Golden Text
20. . . the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Responsive Reading
Isa. 40:5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6. . . All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
44:6Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
21. . . I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
24. . . I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Rev. 21:5. . . Behold, I make all things new.
6. . . I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
Section 1
The Bible
John 6:63 (to :)
63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
Isaiah 45:5 (to 1st :), 9 Shall, 12, 19 I the, 20, 22, 23 unto
5I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
9Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
19I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Psalms 104:24 (to !), 30, 31
24O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
30Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
31The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy
284:13–20 Can the
Material
recognition
impossible
Can the infinite dwell in the finite or know aught unlike the infinite? Can Deity be known through the material senses? Can the material senses, which receive no direct evidence of Spirit, give correct testimony as to spiritual life, truth, and love?
The answer to all these questions must forever be in the negative.
469:2–4 (to 1st .)
What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Matter is a human concept.
278:12–16
One cause
supreme
That matter is substantial or has life and sensation, is one of the false beliefs of mortals, and exists only in a supposititious mortal consciousness. Hence, as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the consciousness of matter.
349:31
Substance
spiritual
In Christian Science, substance is understood to be Spirit, while the opponents of Christian Science believe substance to be matter. They think of matter as something and almost the only thing, and of the things which pertain to Spirit as next to nothing, or as very far removed from daily experience. Christian Science takes exactly the opposite view.
282:14–17
Opposite
symbols
A straight line finds no abiding-place in a curve, and a curve finds no adjustment to a straight line. Similarly, matter has no place in Spirit, and Spirit has no place in matter.
249:6–8, 14–16
Renewed
selfhood
Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor material power as able to destroy.
God is the infinite, and infinity never began, will never end, and includes nothing unlike God.
Section 2
The Bible
Psalms 57:5
5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Jeremiah 23:23, 24 Do (to 2nd ?)
23Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
24Do not I fill heaven and earth?
Isaiah 52:2, 10
2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
10The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 33:6 (to :)
6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation:
Science and Health
268:6–9
Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind as the cause of every effect.
269:11
Divine
metaphysics
Metaphysics is above physics, and matter does not enter into metaphysical premises 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.
108:30–10
New lines
of thought
My discovery, that erring, mortal, misnamed mind produces all the organism and action of the mortal body, set my thoughts to work in new channels, and led up to my demonstration of the proposition that Mind is All and matter is naught as the leading factor in Mind-science.
Scientific
evidence
Christian Science reveals incontrovertibly that Mind is All-in-all, that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea. This great fact is not, however, seen to be supported by sensible evidence, until its divine Principle is demonstrated by healing the sick and thus proved absolute and divine. This proof once seen, no other conclusion can be reached.
269:29–10
Rejected
theories
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 reasonable as the second, that Mind and matter coexist and cooperate. One only of the following statements can be true: (1) that everything is matter; (2) that everything is Mind. Which one is it?
Matter and Mind are opposites. One is contrary to the other in its very nature and essence; hence both cannot be real. If one is real, the other must be unreal. Only by understanding that there is but one power, — not two powers, matter and Mind, — are scientific and logical conclusions reached.
280:1 (only)
In the infinitude of Mind, matter must be unknown.
Section 3
The Bible
II Peter 3:8 beloved
8beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Psalms 139:1, 9, 10
1O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms 31:15 (to :)
15My times are in thy hand:
John 6:1 Jesus, 16–21
1Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
16And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
17And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
18And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
19So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
20But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
Science and Health
595:17–19 (to 3rd ;)
Time. Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error;
598:23–24
One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.
273:24
Spiritual law
the only law
Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.
258:9
Infinity’s
reflection
Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, which must escape from its environments in order to be immortal. Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God.
266:29
Man is deathless, spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe.
331:16, 22
Everything in God’s universe expresses Him.
He fills all space, and it is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual.
Section 4
The Bible
Psalms 8:1 (to !), 4 (to 1st ?), 6
1O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
II Corinthians 5:16, 17
16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
John 5:1–9 there (to :)
1there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked:
Galatians 5:25
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Romans 8:2 the
2the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Science and Health
271:7
Jesus instructed his disciples whereby to heal the sick through Mind instead of matter. He knew that the philosophy, Science, and proof of Christianity were in Truth, casting out all inharmony.
182:32
The law of Christ, or Truth, makes all things possible to Spirit; but the so-called laws of matter would render Spirit of no avail, and demand obedience to materialistic codes, thus departing from the basis of one God, one lawmaker. To suppose that God constitutes laws of inharmony is a mistake; discords have no support from nature or divine law, however much is said to the contrary.
223:3–9
Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man’s finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul, in matter instead of in Spirit.
Matter does not express Spirit. God is infinite omnipresent Spirit. If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what and where is matter?
264:15–21
Self-
completeness
When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.
Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being. Matter disappears under the microscope of Spirit.
390:32
Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, “Thou art whole!”
200:16
The great truth in the Science of being, that the real man was, is, and ever shall be perfect, is incontrovertible; for if man is the image, reflection, of God, he is neither inverted nor subverted, but upright and Godlike.
Section 5
The Bible
Zechariah 2:13
13Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Psalms 91:1
1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 61:1, 2
1Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 46:1, 6, 10, 11 (to ;)
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11The Lord of hosts is with us;
Psalms 121:1, 2
1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
Science and Health
256:1–5 The, 13–16
No material
creation
The finite must yield to the infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of action, thought rises from the material sense to the spiritual, from the scholastic to the inspirational, and from the mortal to the immortal.
No divine
corporeality
The everlasting I am is not bounded nor compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can He be understood aright through mortal concepts.
97:26
“He uttered His voice, the earth melted.” This Scripture indicates that all matter will disappear before the supremacy of Spirit.
262:9
We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God’s creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings — our efforts to find life and truth in matter — and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the Godlike man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being.
76:6–12
Real Life
is God
When being is understood, Life will be recognized as neither material nor finite, but as infinite, — as God, universal good; and the belief that life, or mind, was ever in a finite form, or good in evil, will be destroyed. Then it will be understood that Spirit never entered matter and was therefore never raised from matter.
60:2
Science inevitably lifts one’s being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness.
Section 6
The Bible
Isaiah 49:8 (to :), 25 I will
8Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee:
25I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
II Chronicles 20:15 the battle
15the battle is not yours, but God’s.
Revelation 12:7–10, 12 (to 1st .)
7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
Revelation 19:6
6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Science and Health
567:10–12, 18–26
Truth and Love prevail against the dragon because the dragon cannot war with them.
Dragon
cast down
to earth
That false claim — that ancient belief, that old serpent whose name is devil (evil), claiming that there is intelligence in matter either to benefit or to injure men — is pure delusion, the red dragon; and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, the spiritual idea, and so proved to be powerless. The words “cast unto the earth” show the dragon to be nothingness, dust to dust; and therefore, in his pretence of being a talker, he must be a lie from the beginning.
389:22
Ancient
confusion
Materialists contradict their own statements. Their belief in material laws and in penalties for their infraction is the ancient error that there is fraternity between pain and pleasure, good and evil, God and Satan. This belief totters to its falling before the battle-axe of Science.
319:13
Throughout the infinite cycles of eternal existence, Spirit and matter neither concur in man nor in the universe.