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a genuine school of this Science. Also, if any 112:27 so-called new school claims to be Christian Science, and
yet uses another author’s discoveries without giving that
author proper credit, such a school is erroneous, for it 112:30 inculcates a breach of that divine commandment in the
Hebrew Decalogue, “Thou shalt not steal.”
Principle and practice
God is the Principle of divine metaphysics. As there 113:1 is but one God, there can be but one divine Principle of
all Science; and there must be fixed rules for the demon-113:3 stration of this divine Principle. The letter
of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day,
but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, 113:6 the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science, -
pulseless, cold, inanimate.
Reversible propositions
113:9 The fundamental propositions of divine metaphysics
are summarized in the four following, to me, self-evident
propositions. Even if reversed, these proposi-113:12 tions will be found to agree in statement and
proof, showing mathematically their exact relation to
Truth. De Quincey says mathematics has not a foot to 113:15 stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
1. God is All-in-all.
2. God is good. Good is Mind. 113:18 3. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter.
4. Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin,
disease. - Disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, omnipo-113:21 tent God, Life.
Which of the denials in proposition four is true? Both
are not, cannot be, true. According to the Scripture, 113:24 I find that God is true, “but every [mortal] man a
liar.”
Metaphysical inversions
The divine metaphysics of Christian Science, like the 113:27 method in mathematics, proves the rule by inversion.
For example: There is no pain in Truth, and
no truth in pain; no nerve in Mind, and no 113:30 mind in nerve; no matter in Mind, and no mind in matter; no matter in Life, and no life in matter; no matter
in good, and no good in matter.
Definition of mortal mind
114:1 Usage classes both evil and good together as mind;
therefore, to be understood, the author calls sick and sin-114:3 ful humanity mortal mind, - meaning by this
term the flesh opposed to Spirit, the human
mind and evil in contradistinction to the divine Mind, or 114:6 Truth and good. The spiritually unscientific definition
of mind is based on the evidence of the physical senses,
which makes minds many and calls mind both human and 114:9 divine.
In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts.
Imperfect terminology
114:12 Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an
improper use of the word mind. As Mind is immortal,
the phrase mortal mind implies something un-114:15 true and therefore unreal; and as the phrase
is used in teaching Christian Science, it is meant to
designate that which has no real existence. Indeed, if 114:18 a better word or phrase could be suggested, it would
be used; but in expressing the new tongue we must
sometimes recur to the old and imperfect, and the new 114:21 wine of the Spirit has to be poured into the old bottles of
the letter.
Causation mental
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as men-114:24 tal, not physical. It lifts the veil of mystery from Soul and
body. It shows the scientific relation of man
to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities 114:27 of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought. In divine
Science, the universe, including man, is spiritual, harmonious, and eternal. Science shows that what is termed mat-114:30 ter is but the subjective state of what is termed by the
author mortal mind.
Philological inadequacy
Apart from the usual opposition to everything new, 115:1 the one great obstacle to the reception of that spirituality, through which the understanding of Mind-science 115:3 comes, is the inadequacy of material terms for
metaphysical statements, and the consequent
difficulty of so expressing metaphysical ideas as to make 115:6 them comprehensible to any reader, who has not personally demonstrated Christian Science as brought forth in
my discovery. Job says: “The ear trieth words, as the 115:9 mouth tasteth meat.” The great difficulty is to give the
right impression, when translating material terms back
into the original spiritual tongue.
115:12 SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF IMMORTAL MIND
Divine synonyms
GOD: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love,
Soul, Spirit, Mind.
Divine image
115:15 MAN: God’s spiritual idea, individual, perfect, eternal.
Divine reflection
IDEA: An image in Mind; the immediate 115:18 object of understanding. - Webster.
SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF MORTAL MIND
First Degree: Depravity.
Unreality
115:21 PHYSICAL. Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear,
depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, 115:24 death.
Second Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing.
Transitional qualities
MORAL. Humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance. 116:1 Third Degree: Understanding.
Reality
SPIRITUAL. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, 116:3 spiritual power, love, health, holiness.
Spiritual universe
In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as
God’s image appears. Science so reverses the evidence 116:6 before the corporeal human senses, as to make
this Scriptural testimony true in our hearts,
“The last shall be first, and the first last,” so that God 116:9 and His idea may be to us what divinity really is and
must of necessity be, - all-inclusive.
Aim of Science
A correct view of Christian Science and of its adapta-116:12 tion to healing includes vastly more than is at first seen.
Works on metaphysics leave the grand point
untouched. They never crown the power of 116:15 Mind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against
physical enemies, - even to the extinction of all belief in
matter, evil, disease, and death, - nor insist upon the fact 116:18 that God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an
image in mortal mind.
Divine personality
Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that 116:21 God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, - that is,
bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is
incorporeal.
116:24 As the words person and personal are commonly and
ignorantly employed, they often lead, when applied to
Deity, to confused and erroneous conceptions of divinity 116:27 and its distinction from humanity. If the term personality,
as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is
infinite Person, - in the sense of infinite personality, but 116:30 not in the lower sense. An infinite Mind in a finite form
is an absolute impossibility.
117:1 The term individuality is also open to objections, because an individual may be one of a series, one of many, 117:3 as an individual man, an individual horse; whereas God
is One, - not one of a series, but one alone and without
an equal.
Spiritual language
117:6 God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must
be, and is, spiritual. Christian Science attaches no physical nature and significance to the Supreme 117:9 Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do
this. God’s essential language is spoken of in the last
chapter of Mark’s Gospel as the new tongue, the spir-117:12 itual meaning of which is attained through “signs
following.”
The miracles of Jesus
Ear hath not heard, nor hath lip spoken, the pure lan-117:15 guage of Spirit. Our Master taught spirituality by similitudes and parables. As a divine student he
unfolded God to man, illustrating and demon-117:18 strating Life and Truth in himself and by his power over
the sick and sinning. Human theories are inadequate to
interpret the divine Principle involved in the miracles 117:21 (marvels) wrought by Jesus and especially in his mighty,
crowning, unparalleled, and triumphant exit from the
flesh.
Opacity of the senses
117:24 Evidence drawn from the five physical senses relates
solely to human reason; and because of opacity to the true light, human reason dimly re-117:27 flects and feebly transmits Jesus’ works and words. Truth
is a revelation.
Leaven of Truth
Jesus bade his disciples beware of the leaven of the 117:30 Pharisees and of the Sadducees, which he defined as human doctrines. His parable of the
“leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures 118:1 of meal, till the whole was leavened,” impels the inference that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of Christ 118:3 and its spiritual interpretation, - an inference far above
the merely ecclesiastical and formal applications of the
illustration. 118:6 Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy,
foretelling the second appearing in the flesh of the
Christ, Truth, hidden in sacred secrecy from the visi-118:9 ble world?
Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It
must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally 118:12 glorified in man’s spiritual freedom.
The divine and human contrasted
In their spiritual significance, Science, Theology, and
Medicine are means of divine thought, which include spirit-118:15 ual laws emanating from the invisible and infinite power and grace. The parable may
import that these spiritual laws, perverted by 118:18 a perverse material sense of law, are metaphysically presented as three measures of meal, - that is, three modes
of mortal thought. In all mortal forms of thought, dust 118:21 is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and
modes of material motion are honored with the name of
laws. This continues until the leaven of Spirit changes 118:24 the whole of mortal thought, as yeast changes the chemical
properties of meal.
Certain contradictions
The definitions of material law, as given by natural 118:27 science, represent a kingdom necessarily divided against
itself, because these definitions portray law as
physical, not spiritual. Therefore they con-118:30 tradict the divine decrees and violate the law of Love, in
which nature and God are one and the natural order of
heaven comes down to earth.
Unescapable dilemma
119:1 When we endow matter with vague spiritual power,
that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we 119:3 cannot really endow matter with what it does
not and cannot possess, - we disown the Almighty, for such theories lead to one of two things. They 119:6 either presuppose the self-evolution and self-government
of matter, or else they assume that matter is the product
of Spirit. To seize the first horn of this dilemma and con-119:9 sider matter as a power in and of itself, is to leave the creator out of His own universe; while to grasp the other
horn of the dilemma and regard God as the creator of 119:12 matter, is not only to make Him responsible for all disasters, physical and moral, but to announce Him as their
source, thereby making Him guilty of maintaining perpet-119:15 ual misrule in the form and under the name of natural
law.
God and nature
In one sense God is identical with nature, but this na-119:18 ture is spiritual and is not expressed in matter. The lawgiver, whose lightning palsies or prostrates in
death the child at prayer, is not the divine ideal 119:21 of omnipresent Love. God is natural good, and is represented only by the idea of goodness; while evil should be
regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature 119:24 of Spirit, God.
The sun and Soul
In viewing the sunrise, one finds that it contradicts
the evidence before the senses to believe that the earth 119:27 is in motion and the sun at rest. As astronomy reverses the human perception of the
movement of the solar system, so Christian Science re-119:30 verses the seeming relation of Soul and body and makes
body tributary to Mind. Thus it is
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