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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

The great question

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ness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief

that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou

in the living faith that there is and can be but

one God, and keeping His commandment?"

Until the lesson is learned that God is the only Mind gov-

erning man, mortal belief will be afraid as it was in the

beginning, and will hide from the demand, "Where art

thou?" This awful demand, "Adam, where art thou?"

is met by the admission from the head, heart, stomach,

blood, nerves, etc.: "Lo, here I am, looking for happiness

and life in the body, but finding only an illusion, a blend-

ing of false claims, false pleasure, pain, sin, sickness, and

death."

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The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth,

and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man.

Wrestling of Jacob

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Jacob was alone, wrestling with error, – struggling

with a mortal sense of life, substance, and intelligence

as existent in matter with its false pleasures

and pains, – when an angel, a message from

Truth and Love, appeared to him and smote the sinew,

or strength, of his error, till he saw its unreality; and

Truth, being thereby understood, gave him spiritual

strength in this Peniel of divine Science. Then said

the spiritual evangel: "Let me go, for the day breaketh;"

that is, the light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee.

But the patriarch, perceiving his error and his need

of help, did not loosen his hold upon this glorious light

until his nature was transformed. When Jacob was

asked, "What is thy name?" he straightway answered;

and then his name was changed to Israel, for "as a prince"

had he prevailed and had "power with God and with

men." Then Jacob questioned his deliverer, "Tell me,