Chapter 17: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XVII - Glossary

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finiteness, and mortality; "dust to dust;" red sand-

stone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not

God's man, who represents the one God and is His own

image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and His crea-

tions; that which is not the image and likeness of good,

but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit;

a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus mak-

ing "gods many and lords many" (I Corinthians viii. 5);

a product of nothing as the mimicry of something; an

unreality as opposed to the great reality of spiritual ex-

istence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin,

substance, and mind are found to be the antipode of

God, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image

and likeness of what God has not created, namely, mat-

ter, sin, sickness, and death; the opposer of Truth,

termed error; Life's counterfeit, which ultimates in

death; the opposite of Love, called hate; the usurper

of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter; immor-

tality's opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith,

"Thou shalt surely die."

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The name Adam represents the false supposition that

Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the

infinite enters the finite, that intelligence passes into non‑

intelligence, and that Soul dwells in material sense; that

immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal

mind; that the one God and creator entered what He cre-

ated, and then disappeared in the atheism of matter.

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ADVERSARY. An adversary is one who opposes, denies,

disputes, not one who constructs and sustains reality and

Truth. Jesus said of the devil, "He was a murderer from

the beginning, . . . he is a liar and the father of it."