0.0 – Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy Chapter 17 – Glossary Subtitles

There are two final chapters - part also of the Key to the Scriptures. Chapter seventeen is GLOSSARY. The light of the previous chapters has shown us “that the substitution of the spiritual for the material definition . . [gives us the] spiritual sense, which is also [the] original meaning” (579:1). “Glossary” shows how this divine activity has always been at work transforming people, events and history, translating them from matter and time to idea, from mortality to immortality. This  chapter, through Scriptural characters like Abel and Abraham or symbols like river and wind, illustrates the working of the spiritual idea. Most of the definitions are worded in both a positive and a negative way, showing how the spiritual idea works - you let the divine pour into consciousness, you let it lodge there, do its own leavening work and it resolves the negative appearance of things. So the whole “Glossary’ is built around this concept of how the great spiritual facts of being, when we are aware of them and accept them, translate our mistaken sense of those facts.
~ DISSOLVING BARRIERS, The Healing Work of Christian Science by John L. MorganSHOW ALL