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

Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth

Music, rhythm of head and heart

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it is possible that the impressions from Truth were as

distinct as sound, and that they came as sound to the

primitive prophets. If the medium of hearing is wholly

spiritual, it is normal and indestructible.

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If Enoch's perception had been confined to the evidence

before his material senses, he could never have "walked

with God," nor been guided into the demonstration of

life eternal.

Adam and the senses

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Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from

dust, is an object-lesson for the human mind. The mate-

rial senses, like Adam, originate in matter and

return to dust, – are proved non-intelligent.

They go out as they came in, for they are still the error,

not the truth of being. When it is learned that the spirit-

ual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions

of Mind to man, then being will be understood and found

to be harmonious.

Idolatrous illusions

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We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts

of God like the pagan idolater. Mortals are inclined to

fear and to obey what they consider a material

body more than they do a spiritual God. All

material knowledge, like the original "tree of knowledge,"

multiplies their pains, for mortal illusions would rob God,

slay man, and meanwhile would spread their table with

cannibal tidbits and give thanks.

The senses of Soul

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How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on

the retina may end the power of light and lens! But the

real sight or sense is not lost. Neither age nor

accident can interfere with the senses of Soul,

and there are no other real senses. It is evident that the

body as matter has no sensation of its own, and there is no

oblivion for Soul and its faculties. Spirit's senses are with-