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

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

Historic illustrations

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vation stared him in the face; but sterner still would have

been his fate, if his discovery had undermined the favor-

ite inclinations of a sensuous philosophy.

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Copernicus mapped out the stellar system, and before

he spake, astrography was chaotic, and the heavenly fields

were incorrectly explored.

Perennial beauty

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The Chaldean Wisemen read in the stars the fate of

empires and the fortunes of men. Though no higher

revelation than the horoscope was to them dis-

played upon the empyrean, earth and heaven

were bright, and bird and blossom were glad in God's

perennial and happy sunshine, golden with Truth. So

we have goodness and beauty to gladden the heart; but

man, left to the hypotheses of material sense unexplained

by Science, is as the wandering comet or the desolate

star – "a weary searcher for a viewless home."

Astronomic unfoldings

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The earth's diurnal rotation is invisible to the physical

eye, and the sun seems to move from east to west, instead

of the earth from west to east. Until rebuked

by clearer views of the everlasting facts, this

false testimony of the eye deluded the judgment and in-

duced false conclusions. Science shows appearances often

to be erroneous, and corrects these errors by the simple

rule that the greater controls the lesser. The sun is the

central stillness, so far as our solar system is concerned,

and the earth revolves about the sun once a year, besides

turning daily on its own axis.

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As thus indicated, astronomical order imitates the

action of divine Principle; and the universe, the reflec-

tion of God, is thus brought nearer the spiritual fact, and

is allied to divine Science as displayed in the everlasting

government of the universe.