Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

The sun and Soul

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seems otherwise to finite sense. But we shall never under-

stand this while we admit that soul is in body or mind in

matter, and that man is included in non-intelligence.

Soul, or Spirit, is God, unchangeable and eternal; and

man coexists with and reflects Soul, God, for man is God's

image.

Reversal of testimony

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Science reverses the false testimony of the physical

senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the funda-

mental facts of being. Then the question in-

evitably arises: Is a man sick if the material

senses indicate that he is in good health? No! for matter

can make no conditions for man. And is he well if the

senses say he is sick? Yes, he is well in Science in which

health is normal and disease is abnormal.

Health and the senses

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Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor

can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the sub-

ject of health. The Science of Mind-healing

shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind

to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. There-

fore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi-

mony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously

existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and

thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows

false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.

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Any conclusion pro or con, deduced from supposed sen-

sation in matter or from matter's supposed consciousness

of health or disease, instead of reversing the testimony of

the physical senses, confirms that testimony as legitimate

and so leads to disease.

Historic illustrations

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When Columbus gave freer breath to the

globe, ignorance and superstition chained the

limbs of the brave old navigator, and disgrace and star-