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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Material skepticism

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to Thomas. For him to believe in matter was no task,

but for him to conceive of the substantiality of Spirit –

to know that nothing can efface Mind and immortality, in

which Spirit reigns – was more difficult.

What the senses originate

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Corporeal senses define diseases as realities; but the

Scriptures declare that God made all, even while the cor-

poreal senses are saying that matter causes

disease and the divine Mind cannot or will

not heal it. The material senses originate and

support all that is material, untrue, selfish, or debased.

They would put soul into soil, life into limbo, and doom

all things to decay. We must silence this lie of material

sense with the truth of spiritual sense. We must cause

the error to cease that brought the belief of sin and death

and would efface the pure sense of omnipotence.

Sickness as discord

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Is the sick man sinful above all others? No! but

so far as he is discordant, he is not the image of God.

Weary of their material beliefs, from which

comes so much suffering, invalids grow more

spiritual, as the error – or belief that life is in matter –

yields to the reality of spiritual Life.

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The Science of Mind denies the error of sensation in

matter, and heals with Truth. Medical science treats

disease as though disease were real, therefore right, and

attempts to heal it with matter. If disease is right it is

wrong to heal it. Material methods are temporary, and

are not adapted to elevate mankind.

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The governor is not subjected to the governed. In

Science man is governed by God, divine Principle, as

numbers are controlled and proved by His laws. Intelli-

gence does not originate in numbers, but is manifested

through them. The body does not include soul, but man-