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

Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth

Man reflects God

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and its formations can never be annihilated. Man is not

a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and

sorrow, sickness and health, life and death.

Life and its faculties are not measured by

calendars. The perfect and immortal are the eternal

likeness of their Maker. Man is by no means a material

germ rising from the imperfect and endeavoring to reach

Spirit above his origin. The stream rises no higher than

its source.

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The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and

gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth

coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, un-

dimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and mate-

rial, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of

Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright

and imperishable glories.

Undesirable records

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Never record ages. Chronological data are no part

of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are

so many conspiracies against manhood and

womanhood. Except for the error of meas-

uring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man

would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and

still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man,

governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and

grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty,

and holiness.

True life eternal

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Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the

demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal.

Let us then shape our views of existence into

loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather

than into age and blight.

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Acute and chronic beliefs reproduce their own types.