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

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Confusion confounded

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systems are one and all pantheistic, and savor of Pan-

demonium, a house divided against itself.

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From first to last the supposed coexistence of Mind

and matter and the mingling of good and evil have re-

sulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus' demon-

strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the

unity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothing-

ness, of evil.

Divine metaphysics

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Human philosophy has made God manlike. Christian

Science makes man Godlike. The first is error; the latter

is truth. Metaphysics is above physics, and

matter does not enter into metaphysical prem-

ises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest

on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves

things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense

for the ideas of Soul.

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These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual

consciousness, and they have this advantage over the ob-

jects and thoughts of material sense, – they are good and

eternal.

Biblical foundations

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The testimony of the material senses is neither abso-

lute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly

on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of

the prophets, and on the testimony of the

Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none.

All other systems – systems based wholly or partly on

knowledge gained through the material senses – are reeds

shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.

Rejected theories

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The theories I combat are these: (1) that all is matter;

(2) that matter originates in Mind, and is as

real as Mind, possessing intelligence and life.

The first theory, that matter is everything, is quite as