Chapter 7: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VII - Physiology

One basis for all sickness

177:1
Human mind produces what is termed organic dis-

ease as certainly as it produces hysteria, and it must re-

linquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins.

I have demonstrated this beyond all cavil.

The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and abso-

lute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own

existence.

Mental and physical oneness

177:8
Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without

the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind.

Matter, or body, is but a false concept of mor-

tal mind. This so-called mind builds its own

superstructure, of which the material body is

the grosser portion; but from first to last, the body is a

sensuous, human concept.

The effect of names

177:15
In the Scriptural allegory of the material creation,

Adam or error, which represents the erroneous theory

of life and intelligence in matter, had the

naming of all that was material. These names

indicated matter's properties, qualities, and forms. But

a lie, the opposite of Truth, cannot name the qualities and

effects of what is termed matter, and create the so-called

laws of the flesh, nor can a lie hold the preponderance

of power in any direction against God, Spirit and

Truth.

Poison defined mentally

177:25
If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and

the patient dies even though physician and

patient are expecting favorable results, does

human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even

so, and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally

taken.

177:31
In such cases a few persons believe the potion swal-

lowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast ma-