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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

The serpent's whisper

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the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life

and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter.

This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, in-

sists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying,

"Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real

and eternal as Truth.

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Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that

there is more than one intelligence or God. It says:

"There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God

makes evil minds and evil spirits, and that I aid Him.

Truth shall change sides and be unlike Spirit. I will

put spirit into what I call matter, and matter shall seem

to have life as much as God, Spirit, who is the only life."

Bad results from error

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This error has proved itself to be error. Its life is found

to be not Life, but only a transient, false sense of an ex-

istence which ends in death. Error charges

its lie to Truth and says: "The Lord knows

it. He has made man mortal and material, out of mat-

ter instead of Spirit." Thus error partakes of its own

nature and utters its own falsities. If we regard matter

as intelligent, and Mind as both good and evil, every sin

or supposed material pain and pleasure seems normal,

a part of God's creation, and so weighs against our course

Spiritward.

Higher statutes

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Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul

of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man

was not created from a material basis, nor

bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never

made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher

law of Mind.

The great question

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Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice

of Truth still calls: "Adam, where art thou? Conscious-