Chapter 15b ~ Genesis Exegesis ~ Subtitles
Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.
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…GENESIS, begins with the story of the seven days of creation showing that the nature of God as sevenfold has in fact always been presented to mankind through the Scriptures. The seven days are the Bible's symbolization of what we call the seven synonymous terms. These days illustrate how the seven terms which are God generate within us the understanding of what those synonyms are. It is like a teacher in a classroom telling the children what the numbers are and then saying that next he will show them what they represent, how to use them, and what to do with them. So the "Genesis" chapter shows us how the divine sevenfold nature of God unfolds itself in human life, regenerating our conception of ourselves, so that we are no longer born of Adam and Eve, or of Darwin's theory of evolution, but we are really consciously born of God right where material evolution seems to be. The sevenfold generative nature of God exposes the unreality of the Adam story in which mortals seem to have originated. ~ DISSOLVING BARRIERS, The Healing Work of Christian Science by John L. MorganSHOW ALL
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1 | 6 | 502 | Genesis 1 verse 1 - Ideas and identities | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 1 |
Ideas and identities - Genesis 1 verse 1 | 18 In the following exegesis, each text is followed by its spiritual interpretation according to the teachings of Chris- tian Science. 21 EXEGESIS Genesis i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 24 The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only, — that is, the eternal ver- ity and unity of God and man, including Ideas and 27 the universe. The creative Principle — Life, identities Truth, and Love — is God. The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This crea- 1 tion consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and 3 forever reflected. These ideas range from the infini- tesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God. SHOW ALL |
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2 | 7 | 503 | Genesis 1 verse 2 - Harmony - Spiritual harmony |
1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 2 |
Harmony - Spiritual harmony - Genesis 1 verse 2 | 6 Genesis i. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the503: spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 9 The divine Principle and idea constitute spiritual har- mony, — heaven and eternity. In the universe of Truth, matter is unknown. No supposition of error Spiritual 12 enters there. Divine Science, the Word of harmony God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, "God is All-in-all," and the light of ever-present Love illumines 15 the universe. Hence the eternal wonder, — that infinite space is peopled with God's ideas, reflecting Him in countless spiritual forms. SHOW ALL |
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3 | 8 | 503 | Genesis 1 verse 3 - Idea - Mind’s idea faultless |
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Idea - Mind’s idea faultless - Genesis 1 verse 3 | 18 Genesis i. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Immortal and divine Mind presents the idea of God: 21 first, in light; second, in reflection; third, in spiritual and immortal forms of beauty and goodness. But Mind's idea this Mind creates no element nor symbol of faultless 24 discord and decay. God creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love. SHOW ALL |
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4 | 9 | 503 | Genesis 1 verse 4 - Light – God dwells in infinite light - MBESI |
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Light – God dwells in infinite light - MBESI - Genesis 1 verse 4 | Genesis i. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: 27 and God divided the light from the darkness. God, Spirit, dwelling in infinite light and harmony 1 from which emanates the true idea, is never reflected by aught but the good. SHOW ALL |
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5 | 10 | 504 | Genesis 1 verse 5 - Light preceding the sun |
1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 5 |
Light preceding the sun - 1 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 5 | 3 Genesis i. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morn- ing were the first day. 6 All questions as to the divine creation being both spiritual and material are answered in this passage, for though solar beams are not yet included in Light preced- 9 the record of creation, still there is light. This ing the sun light is not from the sun nor from volcanic flames, but it is the revelation of Truth and of spiritual ideas. This 12 also shows that there is no place where God's light is not seen, since Truth, Life, and Love fill immensity and are ever-present. Was not this a revelation instead of a 15 creation? SHOW ALL |
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6 | 11 | 504 | Genesis 1 verse 5 - Evenings and mornings | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 2 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 5 |
Evenings and mornings - 2 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 5 | 3 Genesis i. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morn- ing were the first day. The successive appearing of God's ideas is represented as taking place on so many evenings and mornings, — 18 words which indicate, in the absence of solar Evenings and time, spiritually clearer views of Him, views mornings which are not implied by material darkness and dawn. 21 Here we have the explanation of another passage of Scripture, that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years." The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into 24 the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence. SHOW ALL |
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7 | 12 | 504 | Genesis 1 verse 5 - Spirit versus darkness | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 3 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 5. |
Spirit versus darkness - 3 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 5 | 3 Genesis i. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morn- ing were the first day. 27 Did infinite Mind create matter, and call it light? Spirit is light, and the contradiction of Spirit is matter, darkness, and darkness obscures light. Mate- Spirit versus 30 rial sense is nothing but a supposition of the darkness absence of Spirit. No solar rays nor planetary revolutions 1 form the day of Spirit. Immortal Mind makes its own record, but mortal mind, sleep, dreams, sin, disease, and 3 death have no record in the first chapter of Genesis. SHOW ALL |
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8 | 13 | 505 | Genesis 1 verse 6 - Firmament - Spiritual firmament |
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Firmament - Spiritual firmament - Genesis 1 verse 6 | Genesis i. 6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from 6 the waters. Spiritual understanding, by which human conception, material sense, is separated from Truth, is the firmament. 9 The divine Mind, not matter, creates all iden- Spiritual tities, and they are forms of Mind, the ideas of firmament Spirit apparent only as Mind, never as mindless matter 12 nor the so-called material senses. SHOW ALL |
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9 | 14 | 505 | Genesis 1 verse 7 - Understanding imparted | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 2 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 7 |
Understanding imparted - 1 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 7 | Genesis i. 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters 15 which were above the firmament: and it was so. Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts con- sciousness and leads into all truth. The Psalmist saith: 18 "The Lord on high is mightier than the noise Understanding of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of imparted the sea." Spiritual sense is the discernment of spiritual 21 good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal. Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind, — Life, Truth, and Love, — and demonstrates the 24 divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the universe in Christian Science. SHOW ALL |
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10 | 15 | 505 | Genesis 1 verse 7 - Reflected - Original reflected |
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Reflected - Original reflected - 2 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 7 | Genesis i. 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters 15 which were above the firmament: and it was so. This understanding is not intellectual, is not the result 27 of scholarly attainments; it is the reality of all things brought to light. God's ideas reflect the im- Original mortal, unerring, and infinite. The mortal, reflected 30 erring, and finite are human beliefs, which apportion to 1 themselves a task impossible for them, that of distinguish- ing between the false and the true. Objects utterly un- 3 like the original do not reflect that original. Therefore matter, not being the reflection of Spirit, has no real en- tity. Understanding is a quality of God, a quality which 6 separates Christian Science from supposition and makes Truth final. SHOW ALL |
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11 | 16 | 506 | Genesis 1 verse 8 - Thought - Exalted thought |
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Thought - Exalted thought - Genesis 1 verse 8 | Genesis i. 8. And God called the firmament Heaven. 9 And the evening and the morning were the second day. Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites under- standing to eternal harmony. The calm and exalted 12 thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace. Exalted Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each thought successive stage of progress. SHOW ALL |
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12 | 17 | 506 | Genesis 1 verse 9 - Thoughts - Unfolding of thoughts |
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Thoughts - Unfolding of thoughts - Genesis 1 verse 9 | 15 Genesis i. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 18 Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, Unfolding even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose of thoughts 21 in order that the purpose may appear. SHOW ALL |
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13 | 18 | 506 | Genesis 1 verse 10 - Names and blesses - Spirit names and blesses |
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Names and blesses - Spirit names and blesses - Genesis 1 verse 10 | Genesis i. 10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and 24 God saw that it was good. Here the human concept and divine idea seem con- fused by the translator, but they are not so in the scien- 27 tifically Christian meaning of the text. Upon Spirit names Adam devolved the pleasurable task of find- and blesses ing names for all material things, but Adam has not yet 1 appeared in the narrative. In metaphor, the dry land illustrates the absolute formations instituted by Mind, 3 while water symbolizes the elements of Mind. Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the father- 6 hood and motherhood of God. Spirit names and blesses all. Without natures particularly defined, objects and subjects would be obscure, and creation would be full of 9 nameless offspring, — wanderers from the parent Mind, strangers in a tangled wilderness. SHOW ALL |
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14 | 19 | 507 | Genesis 1 verse 11 - Divine propagation | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 2 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 11 |
Divine propagation - 1 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 11 | Genesis i. 11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth 12 grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 15 The universe of Spirit reflects the creative power of the divine Principle, or Life, which reproduces the multi- tudinous forms of Mind and governs the mul- Divine 18 tiplication of the compound idea man. The propagation tree and herb do not yield fruit because of any propagat- ing power of their own, but because they reflect the Mind 21 which includes all. A material world implies a mortal mind and man a creator. The scientific divine creation declares immortal Mind and the universe created by God. SHOW ALL |
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15 | 20 | 507 | Genesis 1 verse 11 - Creation – Ever appearing creation |
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Creation – Ever appearing creation - 2 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 11 | Genesis i. 11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth 12 grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 24 Infinite Mind creates and governs all, from the men- tal molecule to infinity. This divine Principle of all expresses Science and art throughout His Ever-appearing 27 creation, and the immortality of man and the creation universe. Creation is ever appearing, and must ever con- tinue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source. 30 Mortal sense inverts this appearing and calls ideas mate- rial. Thus misinterpreted, the divine idea seems to fall 1 to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal man. But the seed is in itself, only as the divine Mind 3 is All and reproduces all — as Mind is the multiplier, and Mind's infinite idea, man and the universe, is the product. The only intelligence or substance of a thought, 6 a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it. Mind is the Soul of all. Mind is Life, Truth, and Love which gov- erns all. SHOW ALL |
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16 | 21 | 508 | Genesis 1 verse 12 - Thought - Mind’s pure thought |
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Thought - Mind’s pure thought - Genesis 1 verse 12 | 9 Genesis i. 12. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw 12 that it was good. God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gen- der is mental, not material. The seed within itself is 15 the pure thought emanating from divine Mind's pure Mind. The feminine gender is not yet ex- thought pressed in the text. Gender means simply kind or sort, 18 and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither 21 male nor female. The Mind or intelligence of produc- tion names the female gender last in the ascending order of creation. The intelligent individual idea, be it male 24 or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds the infinitude of Love. SHOW ALL |
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17 | 22 | 508 | Genesis 1 verse 13 - Light - Rising to the light |
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Light - Rising to the light - Genesis 1 verse 13 | Genesis i. 13. And the evening and the morning were 27 the third day. The third stage in the order of Christian Science is an important one to the human thought, letting in the light 1 of spiritual understanding. This period corresponds to the resurrection, when Spirit is discerned to be the Life of 3 all, and the deathless Life, or Mind, dependent Rising to upon no material organization. Our Master the light reappeared to his students, — to their apprehension he 6 rose from the grave, — on the third day of his ascending thought, and so presented to them the certain sense of eternal Life. SHOW ALL |
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18 | 23 | 509 | Genesis 1 verse 14 - Thought - Rarefaction of thought |
1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 14 |
Thought - Rarefaction of thought - 1 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 14 | 9 Genesis i. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, 12 and years. Spirit creates no other than heavenly or celestial bodies, but the stellar universe is no more celestial than our earth. 15 This text gives the idea of the rarefaction of Rarefaction thought as it ascends higher. God forms and of thought peoples the universe. The light of spiritual understand- 18 ing gives gleams of the infinite only, even as nebulae indi- cate the immensity of space. SHOW ALL |
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19 | 24 | 509 | Genesis 1 verse 14 - Nature - Divine nature appearing |
1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 2 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 14 |
Nature - Divine nature appearing - 2 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 14 | 9 Genesis i. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, 12 and years. So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances 21 are no more contingent now on time or material struc- ture than they were when "the morning stars Divine nature sang together." Mind made the "plant of appearing 24 the field before it was in the earth." The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness 27 — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the uni- verse never to disappear. SHOW ALL |
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20 | 25 | 509 | Genesis 1 verse 14 - Ideas apprehended - Spiritual ideas apprehended |
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Ideas apprehended - Spiritual ideas apprehended - 3 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 14 | 9 Genesis i. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, 12 and years. Knowing the Science of creation, in which all is Mind 30 and its ideas, Jesus rebuked the material thought of his fellow-countrymen: "Ye can discern the face of the 1 sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" How much more should we seek to apprehend the spirit- 3 ual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects Spiritual ideas of sense! To discern the rhythm of Spirit apprehended and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual. SHOW ALL |
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21 | 26 | 510 | Genesis 1 verse 15 - Enlighten the understanding – Truth and love enlighten the understanding - MBESI |
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Enlighten the understanding – Truth and love enlighten the understanding - MBESI - Genesis 1 verse 15 | 6 Genesis i. 15. And let them be for lights in the firma- ment of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 9 Truth and Love enlighten the understanding, in whose "light shall we see light;" and this illumination is re- flected spiritually by all who walk in the light and turn 12 away from a false material sense. SHOW ALL |
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22 | 27 | 510 | Genesis 1 verse 16 - Geology a failure | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 2 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 16 |
Geology a failure - 1 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 16 | Genesis i. 16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the 15 night: He made the stars also. The sun is a metaphorical representation of Soul out- side the body, giving existence and intelligence to the 18 universe. Love alone can impart the limit- Geology less idea of infinite Mind. Geology has never a failure explained the earth's formations; it cannot explain them. 21 There is no Scriptural allusion to solar light until time has been already divided into evening and morning; and the allusion to fluids (Genesis i. 2) indicates a supposed for- 24 mation of matter by the resolving of fluids into solids, analogous to the suppositional resolving of thoughts into material things. SHOW ALL |
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23 | 28 | 510 | Genesis 1 verse 16 - Subdivision - Spiritual subdivision |
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Subdivision - Spiritual subdivision - 2 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 16 | Genesis i. 16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the 15 night: He made the stars also. 27 Light is a symbol of Mind, of Life, Truth, and Love, and not a vitalizing property of matter. Sci- Spiritual ence reveals only one Mind, and this one shin- subdivision 30 ing by its own light and governing the universe, including 1 man, in perfect harmony. This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, 3 intelligence, and so explains the Scripture phrase, "whose seed is in itself." Thus God's ideas "multiply and re- plenish the earth." The divine Mind supports the sub- 6 limity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation. SHOW ALL |
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24 | 29 | 511 | Genesis 1 verses 17 and 18 - Darkness scattered | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verses: Genesis 1 verses 17 and 18 |
Darkness scattered - Genesis 1 verses 17 and 18 | Genesis i. 17, 18. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over 9 the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. In divine Science, which is the seal of Deity and has 12 the impress of heaven, God is revealed as in- Darkness finite light. In the eternal Mind, no night is scattered there. SHOW ALL |
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25 | 30 | 511 | Genesis 1 verse 19 - Progress - Periods of progress - MBESI |
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Progress - Periods of progress - MBESI - Genesis 1 verse 19 | 15 Genesis i. 19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. The changing glow and full effulgence of God's infi- 18 nite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress. | |
26 | 31 | 511 | Genesis 1 verse 20 - Aspirations - Soaring aspirations |
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Aspirations - Soaring aspirations - Genesis 1 verse 20 | Genesis i. 20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 21 that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. To mortal mind, the universe is liquid, solid, and aeri- 24 form. Spiritually interpreted, rocks and mountains stand for solid and grand ideas. Animals and mor- Soaring tals metaphorically present the gradation of aspirations 27 mortal thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The fowls, which fly above the earth in the open firmament 1 of heaven, correspond to aspirations soaring beyond and above corporeality to the understanding of the incorporeal 3 and divine Principle, Love. SHOW ALL |
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27 | 32 | 512 | Genesis 1 verse 21 - Symbols - Seraphic symbols |
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Symbols - Seraphic symbols - Genesis 1 verse 21 | Genesis i. 21. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth 6 abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, 9 and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These an- gels of His presence, which have the holiest Seraphic charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of symbols 12 Mind, and consequently reproduce their own character- istics. Their individual forms we know not, but we do know that their natures are allied to God's nature; and 15 spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding. SHOW ALL |
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28 | 33 | 512 | Genesis 1 verse 22 - Ideas multiplied - Multiplication of pure ideas |
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Ideas multiplied - Multiplication of pure ideas - Genesis 1 verse 22 | Genesis i. 22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruit- 18 ful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let fowl multiply in the earth. Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and 21 perfect ideas. From the infinite elements of the one Mind emanate all form, color, quality, and Multiplication quantity, and these are mental, both primarily of pure ideas 24 and secondarily. Their spiritual nature is discerned only through the spiritual senses. Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal names and natures upon its 27 own misconceptions. Ignorant of the origin and opera- tions of mortal mind, — that is, ignorant of itself, — this so-called mind puts forth its own qualities, and claims 30 God as their author; albeit God is ignorant of the ex- 1 istence of both this mortal mentality, so-called, and its claim, for the claim usurps the deific prerogatives and is 3 an attempted infringement on infinity. SHOW ALL |
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29 | 34 | 513 | Genesis 1 verse 23 - Spheres - Spiritual spheres |
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Spheres - Spiritual spheres - Genesis 1 verse 23 | Genesis i. 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 6 Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings. To material sense, this divine universe is dim and Spiritual 9 distant, gray in the sombre hues of twilight; spheres but anon the veil is lifted, and the scene shifts into light. In the record, time is not yet measured by solar revolutions, 12 and the motions and reflections of deific power cannot be apprehended until divine Science becomes the interpreter. SHOW ALL |
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30 | 35 | 513 | Genesis 1 verse 24 - Thoughts - Continuity of thoughts |
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Thoughts - Continuity of thoughts - Genesis 1 verse 24 | Genesis i. 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth 15 the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Spirit diversifies, classifies, and individualizes all 18 thoughts, which are as eternal as the Mind Continuity conceiving them; but the intelligence, exist- of thoughts ence, and continuity of all individuality remain in God, 21 who is the divinely creative Principle thereof. SHOW ALL |
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31 | 36 | 513 | Genesis 1 verse 25 - Realities - God’s thoughts are spiritual realities |
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Realities - God’s thoughts are spiritual realities - 1 of 4 - Genesis 1 verse 25 | Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that 24 creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are 27 spiritual realities. So-called mortal mind — being non- existent and consequently not within the range of im- 1 mortal existence — could not by simulating deific power invert the divine creation, and afterwards recreate per- 3 sons or things upon its own plane, since noth- God's thoughts ing exists beyond the range of all-inclusive are spiritual infinity, in which and of which God is the realities 6 sole creator. Mind, joyous in strength, dwells in the realm of Mind. Mind's infinite ideas run and dis- port themselves. In humility they climb the heights of 9 holiness. SHOW ALL |
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32 | 37 | 514 | Genesis 1 verse 25 - Thought - Qualities of thought |
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Thought - Qualities of thought - 2 of 4 - Genesis 1 verse 25 | Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that 24 creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Moral courage is "the lion of the tribe of Juda," the king of the mental realm. Free and fearless it roams in 12 the forest. Undisturbed it lies in the open Qualities field, or rests in "green pastures, . . . beside of thought the still waters." In the figurative transmission from the 15 divine thought to the human, diligence, promptness, and perseverance are likened to "the cattle upon a thousand hills." They carry the baggage of stern resolve, and 18 keep pace with highest purpose. Tenderness accompa- nies all the might imparted by Spirit. The individ- uality created by God is not carnivorous, as witness the 21 millennial estate pictured by Isaiah: — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with the kid; 24 And the calf and the young lion, and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. SHOW ALL |
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33 | 38 | 514 | Genesis 1 verse 25 - Creatures of God useful |
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Creatures of God useful - 3 of 4 - Genesis 1 verse 25 | Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that 24 creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Understanding the control which Love held over all, 27 Daniel felt safe in the lions' den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless. All of God's creatures, Creatures of moving in the harmony of Science, are harm- God useful 30 less, useful, indestructible. A realization of this grand verity was a source of strength to the ancient worthies. 1 It supports Christian healing, and enables its possessor to emulate the example of Jesus. "And God saw that 3 it was good." SHOW ALL |
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34 | 39 | 515 | Genesis 1 verse 25 - Serpent harmless - The serpent harmless |
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Serpent harmless - The serpent harmless - 4 of 4 - Genesis 1 verse 25 | Genesis i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that 24 creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Patience is symbolized by the tireless worm, creeping over lofty summits, persevering in its intent. The ser- 6 pent of God's creating is neither subtle nor The serpent poisonous, but is a wise idea, charming in its harmless adroitness, for Love's ideas are subject to the Mind which 9 forms them, — the power which changeth the serpent into a staff. SHOW ALL |
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35 | 40 | 515 | Genesis 1 verse 26 - Plurality - Elohistic plurality |
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Plurality - Elohistic plurality - 1 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 26 | Genesis i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our 12 image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping 15 thing that creepeth upon the earth. The eternal Elohim includes the forever universe. The name Elohim is in the plural, but this plurality of 18 Spirit does not imply more than one God, nor Elohistic does it imply three persons in one. It relates plurality to the oneness, the tri-unity of Life, Truth, and Love. 21 "Let them have dominion." Man is the family name for all ideas, — the sons and daughters of God. All that God imparts moves in accord with Him, reflecting good- 24 ness and power. SHOW ALL |
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Likeness - Reflected likeness - 2 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 26 | Genesis i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our 12 image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping 15 thing that creepeth upon the earth. Your mirrored reflection is your own image or like- ness. If you lift a weight, your reflection does this also. 27 If you speak, the lips of this likeness move in Reflected accord with yours. Now compare man before likeness the mirror to his divine Principle, God. Call the mirror 30 divine Science, and call man the reflection. Then note 1 how true, according to Christian Science, is the reflection to its original. As the reflection of yourself appears in 3 the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God. The substance, Life, intelligence, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, are reflected by His creation; 6 and when we subordinate the false testimony of the corporeal senses to the facts of Science, we shall see this true likeness and reflection everywhere. SHOW ALL |
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Beauty - Love imparts beauty - 3 of 3 - Genesis 1 verse 26 | Genesis i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. |
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38 | 43 | 516 | Genesis 1 verse 27 - Man and woman - Ideal man and woman |
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Man and woman - Ideal man and woman - 1 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 27 | 24 Genesis i. 27. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 27 To emphasize this momentous thought, it is repeated that God made man in His own image, to reflect the divine Spirit. It follows that man is a generic Ideal man 30 term. Masculine, feminine, and neuter gen- and woman ders are human concepts. In one of the ancient lan- 1 guages the word for man is used also as the synonym of mind. This definition has been weakened by anthropo- 3 morphism, or a humanization of Deity. The word an- thropomorphic, in such a phrase as "an anthropomorphic God," is derived from two Greek words, signifying man 6 and form, and may be defined as a mortally mental at- tempt to reduce Deity to corporeality. The life-giving quality of Mind is Spirit, not matter. The ideal man 9 corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love. In divine Science, we have not as much authority for con- 12 sidering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity. SHOW ALL |
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39 | 44 | 517 | Genesis 1 verse 27 - Personality - Divine personality |
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Personality - Divine personality - 2 of 2 - Genesis 1 verse 27 | 24 Genesis i. 27. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 15 The world believes in many persons; but if God is per- sonal, there is but one person, because there is but one God. His personality can only be reflected, Divine 18 not transmitted. God has countless ideas, and personality they all have one Principle and parentage. The only proper symbol of God as person is Mind's infinite ideal. 21 What is this ideal? Who shall behold it? This ideal is God's own image, spiritual and infinite. Even eternity can never reveal the whole of God, since there is no limit 24 to infinitude or to its reflections. SHOW ALL |
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40 | 45 | 517 | Genesis 1 verse 28 | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 1 verse 28 |
Man - Birthright of man - Genesis 1 verse 28 | Genesis i. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. |
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41 | 46 | 518 | Genesis 1 verses 29 and 30 - Brotherhood - Assistance in brotherhood |
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Brotherhood - Assistance in brotherhood - Genesis 1 verses 29 and 30 | Genesis i. 29, 30. And God said, Behold, I have given 6 you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every 9 beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it 12 was so. God gives the lesser idea of Himself for a link to the greater, and in return, the higher always protects the 15 lower. The rich in spirit help the poor in Assistance in one grand brotherhood, all having the same brotherhood Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth 18 his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through 21 all as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied expressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality — infinite Life, Truth, and Love. SHOW ALL |
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42 | 47 | 518 | Genesis 1 verse 31 - Creation - Perfection of creation |
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Creation - Perfection of creation - Genesis 1 verse 31 | 24 Genesis i. 31. And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 27 The divine Principle, or Spirit, comprehends and ex- presses all, and all must therefore be as perfect as the divine Principle is perfect. Nothing is new to Spirit. 1 Nothing can be novel to eternal Mind, the author of all things, who from all eternity knoweth His own ideas. 3 Deity was satisfied with His work. How could Perfection He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation of creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self- 6 containment and immortal wisdom? SHOW ALL |
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43 | 48 | 519 | Genesis 2 verse 1 - Infinity measureless | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 2 verse 1 |
Infinity measureless - Genesis 2 verse 1 | Genesis ii. 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 9 Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love. Hu- Infinity 12 man capacity is slow to discern and to grasp measureless God's creation and the divine power and presence which go with it, demonstrating its spiritual origin. Mortals 15 can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness. What can fathom infinity! How shall we declare Him, till, 18 in the language of the apostle, "we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful- 21 ness of Christ"? SHOW ALL |
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44 | 49 | 519 | Genesis 2 verse 2 - Resting in holy work |
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Resting in holy work - 1 of 2 - Genesis 2 verse 2 | Genesis ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh 24 day from all His work which He had made. God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind. No Resting in 27 exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, holy work according to the apprehension of divine Science. The 1 highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work. SHOW ALL |
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Coexistent - Love and man coexistent - 2 of 2 - Genesis 2 verse 2 | Genesis ii. 2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. |
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46 | 51 | 520 | Genesis 2 verses 4 and 5 - Growth is from Mind |
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Growth is from Mind - 1 of 2 - Genesis 2 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis ii. 4, 5. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the 18 Lord God [Jehovah] made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God [Jehovah] 21 had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. Here is the emphatic declaration that God creates all 24 through Mind, not through matter, — that the plant grows, not because of seed or soil, but because Growth is growth is the eternal mandate of Mind. Mor- from Mind 27 tal thought drops into the ground, but the immortal creat- ing thought is from above, not from beneath. Because Mind makes all, there is nothing left to be made by a 30 lower power. Spirit acts through the Science of Mind, never causing man to till the ground, but making him 1 superior to the soil. Knowledge of this lifts man above the sod, above earth and its environments, to conscious 3 spiritual harmony and eternal being. SHOW ALL |
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47 | 52 | 521 | Genesis 2 verses 4 and 5 - Narrative - Spiritual narrative |
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Narrative - Spiritual narrative - 2 of 2 - Genesis 2 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis ii. 4, 5. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the 18 Lord God [Jehovah] made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God [Jehovah] 21 had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. Here the inspired record closes its narrative of being that is without beginning or end. All that is made is 6 the work of God, and all is good. We leave Spiritual this brief, glorious history of spiritual creation narrative (as stated in the first chapter of Genesis) in the hands of 9 God, not of man, in the keeping of Spirit, not matter, — joyfully acknowledging now and forever God's supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence. 12 The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition that man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual 15 record of creation, to that which should be engraved on the understanding and heart "with the point of a diamond" and the pen of an angel. SHOW ALL |
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48 | 53 | 521 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Change from spiritual to mortal and material - MBESI |
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Narrative - Change from spiritual to mortal and material - MBESI - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 18 The reader will naturally ask if there is nothing more about creation in the book of Genesis. Indeed there is, but the continued account is mortal and material. 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. SHOW ALL |
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49 | 54 | 521 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - The story of error |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - The story of error - 1 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The Science and truth of the divine creation have been 24 presented in the verses already considered, and now the opposite error, a material view of creation, is The story to be set forth. The second chapter of Gene- of error 27 sis contains a statement of this material view of God and the universe, a statement which is the exact opposite of scientific truth as before recorded. The history of error 30 or matter, if veritable, would set aside the omnipotence 1 of Spirit; but it is the false history in contradistinction to the true. SHOW ALL |
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50 | 55 | 522 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - The two records |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - The two records - 2 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 3 The Science of the first record proves the falsity of the second. If one is true, the other is false, for they are antagonistic. The first record assigns all The two 6 might and government to God, and endows records man out of God's perfection and power. The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal, — as hav- 9 ing broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own. Existence, separate from divinity, Science explains as impossible. 12 This second record unmistakably gives the history of error in its externalized forms, called life and intelli- gence in matter. It records pantheism, opposed to the 15 supremacy of divine Spirit; but this state of things is declared to be temporary and this man to be mortal, — dust returning to dust. SHOW ALL |
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51 | 56 | 522 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Erroneous representation |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Erroneous representation - 3 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 18 In this erroneous theory, matter takes the place of Spirit. Matter is represented as the life-giving principle of the earth. Spirit is represented as entering mat- Erroneous 21 ter in order to create man. God's glowing representation denunciations of man when not found in His image, the likeness of Spirit, convince reason and coincide 24 with revelation in declaring this material creation false. SHOW ALL |
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52 | 57 | 522 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Hypothetical reversal |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Hypothetical reversal - 4 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. This latter part of the second chapter of Genesis, which portrays Spirit as supposedly cooperating with matter in 27 constructing the universe, is based on some Hypothetical hypothesis of error, for the Scripture just pre- reversal ceding declares God's work to be finished. Does Life, 30 Truth, and Love produce death, error, and hatred? Does the creator condemn His own creation? Does the un- erring Principle of divine law change or repent? It can- 1 not be so. Yet one might so judge from an unintelligent perusal of the Scriptural account now under comment. SHOW ALL |
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53 | 58 | 523 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Mist, or false claim |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Mist, or false claim - 5 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 3 Because of its false basis, the mist of obscurity evolved by error deepens the false claim, and finally declares that God knows error and that error can improve Mist, or 6 His creation. Although presenting the exact false claim opposite of Truth, the lie claims to be truth. The crea- tions of matter arise from a mist or false claim, or from 9 mystification, and not from the firmament, or under- standing, which God erects between the true and false. In error everything comes from beneath, not from above. 12 All is material myth, instead of the reflection of Spirit. SHOW ALL |
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54 | 59 | 523 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Distinct documents |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Distinct documents - 6 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. It may be worth while here to remark that, according 15 to the best scholars, there are clear evidences of two dis- tinct documents in the early part of the book of Distinct Genesis. One is called the Elohistic, because documents 18 the Supreme Being is therein called Elohim. The other document is called the Jehovistic, because Deity therein is always called Jehovah, — or Lord God, as our common 21 version translates it. SHOW ALL |
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55 | 60 | 523 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Jehovah or Elohim |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Jehovah or Elohim - 7 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. Throughout the first chapter of Genesis and in three verses of the second, — in what we understand to be the 24 spiritually scientific account of creation, — it is Jehovah Elohim (God) who creates. From the fourth or Elohim verse of chapter two to chapter five, the creator is called 27 Jehovah, or the Lord. The different accounts become more and more closely intertwined to the end of chapter twelve, after which the distinction is not definitely trace- 30 able. In the historic parts of the Old Testament, it is usually Jehovah, peculiarly the divine sovereign of the Hebrew people, who is referred to. SHOW ALL |
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56 | 61 | 524 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Gods of the heathen |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Gods of the heathen - 8 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 1 The idolatry which followed this material mythology is seen in the Phoenician worship of Baal, in the Moabitish 3 god Chemosh, in the Moloch of the Amorites, Gods of the in the Hindoo Vishnu, in the Greek Aphro- heathen dite, and in a thousand other so-called deities. SHOW ALL |
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57 | 62 | 524 | Genesis 2 verse 6 - Narrative - Mortal and material - Jehovah a tribal deity |
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Narrative - Mortal and material - Jehovah a tribal deity - 9 of 9 - Genesis 2 verse 6 | 21 Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 6 It was also found among the Israelites, who constantly went after "strange gods." They called the Supreme Being by the national name of Jehovah. In Jehovah a 9 that name of Jehovah, the true idea of God tribal deity seems almost lost. God becomes "a man of war," a tribal god to be worshipped, rather than Love, the divine 12 Principle to be lived and loved. SHOW ALL |
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58 | 63 | 524 | Genesis 2 verse 7 - Creation reversed | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 1 of 3 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 2 verse 7 |
Creation reversed - 1 of 3 - Genesis 2 verse 7 | Genesis ii. 7. And the Lord God [Jehovah] formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 15 the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Did the divine and infinite Principle become a finite deity, that He should now be called Jehovah? With 18 a single command, Mind had made man, Creation both male and female. How then could a reversed material organization become the basis of man? How 21 could the non-intelligent become the medium of Mind, and error be the enunciator of Truth? Matter is not the reflection of Spirit, yet God is reflected in all His 24 creation. Is this addition to His creation real or un- real? Is it the truth, or is it a lie concerning man and God? 27 It must be a lie, for God presently curses the ground. Could Spirit evolve its opposite, matter, and give matter ability to sin and suffer? Is Spirit, God, injected into 30 dust, and eventually ejected at the demand of matter? Does Spirit enter dust, and lose therein the divine nature 1 and omnipotence? Does Mind, God, enter matter to be- come there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath of 3 God? In this narrative, the validity of matter is opposed, not the validity of Spirit or Spirit's creations. Man re- flects God; mankind represents the Adamic race, and is 6 a human, not a divine, creation. SHOW ALL |
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59 | 64 | 525 | Genesis 2 verse 7 - Man - Definitions of man |
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Man - Definitions of man - 2 of 3 - Genesis 2 verse 7 | Genesis ii. 7. And the Lord God [Jehovah] formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 15 the breath of life; and man became a living soul. The following are some of the equivalents of the term man in different languages. In the Saxon, mankind, a 9 woman, any one; in the Welsh, that which rises Definitions up, — the primary sense being image, form; in of man the Hebrew, image, similitude; in the Icelandic, mind. 12 The following translation is from the Icelandic: — SHOW ALL |
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60 | 65 | 525 | Genesis 2 verse 7 - Creation - No baneful creation |
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Creation - No baneful creation - 3 of 3 - Genesis 2 verse 7 | Genesis ii. 7. And the Lord God [Jehovah] formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 15 the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And God said, Let us make man after our mind and our likeness; and God shaped man after His mind; after 15 God's mind shaped He him; and He shaped them male and female. In the Gospel of John, it is declared that all things were 18 made through the Word of God, "and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that No baneful was made." Everything good or worthy, God creation 21 made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make, — hence its unreality. In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, 24 "and, behold, it was very good." The corporeal senses declare otherwise; and if we give the same heed to the history of error as to the records of truth, the Scriptural 27 record of sin and death favors the false conclusion of the material senses. Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are of good, God. SHOW ALL |
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61 | 66 | 525 | Genesis 2 verse 9 - Creation - Contradicting first creation |
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Creation - Contradicting first creation - 1 of 2 - Genesis 2 verse 9 | 30 Genesis ii. 9. And out of the ground made the Lord God [Jehovah] to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, 1 and good for food; the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 3 The previous and more scientific record of creation declares that God made "every plant of the field be- fore it was in the earth." This opposite Contradicting 6 declaration, this statement that life issues first creation from matter, contradicts the teaching of the first chap- ter, — namely, that all Life is God. Belief is less than 9 understanding. Belief involves theories of material hear- ing, sight, touch, taste, and smell, termed the five senses. The appetites and passions, sin, sickness, and death, 12 follow in the train of this error of a belief in intelligent matter. SHOW ALL |
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62 | 67 | 526 | Genesis 2 verse 9 - Narrative – Mortal and material - Record of error |
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Narrative – Mortal and material - Record of error - 2 of 2 - Genesis 2 verse 9 | 30 Genesis ii. 9. And out of the ground made the Lord God [Jehovah] to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, 1 and good for food; the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The first mention of evil is in the legendary Scriptural 15 text in the second chapter of Genesis. God pronounced good all that He created, and the Scriptures Record of declare that He created all. The "tree of error 18 life" stands for the idea of Truth, and the sword which guards it is the type of divine Science. The "tree of knowledge" stands for the erroneous doctrine that the 21 knowledge of evil is as real, hence as God-bestowed, as the knowledge of good. Was evil instituted through God, Love? Did He create this fruit-bearer of sin in contra- 24 diction of the first creation? This second biblical account is a picture of error throughout. SHOW ALL |
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63 | 68 | 526 | Genesis 2 verse 15 - Garden of Eden | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 2 verse 15 |
Garden of Eden - Genesis 2 verse 15 | Genesis ii. 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] took the 27 man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. The name Eden, according to Cruden, means pleasure, 30 delight. In this text Eden stands for the mortal, mate- 1 rial body. God could not put Mind into matter nor in- finite Spirit into finite form to dress it and Garden of 3 keep it, — to make it beautiful or to cause it Eden to live and grow. Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete. SHOW ALL |
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64 | 69 | 527 | Genesis 2 verses 16 and 17 - Temptation - No temptation from God |
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Temptation - No temptation from God - Genesis 2 verses 16 and 17 | 6 Genesis ii. 16, 17. And the Lord God [Jehovah] com- manded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good 9 and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Here the metaphor represents God, Love, as tempting 12 man, but the Apostle James says: "God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any No temptation man." It is true that a knowledge of evil would from God 15 make man mortal. It is plain also that mate- rial perception, gathered from the corporeal senses, consti- tutes evil and mortal knowledge. But is it true that God, 18 good, made "the tree of life" to be the tree of death to His own creation? Has evil the reality of good? Evil is un- real because it is a lie, — false in every statement. SHOW ALL |
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65 | 70 | 527 | Genesis 2 verse 19 - Counterfeit - Creation’s counterfeit |
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Counterfeit - Creation’s counterfeit - Genesis 2 verse 19 | 21 Genesis ii. 19. And out of the ground the Lord God [Jehovah] formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he 24 would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Here the lie represents God as repeating creation, but 27 doing so materially, not spiritually, and ask- Creation's ing a prospective sinner to help Him. Is the counterfeit Supreme Being retrograding, and is man giving up his 30 dignity? Was it requisite for the formation of man 1 that dust should become sentient, when all being is the reflection of the eternal Mind, and the record declares 3 that God has already created man, both male and female? That Adam gave the name and nature of animals, is solely mythological and material. It can- 6 not be true that man was ordered to create man anew in partnership with God; this supposition was a dream, a myth. SHOW ALL |
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66 | 71 | 528 | Genesis 2 verses 21 and 22 - Surgery - Hypnotic surgery |
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Surgery - Hypnotic surgery - 1 of 2 - Genesis 2 verses 21 and 22 | 9 Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah] caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 12 thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God [Jehovah] had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. 15 Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam in order to perform a surgical operation on him and thereby create Hypnotic 18 woman. This is the first record of magnet- surgery ism. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light, — materially rather than spiritually, — error now simu- 21 lates the work of Truth, mocking Love and declar- ing what great things error has done. Beholding the creations of his own dream and calling them real and 24 God-given, Adam — alias error — gives them names. Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of the creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them 27 mankind, — that is, a kind of man. SHOW ALL |
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67 | 72 | 528 | Genesis 2 verses 21 and 22 - Midwifery - Mental midwifery |
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Midwifery - Mental midwifery - 2 of 2 - Genesis 2 verses 21 and 22 | 9 Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah] caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 12 thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God [Jehovah] had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. But according to this narrative, surgery was first per- formed mentally and without instruments; Mental 30 and this may be a useful hint to the medical midwifery faculty. Later in human history, when the forbidden 1 fruit was bringing forth fruit of its own kind, there came a suggestion of change in the modus operandi, — 3 that man should be born of woman, not woman again taken from man. It came about, also, that instruments were needed to assist the birth of mortals. The first 6 system of suggestive obstetrics has changed. Another change will come as to the nature and origin of man, and this revelation will destroy the dream of existence, 9 reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious fact of creation, that both man and woman proceed from God and are His eternal children, belonging to no lesser 12 parent. SHOW ALL |
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68 | 73 | 529 | Genesis 3 verses 1-3 - Serpent - Mythical serpent |
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Serpent - Mythical serpent - 1 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 1-3 | Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God [Jehovah] had 15 made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of 18 the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 21 Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the children of divine Love? The serpent enters into the metaphor only as evil. We have nothing in the Mythical 24 animal kingdom which represents the species serpent described, — a talking serpent, — and should rejoice that evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and 27 has neither origin nor support in Truth and good. Seeing this, we should have faith to fight all claims of evil, be- cause we know that they are worthless and unreal. SHOW ALL |
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69 | 74 | 529 | Genesis 3 verses 1-3 - Adam - Error or Adam |
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Adam - Error or Adam - 2 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 1-3 | Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God [Jehovah] had 15 made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of 18 the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 30 Adam, the synonym for error, stands for a belief of material mind. He begins his reign over man some- 1 what mildly, but he increases in falsehood and his days become shorter. In this development, the im- Error or 3 mortal, spiritual law of Truth is made manifest Adam as forever opposed to mortal, material sense. SHOW ALL |
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70 | 75 | 530 | Genesis 3 verses 1-3 - Providence - Divine providence |
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Providence - Divine providence - 3 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 1-3 | Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God [Jehovah] had 15 made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of 18 the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine 6 Principle of being. The earth, at God's command, brings forth food for man's use. Knowing this, Jesus Divine once said, "Take no thought for your life, providence 9 what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink," — presuming not on the prerogative of his creator, but recognizing God, the Father and Mother of all, as able to feed and clothe 12 man as He doth the lilies.SHOW ALL |
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71 | 76 | 530 | Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 - Assumption - Error’s assumption |
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Assumption - Error’s assumption - 1 of 5 - Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis iii. 4, 5. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day 15 ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. This myth represents error as always asserting its su- 18 periority over truth, giving the lie to divine Science and saying, through the material senses: "I can Error's open your eyes. I can do what God has not assumption 21 done for you. Bow down to me and have another god. Only admit that I am real, that sin and sense are more pleasant to the eyes than spiritual Life, more to be de- 24 sired than Truth, and I shall know you, and you will be mine." Thus Spirit and flesh war. SHOW ALL |
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72 | 77 | 530 | Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 - Allegory - Scriptural allegory |
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Allegory - Scriptural allegory - 2 of 5 - Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis iii. 4, 5. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day 15 ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream 27 has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is Scriptural true nor real. First, this narrative supposes allegory 30 that something springs from nothing, that matter pre- cedes mind. Second, it supposes that mind enters matter, 1 and matter becomes living, substantial, and intelligent. The order of this allegory — the belief that everything 3 springs from dust instead of from Deity — has been main- tained in all the subsequent forms of belief. This is the error, — that mortal man starts materially, that non- 6 intelligence becomes intelligence, that mind and soul are both right and wrong. SHOW ALL |
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73 | 78 | 531 | Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 - Hope - Higher hope |
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Hope - Higher hope - 3 of 5 - Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis iii. 4, 5. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day 15 ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It is well that the upper portions of the brain represent 9 the higher moral sentiments, as if hope were ever prophe- sying thus: The human mind will sometime Higher rise above all material and physical sense, ex- hope 12 changing it for spiritual perception, and exchanging hu- man concepts for the divine consciousness. Then man will recognize his God-given dominion and being. SHOW ALL |
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74 | 79 | 531 | Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 - Hope - Inventions - Biological inventions |
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Inventions - Biological inventions - 4 of 5 - Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis iii. 4, 5. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day 15 ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 15 If, in the beginning, man's body originated in non- intelligent dust, and mind was afterwards put into body by the creator, why is not this divine order Biological 18 still maintained by God in perpetuating the inventions species? Who will say that minerals, vegetables, and animals have a propagating property of their own? 21 Who dares to say either that God is in matter or that matter exists without God? Has man sought out other creative inventions, and so changed the method of his 24 Maker? Which institutes Life, — matter or Mind? Does Life begin with Mind or with matter? Is Life sustained by 27 matter or by Spirit? Certainly not by both, since flesh wars against Spirit and the corporeal senses can take no cognizance of Spirit. The mythologic theory of mate- 30 rial life at no point resembles the scientifically Christian record of man as created by Mind in the image and like- ness of God and having dominion over all the earth. Did 1 God at first create one man unaided, — that is, Adam, — but afterwards require the union of the two sexes in order 3 to create the rest of the human family? No! God makes and governs all. SHOW ALL |
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75 | 80 | 532 | Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 - Cursed - Progeny cursed |
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Cursed - Progeny cursed - 5 of 5 - Genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 | Genesis iii. 4, 5. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day 15 ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. All human knowledge and material sense must be 6 gained from the five corporeal senses. Is this knowledge safe, when eating its first fruits brought death? Progeny "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt cursed 9 surely die," was the prediction in the story under consid- eration. Adam and his progeny were cursed, not blessed; and this indicates that the divine Spirit, or Father, con- 12 demns material man and remands him to dust. SHOW ALL |
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76 | 81 | 532 | Genesis 3 verses 9 and 10 - Sin - Shame the effect of sin |
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Sin - Shame the effect of sin - 1 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 9 and 10 | Genesis iii. 9, 10. And the Lord God [Jehovah] called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he 15 said, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Knowledge and pleasure, evolved through material 18 sense, produced the immediate fruits of fear and shame. Ashamed before Truth, error shrank abashed Shame the from the divine voice calling out to the cor- effect of sin 21 poreal senses. Its summons may be thus paraphrased: "Where art thou, man? Is Mind in matter? Is Mind capable of error as well as of truth, of evil as well as of 24 good, when God is All and He is Mind and there is but one God, hence one Mind?" SHOW ALL |
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77 | 82 | 532 | Genesis 3 verses 9 and 10 - Fear comes of error |
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Fear comes of error – 2 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 9 and 10 | Genesis iii. 9, 10. And the Lord God [Jehovah] called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he 15 said, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Fear was the first manifestation of the error of mate- 27 rial sense. Thus error began and will end the dream of matter. In the allegory the body had been Fear comes naked, and Adam knew it not; but now error of error 30 demands that mind shall see and feel through matter, the five senses. The first impression material man had of 1 himself was one of nakedness and shame. Had he lost man's rich inheritance and God's behest, dominion over 3 all the earth? No! This had never been bestowed on Adam. SHOW ALL |
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78 | 83 | 533 | Genesis 3 verses 11 and 12 - Lie - The beguiling first lie |
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Lie - The beguiling first lie - 1 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 11 and 12 | Genesis iii. 11, 12. And He said, Who told thee that 6 thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man said, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave 9 me of the tree, and I did eat. Here there is an attempt to trace all human errors directly or indirectly to God, or good, as if He were the 12 creator of evil. The allegory shows that the The beguiling snake-talker utters the first voluble lie, which first lie beguiles the woman and demoralizes the man. Adam, 15 alias mortal error, charges God and woman with his own dereliction, saying, "The woman, whom Thou gavest me, is responsible." According to this belief, the rib taken 18 from Adam's side has grown into an evil mind, named woman, who aids man to make sinners more rapidly than he can alone. Is this an help meet for man? 21 Materiality, so obnoxious to God, is already found in the rapid deterioration of the bone and flesh which came from Adam to form Eve. The belief in material life and in- 24 telligence is growing worse at every step, but error has its suppositional day and multiplies until the end thereof. SHOW ALL |
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79 | 84 | 533 | Genesis 3 verses 11 and 12 - Womanhood - False womanhood |
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Womanhood - False womanhood - 2 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 11 and 12 | Genesis iii. 11, 12. And He said, Who told thee that 6 thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man said, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave 9 me of the tree, and I did eat. Truth, cross-questioning man as to his knowledge of 27 error, finds woman the first to confess her fault. She says, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did False eat;" as much as to say in meek penitence, womanhood 30 "Neither man nor God shall father my fault." She has already learned that corporeal sense is the serpent. Hence 1 she is first to abandon the belief in the material origin of man and to discern spiritual creation. This hereafter 3 enabled woman to be the mother of Jesus and to behold at the sepulchre the risen Saviour, who was soon to mani- fest the deathless man of God's creating. This enabled 6 woman to be first to interpret the Scriptures in their true sense, which reveals the spiritual origin of man. SHOW ALL |
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80 | 85 | 534 | Genesis 3 verses 14 and 15 - Spirit and flesh |
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Spirit and flesh - 1 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 14 and 15 | Genesis iii. 14, 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said 9 unto the serpent, . . . I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 12 This prophecy has been fulfilled. The Son of the Virgin- mother unfolded the remedy for Adam, or error; and the Apostle Paul explains this warfare between the Spirit and 15 idea of divine power, which Jesus presented, flesh and mythological material intelligence called energy and opposed to Spirit. 18 Paul says in his epistle to the Romans: "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that 21 are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you." SHOW ALL |
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81 | 86 | 534 | Genesis 3 verses 14 and 15 - Sin - Bruising sin’s head |
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Sin - Bruising sin’s head - 2 of 2 - Genesis 3 verses 14 and 15 | Genesis iii. 14, 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said 9 unto the serpent, . . . I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 24 There will be greater mental opposition to the spirit- ual, scientific meaning of the Scriptures than there has ever been since the Christian era began. The Bruising 27 serpent, material sense, will bite the heel of sin's head the woman, — will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea of Love; and the woman, this idea, will bruise the head 30 of lust. The spiritual idea has given the understanding 1 a foothold in Christian Science. The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding, — yea, 3 the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter, — are the wheat and tares which time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places. SHOW ALL |
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82 | 87 | 535 | Genesis 3 verse 16 - Error - Judgment on error |
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Error - Judgment on error - Genesis 3 verse 16 | 6 Genesis iii. 16. Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy 9 husband, and he shall rule over thee. Divine Science deals its chief blow at the supposed ma- terial foundations of life and intelligence. It dooms idol- 12 atry. A belief in other gods, other creators, Judgment and other creations must go down before Chris- on error tian Science. It unveils the results of sin as shown in 15 sickness and death. When will man pass through the open gate of Christian Science into the heaven of Soul, into the heritage of the first born among men? Truth is 18 indeed "the way."SHOW ALL |
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83 | 88 | 535 | Genesis 3 verses 17-19 - Earth and sea - New earth and no more sea |
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Earth and sea - New earth and no more sea - 1 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 17-19 | Genesis iii. 17-19. And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast 21 eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns 24 also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it 27 wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. In the first chapter of Genesis we read: "And God 30 called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together 1 of the waters called He Seas." In the Apocalypse it is written: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for 3 the first heaven and the first earth were passed New earth away; and there was no more sea." In St. and no more John's vision, heaven and earth stand for spir- sea 6 itual ideas, and the sea, as a symbol of tempest-tossed human concepts advancing and receding, is represented as having passed away. The divine understanding reigns, 9 is all, and there is no other consciousness. SHOW ALL |
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84 | 89 | 536 | Genesis 3 verses 17-19 - Error - The fall of error |
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Error - The fall of error - 2 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 17-19 | Genesis iii. 17-19. And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast 21 eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns 24 also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it 27 wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. The way of error is awful to contemplate. The illu- sion of sin is without hope or God. If man's spiritual 12 gravitation and attraction to one Father, in The fall whom we "live, and move, and have our be- of error ing," should be lost, and if man should be governed by 15 corporeality instead of divine Principle, by body instead of by Soul, man would be annihilated. Created by flesh instead of by Spirit, starting from matter instead of from 18 God, mortal man would be governed by himself. The blind leading the blind, both would fall. Passions and appetites must end in pain. They are 21 "of few days, and full of trouble." Their supposed joys are cheats. Their narrow limits belittle their gratifica- tions, and hedge about their achievements with thorns. SHOW ALL |
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85 | 90 | 536 | Genesis 3 verses 17-19 - Attainment - True attainment |
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Attainment - True attainment - 3 of 3 - Genesis 3 verses 17-19 | Genesis iii. 17-19. And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast 21 eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life: thorns 24 also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it 27 wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 24 Mortal mind accepts the erroneous, material concep- tion of life and joy, but the true idea is gained from the immortal side. Through toil, struggle, and sor- True 27 row, what do mortals attain? They give up attainment their belief in perishable life and happiness; the mortal and material return to dust, and the immortal is reached. SHOW ALL |
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86 | 91 | 536 | Genesis 3 verses 22-24 - Justice and recompense |
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Justice and recompense - 1 of 4 - Genesis 3 verses 22-24 | 30 Genesis iii. 22-24. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good 1 and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore 3 the Lord God [Jehovah] sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man: and He placed at the east 6 of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 9 A knowledge of evil was never the essence of divin- ity or manhood. In the first chapter of Genesis, evil has no local habitation nor name. Crea- Justice and 12 tion is there represented as spiritual, entire, recompense and good. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Error excludes itself from harmony. Sin 15 is its own punishment. Truth guards the gateway to harmony. Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for 18 nothingness. SHOW ALL |
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87 | 92 | 537 | Genesis 3 verses 22-24 - Interpretation - Inspired interpretation |
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Interpretation - Inspired interpretation - 2 of 4 - Genesis 3 verses 22-24 | 30 Genesis iii. 22-24. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good 1 and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore 3 the Lord God [Jehovah] sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man: and He placed at the east 6 of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. No one can reasonably doubt that the purpose of this allegory — this second account in Genesis — is to depict 21 the falsity of error and the effects of error. Inspired Subsequent Bible revelation is coordinate interpretation with the Science of creation recorded in the 24 first chapter of Genesis. Inspired writers interpret the Word spiritually, while the ordinary historian interprets it literally. Literally taken, the text is made to appear 27 contradictory in some places, and divine Love, which blessed the earth and gave it to man for a possession, is represented as changeable. The literal meaning would 30 imply that God withheld from man the opportunity to reform, lest man should improve it and become better; but this is not the nature of God, who is Love always, — 1 Love infinitely wise and altogether lovely, who "seeketh not her own." SHOW ALL |
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88 | 93 | 538 | Genesis 3 verses 22-24 - Gateway - Spiritual gateway |
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Gateway - Spiritual gateway - 3 of 4 - Genesis 3 verses 22-24 | 30 Genesis iii. 22-24. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good 1 and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore 3 the Lord God [Jehovah] sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man: and He placed at the east 6 of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 3 Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood. Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding. Truth places the cherub wisdom at the gate Spiritual 6 of understanding to note the proper guests. gateway Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between 9 Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, — the unreal and the real. SHOW ALL |
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89 | 94 | 538 | Genesis 3 verses 22-24 - Real and unreal - Contrasted testimony |
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Real and unreal - Contrasted testimony - 4 of 4 - Genesis 3 verses 22-24 | 30 Genesis iii. 22-24. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good 1 and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore 3 the Lord God [Jehovah] sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man: and He placed at the east 6 of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. The sun, giving light and heat to the earth, is a figure 12 of divine Life and Love, enlightening and sustaining the universe. The "tree of life" is significant of Contrasted eternal reality or being. The "tree of knowl- testimony 15 edge" typifies unreality. The testimony of the serpent is significant of the illusion of error, of the false claims that misrepresent God, good. Sin, sickness, and death have 18 no record in the Elohistic introduction of Genesis, in which God creates the heavens, earth, and man. Until that which contradicts the truth of being enters into the arena, 21 evil has no history, and evil is brought into view only as the unreal in contradistinction to the real and eternal.SHOW ALL |
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90 | 95 | 538 | Genesis 4 verse 1 - Conception - Erroneous conception |
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Conception - Erroneous conception - 1 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. This account is given, not of immortal man, but of mor- 27 tal man, and of sin which is temporal. As both mortal man and sin have a beginning, they must Erroneous consequently have an end, while the sinless, conception 30 real man is eternal. Eve's declaration, "I have gotten a man from the Lord," supposes God to be the author 1 of sin and sin's progeny. This false sense of existence is fratricidal. In the words of Jesus, it (evil, devil) is 3 "a murderer from the beginning." Error begins by reckoning life as separate from Spirit, thus sapping the foundations of immortality, as if life and immortality 6 were something which matter can both give and take away. SHOW ALL |
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91 | 96 | 539 | Genesis 4 verse 1 - Standard - Only one standard |
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Standard - Only one standard - 2 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. What can be the standard of good, of Spirit, of Life, 9 or of Truth, if they produce their opposites, such as evil, matter, error, and death? God could never Only one impart an element of evil, and man possesses standard 12 nothing which he has not derived from God. How then has man a basis for wrong-doing? Whence does he obtain the propensity or power to do evil? Has Spirit 15 resigned to matter the government of the universe? SHOW ALL |
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Falsehood - A type of falsehood – 3 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. The Scriptures declare that God condemned this lie as to man's origin and character by condemning its symbol, 18 the serpent, to grovel beneath all the beasts A type of of the field. It is false to say that Truth and falsehood error commingle in creation. In parable and argument, 21 this falsity is exposed by our Master as self-evidently wrong. Disputing these points with the Pharisees and arguing for the Science of creation, Jesus said: "Do men 24 gather grapes of thorns?" Paul asked: "What com- munion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?" SHOW ALL |
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Offspring - Scientific offspring - 4 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. 27 The divine origin of Jesus gave him more than human power to expound the facts of creation, and demonstrate the one Mind which makes and governs man Scientific 30 and the universe. The Science of creation, offspring so conspicuous in the birth of Jesus, inspired his wisest and least-understood sayings, and was the basis of his 1 marvellous demonstrations. Christ is the offspring of Spirit, and spiritual existence shows that Spirit creates 3 neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sick- ness, and death. SHOW ALL |
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Upheaval - Cleansing upheaval - 5 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. In Isaiah we read: "I make peace, and create evil. I 6 the Lord do all these things;" but the prophet referred to divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its Cleansing utmost, when bringing it to the surface and re- upheaval 9 ducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms 12 of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our igno- rance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God's law uncovers so-called sin and its 15 effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil and all power to sin. SHOW ALL |
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95 | 100 | 540 | Genesis 4 verse 1 - Allegiance to Spirit | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. This is subtitle 6 of 6 for the Bible verse below. Bible Verse: Genesis 4 verse 1 |
Allegiance to Spirit - 6 of 6 - Genesis 4 verse 1 | Genesis iv. 1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she 24 conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord [Jehovah]. Science renders "unto Caesar the things which are 18 Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." It saith to the human sense of sin, sickness, and Allegiance death, "God never made you, and you are a to Spirit 21 false sense which hath no knowledge of God." The pur- pose of the Hebrew allegory, representing error as assum- ing a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe 24 a lie. SHOW ALL |
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96 | 101 | 540 | Genesis 4 verses 3 and 4 - Spiritual and material |
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Spiritual and material - Genesis 4 verses 3 and 4 | Genesis iv. 3, 4. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord [Jehovah]. And Abel, he also 27 brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. Cain is the type of mortal and material man, conceived in sin and "shapen in iniquity;" he is not the Spiritual and 30 type of Truth and Love. Material in origin material and sense, he brings a material offering to God. Abel 1 takes his offering from the firstlings of the flock. A lamb is a more animate form of existence, and more nearly re- 3 sembles a mind-offering than does Cain's fruit. Jealous of his brother's gift, Cain seeks Abel's life, instead of mak- ing his own gift a higher tribute to the Most High. SHOW ALL |
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Abel and Cain – Lamb more spiritual than herbs - MBESI - Genesis 4 verses 4 and 5 | 6 Genesis iv. 4, 5. And the Lord [Jehovah] had respect unto Abel, and to his offering: but unto Cain, and to his offering, He had not respect. 9 Had God more respect for the homage bestowed through a gentle animal than for the worship expressed by Cain's fruit? No; but the lamb was a more spiritual type of 12 even the human concept of Love than the herbs of the ground could be. SHOW ALL |
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Cain slew Abel - MBESI - Genesis 4 verse 8 | Genesis iv. 8. Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and 15 slew him. The erroneous belief that life, substance, and intelli- gence can be material ruptures the life and brotherhood 18 of man at the very outset. | |
99 | 104 | 541 | Genesis 4 verse 9 - Brotherhood repudiated | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. Bible Verse: Genesis 4 verse 9 |
Brotherhood repudiated - Genesis 4 verse 9 | Genesis iv. 9. And the Lord [Jehovah] said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am 21 I my brother's keeper? Here the serpentine lie invents new forms. At first it usurps divine power. It is supposed to say Brotherhood 24 in the first instance, "Ye shall be as gods." repudiated Now it repudiates even the human duty of man towards his brother.SHOW ALL |
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Murder brings its curse - Genesis 4 verses 10 and 11 | 27 Genesis iv. 10, 11. And He [Jehovah] said, . . . The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth. 1 The belief of life in matter sins at every step. It in- curs divine displeasure, and it would kill Jesus that it 3 might be rid of troublesome Truth. Material Murder brings beliefs would slay the spiritual idea when- its curse ever and wherever it appears. Though error hides 6 behind a lie and excuses guilt, error cannot forever be concealed. Truth, through her eternal laws, unveils error. Truth causes sin to betray itself, and sets upon 9 error the mark of the beast. Even the disposition to excuse guilt or to conceal it is punished. The avoidance of justice and the denial of truth tend to perpetuate sin, 12 invoke crime, jeopardize self-control, and mock divine mercy. SHOW ALL |
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Retribution and remorse - Genesis 4 verse 15 | Genesis iv. 15. And the Lord [Jehovah] said unto him, 15 Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord [Jehovah] set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. 18 "They that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Let Truth uncover and destroy error in God's own way, and let human justice pattern the Retribution 21 divine. Sin will receive its full penalty, both and remorse for what it is and for what it does. Justice marks the sinner, and teaches mortals not to remove the 24 waymarks of God. To envy's own hell, justice con- signs the lie which, to advance itself, breaks God's commandments. SHOW ALL |
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Suffering - Climax of suffering - Genesis 4 verse 16 | 27 Genesis iv. 16. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord [Jehovah], and dwelt in the land of Nod. The sinful misconception of Life as something less 1 than God, having no truth to support it, falls back upon itself. This error, after reaching the climax of suffering, 3 yields to Truth and returns to dust; but it Climax of is only mortal man and not the real man, suffering who dies. The image of Spirit cannot be effaced, since it 6 is the idea of Truth and changes not, but becomes more beautifully apparent at error's demise. SHOW ALL |
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103 | 108 | 543 | Dreamland - Dwelling in dreamland | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Dreamland - Dwelling in dreamland | In divine Science, the material man is shut out from 9 the presence of God. The five corporeal senses cannot take cognizance of Spirit. They cannot come Dwelling in into His presence, and must dwell in dream- dreamland 12 land, until mortals arrive at the understanding that ma- terial life, with all its sin, sickness, and death, is an illu- sion, against which divine Science is engaged in a warfare 15 of extermination. The great verities of existence are never excluded by falsity. SHOW ALL |
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104 | 109 | 543 | Man springs from Mind | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Man springs from Mind | All error proceeds from the evidence before the mate- 18 rial senses. If man is material and originates in an egg, who shall say that he is not primarily Man springs dust? May not Darwin be right in think- from Mind 21 ing that apehood preceded mortal manhood? Minerals and vegetables are found, according to divine Science, to be the creations of erroneous thought, not of matter. 24 Did man, whom God created with a word, originate in an egg? When Spirit made all, did it leave aught for matter to create? Ideas of Truth alone are reflected 27 in the myriad manifestations of Life, and thus it is seen that man springs solely from Mind. The belief that matter supports life would make Life, or God, 30 mortal. SHOW ALL |
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105 | 110 | 543 | Inception - Material inception | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Inception - Material inception | The text, "In the day that the Lord God [Jehovah God] made the earth and the heavens," introduces the 1 record of a material creation which followed the spiritual, — a creation so wholly apart from God's, that Spirit 3 had no participation in it. In God's creation Material ideas became productive, obedient to Mind. inception There was no rain and "not a man to till the ground." 6 Mind, instead of matter, being the producer, Life was self-sustained. Birth, decay, and death arise from the material sense of things, not from the spiritual, for in 9 the latter Life consisteth not of the things which a man eateth. Matter cannot change the eternal fact that man exists because God exists. Nothing is new to the 12 infinite Mind. SHOW ALL |
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106 | 111 | 544 | Evil - First evil suggestion | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Evil - First evil suggestion | In Science, Mind neither produces matter nor does matter produce mind. No mortal mind has the might 15 or right or wisdom to create or to destroy. First evil All is under the control of the one Mind, suggestion even God. The first statement about evil, — the first 18 suggestion of more than the one Mind, — is in the fable of the serpent. The facts of creation, as previously re- corded, include nothing of the kind. SHOW ALL |
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107 | 112 | 544 | Personality - Material personality | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Personality - Material personality | 21 The serpent is supposed to say, "Ye shall be as gods," but these gods must be evolved from materiality and be the very antipodes of immortal and spiritual Material 24 being. Man is the likeness of Spirit, but a personality material personality is not this likeness. Therefore man, in this allegory, is neither a lesser god nor the image and 27 likeness of the one God. Material, erroneous belief reverses understanding and truth. It declares mind to be in and of matter, so-called 30 mortal life to be Life, infinity to enter man's nostrils so that matter becomes spiritual. Error begins with corporeality as the producer instead of divine Prin- 1 ciple, and explains Deity through mortal and finite con- ceptions. 3 "Behold, the man is become as one of us." This could not be the utterance of Truth or Science, for according to the record, material man was fast degenerating and 6 never had been divinely conceived. SHOW ALL |
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108 | 113 | 545 | Tillage - Mental tillage | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Tillage - Mental tillage | The condemnation of mortals to till the ground means this, — that mortals should so improve material belief 9 by thought tending spiritually upward as to Mental destroy materiality. Man, created by God, tillage was given dominion over the whole earth. The notion 12 of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors send falsity into all human doctrines and conclusions, 15 and do not accord infinity to Deity. Error tills the whole ground in this material theory, which is entirely a false view, destructive to existence and happiness. Out- 18 side of Christian Science all is vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth; yet this opposite, in its false view of God and man, impudently demands a blessing. SHOW ALL |
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109 | 114 | 545 | Standpoint - Erroneous standpoint | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Standpoint - Erroneous standpoint | 21 The translators of this record of scientific creation entertained a false sense of being. They believed in the existence of matter, its propagation and Erroneous 24 power. From that standpoint of error, they standpoint could not apprehend the nature and operation of Spirit. Hence the seeming contradiction in that Scripture, which 27 is so glorious in its spiritual signification. Truth has but one reply to all error, — to sin, sickness, and death: "Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness] 30 shalt thou return." SHOW ALL |
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110 | 115 | 545 | Mortality mythical | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Mortality mythical | "As in Adam [error] all die, even so in Christ [Truth] shall all be made alive." The mortality of man is a 1 myth, for man is immortal. The false belief that spirit is now submerged in matter, at some future time to be eman- 3 cipated from it, — this belief alone is mortal. Mortality Spirit, God, never germinates, but is "the same mythical yesterday, and to-day, and forever." If Mind, God, cre- 6 ates error, that error must exist in the divine Mind, and this assumption of error would dethrone the perfection of Deity.SHOW ALL |
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111 | 116 | 546 | Material basis - No truth from a material basis |
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Material basis - No truth from a material basis | 9 Is Christian Science contradictory? Is the divine Principle of creation misstated? Has God no Science to declare Mind, while matter is governed by un- No truth 12 erring intelligence? "There went up a mist from a from the earth." This represents error as material basis starting from an idea of good on a material basis. It 15 supposes God and man to be manifested only through the corporeal senses, although the material senses can take no cognizance of Spirit or the spiritual idea. 18 Genesis and the Apocalypse seem more obscure than other portions of the Scripture, because they cannot possibly be interpreted from a material standpoint. To 21 the author, they are transparent, for they contain the deep divinity of the Bible. SHOW ALL |
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112 | 117 | 546 | Spiritual facts - Dawning of spiritual facts |
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Spiritual facts - Dawning of spiritual facts | Christian Science is dawning upon a material age. 24 The great spiritual facts of being, like rays of light, shine in the darkness, though the darkness, com- Dawning of prehending them not, may deny their reality. spiritual facts 27 The proof that the system stated in this book is Chris- tianly scientific resides in the good this system accom- plishes, for it cures on a divine demonstrable Principle 30 which all may understand. SHOW ALL |
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113 | 118 | 546 | Healing - Proof given in healing | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Healing - Proof given in healing | If mathematics should present a thousand different examples of one rule, the proving of one example would 1 authenticate all the others. A simple statement of Chris- tian Science, if demonstrated by healing, contains the 3 proof of all here said of Christian Science. If Proof given one of the statements in this book is true, every in healing one must be true, for not one departs from the stated sys- 6 tem and rule. You can prove for yourself, dear reader, the Science of healing, and so ascertain if the author has given you the correct interpretation of Scripture. SHOW ALL |
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114 | 119 | 547 | Evolution - Embryonic evolution | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Evolution - Embryonic evolution | 9 The late Louis Agassiz, by his microscopic examination of a vulture's ovum, strengthens the thinker's conclusions as to the scientific theory of creation. Agassiz Embryonic 12 was able to see in the egg the earth's atmos- evolution phere, the gathering clouds, the moon and stars, while the germinating speck of so-called embryonic life seemed a 15 small sun. In its history of mortality, Darwin's theory of evolution from a material basis is more consistent than most theories. Briefly, this is Darwin's theory, — that 18 Mind produces its opposite, matter, and endues matter with power to recreate the universe, including man. Ma- terial evolution implies that the great First Cause must 21 become material, and afterwards must either return to Mind or go down into dust and nothingness. SHOW ALL |
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115 | 120 | 547 | Universe - True theory of the universe |
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Universe - True theory of the universe | The Scriptures are very sacred. Our aim must be to 24 have them understood spiritually, for only by this under- standing can truth be gained. The true the- True theory ory of the universe, including man, is not in of the 27 material history but in spiritual development. universe Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and 30 immortal. SHOW ALL |
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116 | 121 | 547 | Perception - Scriptural perception | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Perception - Scriptural perception | It is this spiritual perception of Scripture, which lifts humanity out of disease and death and inspires faith. 1 "The Spirit and the bride say, Come! . . . and whoso- ever will, let him take the water of life freely." Christian 3 Science separates error from truth, and breathes Scriptural through the sacred pages the spiritual sense of perception life, substance, and intelligence. In this Science, we dis- 6 cover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony. SHOW ALL |
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117 | 122 | 548 | Clouds - The clouds dissolving | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Clouds - The clouds dissolving | 9 How little light or heat reach our earth when clouds cover the sun's face! So Christian Science can be seen only as the clouds of corporeal sense roll away. The clouds 12 Earth has little light or joy for mortals before dissolving Life is spiritually learned. Every agony of mortal error helps error to destroy error, and so aids the apprehension 15 of immortal Truth. This is the new birth going on hourly, by which men may entertain angels, the true ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being. SHOW ALL |
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118 | 123 | 548 | Naturalist - Prediction of a naturalist | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Naturalist - Prediction of a naturalist | 18 Speaking of the origin of mortals, a famous naturalist says: "It is very possible that many general statements now current, about birth and generation, will Prediction of 21 be changed with the progress of information." a naturalist Had the naturalist, through his tireless researches, gained the diviner side in Christian Science, — so far apart from 24 his material sense of animal growth and organization, — he would have blessed the human race more abundantly. SHOW ALL |
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119 | 124 | 548 | Reproduction - Methods of reproduction | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Reproduction - Methods of reproduction | Natural history is richly endowed by the labors and 27 genius of great men. Modern discoveries have brought to light important facts in regard to so-called Methods of embryonic life. Agassiz declares ("Methods reproduction 30 of Study in Natural History," page 275): "Certain ani- mals, besides the ordinary process of generation, also increase their numbers naturally and constantly by self- 1 division." This discovery is corroborative of the Science of Mind, for this discovery shows that the multiplication 3 of certain animals takes place apart from sexual condi- tions. The supposition that life germinates in eggs and must decay after it has grown to maturity, if not before, 6 is shown by divine metaphysics to be a mistake, — a blunder which will finally give place to higher theories and demonstrations. SHOW ALL |
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120 | 125 | 549 | Processes of reproduction - The three processes |
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Processes of reproduction - The three processes | 9 Creatures of lower forms of organism are supposed to have, as classes, three different methods of reproduc- tion and to multiply their species sometimes The three 12 through eggs, sometimes through buds, and processes sometimes through self-division. According to recent lore, successive generations do not begin with the birth of 15 new individuals, or personalities, but with the formation of the nucleus, or egg, from which one or more individu- alities subsequently emerge; and we must therefore look 18 upon the simple ovum as the germ, the starting-point, of the most complicated corporeal structures, including those which we call human. Here these material researches 21 culminate in such vague hypotheses as must necessarily attend false systems, which rely upon physics and are de- void of metaphysics. SHOW ALL |
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121 | 126 | 549 | Law - Deference to material law | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Law - Deference to material law | 24 In one instance a celebrated naturalist, Agassiz, dis- covers the pathway leading to divine Science, and beards the lion of materialism in its den. At that Deference to 27 point, however, even this great observer mis- material law takes nature, forsakes Spirit as the divine origin of creative Truth, and allows matter and material law to 30 usurp the prerogatives of omnipotence. He absolutely drops from his summit, coming down to a belief in the material origin of man, for he virtually affirms that 1 the germ of humanity is in a circumscribed and non- intelligent egg. SHOW ALL |
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122 | 127 | 550 | Interrogations - Deep-reaching interrogations | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Interrogations - Deep-reaching interrogations | 3 If this be so, whence cometh Life, or Mind, to the human race? Matter surely does not possess Mind. God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms Deep-reaching 6 and preserves the individuality and identity interrogations of animals as well as of men. God cannot become finite, and be limited within material bounds. 9 Spirit cannot become matter, nor can Spirit be developed through its opposite. Of what avail is it to investigate what is miscalled material life, which ends, even as it be- 12 gins, in nameless nothingness? The true sense of being and its eternal perfection should appear now, even as it will hereafter. SHOW ALL |
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123 | 128 | 550 | Existence - Stages of existence | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Existence - Stages of existence | 15 Error of thought is reflected in error of action. The continual contemplation of existence as material and cor- poreal — as beginning and ending, and with Stages of 18 birth, decay, and dissolution as its component existence stages — hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust. If Life has any starting- 21 point whatsoever, then the great I AM is a myth. If Life is God, as the Scriptures imply, then Life is not embry- onic, it is infinite. An egg is an impossible enclosure for 24 Deity. Embryology supplies no instance of one species pro- ducing its opposite. A serpent never begets a bird, nor 27 does a lion bring forth a lamb. Amalgamation is deemed monstrous and is seldom fruitful, but it is not so hideous and absurd as the supposition that Spirit — the pure and 30 holy, the immutable and immortal — can originate the impure and mortal and dwell in it. As Christian Science repudiates self-evident impossibilities, the material senses 1 must father these absurdities, for both the material senses and their reports are unnatural, impossible, and unreal. SHOW ALL |
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124 | 129 | 551 | Producer - The real producer | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Producer - The real producer | 3 Either Mind produces, or it is produced. If Mind is first, it cannot produce its opposite in quality and quantity, called matter. If matter is first, it cannot pro- The real 6 duce Mind. Like produces like. In natural producer history, the bird is not the product of a beast. In spiritual history, matter is not the progenitor of Mind. SHOW ALL |
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125 | 130 | 551 | Species - The ascent of species | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Species - The ascent of species | 9 One distinguished naturalist argues that mortals spring from eggs and in races. Mr. Darwin admits this, but he adds that mankind has ascended through all The ascent 12 the lower grades of existence. Evolution de- of species scribes the gradations of human belief, but it does not acknowledge the method of divine Mind, nor see that ma- 15 terial methods are impossible in divine Science and that all Science is of God, not of man. SHOW ALL |
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126 | 131 | 551 | Peculiarities - Transmitted peculiarities | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Peculiarities - Transmitted peculiarities | Naturalists ask: "What can there be, of a material 18 nature, transmitted through these bodies called eggs, — themselves composed of the simplest material Transmitted elements, — by which all peculiarities of an- peculiarities 21 cestry, belonging to either sex, are brought down from generation to generation?" The question of the natu- ralist amounts to this: How can matter originate or trans- 24 mit mind? We answer that it cannot. Darkness and doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on materiality. From a material standpoint, "Canst thou 27 by searching find out God?" All must be Mind, or else all must be matter. Neither can produce the other. Mind is immortal; but error declares that the material 30 seed must decay in order to propagate its species, and the resulting germ is doomed to the same routine. SHOW ALL |
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127 | 132 | 551 | Causation not in matter | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Causation not in matter | The ancient and hypothetical question, Which is first, 1 the egg or the bird? is answered, if the egg produces the parent. But we cannot stop here. Another question 3 follows: Who or what produces the parent of Causation not the egg? That the earth was hatched from the in matter "egg of night" was once an accepted theory. Heathen 6 philosophy, modern geology, and all other material hy- potheses deal with causation as contingent on matter and as necessarily apparent to the corporeal senses, even 9 where the proof requisite to sustain this assumption is un- discovered. Mortal theories make friends of sin, sickness, and death; whereas the spiritual scientific facts of exist- 12 ence include no member of this dolorous and fatal triad. SHOW ALL |
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128 | 133 | 552 | Mortals - Emergence of mortals | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Mortals - Emergence of mortals | Human experience in mortal life, which starts from an egg, corresponds with that of Job, when he says, "Man 15 that is born of a woman is of few days, and Emergence full of trouble." Mortals must emerge from of mortals this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck 18 open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward and upward. But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild 21 with freedom and so be self-contradictory. SHOW ALL |
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129 | 134 | 552 | Species - Persistence of species | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Species - Persistence of species | From a material source flows no remedy for sorrow, sin, and death, for the redeeming power, from the ills 24 they occasion, is not in egg nor in dust. The Persistence blending tints of leaf and flower show the of species order of matter to be the order of mortal mind. The 27 intermixture of different species, urged to its utmost limits, results in a return to the original species. Thus it is learned that matter is a manifestation of mortal 30 mind, and that matter always surrenders its claims when the perfect and eternal Mind is understood.SHOW ALL |
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130 | 135 | 552 | Embryology - Better basis than embryology | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Embryology - Better basis than embryology | Naturalists describe the origin of mortal and material 1 existence in the various forms of embryology, and ac- company their descriptions with important observations, 3 which should awaken thought to a higher and Better basis purer contemplation of man's origin. This than clearer consciousness must precede an under- embryology 6 standing of the harmony of being. Mortal thought must obtain a better basis, get nearer the truth of being, or health will never be universal, and harmony will never 9 become the standard of man. One of our ablest naturalists has said: "We have no right to assume that individuals have grown or been 12 formed under circumstances which made material con- ditions essential to their maintenance and reproduction, or important to their origin and first introduction." 15 Why, then, is the naturalist's basis so materialistic, and why are his deductions generally material? SHOW ALL |
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131 | 136 | 553 | Nativity - All nativity in thought | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Nativity - All nativity in thought | Adam was created before Eve. In this instance, it is 18 seen that the maternal egg never brought forth Adam. Eve was formed from Adam's rib, not from a All nativity foetal ovum. Whatever theory may be adopted in thought 21 by general mortal thought to account for human origin, that theory is sure to become the signal for the appear- ance of its method in finite forms and operations. If con- 24 sentaneous human belief agrees upon an ovum as the point of emergence for the human race, this potent belief will immediately supersede the more ancient supersti- 27 tion about the creation from dust or from the rib of our primeval father. SHOW ALL |
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132 | 137 | 553 | Being is immortal | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Being is immortal | You may say that mortals are formed before they 30 think or know aught of their origin, and you Being is may also ask how belief can affect a result immortal which precedes the development of that belief. It can 1 only be replied, that Christian Science reveals what "eye hath not seen," — even the cause of all that exists, — for 3 the universe, inclusive of man, is as eternal as God, who is its divine immortal Principle. There is no such thing as mortality, nor are there properly any mortal beings, 6 because being is immortal, like Deity, — or, rather, being and Deity are inseparable. SHOW ALL |
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133 | 138 | 554 | Development - Our conscious development | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Development - Our conscious development | Error is always error. It is no thing. Any statement 9 of life, following from a misconception of life, is errone- ous, because it is destitute of any knowledge Our conscious of the so-called selfhood of life, destitute of development 12 any knowledge of its origin or existence. The mortal is unconscious of his foetal and infantile existence; but as he grows up into another false claim, that of self-con- 15 scious matter, he learns to say, "I am somebody; but who made me?" Error replies, "God made you." The first effort of error has been and is to impute to God the 18 creation of whatever is sinful and mortal; but infinite Mind sets at naught such a mistaken belief. SHOW ALL |
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134 | 139 | 554 | Error - Mendacity of error | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Error - Mendacity of error | Jesus defined this opposite of God and His creation 21 better than we can, when he said, "He is a liar, and the father of it." Jesus also said, "Have not I Mendacity chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" of error 24 This he said of Judas, one of Adam's race. Jesus never intimated that God made a devil, but he did say, "Ye are of your father, the devil." All these sayings were to 27 show that mind in matter is the author of itself, and is simply a falsity and illusion. SHOW ALL |
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135 | 140 | 554 | Animals - Ailments of animals | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Animals - Ailments of animals | It is the general belief that the lower animals are less 30 sickly than those possessing higher organiza- Ailments tions, especially those of the human form. of animals This would indicate that there is less disease in propor- 1 tion as the force of mortal mind is less pungent or sensi- tive, and that health attends the absence of mortal mind. 3 A fair conclusion from this might be, that it is the human belief, and not the divine arbitrament, which brings the physical organism under the yoke of disease. SHOW ALL |
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Error - Ignorance the sign of error | 6 An inquirer once said to the discoverer of Christian Science: "I like your explanations of truth, but I do not comprehend what you say about error." Ignorance the 9 This is the nature of error. The mark of igno- sign of error rance is on its forehead, for it neither understands nor can be understood. Error would have itself received as 12 mind, as if it were as real and God-created as truth; but Christian Science attributes to error neither entity nor power, because error is neither mind nor the outcome of 15 Mind. SHOW ALL |
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137 | 142 | 555 | Divinity – The origin of divinity | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Divinity – The origin of divinity | Searching for the origin of man, who is the reflection of God, is like inquiring into the origin of God, the self- 18 existent and eternal. Only impotent error The origin would seek to unite Spirit with matter, good of divinity with evil, immortality with mortality, and call this 21 sham unity man, as if man were the offspring of both Mind and matter, of both Deity and humanity. Crea- tion rests on a spiritual basis. We lose our standard of 24 perfection and set aside the proper conception of Deity, when we admit that the perfect is the author of aught that can become imperfect, that God bestows the power 27 to sin, or that Truth confers the ability to err. Our great example, Jesus, could restore the individualized manifestation of existence, which seemed to vanish in 30 death. Knowing that God was the Life of man, Jesus was able to present himself unchanged after the cruci- fixion. Truth fosters the idea of Truth, and not the be- 1 lief in illusion or error. That which is real, is sustained by Spirit. SHOW ALL |
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138 | 143 | 556 | Genera classified | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Genera classified | 3 Vertebrata, articulata, mollusca, and radiata are mor- tal and material concepts classified, and are supposed to possess life and mind. These false beliefs Genera 6 will disappear, when the radiation of Spirit classified destroys forever all belief in intelligent matter. Then will the new heaven and new earth appear, for the for- 9 mer things will have passed away. SHOW ALL |
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139 | 144 | 556 | Christian privilege - The Christian’s privilege |
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Christian privilege - The Christian’s privilege | Mortal belief infolds the conditions of sin. Mortal belief dies to live again in renewed forms, only to go out 12 at last forever; for life everlasting is not to be The gained by dying. Christian Science may ab- Christian's sorb the attention of sage and philosopher, but privilege 15 the Christian alone can fathom it. It is made known most fully to him who understands best the divine Life. Did the origin and the enlightenment of the race come 18 from the deep sleep which fell upon Adam? Sleep is darkness, but God's creative mandate was, "Let there be light." In sleep, cause and effect are mere illusions. 21 They seem to be something, but are not. Oblivion and dreams, not realities, come with sleep. Even so goes on the Adam-belief, of which mortal and material life is the 24 dream. SHOW ALL |
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140 | 145 | 556 | Ontology versus physiology | 1910 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy. |
Ontology versus physiology | Ontology receives less attention than physiology. Why? Because mortal mind must waken to spiritual Ontology 27 life before it cares to solve the problem of versus being, hence the author's experience; but when physiology that awakening comes, existence will be on a new stand- 30 point. It is related that a father plunged his infant babe, only a few hours old, into the water for several minutes, and 1 repeated this operation daily, until the child could remain under water twenty minutes, moving and playing with- 3 out harm, like a fish. Parents should remember this, and learn how to develop their children properly on dry land. SHOW ALL |
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Curse - The curse removed | 6 Mind controls the birth-throes in the lower realms of nature, where parturition is without suffering. Vege- tables, minerals, and many animals suffer no The curse 9 pain in multiplying; but human propagation removed has its suffering because it is a false belief. Christian Sci- ence reveals harmony as proportionately increasing as the 12 line of creation rises towards spiritual man, — towards enlarged understanding and intelligence; but in the line of the corporeal senses, the less a mortal knows of sin, 15 disease, and mortality, the better for him, — the less pain and sorrow are his. When the mist of mortal mind evap- orates, the curse will be removed which says to woman, 18 "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children." Divine Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as 21 never dying, but as coexistent with his creator. Popular theology takes up the history of man as if he began materially right, but immediately fell into mental 24 sin; whereas revealed religion proclaims the Science of Mind and its formations as being in accordance with the first chapter of the Old Testament, when God, Mind, 27 spake and it was done.SHOW ALL |