Chapter 10: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Rejected theories

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reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist

and cooperate. One only of the following statements can

be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that every-

thing is Mind. Which one is it?

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Matter and Mind are opposites. One is contrary to

the other in its very nature and essence; hence both can-

not be real. If one is real, the other must be unreal. Only

by understanding that there is but one power, – not two

powers, matter and Mind, – are scientific and logical

conclusions reached. Few deny the hypothesis that in-

telligence, apart from man and matter, governs the uni-

verse; and it is generally admitted that this intelligence

is the eternal Mind or divine Principle, Love.

Prophetic ignorance

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The prophets of old looked for something higher than

the systems of their times; hence their fore-

sight of the new dispensation of Truth. But

they knew not what would be the precise nature of the

teaching and demonstration of God, divine Mind, in His

more infinite meanings, – the demonstration which was

to destroy sin, sickness, and death, establish the definition

of omnipotence, and maintain the Science of Spirit.

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The pride of priesthood is the prince of this world. It

has nothing in Christ. Meekness and charity have divine

authority. Mortals think wickedly; consequently they

are wicked. They think sickly thoughts, and so become

sick. If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love alone can

unmake them. If a sense of disease produces suffering

and a sense of ease antidotes suffering, disease is mental,

not material. Hence the fact that the human mind alone

suffers, is sick, and that the divine Mind alone heals.

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The life of Christ Jesus was not miraculous, but it was

indigenous to his spirituality, – the good soil wherein the