Chapter 8: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VIII - Footsteps Of Truth

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utterances; else God will continue to be hidden from hu-

manity, and mortals will sin without knowing that they

are sinning, will lean on matter instead of Spirit, stumble

with lameness, drop with drunkenness, consume with dis-

case, – all because of their blindness, their false sense

concerning God and man.

Creation perfect

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When will the error of believing that there is life in

matter, and that sin, sickness, and death are creations of

God, be unmasked? When will it be under-

stood that matter has neither intelligence, life,

nor sensation, and that the opposite belief is the prolific

source of all suffering? God created all through Mind,

and made all perfect and eternal. Where then is the

necessity for recreation or procreation?

Perceiving the divine image

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Befogged in error (the error of believing that matter

can be intelligent for good or evil), we can catch clear

glimpses of God only as the mists disperse,

or as they melt into such thinness that we per-

ceive the divine image in some word or deed

which indicates the true idea, – the supremacy and real-

ity of good, the nothingness and unreality of evil.

Redemption from selfishness

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When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law

of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded;

whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders

man's normal drift towards the one Mind, one

God, and leads human thought into opposite channels

where selfishness reigns.

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Selfishness tips the beam of human existence towards

the side of error, not towards Truth. Denial of the one-

ness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of

Spirit, God, good, but of matter.

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When we fully understand our relation to the Divine,

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we can have no other Mind but His, – no other Love,

wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no con-

sciousness of the existence of matter or error.

Will-power unrighteous

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The power of the human will should be exercised only

in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the judg-

ment and free the lower propensities. It is the

province of spiritual sense to govern man.

Material, erring, human thought acts injuriously both

upon the body and through it.

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Will-power is capable of all evil. It can never heal

the sick, for it is the prayer of the unrighteous; while

the exercise of the sentiments – hope, faith, love – is the

prayer of the righteous. This prayer, governed by Science

instead of the senses, heals the sick.

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In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that

whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with

the loaves and the fishes, – Spirit, not matter, being the

source of supply.

Birth and death unreal

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Does God send sickness, giving the mother her child

for the brief space of a few years and then taking it away

by death? Is God creating anew what He

has already created? The Scriptures are defi-

nite on this point, declaring that His work was finished,

nothing is new to God, and that it was good.

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Can there be any birth or death for man, the spiritual

image and likeness of God? Instead of God sending

sickness and death, He destroys them, and brings to light

immortality. Omnipotent and infinite Mind made all

and includes all. This Mind does not make mistakes

and subsequently correct them. God does not cause man

to sin, to be sick, or to die.

No evil in Spirit

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There are evil beliefs, often called evil spirits; but