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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

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sin, and death are the vague realities of human conclu-

sions. Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine

Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in

spiritual understanding. As a cloud hides the sun it

cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the

voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot de-

stroy Science armed with faith, hope, and fruition.

Truth's witness

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What is termed material sense can report only a mor-

tal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can

bear witness only to Truth. To material sense,

the unreal is the real until this sense is corrected

by Christian Science.

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Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, in-

volves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, real-

ity. Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in

matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense

of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never

reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal.

When the real is attained, which is announced by Science,

joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spirit-

ual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle,

and admit no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead

up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense

of being.

Thought-angels

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Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving

animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial

visitants, flying on spiritual, not material,

pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God,

winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their indi-

vidualism may be. Human conjecture confers upon angels

its own forms of thought, marked with superstitious out-

lines, making them human creatures with suggestive