Chapter 9: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter IX - Creation

Limitless Mind

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infinite image or idea emanating from this Mind. If

Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind;

and this definition is scientific.

Matter is not substance

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If matter, so-called, is substance, then Spirit, matter's

unlikeness, must be shadow; and shadow cannot produce

substance. The theory that Spirit is not the

only substance and creator is pantheistic het-

erodoxy, which ultimates in sickness, sin, and death; it is

the belief in a bodily soul and a material mind, a soul

governed by the body and a mind in matter. This be-

lief is shallow pantheism.

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Mind creates His own likeness in ideas, and the sub-

stance of an idea is very far from being the supposed sub-

stance of non-intelligent matter. Hence the Father Mind

is not the father of matter. The material senses and

human conceptions would translate spiritual ideas into

material beliefs, and would say that an anthropomorphic

God, instead of infinite Principle, – in other words, divine

Love, – is the father of the rain, "who hath begotten the

drops of dew," who bringeth "forth Mazzaroth in his sea-

son," and guideth "Arcturus with his sons."

Inexhaustible divine Love

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Finite mind manifests all sorts of errors, and thus

proves the material theory of mind in matter to be the

antipode of Mind. Who hath found finite life

or love sufficient to meet the demands of human

want and woe, – to still the desires, to satisfy the aspira-

tions? Infinite Mind cannot be limited to a finite form,

or Mind would lose its infinite character as inexhaustible

Love, eternal Life, omnipotent Truth.

Infinite physique impossible

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It would require an infinite form to contain infinite

Mind. Indeed, the phrase infinite form involves a con-

tradiction of terms. Finite man cannot be the image and