Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

Impossible coalescence

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not mingle scientifically. Why should we wish to make

them do so, since no good can come of it?

If Mind is foremost and superior, let us rely upon Mind,

which needs no cooperation from lower powers, even if

these so-called powers are real.

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Naught is the squire, when the king is nigh;

Withdraws the star, when dawns the sun's brave light.

Soul and sense

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The various mortal beliefs formulated in human philoso-

phy, physiology, hygiene, are mainly predicated of matter,

and afford faint gleams of God, or Truth.

The more material a belief, the more obstinately

tenacious its error; the stronger are the manifestations of

the corporeal senses, the weaker the indications of Soul.

Will-power detrimental

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Human will-power is not Science. Human will belongs

to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be con-

demned. Willing the sick to recover is not the

metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but

is sheer animal magnetism. Human will-power may in-

fringe the rights of man. It produces evil continually,

and is not a factor in the realism of being. Truth, and

not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to

disease, "Peace, be still."

Conservative antagonism

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Because divine Science wars with so-called physical

science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools

still oppose it. Ignorance, pride, or prejudice

closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.

When the Science of being is universally understood,

every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be

the universal panacea.

Ancient healers

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It is a question to-day, whether the ancient inspired

healers understood the Science of Christian healing, or