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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Spirit the starting-point

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Matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies. A

partnership of mind with matter would ignore omnipres-

ent and omnipotent Mind. This shows that

matter did not originate in God, Spirit, and is

not eternal. Therefore matter is neither substantial, living,

nor intelligent. The starting-point of divine Science is

that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other

might nor Mind, – that God is Love, and therefore He

is divine Principle.

Divine synonyms

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To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science,

you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle

of all that really is. Spirit, Life, Truth, Love,

combine as one, – and are the Scriptural names

for God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, im-

mortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are

His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite

divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His

wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life

but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.

The divine completeness

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Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understand-

ing, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is

God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,

– that is, all power, all presence, all Science.

Hence all is in reality the manifestation of Mind.

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Our material human theories are destitute of Science.

The true understanding of God is spiritual. It robs the

grave of victory. It destroys the false evidence that mis-

leads thought and points to other gods, or other so-called

powers, such as matter, disease, sin, and death, superior

or contrary to the one Spirit.

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Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood.

It casts out error and heals the sick.