Chapter 9: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter IX - Creation

No material creation

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Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must

yield to the infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of ac-

tion, thought rises from the material sense to

the spiritual, from the scholastic to the in-

spirational, and from the mortal to the immortal. All

things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the

creator. Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and

Mother of the universe, including man.

Tritheism impossible

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The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a per-

sonal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polythe-

ism, rather than the one ever-present I AM.

"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord."

No divine corporeality

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The everlasting I AM is not bounded nor compressed

within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can

He be understood aright through mortal con-

cepts. The precise form of God must be of

small importance in comparison with the sublime ques-

tion, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?

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Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in

the language of Scripture, "doeth according to His will

in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the

earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him,

What doest Thou?"

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No form nor physical combination is adequate to rep-

resent infinite Love. A finite and material sense of God

leads to formalism and narrowness; it chills the spirit of

Christianity.

Limitless Mind

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A limitless Mind cannot proceed from physical limita-

tions. Finiteness cannot present the idea or the vast-

ness of infinity. A mind originating from a

finite or material source must be limited and

finite. Infinite Mind is the creator, and creation is the