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

Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth

Philosophical blunders

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run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply

Mind into minds and suppose error to be mind, then mind

to be in matter and matter to be a lawgiver,

unintelligence to act like intelligence, and mor-

tality to be the matrix of immortality.

Spirit the one Ego

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Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no

real entity, but saith "It is I." Spirit is the Ego which

never dreams, but understands all things;

which never errs, and is ever conscious; which

never believes, but knows; which is never born and

never dies. Spiritual man is the likeness of this Ego.

Man is not God, but like a ray of light which comes from

the sun, man, the outcome of God, reflects God.

Mortal existence a dream

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Mortal body and mind are one, and that one is called

man; but a mortal is not man, for man is immortal. A

mortal may be weary or pained, enjoy or suffer,

according to the dream he entertains in sleep.

When that dream vanishes, the mortal finds himself

experiencing none of these dream-sensations. To the

observer, the body lies listless, undisturbed, and sensa-

tionless, and the mind seems to be absent.

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Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking

dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream?

There cannot be, since whatever appears to be a mortal

man is a mortal dream. Take away the mortal mind,

and matter has no more sense as a man than it has as

a tree. But the spiritual, real man is immortal.

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Upon this stage of existence goes on the dance of mortal

mind. Mortal thoughts chase one another like snowflakes,

and drift to the ground. Science reveals Life as not being

at the mercy of death, nor will Science admit that happi-

ness is ever the sport of circumstance.