful than wilful wicked-
  	ness, when the latter is distrusted and thwarted in its
  	incipiency. SHOW ALL

24	    To mortal sense Christian Science seems abstract, but
  	the process is simple and the results are sure if the Science
  	is understood. The tree must be good, which	                                  Certainty
27	produces good fruit. Guided by divine Truth	                                 of results 
  	and not guesswork, the theologus (that is, the student — 
  	the Christian and scientific expounder — of the divine
30	law) treats disease with more certain results than any
  	other healer on the globe. The Christian Scientist should
  	understand and adhere strictly to the rules of divine meta-
 1	physics as laid down in this work, and rest his demonstra-
  	tion on this sure basis. SHOW ALL

 3	    Ontology is defined as "the science of the necessary
  	constituents and relations of all beings," and it under-
  	lies all metaphysical practice. Our system of	                              Ontology
 6	Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the	                     defined 
  	nature and essence of all being, — on the divine Mind
  	and Love's essential qualities. Its pharmacy is moral,
 9	and its medicine is intellectual and spiritual, though used
  	for physical healing. Yet this most fundamental part of
  	metaphysics is the one most difficult to understand and
12	demonstrate, for to the material thought all is material,
  	till such thought is rectified by Spirit. SHOW ALL

  	    Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal, — that is,
15	to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness
  	is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It	                           Mischievous
  	is therefore to be dealt with through right ap-	                          imagination 
18	prehension of the truth of being. If Christian healing
  	is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a
  	tedious mischief-maker. Instead of scientifically effect-
21	ing a cure, it starts a petty crossfire over every cripple
  	and invalid, buffeting them with the superficial and cold
  	assertion, "Nothing ails you." SHOW ALL

24	    When the Science of Mind was a fresh revelation to
  	the author, she had to impart, while teaching its grand
  	facts, the hue of spiritual ideas from her own	                                   Author's early
27	spiritual condition, and she had to do this orally	                          instructions 
  	through the meagre channel afforded by language and by
  	her manuscript circulated among the students. As for-
30	mer beliefs were gradually expelled from her thought, the
  	teaching became clearer, until finally the shadow of old
  	errors was no longer cast upon divine Science. SHOW ALL

 1	    I do not maintain that anyone can exist in the flesh
  	without food and raiment; but I do believe that the
 3	real man is immortal and that he lives in	                                          Proof by
  	Spirit, not matter. Christian Science must	                                 induction 
  	be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the
 6	whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates
  	and proves the entire Principle. Christian Science can
  	be taught only by those who are morally advanced and
 9	spiritually endowed, for it is not superficial, nor is it
  	discerned from the standpoint of the human senses. 
  	Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can
12	the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science,
  	because Science reverses the evidence before the material
  	senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and
15	man. 
  	    If you believe that you are sick, should you say, "I am
  	sick"? No, but you should tell your belief sometimes,
18	if this be requisite to protect others. If you commit a
  	crime, should you acknowledge to yourself that you are
  	a criminal? Yes. Your responses should differ because
21	of the different effects they produce. Usually to admit
  	that you are sick, renders your case less curable, while
  	to recognize your sin, aids in destroying it. Both sin and
24	sickness are error, and Truth is their remedy. The truth
  	regarding error is, that error is not true, hence it is unreal. 
  	To prove scientifically the error or unreality of sin, you
27	must first see the claim of sin, and then destroy it. 
  	Whereas, to prove scientifically the error or unreality of
  	disease, you must mentally unsee the disease; then you
30	will not feel it, and it is destroyed. SHOW ALL

  	    Systematic teaching and the student's spiritual growth
  	and experience in practice are requisite for a thorough
 1	comprehension of Christian Science. Some individu-
  	als assimilate truth more readily than others, but any
 3	student,  who adheres to the divine rules	                            Rapidity of
  	of Christian Science and imbibes the spirit	                            assimilation 
  	of Christ, can demonstrate Christian Science, cast out
 6	error, heal the sick, and add continually to his store of
  	spiritual understanding, potency, enlightenment, and
  	success. SHOW ALL

 9	    If the student goes away to practise Truth's teach-
  	ings only in part, dividing his interests between God and
  	mammon and substituting his own views for	                                   Divided
12	Truth, he will inevitably reap the error he sows. 	                          loyalty 
  	Whoever would demonstrate the healing of Christian
  	Science must abide strictly by its rules, heed every state-
15	ment, and advance from the rudiments laid down. There
  	is nothing difficult nor toilsome in this task, when the way
  	is pointed out; but self-denial, sincerity, Christianity, and
18	persistence alone win the prize, as they usually do in every
  	department of life. SHOW ALL

  	    Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-
21	knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to
  	discover their quality, quantity, and origin. 	                                 Anatomy
  	Are thoughts divine or human? That is the	                                defined 
24	important question. This branch of study is indispen-
  	sable to the excision of error. The anatomy of Christian
  	Science teaches when and how to probe the self-in-
27	flicted wounds of selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It
  	teaches the control of mad ambition. It unfolds the
  	hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spir-
30	itual love. It urges the government of the body both
  	in health and in sickness. The Christian Scientist,
  	through understanding mental anatomy, discerns and
 1	deals with the real cause of disease. The material physi-
  	cian gropes among phenomena, which fluctuate every in-
 3	stant under influences not embraced in his diagnosis, and
  	so he may stumble and fall in the darkness. SHOW ALL

  	    Teacher and student should also be familiar with the
 6	obstetrics taught by this Science. To attend properly
  	the birth of the new child, or divine idea,	                                    Scientific
  	you should so detach mortal thought from its	                           obstetrics 
 9	material conceptions, that the birth will be natural and
  	safe. Though gathering new energy, this idea cannot
  	injure its useful surroundings in the travail of spiritual
12	birth. A spiritual idea has not a single element of error,
  	and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive. 
  	The new idea, conceived and born of Truth and Love, is
15	clad in white garments. Its beginning will be meek, its
  	growth sturdy, and its maturity undecaying. When
  	this new birth takes place, the Christian Science infant
18	is born of the Spirit, born of God, and can cause the
  	mother no more suffering. By this we know that Truth
  	is here and has fulfilled its perfect work.SHOW ALL

21	    To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error — 
  	whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin,
  	or death — is the first step towards destroy-	                                     Unhesitating
24	ing error. Our Master treated error through	                                    decision 
  	Mind. He never enjoined obedience to the laws of nature,
  	if by these are meant laws of matter, nor did he use drugs. 
27	There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a
  	spiritual law instead of material. The sick are not healed
  	by inanimate matter or drugs, as they believe that they
30	are. Such seeming medical effect or action is that of so-
  	called mortal mind. SHOW ALL

	    It has been said to the author, "The world is bene-
 1	fited by you, but it feels your influence without seeing
  	you. Why do you not make yourself more widely
 3	known?" Could her friends know  how little	                               Seclusion of
  	time the author has had, in which to make	                               the author 
  	herself outwardly known except through her laborious
 6	publications, — and how much time and toil are still re-
  	quired to establish the stately operations of Christian
  	Science, — they would understand why she is so secluded. 
 9	Others could not take her place, even if willing so to do. 
  	She therefore remains unseen at her post, seeking no self-
  	aggrandizement but praying, watching, and working for
12	the redemption of mankind. SHOW ALL

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  	    If from an injury or from any cause, a Christian Scien-
  	tist were seized with pain so violent that he could not
15	treat himself mentally, — and the Scientists had failed
  	to relieve  him, — the sufferer could call a surgeon, who
  	would give him a hypodermic injection, then, when the
18	belief of pain was lulled, he could handle his own case
  	mentally. Thus it is that we "prove all things; [and]
  	hold fast that which is good." SHOW ALL

21	    In founding a pathological system of Christianity, the
  	author has labored to expound divine Principle, and not
  	to exalt personality. The weapons of bigotry,	                                   The right
24	ignorance, envy, fall before an honest heart. 	                                  motive and
  	Adulterating Christian Science, makes it void. 	                          its reward 
  	Falsity has no foundation. "The hireling fleeth, because
27	he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep." Neither
  	dishonesty nor ignorance ever founded, nor can they over-
         throw a scientific system of ethics.SHOW ALL