Responsive Reading
Luke 2:52 Jesus; Luke 6:19; Luke 4:38 And Simon's, 39; Luke 5:12, 13; Luke 8:43, 44; Luke 13:11, 13; Revelation 12:10 Now (to :)
Luke 2:52. . . Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
6:19And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
4:38. . . And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
39And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
5:12And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
8:43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
13:11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Rev. 12:10. . . Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:
Section 1
The Bible
Isaiah 45:5, 6
5I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
Exodus 15:26 I am
26I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy
482:27–29 Christian
Sickness
erroneous
Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God.
471:31
This Science teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored, and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out suppositional error and heals the sick.
Section 2
The Bible
Philemon 1:3
3Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 13:31 Jesus
31Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John 8:12 I am
12I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 14:1–3, 12, 16, 18
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Science and Health
271:20–21
Our Master said, “But the Comforter . . . shall teach you all things.”
55:28
This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.
107:1
Christian
Science
discovered
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science. God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.
272:30
God the
Principle of all
Christian Science, as demonstrated by Jesus, alone reveals the natural, divine Principle of Science.
109:11–22
Solitary
research
For three years after my discovery, I sought the solution of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and devoted time and energies to discovering a positive rule. The search was sweet, calm, and buoyant with hope, not selfish nor depressing. I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration.
269:21–25 (to 2nd .)
Biblical
foundations
The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute 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.
Section 3
The Bible
Jeremiah 17:14
14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Psalms 119:60
60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Psalms 147:7, 15
7Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
15He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Luke 4:14–16, 18, 19, 21, 38, 39
14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
15And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
38And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
39And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
II Timothy 4:2, 5 make
2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
5make full proof of thy ministry.
Science and Health
xi:9–14
The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.
463:21–28
Unhesitating
decision
To decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error — whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death — is the first step towards destroying error. Our Master treated error through Mind. He never enjoined obedience to the laws of nature, if by these are meant laws of matter, nor did he use drugs. There is a law of God applicable to healing, and it is a spiritual law instead of material.
411:3
Naming
diseases
My first discovery in the student’s practice was this: If the student silently called the disease by name, when he argued against it, as a general rule the body would respond more quickly, — just as a person replies more readily when his name is spoken; but this was because the student was not perfectly attuned to divine Science, and needed the arguments of truth for reminders. If Spirit or the power of divine Love bear witness to the truth, this is the ultimatum, the scientific way, and the healing is instantaneous.
454:31
Remember that the letter and mental argument are only human auxiliaries to aid in bringing thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love, which heals the sick and the sinner.
504:23
The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence.
Section 4
The Bible
Matthew 5:25 (to ;)
25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him;
Psalms 102:1, 2
1Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Luke 5:12–15
12And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
14And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
15But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
Science and Health
110:25–26
Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to heal mortal minds and bodies.
111:11–14
The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science.
161:31–11
The physician agrees with his “adversary quickly,” but upon different terms than does the metaphysician; for the matter-physician agrees with the disease, while the metaphysician agrees only with health and challenges disease.
Truth an
alterative
Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies. Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.
279:26
A logical and scientific conclusion is reached only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of being, matter and mind, but one alone, — Mind.
390:20
Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity and healing the sick.
Section 5
The Bible
Psalms 18:2 (to 2nd ;)
2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
Psalms 46:7 (to ;), 10 (to :)
7The Lord of hosts is with us;
10Be still, and know that I am God:
Isaiah 58:6, 8 (to :)
6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily:
Luke 8:43–48
43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.
Romans 12:2 be, 10, 12, 21 overcome evil
2be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
21overcome evil with good.
Science and Health
86:1–8
Mental
contact
Jesus once asked, “Who touched me?” Supposing this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact alone, his disciples answered, “The multitude throng thee.” Jesus knew, as others did not, that it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this mental call illustrated his spirituality.
367:3
Genuine
healing
The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love.
365:15–19
Speedy
healing
If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine.
410:29–30
Christian scientific practice begins with Christ’s keynote of harmony, “Be not afraid!”
390:29–9
Treatment
of disease
Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. 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!”
Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them.
371:30
Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it “every whit whole.”
149:31
To-day there is hardly a city, village, or hamlet, in which are not to be found living witnesses and monuments to the virtue and power of Truth, as applied through this Christian system of healing disease.
Section 6
The Bible
John 9:39 (to ;)
39And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see;
Matthew 6:6 when, 9–13 (to 1st .)
6when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread.
12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Luke 13:10–13
10And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Psalms 118:25 (to :), 28
25Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord:
28Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
Science and Health
473:10–12
Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes all power to God.
16:7–11, 20
The prayer of
Jesus Christ
Our Master taught his disciples one brief prayer, which we name after him the Lord’s Prayer. Our Master said, “After this manner therefore pray ye,” and then he gave that prayer which covers all human needs.
Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.
254:2–6
Patience
and final
perfection
Individuals are consistent who, watching and praying, can “run, and not be weary; . . . walk, and not faint,” who gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to discouragement.
495:25–31
Question. — How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science?
Rudiments
and growth
Answer. — Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe the spirit. Adhere to the divine Principle of Christian Science and follow the behests of God, abiding steadfastly in wisdom, Truth, and Love.
Section 7
The Bible
Revelation 4:1 behold (to :), 2 (to ;)
1behold, a door was opened in heaven:
2And immediately I was in the spirit;
II Corinthians 3:17
17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Science and Health
14:12–15
Spiritualized
consciousness
Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual, — neither in nor of matter, — and the body will then utter no complaints.
462:1
Rapidity of
assimilation
Some individuals assimilate truth more readily than others, but any student, who adheres to the divine rules of Christian Science and imbibes the spirit of Christ, can demonstrate Christian Science, cast out error, heal the sick, and add continually to his store of spiritual understanding, potency, enlightenment, and success.
55:22
The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ’s cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of Christian healing.