Chapter 8: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth

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we can have no other Mind but His, – no other Love,

wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no con-

sciousness of the existence of matter or error.

Will-power unrighteous

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The power of the human will should be exercised only

in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the judg-

ment and free the lower propensities. It is the

province of spiritual sense to govern man.

Material, erring, human thought acts injuriously both

upon the body and through it.

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Will-power is capable of all evil. It can never heal

the sick, for it is the prayer of the unrighteous; while

the exercise of the sentiments – hope, faith, love – is the

prayer of the righteous. This prayer, governed by Science

instead of the senses, heals the sick.

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In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that

whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with

the loaves and the fishes, – Spirit, not matter, being the

source of supply.

Birth and death unreal

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Does God send sickness, giving the mother her child

for the brief space of a few years and then taking it away

by death? Is God creating anew what He

has already created? The Scriptures are defi-

nite on this point, declaring that His work was finished,

nothing is new to God, and that it was good.

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Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual

image and likeness of God? Instead of God sending

sickness and death, He destroys them, and brings to light

immortality. Omnipotent and infinite Mind made all

and includes all. This Mind does not make mistakes

and subsequently correct them. God does not cause man

to sin, to be sick, or to die.

No evil in Spirit

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There are evil beliefs, often called evil spirits; but