Chapter 4: 'Science and Health' by Mary Baker Glover

Chapter IV - Creation

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immortality is Soul, and not sense; matter can neither

give nor take away Life. The Scripture saith, "Man

liveth by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth

of God," and this is not material bread, but that which

comes from heaven, harmony, giving its idea, immor-

tality. We know the belief of Life in matter is sus-

tained by eating, drinking, etc., because it reverses the

order of creation, and predicates Life on matter instead

of Spirit.

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"And every herb bearing seed, and every tree in the

which is the fruit of a tree, was given man."

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The

idea of God (and this was man) was superior to earth,

because it was the supreme idea, that embraced the

entire universe in itself, and to which all others were

subordinate. In this science of being, the herb bore seed

and the tree fruit, not because of root, seed, or blossom,

but because their Principle sustained these ideas, not

as Substance, but idea, for Intelligence held dominion

over matter. Reproduction is the result not of seed or

soil, but the Principle of man and the universe, that

produces through Intelligence. "And to every beast

of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, etc., wherein

is Life, was given every green herb for meat." Unto

every belief of Life in matter, the green herb symbol-

izing the immature and imperfect was apportioned, for

this belief was error and must draw its nutriment from

the "tree of knowledge," whereof if a man eat he

should die.

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"And God saw every thing that He had made, and

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behold it was very good."

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Mark the distinction be-

tween the things produced by Spirit, and those sup-

posed to be material products. Adam was sinful and

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mortal; in other words, he was error, and this error the

belief that Life and Intelligence are in matter. The

first product of this belief was Cain, a murderer, and

earth brought forth thorns and thistles according to

error, Adam; and man must live by bread, and earn it

by the sweat of his brow. The belief of Life in matter

entailed nothing but discord; therefore this belief was

error, and error illusion; science says man has neither

birth, growth, decay nor death; man is idea and not

Substance, and spiritual instead of material. God

"saw all that He had made," inasmuch as Intelligence

understands all; hence the harmony and immortality of

its ideas and of man as idea, and not Substance, and

governed by mind instead of matter; mind that compre-

hends and sustains man, not as matter, but idea. Soul

understands this science of being, but sense does not,

and the less sense and the more Soul is brought out

will man appear the glorious idea of immortality. Soul

alone comprehends immortality; personal sense says,

when the eye loses sight of him forever, man is dead.

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"Thus the heavens and earth were finished, and all

the hosts of them."

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Here the Scripture repeats again

the science of creation, namely, that all was complete

and finished, therefore that nothing has since been

made; that Intelligence embraced all from the forever,

and that all is perfect, infinite and eternal. This assur-

ance, even, is self-sustaining, but to understand it, is to

gain our harmony and immortality; no geological spec-

ulation can change or mar the fact that Intelligence, the

Soul of man, embraces the universe and man in idea,

and holds them thus, forever. As matter-substance, all

is lost, but as Principle and idea, all is eternal. Never