Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Corporeal changes
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of the physical world will change as mortal mind changes
of the physical world will change as mortal mind changes
its beliefs. What is now considered the best condition
for organic and functional health in the human
body may no longer be found indispensable
to health. Moral conditions will be found always har-
monious and health-giving. Neither organic inaction
nor overaction is beyond God's control; and man will
be found normal and natural to changed mortal thought,
and therefore more harmonious in his manifestations than
he was in the prior states which human belief created and
sanctioned.
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As human thought changes from one stage to an-
As human thought changes from one stage to an-
other of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and
joy, – from fear to hope and from faith to understand-
ing, – the visible manifestation will at last be man gov-
erned by Soul, not by material sense. Reflecting God's
government, man is self-governed. When subordinate
to the divine Spirit, man cannot be controlled by sin or
death, thus proving our material theories about laws of
health to be valueless.
The time and tide
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The seasons will come and go with changes of time and
The seasons will come and go with changes of time and
tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The agri-
culturist will find that these changes cannot
affect his crops. "As a vesture shalt Thou
change them and they shall be changed." The mariner
will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great
deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.
The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars, –
he will look out from them upon the universe; and the
florist will find his flower before its seed.
Mortal nothingness
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Thus matter will finally be proved nothing more
Thus matter will finally be proved nothing more
than a mortal belief, wholly inadequate to affect a man
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through its supposed organic action or supposed exist-
through its supposed organic action or supposed exist-
ence. Error will be no longer used in stating truth. The
problem of nothingness, or "dust to dust," will
be solved, and mortal mind will be without
form and void, for mortality will cease when man beholds
himself God's reflection, even as man sees his reflection
in a glass.
A lack of originality
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All Science is divine. Human thought never pro-
All Science is divine. Human thought never pro-
jected the least portion of true being. Human belief
has sought and interpreted in its own way
the echo of Spirit, and so seems to have
reversed it and repeated it materially; but the human
mind never produced a real tone nor sent forth a positive
sound.
Antagonistic questions
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The point at issue between Christian Science on the
The point at issue between Christian Science on the
one hand and popular theology on the other is this: Shall
Science explain cause and effect as being
both natural and spiritual? Or shall all that
is beyond the cognizance of the material senses be called
supernatural, and be left to the mercy of speculative
hypotheses?
Biblical basis
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I have set forth Christian Science and its application
I have set forth Christian Science and its application
to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered them.
I have demonstrated through Mind the effects
of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals
of men; and I have found nothing in ancient or in modern
systems on which to found my own, except the teachings
and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of
prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only au-
thority. I have had no other guide in "the straight and
narrow way" of Truth.
Science and Christianity
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If Christendom resists the author's application of the
If Christendom resists the author's application of the