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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Instruments of error

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ments of human error, and they correspond with error.

These senses indicate the common human belief, that life,

substance, and intelligence are a unison of

matter with Spirit. This is pantheism, and

carries within itself the seeds of all error.

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If man is both mind and matter, the loss of one finger

would take away some quality and quantity of the man,

for matter and man would be one.

Mortal verdict

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The belief that matter thinks, sees, or feels is not more

real than the belief that matter enjoys and suffers. This

mortal belief, misnamed man, is error, saying:

"Matter has intelligence and sensation. Nerves

feel. Brain thinks and sins. The stomach can make a

man cross. Injury can cripple and matter can kill man."

This verdict of the so-called material senses victimizes

mortals, taught, as they are by physiology and pathology,

to revere false testimony, even the errors that are destroyed

by Truth through spiritual sense and Science.

Mythical pleasure

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The lines of demarcation between immortal man, repre-

senting Spirit, and mortal man, representing the error that

life and intelligence are in matter, show the

pleasures and pains of matter to be myths, and

human belief in them to be the father of mythology, in

which matter is represented as divided into intelligent gods.

Man's genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is

good and true. Man is neither self-made nor made by

mortals. God created man.

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The inebriate believes that there is pleasure in intoxica-

tion. The thief believes that he gains something by steal-

ing, and the hypocrite that he is hiding himself. The

Science of Mind corrects such mistakes, for Truth demon-

strates the falsity of error.