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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Material knowledge illusive

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sistently by Christian Science. Truth and Love antidote

this mental miasma, and thus invigorate and sustain ex-

istence. Unnecessary knowledge gained from

the five senses is only temporal, – the concep-

tion of mortal mind, the offspring of sense, not

of Soul, Spirit, – and symbolizes all that is evil and

perishable. Natural science, as it is commonly called, is

not really natural nor scientific, because it is deduced from

the evidence of the material senses. Ideas, on the con-

trary, are born of Spirit, and are not mere inferences

drawn from material premises.

Five senses deceptive

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The senses of Spirit abide in Love, and they demon-

strate Truth and Life. Hence Christianity and the Sci-

ence which expounds it are based on spiritual

understanding, and they supersede the so‑

called laws of matter. Jesus demonstrated this great

verity. When what we erroneously term the five physical

senses are misdirected, they are simply the manifested

beliefs of mortal mind, which affirm that life, substance,

and intelligence are material, instead of spiritual. These

false beliefs and their products constitute the flesh, and

the flesh wars against Spirit.

Impossible partnership

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Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way

position in learning its Principle and rule – establishing

it by demonstration. The conventional firm,

called matter and mind, God never formed.

Science and understanding, governed by the unerring and

eternal Mind, destroy the imaginary copartnership, matter

and mind, formed only to be destroyed in a manner and

at a period as yet unknown. This suppositional partner-

ship is already obsolete, for matter, examined in the light

of divine metaphysics, disappears.