Chapter 7: 'Science and Health' by Mary Baker Glover

Chapter VII - Physiology

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have only to find it mortal. The belief of Life and

Intelligence in matter is destroyed; but Life and man,

still are, and ever will be.

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Matter is not the medium through which Spirit acts,

or is manifested. Spirit is never individualized, and

there is no medium for it. Spirit is infinite, because it

is Intelligence, what then can limit it? Again, to Spirit

Intelligence alone is Substance, and there is no matter.

If the body was intelligent, it could never return to

dust, for mind dies not, and Intelligence never devel-

oped from matter.

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Physiology makes man both Spirit and matter; and

this error would make man mortal. If brains are mind

matter is mind; and a stone, a lesser degree of man.

To admit Spirit is not in matter, and then say it is man-

ifested through it, contradicts facts, for matter manifests

mortality only, and Spirit is immortal; not a glimpse or

manifestation of Spirit is obtained through the erring

or decaying. Spirit is positive to all things, and if it

passed through matter it would destroy it, or become

negative to it. Metaphysical science, dry and abstract

though it appears, should not be overlooked for the

transient and mortal sense of things; health, harmony

and immortality are gained through spirituality only;

and this will be understood sooner or later. Truth

has but one department for its students, and but one

branch of education, viz., the science of being. Studying

into the nature of matter, that embraces sin, sickness

and death, hath no real advantage; and matter-laws

of health lay the foundation of sickness. Knowledge

embraces neither Life nor Truth; but when we define

the material with the spiritual, and look from nature

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up to nature's God, learning is profitable. Prof. Ru-

dolph's astronomical explanations are of this sort. The

researches and experiences of our great minds are of the

utmost importance, when given thus.

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Astronomy, Natural History, Chemistry, Music, Mathe-

matics, etc., as ideas of a Principle, are mile-stones in

the pathway of science; but when we attempt to put

Principle into these ideas, we give them the interpre-

tations of personal sense, that mislead our conclusions.

Let spiritual sense give the last, because the highest

explanation of all things, and "the last shall become

first, and will be final." If material man was really

man, when this body is destroyed man would be anni-

hilated; identifying man through matter you have no

authority for saying, he lives after that is destroyed.

Education is all that develops sense, but it cannot de-

velop Soul; Casper Hauser, without this education,

manifested less Intelligence than a mouse, was unable

to feed himself, even knew less than the lower species,

guided by instinct. The infant boy, incarcerated in a

dungeon where neither sight nor sound could reach

him, at the age of an adult, was not a man, – showing

years make not men – he was an infant still, and a

belief of Life in matter, that proved itself neither In-

telligence nor the idea of God, but in reality nonentity.

Thus mortal man for whom laws of health are conjured

up from the abyss of condemned "knowledge," is just

this material nothingness, "dust to dust;" therefore,

what availeth it to plant him deeper in matter-belief,

whence he sprang and was accursed.

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The least thought or said of physical structure, laws

of health, etc., the higher will become manhood and,