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1866

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science.

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 1910 edition, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 107

It was in Massachusetts, in February, 1866, … that I discovered the Science of divine metaphysical healing which I afterwards named Christian Science.

My immediate recovery from the effects of an injury caused by an accident, an injury that neither medicine nor surgery could reach, was the falling apple that led me to the discovery how to be well myself, and how to make others so.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 24 : 1 (to 3rd ,), 4 (that)-6, 12-16

1875

Science and Health, First Edition, 1875, by Mary Baker (Glover) Eddy

1910

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 1910 edition, by Mary Baker Eddy

The 1910 Coup by Myrtle Stewart

Christian Science After 1910 by Andrew W. Hartsook

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Abel

Abel. Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to the creator the early fruits of experience.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 579

Abraham

Abraham. Fidelity; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal Principle of being. This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 579

Adam-dream

Whatever indicates the fall of man or the opposite of God or God's absence, is the Adam-dream, which is neither Mind nor man, for it is not begotten of the Father. The rule of inversion infers from error its opposite, Truth; but Truth is the light which dispels error. As mortals begin to understand Spirit, they give up the belief that there is any true existence apart from God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 282

The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, insists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying, "Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real and eternal as Truth.

Evil still affirms itself to be mind, and declares that there is more than one intelligence or God. It says: "There shall be lords and gods many. I declare that God makes evil minds and evil spirits, and that I aid Him. Truth shall change sides and be unlike Spirit. I will put spirit into what I call matter, and matter shall seem to have life as much as God, Spirit, who is the only Life."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 306

Adam

Adam. Error; a falsity; the belief in "original sin," sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of good, — of God and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter, finiteness, and mortality; "dust to dust;" red sandstone; nothingness; the first god of mythology; not God's man, who represents the one God and is His own image and likeness; the opposite of Spirit and His creations; that which is not the image and likeness of good, but a material belief, opposed to the one Mind, or Spirit; a so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus making "gods many and lords many" (I Corinthians viii. 5); a product of nothing as the mimicry of something; an unreality as opposed to the great reality of spiritual existence and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, substance, and mind are found to be the antipode of God, or Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness of what God has not created, namely, matter, sin, sickness, and death; the opposer of Truth, termed error; Life's counterfeit, which ultimates in death; the opposite of Love, called hate; the usurper of Spirit's creation, called self-creative matter; immortality's opposite, mortality; that of which wisdom saith, "Thou shalt surely die."

The name Adam represents the false supposition that Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the infinite enters the finite, that intelligence passes into non-intelligence, and that Soul dwells in material sense; that immortal Mind results in matter, and matter in mortal mind; that the one God and creator entered what He created, and then disappeared in the atheism of matter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 579 to 580

Adversary

Adversary. An adversary is one who opposes, denies, disputes, not one who constructs and sustains reality and Truth. Jesus said of the devil, "He was a murderer from the beginning, ... he is a liar and the father of it."

This view of Satan is confirmed by the name often conferred upon him in Scripture, the "adversary."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 580

When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the testimony of the material senses with divine Science. Let your higher sense of justice destroy the false process of mortal opinions which you name law, and then you will not be confined to a sick-room nor laid upon a bed of suffering in payment of the last farthing, the last penalty demanded by error. "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him." 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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 390

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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 162

Get a patient out of the rut of depression, self-mesmerism; get them out of it. You can say to them, “Of course, you are not discouraged;” get the mortal mind right out of him. “I am not discouraged and it can’t find me.” You can’t fill others’ thoughts; it is animal magnetism. Meet adversary quickly; you haven’t got it; it is mortal mind.

from Collected Writings, by Bicknell Young, page 58

Reaction is the bridge over which animal magnetism reaches us. A disturbed, irritated thought is a catchall for error’s spurious suggestions.

What is the solution? The answer lies in the instant rejection of the aggressive suggestion. The Bible tells us to agree with our adversary quickly while we are in the way with him. Mrs. Eddy clarifies this in Science and Health by stating, “Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate.” (p. 390)

A wise worker once said, "Be so instant in Truth that error is always too late."

from Sermons and Articles, by Doris White Evans, page 70

Jesus’ command to “Agree with thine adversary quickly,” means to reverse the false sense quickly before you accept it. When you thus “agree,” you instantly see the one Mind as All-in-all, and that every word declares this allness.

from Christian Science, Its Clear, Correct Teaching, by Herbert Eustace, page 223

Again Jesus said: “Agree (deal) with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him; lest thou be cast into prison, where thou shalt remain till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.” “Thoughts are things,” and if we entertain thoughts of discord, they will become things to us and we shall be cast into prison (sickness), where we shall remain until the verdict of materia medica has been fulfilled through us. We can deal with these negative thoughts and master them by knowing that whatever their testimony, it is but a present lie.

from “Hints on Healing” by Rev. Frank E. Mason

We must realize every day that the adversary cannot prevent worthy, faithful students from receiving God’s blessings. Students who have given all their active years to the Cause of Christian Science must be protected so that they may receive their full reward, If for no other reason than that the world may learn that one cannnot labor for God without being richly rewarded by Him. The accumulated blessings for service should not be withheld from faithful workers, because of our lack of meeting the lie that would claim to rob them of such blessings.

There is an abundance of good waiting for every student who is faithful in giving his time and labor to God. Think how Christian Science will rise In the estimation of the world, when it is proved that when age overtakes a faithful worker, it brings to him that peace of God that passeth all understanding, the absence of fear and lack, so that he or she can face the future and its problems with equanimity and confidence!

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, by Gilbert Carpenter

The infinite light forever protects its idea in the substance of Soul. Evil minds have no power to reject, deny oppose or defy God; no power to stop the work of Christian Science.

There is a spiritual reversal for every argument of evil, and to declare it, agrees with your adversary “quickly.”

God will reverse every argument of evil, before it reaches us, through the Word, which is the two-edged sword, which liveth and abideth forever.

We must handle the claim of trickery, slander, meddlesomeness of the human mind.

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 124

If animal magnetism darkened the thought of anyone concerning her experience, she knew that such a distorted vision was proof that this individual was governed by the adversary, and hence, could not possibly understand her revelation aright. Therefore, by attaching her name to her revelation, she made it impossible for anyone to approach Christian Science from a wrong basis of thought, without exposing this fact in his erroneous attitude toward her.

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps, by Gilbert Carpenter, page 236

No one could criticise Mrs. Eddy’s methods, since they bore such glorious fruitage. She perceived the necessity of the student overcoming the human tendency to laziness, which otherwise might stupefy him into yielding to animal magnetism and its lies. She adopted a standard in her home so high, that there were those who called it unnecessary fussiness. Nevertheless, she set the goal high intentionally, so that it could be fulfilled only through demonstration. Such a move was spiritually wise, because it brought forth from the students their best efforts, and kept them on their toes. Its fruitage was made manifest in their demonstrations.

Paul used this same method of endeavoring to bring out a present, instead of a delayed effort, when he wrote, “Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,” meaning thereby, that now was the only time in which to find God, so man must act quickly. This bugle-call to activity is necessary to rouse students from a lethargic putting off of the right effort into some future time.

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps, by Gilbert Carpenter, page 139

245 — WATCH lest you fail to heed the admonition: … ‘that thou doest, do quickly,‛ as the Master said to Judas. If you pick up a live coal and drop it quickly enough, it will not burn your fingers. Thus recognize animal magnetism both for what it is and for what it is not; but do it so quickly that you do not dwell on it long enough to yield to the suggestion that you are fighting something; realize that there is no reality in any claim of evil opposing God and His children; know that no devilish power exists which persistently prevents man from being interested in that which would free him from delusion and restore him to perfect freedom and harmony — which scientifically experienced is the kingdom of heaven. In meeting the claim of animal magnetism, touch it only lightly and as quickly as possible, lest the contemplation of the apparent universality of this falsity cause you to build it up in your thought, instead of tear it down. When skating over thin ice, skate as fast as possible, so that you will not break through.

from 500 Watching Points, by Gilbert Carpenter, page 211

“Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison; verily I say unto you, thou shalt not come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.”

This was one of our Master’s rules for casting out error and healing the sick. It referred, however, not to legal proceedings, or processes material, but to a mental tribunal and judgment. The adversary was not man, but error; and the directions, how to proceed with sin or sickness that would impose through belief a penalty for transgressing law that is not law, insomuch as justice is the moral signification of law, and injustice implies its absence. Shall a teacher pay the penalty of sickness for performing well and faithfully her tasks? or a great mind, because of the good it has done, fall soonest a prey to disease? must man suffer at the hands of God, for steadfastly doing right? Shall the mother droop, or suffer, because of maternity, if such is the design of her being? Because of fatigue, exposure to cold, or some supposed infringement of the so-called laws of health, we ignorantly admit there is danger of being sick, and this mental position decides the physical one; therefore, “agree with thine adversary quickly;” say to this belief, “Get behind me, satan, for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but those that are of man;” it is not a broken moral law to which your penalty is attached, but a condition of matter, a demand from something wholly unintelligent and incapable of justice. God has no law of injustice, wrong proceeds from belief, and not Truth.

To conclude quickly on the treatment of error, was the rule our Master left for casting it out. He never recommended laws of health to our knowledge. On a law that is not God’s, we have a moral right to pass judgment, and to commute its sentence; every instance of matter, or the body, governing man, is justly condemned, and morally impossible insomuch as it manifests a want of Wisdom that renders it null and void. The only hope in sickness or sin, is to agree quickly with thine adversary; that is, if tempted, or if disease appears, to banish the temptation, or the disease, at once from the mind, and suffer it not to plead in its own behalf lest you fall a prey to your belief in the case. On this mental basis, when the first symptoms of disease appear, knowing they gain their ground in mind before they can in body, “agree quickly with thine adversary,” i. e., dismiss the first mental admission that you are sick; dispute sense with science, and, if you can annul the false process of law, alias your belief in the case, you will not be cast into prison or confinement. The sick must never plead guilty; in other words, admit they are sick, for then are they subject to sentence and imprisonment, according to the law of belief. Take the ground of science in the first instance, never admit sensation in matter, or that the body can be pained, or has any claims of its own, or power to make man suffer; adhere to this scientific position and battle the old belief with it until you destroy it, and you will get well. To agree quickly with thine adversary in the first instance of sickness, is to take antagonistic grounds to it, and prove your superiority over it. Not to admit disease, is to conquer it ; and if you understood the science of being, you would admit no reality to aught but God and his idea. When you say, “I am sick,” you plead guilty, that is, you admit matter has sensation and will be delivered to the judge, in other words, into the hands of this belief that will deliver thee to the officer (disease), the ruler of mortal man that casts him into prison and fetters his entire being. But disease has no Intelligence of its own, or law, whereby to do this. You sentence yourself unwittingly, therefore, “agree with thine adversary quickly;” meet every circumstance as its master, and watch your belief, instead of your body; think less of laws material, that you may appreciate better the spiritual law of being, yea, the dominion of man over matter. Meet every adverse circumstance with science, instead of the beliefs of sense, and you will master it.

Error is a coward before Truth, and death is but another phase of the dream of Life in matter, wherein we meet at every point the consciousness of continued existence, with the same beliefs to conquer, and the same errors of sense to master through science. We must understand our way out of difficulties, or we never in reality are out, and the harmony and immortality of man are never understood until every error of sense is destroyed. To apprehend the economy and capacity of man’s being, metaphysics must take the place of physics, and mind, instead of matter, be consulted in sickness. Fear, and its effects on the body are involuntary. Fear of disease and love of sin are the foundations of man’s enslavement; but for these he could triumph over his body. Mind acts on the subject before disease becomes apparent on the body; but the individual has no recognition of his belief producing disease until it is developed physically. We look to personal sense for the evidence of disease, but there is no personal sense, unless matter is intelligent and holds the issues of Life. Because mind acts unconsciously to sense, the sick say how can mind have caused disease, “I never thought of the disease until it appeared on my body.” But mind is first, and causation; nothing commences in matter; the plant springs from the eternal Intelligence — before we call it matter; but our mortal blindness and its sharp consequences, prove our need to understand the action of mind and its effects; we should study mind more and matter less, if we would avail ourselves of Soul in its control over sense. We can destroy sickness, the same as sin, by learning its origin and nature in mind, instead of body, and finding the belief that occasions it.

from Science and Health, first edition, by Mary Baker Glover, pages 394-398

When assailed by the belief that there are no results from your work, agree with your adversary. There are no results in Mind. The only result in Mind is action or evidence, and that has been from all eternity, perfect, untouched by any belief or interruption; all existence, being reflection, is noumenal, not phenomenal.

When you understand that Mind is One and All, then you must admit that everything in your world comes to you as consciousness. If you do not turn from Mind, cause, to consider effect, you will experience as effect only that which is true, beautiful and satisfying. If “all is Mind,” what is there to turn to and where can you turn? If “all is Mind,” that Mind cannot be conscious of anything but itself as evidence.

from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 328

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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 463

When Jesus turned and said, “Who hath touched me?” he must have felt the influence of the woman’s thought; for it is written that he felt that “virtue had gone out of him.” His pure consciousness was discriminating, and rendered this infallible verdict; but he neither held her error by affinity nor by infirmity, for it was detected and dismissed.

from Unity of Good, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 57

The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences.

The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 430

Animal magnetism, I acknowledge your claims, but I denounce your power. When error speaks, nothing is said. Stop justifying yourself in error.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 199

Affection

The good in human affections must have ascendency over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happiness will never be won. The attainment of this celestial condition would improve our progeny, diminish crime, and give higher aims to ambition.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 61

It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to pray each day: “Thy kingdom come;” let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!

"Daily Prayer" from Church Manual, by Mary Baker Eddy, Article VIII, Sect. 4

Affliction

What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Nahum 1 : 9

¹¹ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
¹³ And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
¹⁴ In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 54 : 11, 13, 14, 17

Age

Man is not a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and sorrow, sickness and health, life and death. Life and its faculties are not measured by calendars. The perfect and immortal are the eternal likeness of their Maker. Man is by no means a material germ rising from the imperfect and endeavoring to reach Spirit above his origin. The stream rises no higher than its source.

The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and material, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright and imperishable glories.

Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.

Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 246

Overcoming age is not resuming our youth; it is thought going into new paths which history has never recorded.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 66

Neither age nor accident can interfere with the senses of Soul, and there are no other real senses.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 214

Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

There is no death nor decay; no apex nor decline; only eternal, unchanging Truth, Life, and Love and its expression.

from 1937 College by Bicknell Young, page 77

Meet the Claim of Advancing Age, attributed to Mary Baker Eddy, as found in Watching Point 392, of 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Age, from Lessons of the Seventh Day by Mary Baker Eddy, page 134-136

Alcohol

God never endowed whiskey or wine or any liquor to have power to take away a man's ability to think and act rightly, nor did He give it any power to attract any more than water. Water with the same nonsensical belief that it would take away man's senses would do exactly what whiskey is supposed to do. Strip this lie naked and see that it is the belief alone that produces the so-called effects. Your brother had no more to do with that belief than you had. It was just what Jesus said of all evil, that it was the thief that stole in when the good-man of the house was not watching and then robbed the house.

It is that thief alone that robs each one, of his harmony. It is that thief that is synonymous with the lie that man's mind is man and then hands him as his mind the conglomeration of human beliefs called mortal mind and declares that that is not merely his mind but is the poor victim himself.

Rise in rebellion against the whole iniquity and as Isaiah said, 'loose the bands of wickedness and break every yoke and let the oppressed go free.' You can only do this as you really feel in your heart that the victim is never to blame but his diabolical teaching, that his mind is him, is what is to blame, when his mind is never him. He is ever himself and his mind is whatever he decides to obey, but it can never take possession of him and make him its slave for it doesn't have one word to say to him. Use your own understanding of this and set the captive free.

Excerpted from a letter by Herbert W. Eustace, C.S.B., written 1954 (Found in Metaphysical Statements, pages 107 to 108)

If a man is an inebriate, a slave to tobacco, or the special servant of any one of the myriad forms of sin, meet and destroy these errors with the truth of being, — by exhibiting to the wrong-doer the suffering which his submission to such habits brings, and by convincing him that there is no real pleasure in false appetites. A corrupt mind is manifested in a corrupt body. Lust, malice, and all sorts of evil are diseased beliefs, and you can destroy them only by destroying the wicked motives which produce them. If the evil is over in the repentant mortal mind, while its effects still remain on the individual, you can remove this disorder as God's law is fulfilled and reformation cancels the crime.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 404

"Alcoholic Drunkenness" from Christian Science, Its "Clear, Correct Teaching", by Herbert Eustace

Alert

It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged, — and justified or condemned.

"Alertness to Duty" from Church Manual, by Mary Baker Eddy, Article VIII, Sect. 6

Almighty

Almighty. All-power; infinity; omnipotence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

Alpha and Omega

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1 : 8, in the King James Bible

Ambition

Be wholly absorbed in the work of gaining daily more understanding of God. Then personal ambition, envy, desire to be in this or that place cannot use you. Personal ambition has no place in a Christian’s thought or life. He is wholly occupied in the loving, humble purpose to do good, to be good, and to prove that good is all that can govern thought, action, condition, or being.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 59

Ambush

Who is telling mankind of the foe in ambush? Is the informer one who sees the foe? If so, listen and be wise. Escape from evil, and designate those as unfaithful stewards who have seen the danger and yet have given no warning.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 571

Ancestry

In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 63

Angels

Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 579

Angels, from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy

Angels by Martha Wilcox

Animal Magnetism

As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind. It is the false belief that mind is in matter, and is both evil and good; that evil is as real as good and more powerful. This belief has not one quality of Truth. It is either ignorant or malicious. The malicious form of hypnotism ultimates in moral idiocy.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 103

The methods of Animal Magnetism, especially its secret work, should be exposed. This alone can protect the people from a future Reign of Terror, far surpassing any terrorism of the Dark Ages. One has nothing to fear from this evil if he is conscious of its presence and, on the basis of Christian Science, understands it impotence.

from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 280

Animal Magnetism, from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy

Animal magnetism has no scientific foundation, for God governs all that is real, harmonious, and eternal, and His power is neither animal nor human. Its basis being a belief and this belief animal, in Science animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism is a mere negation, possessing neither intelligence, power, nor reality, and in sense it is an unreal concept of the so-called mortal mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 102

Animal magnetism has always been a lie about God and true prayer, but each follower of Christ will have to prove this fact.

Just as God, or the one divine Mind and intelligence, is pure Science and is therefore exact, scientific, and perfect according to fixed and absolute law in every detail or expression of Himself, so animal magnetism, or the one evil, claims to work according to law in every detail. Therefore, we must not fall into the error and subtle mistake of thinking that disease, accident, poverty, etc., just happen by chance. The remedy is always at hand, for every case, no matter what the claim of evil, there is always an exact scientific truth, or fact, that reverses the claim.

from The Dixon Letter by Caspar B. Dernvery

Rules for overcoming animal magnetism:

1. See what it is trying to do
2. Know that it cannot do it
3. See that it is not done

To accomplish this:

1. Be patient
2. Be meek
3. Be vigilant
4. Be sober
5. Be loving

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy, page 14

The manifestations of the workings of A.M. on a person has three stages.

1st. Stupidity, idiocy, or frenzy, suffering or exhilaration, unconscious of the error he says or does.

2nd. When told of it will deny having said or done the wrong and argue in defence of it.

3d. Will declare that there is no A.M.

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy, page 3

Mrs. Eddy told Miss Robertson that animal magnetism can always be detected in thought by (1) a confusion. (2) forgetting. (3) refusal to do one’s duty. (4) moral illness. The declaration of one Mind — and no power or presence beside God will destroy these effects. Mind is all action.

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy, page 59 of the Addenda

Animal magnetism is powerless — but you must declare against it as though it had all power.

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy, page 66 of the Addenda

Handling Malicious Animal Magnetism — A Collection of Articles on Overcoming Evil

Nehemiah 9: 36, 37 — her [Mary Baker Eddy's] definition of animal magnetism.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

³⁶ Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
³⁷ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Nehemiah 9 : 36. 37, in the King James Bible

Almost without exception, when a student left Pleasant View, he would receive a letter from Mrs. Eddy, requesting him to remove his thoughts from her, and not to think of her. She would write, “Do not think of me in your prayers.” One such letter was written to Calvin Hill on Dec. 5, 1906: “Please remove your thoughts utterly away from me. Through the weakness of some students who have been here and report what I say, it is known that I have great faith in you, and so the enemy argues that you make me suffer. To meet this, take it up that you can’t make any one suffer and no one can make you suffer. But do not think of me. Only break the law of the lie. You and the Committee on Business, keep me out of your thoughts. My great struggle is with so many turning to my personality for one thing or another. But that’s a lie, so banish it all into oblivion, for God is All and there is no other Mind.”

Again on April 24, 1908, she wrote him, “Please keep your thought apart from me, and accept my forever gratitude.” Again in 1907 she wrote, “Again I have to write, do not think of me. Your tender thought reaches me — costs me much. Leave me in God alone. He loves us both. I love all — friends and enemies.”

The significance of this last letter becomes plainer, when it is known that in 1907 a lawsuit was brought against her by her own kin and others, for the purpose of wresting her property out of her hands. As Mr. Hill was discussing it with her, he declared that he would like to go to New York and wring the necks of those who were responsible for this outrage against an innocent and good woman. As soon as he had said this, Mrs. Eddy said, “Now you’ve helped me.”

Why was Mrs. Eddy helped by Mr. Hill’s affirmation of human loyalty? He loved her, and let his tenderest thoughts rest upon her, as one would upon one’s own precious mother. Yet his thoughts caused her suffering. Why? Because he was personalizing animal magnetism, and thus harboring it as real. He was mistaking it for the channels it was using to strike at Truth. His desire to strangle those responsible for the lawsuit was as unmetaphysical and foolish, as would be a man’s impulse to destroy his radio, because a program aroused his ire.

Mrs. Eddy was helped by what Mr. Hill said, because it exposed to her why it cost her much to have his tender thought rest upon her — since that tender thought was permeated with a sense of hate which offended spiritual sense. Mrs. Eddy would never permit herself to harbor hatred. She wrote him, “I love all — friends and enemies.”

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 7 to 8

ANIMAL MAGNETISM – This delusion must be met in all its subtleties — in all its so-called pleasures and pains of sense, (1) passion, (2) appetite, (3) lust, (4) pride, (5) hatred, (6) envy, (7) malice.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 99

DEFINITION – Animal magnetism is starting a belief and getting others to fear it, until evil is done to those that hold the belief and a law is made, and the error goes on gaining ground until the serpent becomes a dragon.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 103

Animosity

Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man; and a Christian Scientist reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in rebuking sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and forgiveness. The members of this Church should daily watch and pray to be delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously.

"A Rule for Motives and Acts" from Church Manual, by Mary Baker Eddy, Article VIII, Sect. 1

Annul

Matter cannot connect mortals with the true origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 491

Light

¹ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; ² To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; ³ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 61 : 1-3

Ark

Ark. Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter.

God and man coexistent and eternal; Science showing that the spiritual realities of all things are created by Him and exist forever. The ark indicates temptation overcome and followed by exaltation.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

Armour of God

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Ephesians 6 : 11-17, in the King James Bible

Asher

Asher (Jacob's son). Hope and faith; spiritual compensation; the ills of the flesh rebuked.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

Atmosphere

When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explanation which destroys error. Never breathe an immoral atmosphere, unless in the attempt to purify it.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 452

Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power, and also by holy thoughts, winged with Love. These angels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and consequently reproduce their own characteristics.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 512

Atonement

Atonement is the exemplification of man's unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, and Love. Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. His mission was both individual and collective. He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals, — to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility.

The atonement of Christ reconciles man to God, not God to man;

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 18

The Master forbore not to speak the whole truth, declaring precisely what would destroy sickness, sin, and death, although his teaching set households at variance, and brought to material beliefs not peace, but a sword.

Every pang of repentance and suffering, every effort for reform, every good thought and deed, will help us to understand Jesus' atonement for sin and aid its efficacy; but if the sinner continues to pray and repent, sin and be sorry, he has little part in the atonement, — in the at-one-ment with God, — for he lacks the practical repentance, which reforms the heart and enables man to do the will of wisdom. Those who cannot demonstrate, at least in part, the divine Principle of the teachings and practice of our Master have no part in God. If living in disobedience to Him, we ought to feel no security, although God is good.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 19

Wisdom and Love may require many sacrifices of self to save us from sin. One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part. That God's wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made. The atonement is a hard problem in theology, but its scientific explanation is, that suffering is an error of sinful sense which Truth destroys, and that eventually both sin and suffering will fall at the feet of everlasting Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 23

We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 497

If Truth is overcoming error in your daily walk and conversation, you can finally say, "I have fought a good fight ... I have kept the faith," because you are a better man. This is having our part in the at-one-ment with Truth and Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 21

Attraction

There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 102

The material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the eternal facts of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 293

Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind. They belong to divine Principle, and support the equipoise of that thought-force, which launched the earth in its orbit and said to the proud wave, "Thus far and no farther."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 124

Authorized Literature

CARD, an insert added to the July 1891 edition of the Christian Science Journal, by Mary Baker Eddy

B

Babel

Babel. Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge.

The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall of its structure.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

Baptism

Baptism. Purification by Spirit; submergence in Spirit.

We are "willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." (II Corinthians v. 8.)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 581

Beatitudes

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
⁶ Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
¹⁰ Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
¹¹ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5 : 3-11

Beauty

² Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
³ Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
⁴ For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
⁵ For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
⁶ Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
⁷ Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.
⁸ Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
⁹ O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

Psalm 96 : 2-9

Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Being possesses its qualities before they are perceived humanly. Beauty is a thing of life, which dwells forever in the eternal Mind and reflects the charms of His goodness in expression, form, outline, and color. It is Love which paints the petal with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness.

The embellishments of the person are poor substitutes for the charms of being, shining resplendent and eternal over age and decay.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 247 to 248

Everything that is beautiful is said to be produced by Soul. It is, if you like, that particular ability of infinity to express itself in infinite beauty throughout creation. Everything that is beautiful that we know anything about, has its origin in Soul, divine Mind. That is the reason that in order to express beauty a person must be something besides an intellectual. There are thousands of people who cannot express anything in the nature of beauty, because they have no Soul. Oh well, they have a Soul, of course, but they have not awakened to Soul. Some people express it with great spontaneity in one way and lack it in all other ways. ...

Beauty cannot be affected by any belief, because it has its being in God. It is all the time, forever, one with its own infinitude and perfection. It cannot be afflicted or impaired in any way, because there is no other power or presence. There is no conceivable way in which it could be injured, because there is nothing to conceive of injury. Beauty, in all its glorious perfection, is conceived by God alone as the conception of God. Beauty, regardless of any material seeking, is spiritual. Like Truth, it is eternal. So don’t criticize anyone for trying to be beautiful! We’ll all be beautiful in heaven, you may be sure! ...

And let us all look as well as we can! It is quite legitimate for anyone to try to be beautiful. We can’t get into heaven without beauty! The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of beauty.

from The 1936 Primary Class, by Bicknell Young

Beheld

Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 476 to 477

Being

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17 : 28

Man is the expression of God's being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 470

Belief

Belief: Reversal, Relapse, Rebound by Bicknell Young

Suffering, sinning, dying beliefs are unreal. When divine Science is universally understood, they will have no power over man, for man is immortal and lives by divine authority.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 76

Believing

Believing. Firmness and constancy; not a faltering nor a blind faith, but the perception of spiritual Truth. Mortal thoughts, illusion.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Benjamin

Benjamin (Jacob's son). A physical belief as to life, substance, and mind; human knowledge, or so-called mortal mind, devoted to matter; pride; envy; fame; illusion; a false belief; error masquerading as the possessor of life, strength, animation, and power to act.

Renewal of affections; self-offering; an improved state of mortal mind; the introduction of a more spiritual origin; a gleam of the infinite idea of the infinite Principle; a spiritual type; that which comforts, consoles, and supports.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Better

Striving to be better is being better. When you are fitting yourself to go up higher, you are going up higher.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 207

Birthright

God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made through code or creed, but in demonstration of "on earth peace, good-will toward men." Human codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine Science rends asunder these fetters, and man's birthright of sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 226 : 14-21

Blasphemy

³⁰ He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
³¹ Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
³² And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
³³ Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Matthew 12 : 30-33, 35-37

Bless

When these things cease to bless they will cease to occur.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 143

Blind

Very gently the Teacher asked if any would translate passages from the Bible into the new tongue for her, and started the first young man who volunteered on Luke 24:1. The second to volunteer was Mrs. Mims and the Teacher called her to the platform to sit by her side saying she wanted all to see her. When she translated the second verse of Luke 24 (“And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.”) Mrs. Mims started by saying, “The stone was the concentrated human belief that life was limited, and they saw that Life had rolled it away and that man was immortal — that he was never born and never dies.” But she did not stop there. She went on to say:

They saw what our beloved mother has through Science and Health enabled us to see. Through the book we have seen all that they saw and more, and we owe it all to her, to this beloved one who is God’s messenger today.

After she had returned to her seat, the Mother said that she had given a beautiful exegesis but “I have one fault to find — it was not necessary to mention me.” The class was deeply moved: one arose, and with eyes full of tears said, “Mother, how could we forget you?” Judge Hanna stood and in heart-rending tones said:

Mother, let me tell you this. Sometimes all the machinations of evil that are conceivable to the human mind seem to be hurled at us, and sometimes for days the world seems black. Every argument that the ingenuity of evil can suggest whispers, trying to hide your mission, and the light returns only when we see you as you are the revelator of this Truth.

The spontaneity of the occasion was beautiful to behold as one after another arose and expressed the importance to him of acknowledging the Mother’s position. A strange wonderful look of humility and self-effacement was on her face along with tears of joy. Then she responded:

My dear children, if you had not seen it, I should have had to teach you this. I could not have avoided telling you that when my students become blinded to me as the one through whom Truth has come in this age, they miss the path. I would have had to tell you.

from The Founding by Doris Grekel, pages 365 to 366

Blood

The spiritual essence of blood is sacrifice. The efficacy of Jesus' spiritual offering is infinitely greater than can be expressed by our sense of human blood. The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon "the accursed tree," than when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father's business. His true flesh and blood were his Life; and they truly eat his flesh and drink his blood, who partake of that divine Life.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 25

The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness. The human mind is opposed to God and must be put off, as St. Paul declares. All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal. The straight and narrow way is to see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and follow the leadings of truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 151

Body

We must not attribute more and more intelligence to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and healthy. The divine Mind, which forms the bud and blossom, will care for the human body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal interfere with God's government by thrusting in the laws of erring, human concepts.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 62

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. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow is turned into joy when the body is controlled by spiritual Life, Truth, and Love. Hence the hope of the promise Jesus bestows: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; ... because I go unto my Father," — [because the Ego is absent from the body, and present with Truth and Love.] The Lord's Prayer is the prayer of Soul, not of material sense.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 14

Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again except to offend God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion of the body can destroy you.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 280

A corrupt mind is manifested in a corrupt body.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 404

Body, unabridged, by Mary Baker Eddy

Body, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

Body — First Article, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Body — Second Article, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Bridegroom

Bridegroom. Spiritual understanding; the pure consciousness that God, the divine Principle, creates man as His own spiritual idea, and that God is the only creative power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Thus it was when the moment arrived of the heart’s bridal to more spiritual existence. When the door opened, I was waiting and watching; and, lo, the bridegroom came! The character of the Christ was illuminated by the midnight torches of Spirit. My heart knew its Redeemer. He whom my affections had diligently sought was as the One “altogether lovely,” as “the chiefest,” the only, “among ten thousand.” Soulless famine had fled. Agnosticism, pantheism, and theosophy were void. Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 23

Bride

Bride. Purity and innocence, conceiving man in the idea of God; a sense of Soul, which has spiritual bliss and enjoys but cannot suffer.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Brotherhood

It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 467

Burden

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11 : 29, 30

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Galatians 6 : 2

Burial

Burial. Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation. Submergence in Spirit; immortality brought to light.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Business

Business, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

C

Called

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Romans 8 : 28

Canaan

Canaan (the son of Ham). A sensuous belief; the testimony of what is termed material sense; the error which would make man mortal and would make mortal mind a slave to the body.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

Cast out demons

July 2017 issue of Love is the Liberator: “Cast Out Demons”

Catholicism

Catholicism is brotherly love, while Roman Catholicism is the Pope’s intention.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 75

Handling Roman Catholicism

Cause

There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause. Sin, sickness, disease, and death belong not to the Science of being. They are the errors, which presuppose the absence of Truth, Life, or Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 207

Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 262

... Jesus answered... To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

John 18 : 37

Charity

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
⁹ Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
¹⁰ As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
¹¹ If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

I Peter 4 : 8-11, in the King James Bible

Chemicalization

Here let a word be noticed which will be better understood hereafter, — chemicalization. By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a material to a spiritual basis.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 168 to 170

What I term chemicalization is the upheaval produced when immortal Truth is destroying erroneous mortal belief. Mental chemicalization brings sin and sickness to the surface, forcing impurities to pass away, as is the case with a fermenting fluid.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 401

This destruction is a moral chemicalization, wherein old things pass away and all things become new. The worldly or material tendencies of human affections and pursuits are thus annihilated; and this is the advent of spiritualization. Heaven comes down to earth, and mortals learn at last the lesson, “I have no enemies.”

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10

Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 96

Chemicalization and Tribulation by Paul R. Smillie

Cherish

We ought to weary of the fleeting and false and to cherish nothing which hinders our highest selfhood.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 68

Whatever is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is imaged forth on the body.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 411

In Science we not only must not seek to obtain that which we have not demonstrated, but we must not even cherish a desire for it. One who is sick should not even want to recover, unless the health and harmony that comes is the result of the demonstration, or thought correction, that entitles him to get well. It breaks a moral precept for a student to desire what he does not deserve, and he does not deserve that which he has not demonstrated or cannot pay for.

from "The Fruit of Right Thinking" by Gilbert Carpenter

Children

Children. The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love.

Sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of creation, whose better originals are God's thoughts, not in embryo, but in maturity; material suppositions of life, substance, and intelligence, opposed to the Science of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;" that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 476

Parents should teach their children at the earliest possible period the truths of health and holiness. Children are more tractable than adults, and learn more readily to love the simple verities that will make them happy and good.

Jesus loved little children because of their freedom from wrong and their receptiveness of right. While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth.

A little girl, who had occasionally listened to my explanations, badly wounded her finger. She seemed not to notice it. On being questioned about it she answered ingenuously, "There is no sensation in matter." Bounding off with laughing eyes, she presently added, "Mamma, my finger is not a bit sore."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease.

Children should be allowed to remain children in knowledge, and should become men and women only through growth in the understanding of man's higher nature.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 62

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love. Then we begin to learn Life in divine Science. Without this process of weaning, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" It is easier to desire Truth than to rid one's self of error. Mortals may seek the understanding of Christian Science, but they will not be able to glean from Christian Science the facts of being without striving for them. This strife consists in the endeavor to forsake error of every kind and to possess no other consciousness but good.

Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 322

¹ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.

Ephesians 5 : 1, 2

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3 : 26

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

I John 3 : 7

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 13

Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19 : 14 (Jesus)

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22 : 6

Children of Israel

Children of Israel. The representatives of Soul, not corporeal sense; the offspring of Spirit, who, having wrestled with error, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science; some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting out error and healing the sick; Christ's offspring.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

One of the most vital things that the Children of Israel should have been told was, that simply following Moses did not make them the promised children. Yet, they were the most spiritually-minded people on earth at that time. Only as they gained the understanding of how to draw their spiritual sustenance directly from divine Mind, could they claim to be the children of the promise. Still, the Master, by his request of the woman of Samaria at the well of Sychar, implied that another might go to the divine source and give him living water. He said, “Give me to get drink.”

What a glad surprise and yet, a shock, it must have been to this member of a despised race to have had the Master, a Jew, one of the chosen race, thus call upon her for such service. But the Master knew, that whatever comes from God can feed another, even if the latter might be the most spiritually endowed mortal on earth. Although Jesus recognized the spiritual possibility of everyone’s going to the divine source and feeding another, he taught that the highest and most important demonstration is learning to draw from the well of inspiration for one’s self.

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps,
by Gilbert Carpenter, pages 82 to 83

Chosen

Glorious things are spoken of you in His Word. Ye are a chosen people, whose God is — what? Even All. May mercy and truth go before you: may the lamp of your life continually be full of oil, and you be wedded to the spiritual idea, Christ; then will you heal, and teach, and preach, on the ascending scale of everlasting Life and Love.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 151

Christ

Christ. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

Christ, as the spiritual or true idea of God, comes now as of old, preaching the gospel to the poor, healing the sick, and casting out evils. Is it error which is restoring an essential element of Christianity, — namely, apostolic, divine healing? No; it is the Science of Christianity which is restoring it, and is the light shining in darkness, which the darkness comprehends not.

If Christian Science takes away the popular gods, sin, sickness, and death, — it is Christ, Truth, who destroys these evils, and so proves their nothingness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 347

See to it, O Christian Scientists, ye who have named the name of Christ with a higher meaning, that you abide by your statements, and abound in Love and Truth, for unless you do this you are not demonstrating the Science of metaphysical healing.

from Christian Healing, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 16

Hold perpetually this thought, — that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 496

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

I Corinthians 15 : 22

Christianity

We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by following the example of our Master in the understanding of divine metaphysics. Christianity is the basis of true healing. Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 192

If we are Christians on all moral questions, but are in darkness as to the physical exemption which Christianity includes, then we must have more faith in God on this subject and be more alive to His promises.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 373

Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for all Christianity, theology, and healing. Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning. It is easier for Christianity to cast out sickness than sin, for the sick are more willing to part with pain than are sinners to give up the sinful, so-called pleasure of the senses. The Christian can prove this to-day as readily as it was proved centuries ago.

Our Master said to every follower: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature! ... Heal the sick! ... Love thy neighbor as thyself!" It was this theology of Jesus which healed the sick and the sinning.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 138

The primitive privilege of Christianity was to make men better, to cast out error, and heal the sick. It was a proof, more than a profession thereof; a demonstration, more than a doctrine. It was the foundation of right thinking and right acting, and must be reestablished on its former basis.

from Christian Healing, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 3

The Science of Christianity makes pure the fountain, in order to purify the stream. It begins in mind to heal the body, the same as it begins in motive to correct the act, and through which to judge of it.

from Christian Healing, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 7

Christian Science

The term Christian Science was introduced by the author to designate the scientific system of divine healing.

The revelation consists of two parts:

1. The discovery of this divine Science of Mind-healing, through a spiritual sense of the Scriptures and through the teachings of the Comforter, as promised by the Master.

2. The proof, by present demonstration, that the so-called miracles of Jesus did not specially belong to a dispensation now ended, but that they illustrated an ever-operative divine Principle. The operation of this Principle indicates the eternality of the scientific order and continuity of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 582

You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 496

Christian Science commands man to master the propensities, — to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness, to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit with honesty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you would not cherish an army of conspirators against health, happiness, and success. They will deliver you to the judge, the arbiter of truth against error. The judge will deliver you to justice, and the sentence of the moral law will be executed upon mortal mind and body. Both will be manacled until the last farthing is paid, — until you have balanced your account with God. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." The good man finally can overcome his fear of sin. This is sin's necessity, — to destroy itself. Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 405

Christian Science, properly understood, would disabuse the human mind of material beliefs which war against spiritual facts; and these material beliefs must be denied and cast out to make place for truth. You cannot add to the contents of a vessel already full. Laboring long to shake the adult's faith in matter and to inculcate a grain of faith in God, — an inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body harmonious, — the author has often remembered our Master's love for little children, and understood how truly such as they belong to the heavenly kingdom.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 130

Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless invalid. It speaks to the dumb the words of Truth, and they answer with rejoicing. It causes the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the blind to see. Who would be the first to disown the Christliness of good works, when our Master says, "By their fruits ye shall know them"?

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 342

Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 482

The secret of Christian Science in right thinking and acting is open to mankind, but few, comparatively, see it; or, seeing it, shut their eyes and wait for a more convenient season; or as of old cry out: “Why art thou come hither to torment me before the time?”

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 9

The history of Christianity furnishes sublime proofs of the supporting influence and protecting power bestowed on man by his heavenly Father, omnipotent Mind, who gives man faith and understanding whereby to defend himself, not only from temptation, but from bodily suffering.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 387

Whosoever attempts to ostracize Christian Science will signally fail; for no one can fight against God, and win.

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 9

It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and goodness. Understanding this, Paul said: "Neither death, nor life, ... nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God." This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man — governed by God, his perfect Principle — is sinless and eternal.

Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life of man. Man's happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful as in music, and discord is unnatural, unreal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 304

When the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign. The lightnings and thunderbolts of error may burst and flash till the cloud is cleared and the tumult dies away in the distance. Then the raindrops of divinity refresh the earth. As St. Paul says: "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God" (of Spirit).

The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 288

In Christian Science, a denial of Truth is fatal, while a just acknowledgment of Truth and of what it has done for us is an effectual help. If pride, superstition, or any error prevents the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 372

Christian Science speedily shows Truth to be triumphant. … All the evidence of physical sense and all the knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to Science, to the immortal truth of all things.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 493 : 1 (Christian)-2, 6-8

According to Christian Science, the only real senses of man are spiritual, emanating from divine Mind. Thought passes from God to man, but neither sensation nor report goes from material body to Mind. The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man.

Matter is not sentient and cannot be cognizant of good or of evil, of pleasure or of pain. Man's individuality is not material. This Science of being obtains not alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here and now; it is the great fact of being for time and eternity.

What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite natures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 284

My first writings on Christian Science began with notes on the Scriptures. I consulted no other authors and read no other book but the Bible for about three years.

I could not write these notes after sunset. All thoughts in the line of Scriptural interpretation would leave me until the rising of the sun. Then the influx of divine interpretation would pour in upon my spiritual sense as gloriously as the sunlight on the material senses. It was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” I have been learning the higher meaning of this book since writing it.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 114

Church

Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle. The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning. He claimed no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God. Despite the persecution this brought upon him, he used his divine power to save men both bodily and spiritually.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 136

Claims

The destruction of the claims of mortal mind through Science, by which man can escape from sin and mortality, blesses the whole human family. As in the beginning, however, this liberation does not scientifically show itself in a knowledge of both good and evil, for the latter is unreal.

On the other hand, Mind-science is wholly separate from any half-way impertinent knowledge, because Mind-science is of God and demonstrates the divine Principle, working out the purposes of good only. The maximum of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all. Evil is a suppositional lie.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 136

Comforter

⁹Jesus saith...
¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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;
¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
²⁵These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
²⁶But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 14 : 9 (Jesus saith) only, 10-12, 16, 17, 25, 26

⁸ And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
¹² I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
¹³ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

John 16 : 8, 12, 13

The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, “as when a lion roareth.” It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear. It arouses the “seven thunders” of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones. Then is the power of Truth demonstrated, — made manifest in the destruction of error. Then will a voice from harmony cry: “Go and take the little book… . Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.” Mortals, obey the heavenly evangel. Take divine Science. Read this book from beginning to end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 559

Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself, — when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. 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.

In the words of St. John: "He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever." This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 55

Our Master said, "But the Comforter ... shall teach you all things." When the Science of Christianity appears, it will lead you into all truth. The Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this Science, and the eternal life, not the death of Jesus, is its outcome.

Those, who are willing to leave their nets or to cast them on the right side for Truth, have the opportunity now, as aforetime, to learn and to practice Christian healing. The Scriptures contain it. The spiritual import of the Word imparts this power. But, as Paul says, "How shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent?" If sent, how shall they preach, convert, and heal multitudes, except the people hear?

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 271

Comprehend

The disciples apprehended their Master better than did others; but they did not comprehend all that he said and did, or they would not have questioned him so often. Jesus patiently persisted in teaching and demonstrating the truth of being. His students saw this power of Truth heal the sick, cast out evil, raise the dead; but the ultimate of this wonderful work was not spiritually discerned, even by them, until after the crucifixion, when their immaculate Teacher stood before them, the victor over sickness, sin, disease, death, and the grave.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 136

Condemn

Does Life, Truth, and Love produce death, error, and hatred? Does the creator condemn His own creation? Does the unerring Principle of divine law change or repent? It cannot be so.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 522

Conscience

It were better to be exposed to every plague on earth than to endure the cumulative effects of a guilty conscience. The abiding consciousness of wrongdoing tends to destroy the ability to do right.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 402

Consciousness

God Is Individual Consciousness by Bicknell Young

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 45

Control

If we follow the command of our Master, “Take no thought for your life,” we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with Truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 228

Correction

I remember that on one occasion when a student in Mrs. Eddy’s house was corrected because of an unscientific statement she made, Mrs. Eddy called her severely to account for her work in the presence of a number of others who were at that time under Mrs. Eddy’s instruction. The student began to cry, and said, “I don’t like you to talk to me like that; I want you to love me.” Mrs. Eddy replied, “I do love you and that is the reason why I am talking to you in this way. If I did not love you, I would not take the time to correct you. It is because I want to have you be right and do right that I am correcting you,” — and with that she dismissed her.

Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy by Adam H. Dickey, C.S.D.

Corrupt

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
⁵⁴ So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

I Corinthians 15 : 53, 54

⁷ Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
⁸ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
⁹ And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
¹⁶ And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Galatians 6 : 7-9, 16

Counterfeit

What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite natures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 285 : 7-14

Covenant

⁸ Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
⁹ That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
1⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Isaiah 49 : 8-10

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Isaiah 59 : 21

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Psalm 89 : 34

Creator

Creator. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating divine Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent Life, Truth, and Love; that which is perfect and eternal; the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Principle; God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

Creature

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Mark 16 : 15

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

II Corinthians 5 : 17

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

I Timothy 4 : 4

Cross

If you launch your bark upon the ever-agitated but healthful waters of truth, you will encounter storms. Your good will be evil spoken of. This is the cross. Take it up and bear it, for through it you win and wear the crown. Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 254

Cup

³⁶ Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
³⁸ Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
³⁹ And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Matthew 26 : 36-39

Saints and sinners get their full award, but not always in this world. The followers of Christ drank his cup. Ingratitude and persecution filled it to the brim; but God pours the riches of His love into the understanding and affections, giving us strength according to our day. Sinners flourish "like a green bay tree;" but, looking farther, the Psalmist could see their end, — the destruction of sin through suffering.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

The world must grow to the spiritual understanding of prayer. If good enough to profit by Jesus' cup of earthly sorrows, God will sustain us under these sorrows. Until we are thus divinely qualified and are willing to drink his cup, millions of vain repetitions will never pour into prayer the unction of Spirit in demonstration of power and "with signs following." Christian Science reveals a necessity for overcoming the world, the flesh, and evil, and thus destroying all error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10

While we adore Jesus, and the heart overflows with gratitude for what he did for mortals, — treading alone his loving pathway up to the throne of glory, in speechless agony exploring the way for us, — yet Jesus spares us not one individual experience, if we follow his commands faithfully; and all have the cup of sorrowful effort to drink in proportion to their demonstration of his love, till all are redeemed through divine Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 26

First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth and Love. He attached no importance to dead ceremonies. It is the living Christ, the practical Truth, which makes Jesus "the resurrection and the life" to all who follow him in deed. Obeying his precious precepts, — following his demonstration so far as we apprehend it, — we drink of his cup, partake of his bread, are baptized with his purity; and at last we shall rest, sit down with him, in a full understanding of the divine Principle which triumphs over death. For what says Paul? "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 31

In ancient Rome a soldier was required to swear allegiance to his general. The Latin word for this oath was sacramentum, and our English word sacrament is derived from it. Among the Jews it was an ancient custom for the master of a feast to pass each guest a cup of wine. But the Eucharist does not commemorate a Roman soldier's oath, nor was the wine, used on convivial occasions and in Jewish rites, the cup of our Lord. The cup shows forth his bitter experience, — the cup which he prayed might pass from him, though he bowed in holy submission to the divine decree.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 32 : 3-14

For this truth of spiritual being, their Master was about to suffer violence and drain to the dregs his cup of sorrow. He must leave them. With the great glory of an everlasting victory overshadowing him, he gave thanks and said, "Drink ye all of it."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 33

Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you shared the blood of the New Covenant, the persecutions which attend a new and higher understanding of God? If not, can you then say that you have commemorated Jesus in his cup? Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspiration to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God," that Truth has come to the understanding? If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other commemoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?

If all who ever partook of the sacrament had really commemorated the sufferings of Jesus and drunk of his cup, they would have revolutionized the world. If all who seek his commemoration through material symbols will take up the cross, heal the sick, cast out evils, and preach Christ, or Truth, to the poor, — the receptive thought, — they will bring in the millennium.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 33 to 34

Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our church is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can unite with this church only as we are newborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love, — casting out error and healing the sick. Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread, "which cometh down from heaven," is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 34

Jesus rose higher in demonstration because of the cup of bitterness he drank. Human law had condemned him, but he was demonstrating divine Science. Out of reach of the barbarity of his enemies, he was acting under spiritual law in defiance of matter and mortality, and that spiritual law sustained him. The divine must overcome the human at every point. The Science Jesus taught and lived must triumph over all material beliefs about life, substance, and intelligence, and the multitudinous errors growing from such beliefs.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 43

Remembering the sweat of agony which fell in holy benediction on the grass of Gethsemane, shall the humblest or mightiest disciple murmur when he drinks from the same cup, and think, or even wish, to escape the exalting ordeal of sin's revenge on its destroyer? Truth and Love bestow few palms until the consummation of a life-work.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 48

The burden of that hour was terrible beyond human conception. The distrust of mortal minds, disbelieving the purpose of his mission, was a million times sharper than the thorns which pierced his flesh. The real cross, which Jesus bore up the hill of grief, was the world's hatred of Truth and Love. Not the spear nor the material cross wrung from his faithful lips the plaintive cry, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" It was the possible loss of something more important than human life which moved him, — the possible misapprehension of the sublimest influence of his career. This dread added the drop of gall to his cup.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 50 to 51

His earthly cup of bitterness was drained to the dregs. There adhered to him only a few unpretentious friends, whose religion was something more than a name. It was so vital, that it enabled them to understand the Nazarene and to share the glory of eternal life. He said that those who followed him should drink of his cup, and history has confirmed the prediction.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 54

My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself, — when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. 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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 55

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. The furnace separates the gold from the dross that the precious metal may be graven with the image of God. The cup our Father hath given, shall we not drink it and learn the lessons He teaches?

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 66 to 67

Whosoever lives most the life of Jesus in this age and declares best the power of Christian Science, will drink of his Master's cup. Resistance to Truth will haunt his steps, and he will incur the hatred of sinners, till "wisdom is justified of her children." These blessed benedictions rest upon Jesus' followers: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you;" "Lo, I am with you alway," — that is, not only in all time, but in all ways and conditions.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 317

Giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, is a Christian service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man should find it again. Such acts bear their own justification, and are under the protection of the Most High.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 436

Millions of unprejudiced minds — simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert — are waiting and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the consequences. What if the old dragon should send forth a new flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood. Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks. The waters will be pacified, and Christ will command the wave.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 570

Cure

Too soon we cannot turn from disease in the body to find disease in the mortal mind, and its cure, in working for God.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 343

D

Daily Duties

Daily Prayer

It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to pray each day: "Thy kingdom come;" let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!

Church Manual, Article VIII, Sect. 4

A Rule for Motives and Acts

Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man; and a Christian Scientist reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in rebuking sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and forgiveness. The members of this Church should daily watch and pray to be delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously.

Church Manual, Article VIII, Sect. 1

Alertness to Duty

It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged, — and justified or condemned.

Church Manual, Article VIII, Sect. 6

Take Notice

To Christian Scientists: — See Science and Health, page 442, line 30, and give daily attention thereto.

— from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 237

Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.

— from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 442

Dan

Dan (Jacob's son). Animal magnetism; so-called mortal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

Day

Day. The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love.

"And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and "there shall be no night there."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

Day, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

Death

Death. An illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue; the opposite of Life.

Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind is immortal. The flesh, warring against Spirit; that which frets itself free from one belief only to be fettered by another, until every belief of life where Life is not yields to eternal Life. Any material evidence of death is false, for it contradicts the spiritual facts of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be after death, until probation and growth shall effect the needed change. Mind never becomes dust. No resurrection from the grave awaits Mind or Life, for the grave has no power over either.

No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 291

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Proverbs 12 : 28

Decrepitude

…decrepitude is not according to law, nor is it a necessity of nature, but an illusion.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 245

Deed

¹⁶ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

I John 3 : 16, 18

Demonstration

DEFINITION – What is demonstration? It is not declaring the Truth till the result is brought out, but absolute demonstration is being in that spiritual condition of thought where the work is done without taking thought of it.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 103

In Science we can use only what we understand. We must prove our faith by demonstration.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 329

Give all your attention to what you are doing, for it is a divine requirement that you do well what you have to do. When one is doing what he has to do and doing it properly, that is demonstration. He is demonstrating Principle.

from The 1936 Primary Class, by Bicknell Young, page 100

Many times when a thought seems to come from God, it may come from the human mind. When one places himself in position of listening for God’s voice, he opens himself to the possibility of being influenced by the thoughts of others. Hence one must watch, and learn to differentiate between the human suggestion and the divine impartation. Mrs. Eddy indicates that if she took time enough to demonstrate, she could not be misled by suggestion. The reason for this is that demonstration continued long enough, will surely silence the voice of suggestion, and leave God’s voice alone holding the field. When Elijah had his contest with the priests of Baal, his demonstration proved to be on a higher plane than that of Moses, because the latter did not prevent the magicians of Egypt from giving exhibitions of their powers to match his, up to a certain point. Elijah, however, not only caused fire to come down from heaven, but prevented the priests from bringing forth phenomena of any sort. Mrs. Eddy never regarded the demonstration of hearing God’s voice completed, until it had silenced any suggestions claiming to come from mortal mind. The very fact that she admits that at times she mistook mortal mind’s suggestions for the voice of God, should encourage her followers, and at the same time cause them to make a more careful and prolonged demonstration to be sure it is Mind’s voice, in accordance with her instruction in Miscellaneous Writings, 117:4.

Years ago, when a photographer’s proof of a picture was exposed to the sunlight, it began to fade at once, whereas the finished picture did not. When Mrs. Eddy heard what she thought was God’s direction, she exposed it to the light of demonstration. Only if it stayed fast, did she know for sure that it was God’s direction.

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, by Gilbert Carpenter

Demonstration is the whole of Christian Science, nothing else proves it, nothing else will save it and continue it with us. God has said this — and Christ Jesus has proved it.

from Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by von Fettweis and Warneck, page 210

Demonstration the Law in Mrs. Eddy’s Home — Chapter One, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Demonstration or Nothing — Chapter Two, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

The Demonstration of Truth — Chapter Ten, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Mrs. Eddy’s Demonstration of Supply — Chapter Thirteen, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Extension of Demonstration — Chapter Sixty-three, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

The Example of Mrs. Eddy’s Demonstration — Chapter Sixty-four, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Demonstration of Horses for Mrs. Eddy — Chapter Eighty-six, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Driven to Higher Spiritual Demonstration — Chapter Eighty-nine, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Students Forced to Higher Demonstration — Chapter Ninety-five, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Need to Demonstrate in Every Detail — Chapter One Hundred two, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Well-Rounded Demonstration Needed — Chapter One Hundred four, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Spiritual Meaning of Symbols — Chapter One Hundred Fourteen, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

What is demonstration? It is not declaring the Truth ’till the result is brought out, but absolute demonstration is being in that spiritual condition of thought, where the work is done without taking thought of it.

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 162

Denial

"Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." In Christian Science, a denial of Truth is fatal, while a just acknowledgment of Truth and of what it has done for us is an effectual help. If pride, superstition, or any error prevents the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 372

Denounce

Animal magnetism, I acknowledge your claims, but I denounce your power.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 151

Devices

⁸ I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
⁹ Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
¹¹ To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
¹² He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
¹⁵ But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
¹⁸ For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
¹⁹ He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
²⁰ In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
²² At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
²³ For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
²⁴ And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Job 5 : 8-27, in the King James Bible

Devil

Devil. Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: "I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind, — a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god and put into the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after its own image."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

²² Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
²³ And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
²⁵ And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Matthew 12 : 22-25

The seven devils to be overcome are self-righteousness, self-condemnation, self-pity, self-love, self-will, self-praise, self-justification — and make it all God.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

Discovery

"The Great Discovery" from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 24

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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 107

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. The revelation of Truth in the understanding came to me gradually and apparently through divine power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 109

Since the author's discovery of the might of Truth in the treatment of disease as well as of sin, her system has been fully tested and has not been found wanting; but to reach the heights of Christian Science, man must live in obedience to its divine Principle.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page vii

Dishonor

There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 228

In the handwriting of Laura Sargent.

Mother explained what Jesus meant when he said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself; on this hangs all the law.” In order to love God, we must honor and love the Way. How can we love God, unless we love His idea which shows us the way, and which is the Way; and in order to honor and love the Way, we must have a true sense of the individual through whom the Way has been manifested to us, else we are not keeping the law to love our neighbor as ourself, or doing by our neighbor as we would be done by. Mother explained Matthew 15:4, and showed us that the Truth which gives us spiritual birth is our Father and Mother, and is what we are to love and honor. Then she explained the difference between a human sense of love and the spiritual sense. Our whole salvation rests upon the manner in which we treat her, since the Way comes to us through her, and God demands that we love our neighbor by having the spiritual sense of our neighbor, and the spiritual sense of our Teacher and Mother, as God’s idea, that we must love and honor. Now when we try to kiss her, and caress her, this is not loving and honoring the Way; it is dishonoring the Way or idea, and thus dishonoring God, and this material sense is what God is rebuking in us; and then, when the rebuke comes, we look through the material sense to the person, — which in the spiritual sense is not our Teacher and Mother or the Way at all — and think she is unjust and doesn’t love us, and blame her for the discord, when all the time it is God rebuking us through the Way, through the idea of God that is expressing God’s condemnation of this false material sense, that would forever shut us out of His presence. Our material sense of Mrs. Eddy is person or a personal sense, which is a dishonor to her and God, for God’s idea of her is the spiritual sense of man; namely, the Way, the Truth, the Life, Christ, the spiritual sense of Love, of good, which is the divine Science of God and man. Now, when I kiss and embrace the person, I dishonor God and His idea, and this material sense of love, which is false, opens the way for another false sense, i.e., of hate, to come in; then we blame the one that rebukes us, and hate them, when the spiritual idea or real individual is showing us how much she loves us by showing us the Way, voicing God’s idea, which would give us dominion, if we only followed obediently.

Mother explained this Scripture, “Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss to consume it on your lusts.” We ask from a selfish motive, and she illustrated it in this way: “If we have a pain, we ask to have it destroyed.

Why? Because it makes us suffer. Is this the way? No! We should ask to have it removed, because it dishonors the Way that God has revealed, and this dishonors God. We ask to have the pleasures of sense destroyed. Why? Because they make us miserable. Is this the way? No! We should ask to have them destroyed, because they dishonor the Way and thus dishonor God. Then our prayer will be answered, because we ask from an unselfish motive and with an honest purpose to honor and love the Way that is God’s idea. This is the great lesson that He has given to us, that if we would ‘love Him with all our heart and our neighbor as ourself’ — thus keeping the whole law — we must have the spiritual sense of the Way and love and honor His Way or idea — the real individual that voices good — with the spiritual sense of this individual and not a material one, and do this by prayerful watching to see, that in forsaking the material sense, we love more instead of less, and are ever reflecting this spiritual sense of Love, which is all tenderness and compassion and loving kindness, and which is the Way, the divine idea of Love.”

Mother explained the difference between a material sense of love and a spiritual sense. A material sense of love dishonors the one it professes to love, through lust, as in marriage the man dishonors the woman he claims to love by taking away her virginity, thereby exposing the falsity of such a sense by showing it is not love, but lust, i.e. hate.

Mother said, this is the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,” that is, the spiritual sense of Love that is slain from the foundation of a material sense of sexuality.

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 159 to 162

Divine Mind

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 2 : 5

Question. — What is Mind?

Answer. — Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 469

Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces loss of power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 183

Divine Science

With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 469

Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in spiritual understanding. As a cloud hides the sun it cannot extinguish, so false belief silences for a while the voice of immutable harmony, but false belief cannot destroy Science armed with faith, hope, and fruition.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 298

Material medicine substitutes drugs for the power of God — even the might of Mind — to heal the body. Scholasticism clings for salvation to the person, instead of to the divine Principle, of the man Jesus; and his Science, the curative agent of God, is silenced. Why? Because truth divests material drugs of their imaginary power, and clothes Spirit with supremacy. Science is the "stranger that is within thy gates," remembered not, even when its elevating effects practically prove its divine origin and efficacy.

Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible, and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness and sin. This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as "the Ancient of days." It lives through all Life, and extends throughout all space.

Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus' healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 146 : 13-5

Divine Science reveals the Principle of this power, and the rule whereby sin, sickness, disease, and death are destroyed; and God is this Principle. Let us, then, seek this Science; that we may know Him better, and love Him more.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 194

Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick out of His personal volition, or should we understand the infinite divine Principle which heals? If we rise no higher than blind faith, the Science of healing is not attained, and Soul-existence, in the place of sense-existence, is not comprehended. We apprehend Life in divine Science only as we live above corporeal sense and correct it. Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, — our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 167

When the sick or the sinning awake to realize their need of what they have not, they will be receptive of divine Science, which gravitates towards Soul and away from material sense, removes thought from the body, and elevates even mortal mind to the contemplation of something better than disease or sin. The true idea of God gives the true understanding of Life and Love, robs the grave of victory, takes away all sin and the delusion that there are other minds, and destroys mortality.

The effects of Christian Science are not so much seen as felt. It is the "still, small voice" of Truth uttering itself. We are either turning away from this utterance, or we are listening to it and going up higher.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 323

The decisions by vote of Church Councils as to what should and should not be considered Holy Writ; the manifest mistakes in the ancient versions; the thirty thousand different readings in the Old Testament, and the three hundred thousand in the New, — these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole into the divine record, with its own hue darkening to some extent the inspired pages. But mistakes could neither wholly obscure the divine Science of the Scriptures seen from Genesis to Revelation, mar the demonstration of Jesus, nor annul the healing by the prophets, who foresaw that "the stone which the builders rejected" would become "the head of the corner."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 139

The divine hand led me into a new world of light and Life, a fresh universe — old to God, but new to His “little one.” It became evident that the divine Mind alone must answer, and be found as the Life, or Principle, of all being; and that one must acquaint himself with God, if he would be at peace. He must be ours practically, guiding our every thought and action; else we cannot understand the omnipresence of good sufficiently to demonstrate, even in part, the Science of the perfect Mind and divine healing.

I had learned that thought must be spiritualized, in order to apprehend Spirit. It must become honest, unselfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding of God in divine Science.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 27

Doctrine

Man-made doctrines are waning. They have not waxed strong in times of trouble. Devoid of the Christ-power, how can they illustrate the doctrines of Christ or the miracles of grace? Denial of the possibility of Christian healing robs Christianity of the very element, which gave it divine force and its astonishing and unequalled success in the first century. There is divine authority for believing in the superiority of spiritual power over material resistance.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 134 : 14 (Man-made)-20, 28-30

Dominion

Truth has no beginning. The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things. Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 307

Think less of the enactments of mortal mind, and you will sooner grasp man's God-given dominion. You must understand your way out of human theories relating to health, or you will never believe that you are quite free from some ailment. The harmony and immortality of man will never be reached without the understanding that Mind is not in matter. Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God's law. It is man's moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never inflicted by divine authority.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 381

Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth. This understanding casts out error and heals the sick, and with it you can speak "as one having authority."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 14

The enslavement of man is not legitimate. It will cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom, his God-given dominion over the material senses. Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God. Then they will control their own bodies through the understanding of divine Science. Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality.

If we follow the command of our Master, "Take no thought for your life," we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with Truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 228

The planets have no more power over man than over his Maker, since God governs the universe; but man, reflecting God's power, has dominion over all the earth and its hosts.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 102

WATCH — It is my right to exercise dominion; next, I can exercise that right, and do exercise it; the right to cast out fear.

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

Doubt

There are no hindrances, interruptions, personalities, conditions or circumstances that can make inactive or suspend the law of Spirit. I cannot be mesmerized to doubt the power of Truth over this and every other error. I know that I have confidence in all my treatments. I know how to handle all error and handle it instantly. All that I need to know in handling error is revealed to me, for it is God who handles the case and it is God who gives all right ideas.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 81

It is vain to speak dishonestly of divine Science, which destroys all discord, when you can demonstrate the actuality of Science. It is unwise to doubt if reality is in perfect harmony with God, divine Principle, — if Science, when understood and demonstrated, will destroy all discord, — since you admit that God is omnipotent; for from this premise it follows that good and its sweet concords have all-power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 130

If thought is startled at the strong claim of Science for the supremacy of God, or Truth, and doubts the supremacy of good, ought we not, contrariwise, to be astounded at the vigorous claims of evil and doubt them, and no longer think it natural to love sin and unnatural to forsake it, — no longer imagine evil to be ever-present and good absent? Truth should not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error should not seem so real as truth. Sickness should not seem so real as health. There is no error in Science, and our lives must be governed by reality in order to be in harmony with God, the divine Principle of all being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 130 to 131

To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man's relation to God, — to doubt His government and distrust His omnipotent care. To hold yourself superior to sickness and death is equally wise, and is in accordance with divine Science. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part of His creation.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 231

Dove

Dove. A symbol of divine Science; purity and peace; hope and faith.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

⁹ And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. ¹⁰ And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: ¹¹ And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Mark 1 : 9-11, in the King James Bible

Souls

Souls. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 466. (link)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 594

Dust

Dust. Nothingness; the absence of substance, life, or intelligence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 584

Duty

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12 : 13

Constant toil, deprivations, exposures, and all untoward conditions, if without sin, can be experienced without suffering. Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 385

If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbor unselfishly, and bless them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 9

Duty never points in two directions.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 215

Your closet is the best place whereby to learn from divine Love your duty to yourself and others. More silent prayer and watching is the need.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 218

When will Jesus' professed followers learn to emulate him in all his ways and to imitate his mighty works? Those who procured the martyrdom of that righteous man would gladly have turned his sacred career into a mutilated doctrinal platform. May the Christians of to-day take up the more practical import of that career! It is possible, — yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman, — to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness. Christians claim to be his followers, but do they follow him in the way that he commanded? Hear these imperative commands: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect!" "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature!" "Heal the sick!"

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 37

This text in the book of Ecclesiastes conveys the Christian Science thought, especially when the word duty, which is not in the original, is omitted: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." In other words: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: love God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole of man in His image and likeness. Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 340

E

Ears

Ears. Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding.

Jesus said, referring to spiritual perception, "Having ears, hear ye not?" (Mark viii. 18.)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 55 : 3

Christianity causes men to turn naturally from matter to Spirit, as the flower turns from darkness to light. Man then appropriates those things which "eye hath not seen nor ear heard." Paul and John had a clear apprehension that, as mortal man achieves no worldly honors except by sacrifice, so he must gain heavenly riches by forsaking all worldliness. Then he will have nothing in common with the worldling's affections, motives, and aims.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 458

Earth

Earth. A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, which are likewise without beginning or end.

To material sense, earth is matter; to spiritual sense, it is a compound idea.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psalm 24 : 1

Effect

42 — WATCH lest, in your denial of error, you deny effect instead of cause, thus deceiving yourself. To deny sickness, pain or sin as something of themselves, is to deny the effects of error, since error is defined as some belief entertained in a power, mind and existence apart from God. In God’s sight, sin is using the wrong mind — not what one does under that false mind.

Pain, disease, sin and death are the effect of false belief, and cannot be denied or destroyed apart from the false belief, of which they are merely the outward indication. On page 473 of Science and Health (link), we read, "Sin, sickness, and death are to be classified as effects of error."

from Watching Point 42 in 500 Watching Points,
by Gilbert Carpenter, page 26

Ego

I, or Ego. Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind.

There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God's creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Egypt

When [Mrs. Eddy] had finished [instructing Martha Wilcox], she said: “Now, take your child down into Egypt and let it grow up until it is strong enough to stand alone.”

from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 13

Egyptians

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

Exodus 14 : 13, in the King James Bible

Electricity

Electricity by Bicknell Young

Electricity functions by a discharge from the positive to the negative pole. From this phenomenon we learn the nature of animal magnetism in its claim to be contagious, and to dart from one mortal thought to another. Hence our defense must lie in acknowledging this claim, and then refuting it with the truth of being.

Once Mrs. Eddy asked a student the question: “Do you understand the handling of electrical poisoning? It is mental thought transference with malice behind it — with an intent to harm. Mortal mind sends its messages without wires. It is aggressive mental suggestion maliciously directed.”

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 17

Elias

Elias. Prophecy; spiritual evidence opposed to material sense; Christian Science, with which can be discerned the spiritual fact of whatever the material senses behold; the basis of immortality.

"Elias truly shall first come and restore all things." (Matthew xvii. 11.)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

Email, text messages, and phone calls

Unquestionably, we all need to dwell in the secret place of the Most High constantly, or rather, to be that secret place. Otherwise [email, text messages,] telegrams, letters or telephone calls may take us by surprise and for the moment, we may believe the error to be real.

from Association Addresses by Bicknell Young, pages 29 to 30 of the 1934 Address

When the telephone rings, don’t be found napping. Be prepared. The “full armor of God” is unlike the ancient warrior’s armor, for it does not interfere with our activity. It is to have the constant realization that God, Spirit, is All, and to have nothing else going on. Then you are less perturbed by the unexpected events of the day, and more ready to take care of things as they come up.

from the 1936 Primary Class by Bicknell Young, page 100

Watch your phone conversations, but don’t be afraid.

from 1937 College by Bicknell Young, page 141

Emerge

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit. Think not to thwart the spiritual ultimate of all things, but come naturally into Spirit through better health and morals and as the result of spiritual growth. Not death, but the understanding of Life, makes man immortal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 485

Empirical knowledge

Empirical knowledge is worse than useless: it never has advanced man a single step in the scale of being.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 234

Envy

Man's enslavement to the most relentless masters — passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge — is conquered only by a mighty struggle. Every hour of delay makes the struggle more severe. If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush out happiness, health, and manhood. Here Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the weakness of mortal mind, — strength from the immortal and omnipotent Mind, — and lifting humanity above itself into purer desires, even into spiritual power and good-will to man.

Let the slave of wrong desire learn the lessons of Christian Science, and he will get the better of that desire, and ascend a degree in the scale of health, happiness, and existence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 407

A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick. Lurking error, lust, envy, revenge, malice, or hate will perpetuate or even create the belief in disease. Errors of all sorts tend in this direction. Your true course is to destroy the foe, and leave the field to God, Life, Truth, and Love, remembering that God and His ideas alone are real and harmonious.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 419

Error

Error. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 472. (link)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

Let error kill itself. It comes to you for life and you give it the only life it has — in belief.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 215

WATCH — No form of error can make a C.S. treatment produce an opposite effect, nor can I be made to overlook or forget anything in the treatment that is necessary for its certain accomplishment of good. We must go ahead of error, and keep ahead of error all the way. Error is nothing but erroneous thought, and we must never give in to it, or go down before it. Mental activity must be tranquil — not lazy; it must express force, be exact, and it must know the reality of man’s oneness with God, and the utter unreality of evil in all its forms of beliefs.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 41

Error never arrives at its destination, no matter how auspiciously it may seem to have started.

Mary Hornibrook Cummins

Mrs. Eddy once healed a member of her household, who had cut himself from eye to chin, with the declaration: Error cannot do something quickly which takes Truth a long time to undo! She told another student who was treating a patient for tuberculosis that that was only the decoy. She said: Would you treat a cat with an arched back for curvature of the spine? No, for fear.

from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"),
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 83

Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before error is wholly destroyed, there will be interruptions of the general material routine. Earth will become dreary and desolate, but summer and winter, seedtime and harvest (though in changed forms), will continue unto the end, — until the final spiritualization of all things. "The darkest hour precedes the dawn."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 96

Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, — which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 242

Eternal

God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

I John 5 : 11

Eucharist

Euphrates (river). Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the place of physics; the reign of righteousness. The atmosphere of human belief before it accepts sin, sickness, or death; a state of mortal thought, the only error of which is limitation; finity; the opposite of infinity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

To the ritualistic priest and hypocritical Pharisee Jesus said, "The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you." Jesus' history made a new calendar, which we call the Christian era; but he established no ritualistic worship. He knew that men can be baptized, partake of the Eucharist, support the clergy, observe the Sabbath, make long prayers, and yet be sensual and sinful.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 20

Among the Jews it was an ancient custom for the master of a feast to pass each guest a cup of wine. But the Eucharist does not commemorate a Roman soldier's oath, nor was the wine, used on convivial occasions and in Jewish rites, the cup of our Lord.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 32

Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our church is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can unite with this church only as we are newborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love, — casting out error and healing the sick. Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread, "which cometh down from heaven," is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 35 : 25-29

Euphrates

Euphrates (river). Divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the place of physics; the reign of righteousness. The atmosphere of human belief before it accepts sin, sickness, or death; a state of mortal thought, the only error of which is limitation; finity; the opposite of infinity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

Eve

Eve. A beginning; mortality; that which does not last forever; a finite belief concerning life, substance, and intelligence in matter; error; the belief that the human race originated materially instead of spiritually, that man started first from dust, second from a rib, and third from an egg.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 585

Evening

Evening. Mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of mortal mind; obscured views; peace and rest.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Evidence

Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 264

Evil

Evil has no power, no intelligence, for God is good, and therefore good is infinite, is All.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 398

Nothing is real and eternal, — nothing is Spirit, — but God and His idea. Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 71

Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so-called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community. The Apostle Paul refers to the personification of evil as "the god of this world," and further defines it as dishonesty and craftiness. Sin was the Assyrian moon-god.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 102

There is no protection and no virtue in ignorance of evil and its phases. Each step of spiritual revelation is met by a phase of animal magnetism. In other words, evil claims to reveal in exact counterfeit its phases to contradict the revelations of Truth as all. It claims to be just as true as Truth. These claims must be met and mastered by Truth, just as Moses, by the more spiritual understanding of power, caused his mental concept of serpent to swallow up the serpents of the magicians and wonder-workers of the Egyptians.

Mrs. Eddy saw fit to include in Science and Health, a book in which is revealed spiritual truth, a chapter called, “Animal Magnetism Unmasked,” and saw the necessity of unmasking the claim and operation of evil as it tried to affect and destroy her revelation of Truth. It was her necessity as well as her duty to do this. It is also the necessity and duty of every student of Christian Science to understand and handle the claims of animal magnetism as revealed not only in this chapter, but throughout the entire textbook.

from The Dixon Letter by Caspar B. Dernvery

Evolution

God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them. Mortal mind would transform the spiritual into the material, and then recover man's original self in order to escape from the mortality of this error. Mortals are not like immortals, created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 295

It is sometimes supposed by some people that there is a kind of evolution going on. That it evolves itself through a belief of Truth until it becomes Divine. That is theology, — the belief that matter can become spirit sometime or other; the belief that error finally becomes Truth. Christian Science is the doctrine of perfection. It is the absolute Science of infinite perfect Being brought to light in such a way that all human beings can demonstrate this infinite perfect Being in their lives, in the measure that they apprehend the Infinite and Perfect, and abide by the laws of the Infinite and Perfect.

from Association Addresses, by Bicknell Young, page 11 of the 1925 Address

Exalt

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 23 : 12

Exemplar

An apostle says that the Son of God [Christ] came to "destroy the works of the devil." We should follow our divine Exemplar, and seek the destruction of all evil works, error and disease included.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Like the great Exemplar, the healer should speak to disease as one having authority over it, leaving Soul to master the false evidences of the corporeal senses and to assert its claims over mortality and disease. The same Principle cures both sin and sickness. When divine Science overcomes faith in a carnal mind, and faith in God destroys all faith in sin and in material methods of healing, then sin, disease, and death will disappear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Expunge

To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate.

from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 21 to 22

Extremity

“man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.”

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 266

Eyes

Eyes. Spiritual discernment, — not material but mental. Jesus said, thinking of the outward vision, "Having eyes, see ye not?" (Mark viii. 18.)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

⁹ And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
¹¹ Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
¹² And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
¹³ And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
¹⁴ Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
¹⁵ And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
¹⁶ And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
¹⁷ And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

II Kings 6 : 9-17

⁷ At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
⁸ And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 17 : 7, 8

F

Faith-cure

Faith-cure by Mary Baker Eddy

Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11 : 1, in the King James Bible

Without faith it is impossible to please [God].

Hebrews 11 : 6, in the King James Bible

II Corinthians 5 : 7

Hebrews 11 : 6, in the King James Bible

Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 430

Our Master’s first article of faith propounded to his students was healing, and he proved his faith by his works. The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? Because our systems of religion are governed more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry was faith in matter. The schools have rendered faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 145

When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 368

Faith illumined by works; the spiritual understanding which cannot choose but to labor and love; hope holding steadfastly to good in the midst of seething evil; charity that suffereth long and is kind, but cancels not sin until it be destroyed, — these afford the only rule I have found which demonstrates Christian Science.

And remember, a pure faith in humanity will subject one to deception; the uses of good, to abuses from evil; and calm strength will enrage evil. But the very heavens shall laugh at them, and move majestically to your defense when the armies of earth press hard upon you.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 338

We must have faith in all the sayings of our Master,

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 429 : 27-28 (to ,)

Fan

Fan. Separator of fable from fact; that which gives action to thought.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Father

Father. Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Principle, commonly called God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Father's house

Watching Point 244, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Watching Point 303, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Watching Point 116, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Watching Point 306, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Fatigue

Mind-science teaches that mortals need "not be weary in well doing." It dissipates fatigue in doing good. Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us. We have strength in proportion to our apprehension of the truth, and our strength is not lessened by giving utterance to truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 79

You say, "Toil fatigues me." But what is this me? Is it muscle or mind? Which is tired and so speaks? Without mind, could the muscles be tired? Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them? Matter is non-intelligent. Mortal mind does the false talking, and that which affirms weariness, made that weariness.

You do not say a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body is as material as the wheel. If it were not for what the human mind says of the body, the body, like the inanimate wheel, would never be weary. The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 217 : 29 (You)-8

It is proverbial that Florence Nightingale and other philanthropists engaged in humane labors have been able to undergo without sinking fatigues and exposures which ordinary people could not endure. The explanation lies in the support which they derived from the divine law, rising above the human. The spiritual demand, quelling the material, supplies energy and endurance surpassing all other aids, and forestalls the penalty which our beliefs would attach to our best deeds. Let us remember that the eternal law of right, though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due for wrong-doing.

Constant toil, deprivations, exposures, and all untoward conditions, if without sin, can be experienced without suffering. Whatever it is your duty to do, you can do without harm to yourself. If you sprain the muscles or wound the flesh, your remedy is at hand. Mind decides whether or not the flesh shall be discolored, painful, swollen, and inflamed.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 385

Fear

Fear. Heat; inflammation; anxiety; ignorance; error; desire; caution.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

¹ The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
³ Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
⁴ One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
⁵ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me: he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 27 : 1, 3-5

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

I John 4:18

The understanding, even in a degree, of the divine All-power destroys fear, and plants the feet in the true path, — the path which leads to the house built without hands "eternal in the heavens." Human hate has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom. Love is enthroned.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 454

Fear, from Collectanea by Mary Baker Eddy

¹⁶ Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
¹⁷ And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

II Kings 6 : 16 (Fear), 17, in the King James Bible

This growing sin must now be dealt with as evil, and not as an evil-doer or personality It must also be remembered that neither an evil claim nor an evil person is real, hence is neither to be feared nor honored.

Evil is not something to fear and flee before, or that becomes more real when it is grappled with. Evil let alone grows more real, aggressive, and enlarges its claims; but, met with Science, it can and will be mastered by Science.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 284

It is the love of God, and not the fear of evil, that is the incentive in Science.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 279

At present mortals progress slowly for fear of being thought ridiculous. They are slaves to fashion, pride, and sense. Sometime we shall learn how Spirit, the great architect, has created men and women in Science. We ought to weary of the fleeting and false and to cherish nothing which hinders our highest selfhood.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 68

Fever

¹⁴ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
³⁸ And 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.
³⁹ And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.

Luke 4 : 14, 38, 39

Fight

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish, and if this be so why not do it now and where you stand.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 41

Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 492

To run before a lie is to accept its terms. This works like running before the enemy in battle. You will be followed, pursued, till you face about, trust in God and stand on Spirit denying and facing and fighting all claims of matter and mortal mind both one.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 44

If you fight, you make a fight.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 72

If human belief handles A.M. there is a fight, but divine Love knows there is nothing to fight. God is all that will handle A.M. When error appears, it only appears to disappear.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 47 of the Addenda

Trust in God and leave evil to do its own work of self-destruction. Always overcome evil with good. Never descend to the warfare between evil and human will trying to do God's will. But forgive all offences and love every enemy you may think you have.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 119 to 120

You have not to fight, not to struggle, but only to know.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 180

The result of Jacob's struggle thus appeared. He had conquered material error with the understanding of Spirit and of spiritual power. This changed the man. He was no longer called Jacob, but Israel, — a prince of God, or a soldier of God, who had fought a good fight.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 309

...our beloved Leader fought “the good fight of faith.” It was a restful warfare – a warfare that was as victorious in the beginning as it proved to be in the end, a warfare so replete with LOVE as to leave no battered, vanquished enemy in its wake!

from Chapter VIII of Reminiscences of Mary Baker Eddy by Joseph Mann

Fire

Fire. Fear; remorse; lust; hatred; destruction; affliction purifying and elevating man.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Firmament

Firmament. Spiritual understanding; the scientific line of demarcation between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Flesh

Flesh. An error of physical belief; a supposition that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion; a belief that matter has sensation.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Romans 8 : 5, 6

Food

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6 : 11

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Matthew 6 : 25

The primitive custom of taking no thought about food left the stomach and bowels free to act in obedience to nature, and gave the gospel a chance to be seen in its glorious effects upon the body.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 176

Admit the common hypothesis that food is the nutriment of life, and there follows the necessity for another admission in the opposite direction, — that food has power to destroy Life, God, through a deficiency or an excess, a quality or a quantity. This is a specimen of the ambiguous nature of all material health-theories. They are self-contradictory and self-destructive, constituting a "kingdom divided against itself," which is "brought to desolation." If food was prepared by Jesus for his disciples, it cannot destroy life.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 388

Mind regulates the condition of the stomach, bowels, and food, the temperature of children and of men, and matter does not.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 413

When Christ changes a belief of sin or of sickness into a better belief, then belief melts into spiritual understanding, and sin, disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the material, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually. St. Paul says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:" Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." This truth is Christian Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 442

I do not maintain that anyone can exist in the flesh without food and raiment; but I do believe that the real man is immortal and that he lives in Spirit, not matter. Christian Science must be accepted at this period by induction. We admit the whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle. Christian Science can be taught only by those who are morally advanced and spiritually endowed, for it is not superficial, nor is it discerned from the standpoint of the human senses. Only by the illumination of the spiritual sense, can the light of understanding be thrown upon this Science, because Science reverses the evidence before the material senses and furnishes the eternal interpretation of God and man.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 461

In divine Science, man is sustained by God, the divine Principle of being. The earth, at God's command, brings forth food for man's use. Knowing this, Jesus once said, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink," — presuming not on the prerogative of his creator, but recognizing God, the Father and Mother of all, as able to feed and clothe man as He doth the lilies.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 530

God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we acknowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again except to offend God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion of the body can destroy you.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 425

Food as spiritual nutriment designed to support man, cannot be separated from God's love and care; … Neither does it sustain man of itself; it must be considered to be the expression of God's love.

from Watching Point 449 in 500 Watching Points, by Gilbert Carpenter

Digestion is harmonious action. Assimilation is unity of ideas. Nutrition is life.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the Blue Book), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 269

Bread of Heaven: that which nourishes, and sustains.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the Blue Book), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 196

When Mrs. Eddy found students trying to put food aside, instead of a material sense of food, she said, "Don’t say there is no intelligence in food. The earth brings forth food for man’s use and we must reflect the divine intelligence that enables us to use that food; adhere to the statement that divine intelligence directs man, and governed by it, man eats, sleeps, walks and talks harmoniously. Depict the real Christ; the man-made is not the image."

The world of mortal belief malpractices on food just as it does on nerves. This malpractice is the talking serpent that must be handled. Jesus encouraged the eating of food, showing that at our present stage of experience, it is not food that we must eliminate, but the belief that it is material, that it can affect man adversely either through quality or quantity, or that it can be the medium for mortal mind. If God is not absent from the blessings He bestows, then we must never consider that His goodness and love are absent from the food He supplies to His children.

When Jesus met with his disciples at supper, the eating of food became a channel for a spiritual uplift. When food is seen as a channel for inspiration and blessing, man’s spiritual nature is fed, at the same time his temporary material needs are taken care of.

from Watching Point 285 in 500 Watching Points, by Gilbert Carpenter

Forces

We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 124

This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual Truth.

As this consummation draws nearer, he who has shaped his course in accordance with divine Science will endure to the end. As material knowledge diminishes and spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be apprehended mentally instead of materially.

During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 96

Foresight

TThe ancient prophets gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal standpoint, not by foreshadowing evil and mistaking fact for fiction, — predicting the future from a groundwork of corporeality and human belief. When sufficiently advanced in Science to be in harmony with the truth of being, men become seers and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spirits, or demigods, but by the one Spirit. It is the prerogative of the ever-present, divine Mind, and of thought which is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the present, and the future.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 84

Forget

Learn to forget what you should not remember, viz. self, and live for the good you do.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 98 (also quoted in Class of 1923 Notes by Joseph G. Mann)

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3 : 13, 14

Forgive

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

Luke 23:34

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ, — Truth and Life.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Formula

A formula is an effort to gain an instantaneous healing without the Holy Ghost.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 235

Our Leader forbids the use of formulas. When one uses a formula in his healing work, it means that he has more faith in the letter than in the Spirit. Part of our training and growth is to learn how to formulate through divine guidance, our own scientific tools, or statements, to fit each problem and then to put back of these declarations the expectancy and inspiration that makes them efficacious.

Those who use formulas not only lose the growth that comes of building their own tools, but they erroneously believe that it is the statements which they use that do the healing. In this way they neglect and overlook the need of the Spirit. A correct understanding of Christian Science rules out faith or belief in the efficacy of the letter without the Spirit. Such were vain repetition, such as the heathen use.

from Watching Point 108 in 500 Watching Points, by Gilbert C. Carpenter

You might as well try to put God in your pocket as to put Science and Health into a formula.

from Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items, by Mary Baker Eddy

When she found students using the repetition of mere words without the spirit, she declared that they were chattering the letter of Science like mockingbirds. She explained that the apathy, the lack of love and Christian vigor, came of seeking only the letter of Truth and stopping there, because it costs so much more to gain the spirit thereof.

A formula is a superstitious belief in the efficacy of the repetition of mere words — like chanting some magic recipe, illustrated by the witches in the play, Macbeth. Even the watches in this book could be used as formulas, unless, as one works and prays, he seeks to have God govern his thought. A formula is a human remedy in the mental realm, as medicine is in the physical realm, since it is based on a belief that a set phraseology has the power to heal disease, when the scientific fact to be realized, is that there is no disease to heal.

Arguments in Science are like the match one uses to light the gas in the stove. It is the gas that bakes the cake.

Arguments become a formula when one tries to heal by their means, as if one tried to make the cake with the match. Mrs. Eddy watched the students, lest they sink to the level of believing that their declarations were what accomplished the work. On page 454 of the textbook, we read, “Remember that the letter and mental arguments are only human auxiliaries to aid in bringing thought into accord with the spirit of Truth and Love, which heals the sick and the sinning.”

An airplane taxies on the ground to gain the speed necessary to rise where it may soar unfettered. The repeating and declaring of arguments — even those furnished by our Leader — becomes the use of formulas unless, as one uses them, he carries in mind the goal of Science, where one’s thoughts blend with God and soar in the illimitable realm of Mind.

Mrs. Eddy furnished the tools of scientific thought and work, but she told her students always to go to God for the wisdom to use these tools correctly, as well as for the love to put into them the unction necessary. Only as God directs our thought and work, can we be sure that we are not using a formula.

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy

Freedom

Against the fatal beliefs that error is as real as Truth, that evil is equal in power to good if not superior, and that discord is as normal as harmony, even the hope of freedom from the bondage of sickness and sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor. When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 368 : 10-19

Friendship

There are no greater miracles known to earth than perfection and an unbroken friendship. We love our friends, but ofttimes we lose them in proportion to our affection. The sacrifices made for others are not infrequently met by envy, ingratitude, and enmity, which smite the heart and threaten to paralyze its beneficence. The unavailing tear is shed both for the living and the dead.

Nothing except sin, in the students themselves, can separate them from me. Therefore we should guard thought and action, keeping them in accord with Christ, and our friendship will surely continue.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 80 to 81

Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love. When this hour of development comes, even if you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will force you to accept what best promotes your growth. Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you; for "man's extremity is God's opportunity." The author has experienced the foregoing prophecy and its blessings. Thus He teaches mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality. This is done through self-abnegation. Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 266

Fruitful

³ We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Colossians 1 : 3, 10-12

Fruit of the Spirit

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5 : 22, 23

G

Gad

Gad (Jacob's son). Science; spiritual being understood; haste towards harmony.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

Gethsemane

Gethsemane. Patient woe; the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 586

³⁶ Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
³⁸ Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
³⁹ And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
⁴⁰ And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
⁴¹ Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
⁴² He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
⁴³ And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
⁴⁴ And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
⁴⁵ Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Matthew 26 : 36-45

During his night of gloom and glory in the garden, Jesus realized the utter error of a belief in any possible material intelligence. The pangs of neglect and the staves of bigoted ignorance smote him sorely. His students slept. He said unto them: "Could ye not watch with me one hour?" Could they not watch with him who, waiting and struggling in voiceless agony, held uncomplaining guard over a world? There was no response to that human yearning, and so Jesus turned forever away from earth to heaven, from sense to Soul.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 47

Ghost

Ghost. An illusion; a belief that mind is outlined and limited; a supposition that spirit is finite.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Gihon

Gihon (river). The rights of woman acknowledged morally, civilly, and socially.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Glory

²³ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
²⁴ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9 : 23, 24

¹ The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
⁴ His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
⁵ The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
⁷ Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
⁹ For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
¹² Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Psalm 97 : 1, 4-7, 9, 12

⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
¹⁶ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
¹⁸ While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

II Corinthians 4 : 6, 16-18

God

God. The great I am. the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, combine as one, — and are the Scriptural names for God. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes, the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principle, Love. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.

Divine metaphysics, as revealed to spiritual understanding, shows clearly that all is Mind, and that Mind is God, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — that is, all power, all presence, all Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 275

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” If He be with us, the wayside is a sanctuary, and the desert a resting-place peopled with living witnesses of the fact that “God is Love.”

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they that reflect Him — that reflect Love. Again, this infinite Principle, with its universal manifestation, is all that really is or can be; hence God is our Shepherd. He guards, guides, feeds, and folds the sheep of His pasture; and their ears are attuned to His call. In the words of the loving disciple, “My sheep hear my voice,… and they follow me; …neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”

God is a consuming fire. He separates the dross from the gold, purifies the human character, through the furnace of affliction. Those who bear fruit He purgeth, that they may bear more fruit. Through the sacred law, He speaketh to the unfruitful in tones of Sinai: and, in the gospel, He saith of the barren fig-tree, “Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?”

God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician: He is man’s only real relative on earth and in heaven. David sang, “Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.”

Brother, sister, beloved in the Lord, knowest thou thyself, and art thou acquainted with God? If not, I pray thee as a Christian Scientist, delay not to make Him thy first acquaintance.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 150 to 151

Gods

Gods. Mythology; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material; a supposition of sentient physicality; the belief that infinite Mind is in finite forms; the various theories that hold mind to be a material sense, existing in brain, nerve, matter; supposititious minds, or souls, going in and out of matter, erring and mortal; the serpents of error, which say, "Ye shall be as gods."

God is one God, infinite and perfect, and cannot become finite and imperfect.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Good

Good. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

I Thessalonians 5 : 21

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalm 37 : 23

Goodness never fails to receive its reward, for goodness makes life a blessing. As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good. Thus may each member of this church rise above the oft-repeated inquiry, What am I? to the scientific response: I am able to impart truth, health, and happiness, and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 165

It is not Science for the wicked to wallow or the good to weep.

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 8

Good Reigns by Mary Baker Eddy

Only Good is Contagious Watch Booklet

Mortals suppose that they can live without goodness, when God is good and the only real Life. What is the result? Understanding little about the divine Principle which saves and heals, mortals get rid of sin, sickness, and death only in belief. These errors are not thus really destroyed, and must therefore cling to mortals until, here or hereafter, they gain the true understanding of God in the Science which destroys human delusions about Him and reveals the grand realities of His allness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 328

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [love] for ever.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 578

Gospel

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Matthew 9 : 35

Government

Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 405

⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 9 : 6, 7

True Government Watch Booklet

Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration of Independence. God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

Man's rights are invaded when the divine order is interfered with, and the mental trespasser incurs the divine penalty due this crime.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 106

Human law is right only as it patterns the divine. Consolation and peace are based on the enlightened sense of God’s government.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 283 : 26-28

The Constitution of the United States does not provide that materia medica shall make laws to regulate man’s religion; rather does it imply that religion shall permeate our laws. Mankind will be God-governed in proportion as God’s government becomes apparent, the Golden Rule utilized, and the rights of man and the liberty of conscience held sacred. Meanwhile, they who name the name of Christian Science will assist in the holding of crime in check, will aid the ejection of error, will maintain law and order, and will cheerfully await the end — justice and judgment.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 222 : 22-32

Certain elements in human nature would undermine the civic, social, and religious rights and laws of nations and peoples, striking at liberty, human rights, and self-government — and this, too, in the name of God, justice, and humanity!

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10 : 11-15

Pray for the prosperity of our country, and for her victory under arms; that justice, mercy, and peace continue to characterize her government, and that they shall rule all nations. Pray that the divine presence may still guide and bless our chief magistrate, those associated with his executive trust, and our national judiciary; give to our congress wisdom, and uphold our nation with the right arm of His righteousness.

from Christian Science versus Pantheism, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 14 : 11-18

Grace

Grace: the spirit or influence of God operating in man to strengthen and regenerate (to plant holy affections in the heart a virtue of divine origin.)

from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 17

² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
⁵ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
⁶ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

II Peter 1 : 2-8

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds. To keep the commandments of our Master and follow his example, is our proper debt to him and the only worthy evidence of our gratitude for all that he has done. Outward worship is not of itself sufficient to express loyal and heartfelt gratitude, since he has said: "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4

A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, page 354

Grace and Truth are potent beyond all other means and methods.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 67

The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 494

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4 : 16

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

Ephesians 2 : 8

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Revelation 22 : 21

Greater works

Verily, 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.

John 14 : 12

The greater works referred to by Jesus may quite well be the prevention of problems from arising. Certainly the best demonstration is to prevent a situation from arising. To devote excessive effort to the solution of one’s own problem, to the exclusion of the universal problems, is to limit one’s own demonstration.

from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 37

"The Millennium" in Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 223

Guile

¹ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
² Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Psalm 32 : 1, 2

H

Ham

Ham (Noah's son). Corporeal belief; sensuality; slavery; tyranny.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Happiness

Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul. Higher enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal man. We cannot circumscribe happiness within the limits of personal sense. The senses confer no real enjoyment.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 60 to 61

Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 57

God is All, and in all: that finishes the question of a good and a bad side to existence. Truth is the real; error is the unreal. You will gather the importance of this saying, when sorrow seems to come, if you will look on the bright side; for sorrow endureth but for the night, and joy cometh with the light. Then will your sorrow be a dream, and your waking the reality, even the triumph of Soul over sense. If you wish to be happy, argue with yourself on the side of happiness; take the side you wish to carry, and be careful not to talk on both sides, or to argue stronger for sorrow than for joy. You are the attorney for the case, and will win or lose according to your plea.

from Christian Healing, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10

Harmless

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 10 : 16

Understanding the control which Love held over all, Daniel felt safe in the lions' den, and Paul proved the viper to be harmless. All of God's creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible. A realization of this grand verity was a source of strength to the ancient worthies. It supports Christian healing, and enables its possessor to emulate the example of Jesus. "And God saw that it was good."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 514

Harmony

Harmony is heaven. Science brings out harmony; but this harmony is not understood unless it produces a growing affection for all good, and consequent disaffection for all evil, hypocrisy, evil-speaking, lust, envy, hate. Where these exist, Christian Science has no sure foothold: they obscure its divine element, and thus seem to extinguish it. Even the life of Jesus was belittled and belied by personalities possessing these defacing deformities. Only the devout Marys, and such as lived according to his precepts, understood the concrete character of him who taught — by the wayside, in humble homes, to itching ears and to dull disciples — the words of Life.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 337

Harvest

¹ After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
² Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
¹⁷ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
¹⁸ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
¹⁹ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
²⁰ Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
²¹ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Luke 10 : 1, 2, 17-21

Healing

I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Exodus 15 : 26 (I am), in the King James Bible

Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian healing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to his students; but he left no definite rule for demonstrating this Principle of healing and preventing disease. This rule remained to be discovered in Christian Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 147

Thought imbued with purity, Truth, and Love, instructed in the Science of metaphysical healing, is the most potent and desirable remedial agent on the earth.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4

When the thinker is lost in the eminence of Mind, the healing takes place.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 237

You do not feel love enough. Feel love! Feel love! (Said to a practitioner whose patient was not being healed.)

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

Dear, don’t go back into the house. (Said to one who had been healed but had a tendency to rehearse the error.)

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

Healing by Bicknell Young

¹ Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103 : 1-5, in the King James Bible

Health

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. The Science of Mind-healing shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. Therefore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testimony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 120

Hearing

Eyes And Ears, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

Heart

Heart. Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and sorrows.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 4 : 23

The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God. Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 151

Heart, from 1937 College by Bicknell Young

Remember this fixed fact: You have no material heart. Your heart God gave you, and He governs all its functions. It cannot cease to act so long as God acts, for it is His reflection of Love.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 69

God does not demand a half of the heart, but the whole heart.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 236

Heaven

Heaven. Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 587

Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession of “the mind of the Lord,” as the Scripture says.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 291

Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 560

Hell

Hell. Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction, self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which "worketh abomination or maketh a lie."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 196

The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 266

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Psalm 139 : 8

Heredity

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Psalm 16 : 5, 6

Heredity is not a law. The remote cause or belief of disease is not dangerous because of its priority and the connection of past mortal thoughts with present. The predisposing cause and the exciting cause are mental.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 178

In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or animal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 178

Your Background by Una Willard

Hiddekel

Hiddekel (river). Divine Science understood and acknowledged.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

History

The powers of this world will fight, and will command their sentinels not to let truth pass the guard until it subscribes to their systems; but Science, heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth's standard.

The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipotence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 538

"...evil has no history..."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 225 : 8-22

Holy Ghost

Holy Ghost. Divine Science; the development of eternal Life, Truth, and Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Home

Home, from Collectanea by Mary Baker Eddy

Begin at home — a testimony

Honesty

Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help. You uncover sin, not in order to injure, but in order to bless the corporeal man; and a right motive has its reward. Hidden sin is spiritual wickedness in high places. The masquerader in this Science thanks God that there is no evil, yet serves evil in the name of good.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 453

Humble

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

II Chronicles 7 : 14

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2 : 11

⁶ God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4 : 6 (God)-8, 10

Humdrum

Never become discouraged, dear ones. This work is not humdrum, it is growth. It is repeating and defeating, repeating and defeating, repeating and defeating.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 185

I

I am

I am. God; incorporeal and eternal Mind; divine Principle; the only Ego.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Exodus 3 : 14, in the King James Bible

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. The precise form of God must be of small importance in comparison with the sublime question, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?

Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, "doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?"

No form nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Image

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 1 : 26, in the King James Bible

Immortal

Immortal man demonstrates the government of God, good, in which is no power to sin.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 405

Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 288

Immortality, exempt from age or decay, has a glory of its own, — the radiance of Soul. Immortal men and women are models of spiritual sense, drawn by perfect Mind and reflecting those higher conceptions of loveliness which transcend all material sense.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 247

Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness or gloom. Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 248

Being is holiness, harmony, immortality. It is already proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree, will uplift the physical and moral standard of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify and elevate character. Thus progress will finally destroy all error, and bring immortality to light.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 492

Importunately

With urgent request; with pressing solicitation.

from the 1828 Webster's Dictionary

One thing I have greatly desired, and again earnestly request, namely, that Christian Scientists, here and elsewhere, pray daily for themselves; not verbally, nor on bended knee, but mentally, meekly, and importunately. When a hungry heart petitions the divine Father-Mother God for bread, it is not given a stone, — but more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow into it the "river of His pleasure," the tributary of divine Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow, — even that joy which finds one's own in another's good.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 127

Mrs. Eddy requests us to pray importunately; that is, insistently. When our need is very great, when we are sorely perplexed, when our whole heart and being yearn to be uplifted, then we are to pray importunately. Jesus prayed importunately when Lazarus came forth from the grave. To pray importunately does not mean to reach out or up desperately to some power outside our own self. To pray importunately is our own persistent and insistent effort to be that state of truth or understanding or realization that is the Christ, the real man that we already are.

In proportion as we pray daily for ourselves; that is, pray mentally, meekly, and importunately as the occasion demands, we gain spiritual growth rapidly. It might be well for each individual here today to look deep into his own heart and see if he really desires rapid spiritual growth, and if he is earnestly striving and praying for it. If we really desire rapid spiritual growth, we must work and pray to accomplish two things. First, we must dematerialize matter; and second, we must impersonalize personality.

from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 250

Impossible

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 1 : 26, in the King James Bible

No impossible thing do I ask when urging the claims of Christian Science; but because this teaching is in advance of the age, we should not deny our need of its spiritual unfoldment. Mankind will improve through Science and Christianity. The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease. Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it "every whit whole."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 371

Indestructible

The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 470

Inflammation

Matter cannot be inflamed. Inflammation is fear, an excited state of mortals which is not normal. Immortal Mind is the only cause; therefore disease is neither a cause nor an effect. Mind in every case is the eternal God, good. Sin, disease, and death have no foundations in Truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 414

In

In. A term obsolete in Science if used with reference to Spirit, or Deity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Insanity

The treatment of insanity is especially interesting. However obstinate the case, it yields more readily than do most diseases to the salutary action of truth, which counteracts error. The arguments to be used in curing insanity are the same as in other diseases: namely, the impossibility that matter, brain, can control or derange mind, can suffer or cause suffering; also the fact that truth and love will establish a healthy state, guide and govern mortal mind or the thought of the patient, and destroy all error, whether it is called dementia, hatred, or any other discord.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 414

Inspiration

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Isaiah 30 : 21, in the King James Bible

The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without seam or rent. Mere speculation or superstition appropriates no part of the divine vesture, while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment of righteousness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 342

Inspiration is not a mechanical process of repeating mere words by rote, of rounding them up in just so many sentences and no more. It is not a lifeless force which can be caught and imprisoned in a word or a volume — as a taxidermist would stuff birds, always to present the same stiff, glassy appearance. It is, rather, the kaleidoscopic presentation of the beauty and wondrous power — not of some new truth heretofore unheard of — but of an eternally existing, spiritual Fact unfolding and forever re-unfolding itself to ‘eyes that see.’

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 153

Be vigilant. Be wise. Store your mind with deep treasures. Learn to talk just the inspiration of Truth. Spiritualize your whole being – let this be the outcome of your growth.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 227

O Love! Give me higher, holier, purer, self-abnegated motives and desires, and spiritual inspiration.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 30

Instant

Be so instant in Truth that error is always too late.

Instrument

I wish as an act of justice that you hold sacredly in your memory that I assume no good or power of myself, that to God alone I ascribe all love, wisdom and power, the All-in-all, the all good; that I am absolutely nothing, a mere instrument in God’s hands to be used as He will. This is the only position for any one of us to be in.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 213

Intelligence

Intelligence. Substance; self-existent and eternal Mind; that which is never unconscious nor limited.

See chapter on Recapitulation, page 469. (link)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 588

Issachar

Issachar (Jacob's son). A corporeal belief; the offspring of error; envy; hatred; selfishness; self-will; lust.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

J

Jacob

Jacob. A corporeal mortal embracing duplicity, repentance, sensualism. Inspiration; the revelation of Science, in which the so-called material senses yield to the spiritual sense of Life and Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Japhet

Japhet (Noah's son). A type of spiritual peace, flowing from the understanding that God is the divine Principle of all existence, and that man is His idea, the child of His care.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Jerusalem

Jerusalem. Mortal belief and knowledge obtained from the five corporeal senses; the pride of power and the power of pride; sensuality; envy; oppression; tyranny. Home, heaven.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Jesus

Jesus. The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Jesus was unselfish.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 51 : 28 (to .)

From early boyhood he was about his "Father's business."

The "man of sorrows" best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" and "These signs shall follow them that believe."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 52 : 1-2 (to 1st .), 19-28

Through the magnitude of his human life, he demonstrated the divine Life. Out of the amplitude of his pure affection, he defined Love. With the affluence of Truth, he vanquished error. The world acknowledged not his righteousness, seeing it not; but earth received the harmony his glorified example introduced.

Who is ready to follow his teaching and example? All must sooner or later plant themselves in Christ, the true idea of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 54

Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. His mission was both individual and collective. He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals, — to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 18

Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing. He taught his followers that his religion had a divine Principle, which would cast out error and heal both the sick and the sinning. He claimed no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 136

Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God — the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 332

The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life, and harmony. Hence the human Jesus had a resort to his higher self and relation to the Father, and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being, — holding the mortal as unreal, and the divine as real. It was this retreat from material to spiritual selfhood which recuperated him for triumph over sin, sickness, and death.

from No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 36

What has this hillside priest, this seaside teacher, done for the human race? Ask, rather, what has he not done. His holy humility, unworldliness, and self-abandonment wrought infinite results. The method of his religion was not too simple to be sublime, nor was his power so exalted as to be unavailable for the needs of suffering mortals, whose wounds he healed by Truth and Love.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 91 to 92

This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17 : 3

Joseph

Joseph. A corporeal mortal; a higher sense of Truth rebuking mortal belief, or error, and showing the immortality and supremacy of Truth; pure affection blessing its enemies.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Joy

I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Luke 15 : 10, in the King James Bible

1 — WATCH lest you attempt to do anything in Christian Science from any standpoint except that of joy. Our Leader’s hymn admonishes us to follow and rejoice all the rugged way. Work in Christian Science that is done joyously, has a power and effectiveness that work done as a solemn duty never has. If you seem to have lost your joy obey Mrs. Eddy’s command, “If your joy is lost, handle animal magnetism.” If this is properly done, your joy will return, and you can again take up your work. Our Leader once wrote to George Kinter, “Gladness and rejoicing are divine in essence, and their reward is manifold in its effect.”

If you should fall through the ice, you would become further imprisoned if you attempted to swim at once for the shore. The first thing to do is to rise. Then you can clamber onto the surface of the ice and walk to shore. This rising to the surface symbolizes the lightening of thought necessary, in preparation for all effort in Christian Science. “The hope of the righteous shall be gladness.” Prov. 10:28.

Watching Point 1, from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Joy, from the 1939 Association Address by Mildred LeBlond

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 20 : 24, in the King James Bible

Judah

Judah. A corporeal material belief progressing and disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God and man appearing.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 589

Judas

²⁰ Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
²¹ And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
²² And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
²³ And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
²⁴ The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
²⁵ Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.

Matthew 26 : 20-25

⁴⁵... behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
⁴⁶ Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
⁴⁷ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
⁴⁸ Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
⁴⁹ And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
⁵⁰ And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.

Matthew 26 : 45 (behold)-50

³ Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
⁴ Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
⁵ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
⁸ Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
⁹ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
¹⁰ And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

Matthew 27 : 3-10

Judas conspired against Jesus. The world's ingratitude and hatred towards that just man effected his betrayal. The traitor's price was thirty pieces of silver and the smiles of the Pharisees. He chose his time, when the people were in doubt concerning Jesus' teachings.

A period was approaching which would reveal the infinite distance between Judas and his Master. Judas Iscariot knew this. He knew that the great goodness of that Master placed a gulf between Jesus and his betrayer, and this spiritual distance inflamed Judas' envy. The greed for gold strengthened his ingratitude, and for a time quieted his remorse. He knew that the world generally loves a lie better than Truth; and so he plotted the betrayal of Jesus in order to raise himself in popular estimation. His dark plot fell to the ground, and the traitor fell with it.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 47 : 10 (Judas)-26

Gilbert Carpenter on the 'Judas Thought'

Judgment

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Matthew 7 : 2

K

Kingdom of God

²⁰ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
²¹ Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Luke 17 : 20, 21

When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;" that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 476

As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, sin to holiness, and God's kingdom comes "in earth, as it is in heaven."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 339

Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away. When you read this, remember Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you." This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 573 to 574

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven. The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5 : 3

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5 : 10

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5 : 20

⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
⁷ And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Matthew 10 : 6-8

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16 : 19

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18 : 4

⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
⁴⁶ Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Matthew 13 : 45, 46

Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 208

Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 248

Knowledge

Knowledge. Evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses; mortality; beliefs and opinions; human theories, doctrines, hypotheses; that which is not divine and is the origin of sin, sickness, and death; the opposite of spiritual Truth and understanding.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

L

Lamb of God

Lamb of God. The spiritual idea of Love; self-immolation; innocence and purity; sacrifice.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

Law

God’s law is in three words, “I am All;” and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law. … It is Truth’s knowledge of its own infinitude which forbids the genuine existence of even a claim to error. This knowledge is light wherein there is no darkness, — not light holding darkness within itself. The consciousness of light is like the eternal law of God, revealing Him and nothing else.

from No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 30

There is but one law, the law of God. There can be but one court, the court of heaven. It is a court of absolute justice, whose decision is final. Human concepts and opinions have been formulated into so-called laws and human courts have administered these laws, but God is the final arbiter, and supreme Judge.

Law means orderly and continuous activity. Therefore, the active energy emanating from Mind is law, and is eternally established. Mind, or active infinite intelligence, is of necessity law. All true active thought, motive, and purpose are in divine Mind.

from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"),
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 77

The supposed laws which result in weariness and disease are not His laws, for the legitimate and only possible action of Truth is the production of harmony. Laws of nature are laws of Spirit; but mortals commonly recognize as law that which hides the power of Spirit. Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty. Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength. Submission to error superinduces loss of power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 183

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
¹¹ Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Psalm 19 : 7-11

¹ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
² For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
³ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
⁴ So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
⁵ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
²¹ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
²² So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
²³ Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Proverbs 3 : 1-5, 21-23

Leaven

A little leaven leavens the whole lump. A little understanding of Christian Science proves the truth of all that I say of it. Because you cannot walk on the water and raise the dead, you have no right to question the great might of divine Science in these directions. Be thankful that Jesus, who was the true demonstrator of Science, did these things, and left his example for us. In Science we can use only what we understand. We must prove our faith by demonstration.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 329

Leprosy

¹² And 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.
¹³ And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Luke 5 : 12, 13

Lesson Sermon

Allow me now to turn your attention to the Lesson-Sermon, which tells us of still another conflict, the Christian warfare, in which we all have enlisted under the captain of our salvation, our great peacemaker, Christ Jesus. Mrs. Eddy has translated his orders to us in unmistakable language, showing us how to fight the good fight of faith, how to overcome our adversary, the evil one, how to gain the victory, how to establish peace.

from "Memorial Services" as found in the June 1, 1907 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, originally from the Concord (N. H.) Daily Patriot (discusses during the Sunday, May 25th, 2025 Roundtable)

Letter

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
⁶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

II Corinthians 3 : 5, 6

The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science, — pulseless, cold, inanimate.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 113

Levi

Levi (Jacob's son). A corporeal and sensual belief; mortal man; denial of the fulness of God's creation; ecclesiastical despotism.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

Liberty

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
¹³ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Galatians 5 : 1, 13

¹ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
⁵ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
¹⁶ As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

I Peter 2 : 1, 5, 16

Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner is the Soul-inspired motto, "Slavery is abolished." The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love. What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 224 : 28 (Truth)-4

Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and cries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sickness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out the way. Citizens of the world, accept the “glorious liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This is your divine right.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 227 : 21-26

The law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware of man's inalienable rights and in subjection to hopeless slavery, because some public teachers permit an ignorance of divine power, — an ignorance that is the foundation of continued bondage and of human suffering.

Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legitimate state of man. God made man free. Paul said, "I was free born." All men should be free. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 227 : 7-20

Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is free “to enter into the holiest,” — the realm of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 481 : 2-6

A coroner’s inquest, a board of health, or class legislation is less than the Constitution of the United States, and infinitely less than God’s benign government, which is “no respecter of persons.” Truth crushed to earth springs spontaneously upward, and whispers to the breeze man’s inalienable birthright — Liberty. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” God is everywhere. No crown nor sceptre nor rulers rampant can quench the vital heritage of freedom — man’s right to adopt a religion, to employ a physician, to live or to die according to the dictates of his own rational conscience and enlightened understanding.

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 128 : 6-17

Justice and truth make man free, injustice and error enslave him. Mental Science alone grasps the standard of liberty, and battles for man’s whole rights, divine as well as human.

from The People’s Idea of God, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10 : 13-17

To my sense, the most imminent dangers confronting the coming century are: the robbing of people of life and liberty under the warrant of the Scriptures; the claims of politics and of human power, industrial slavery, and insufficient freedom of honest competition; and ritual, creed, and trusts in place of the Golden Rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 266 : 3-9

Lie

Though they may teach from my books, and use my words, still if it is done with the wrong thought back of it, the truth of God becomes a lie in their mouth.

from Fragments gathered from Unpublished Items ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, page 169

Life

Life. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 468. (link)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 200

We apprehend Life in divine Science only as we live above corporeal sense and correct it. Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, — our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 167

Life demonstrates Life. The immortality of Soul makes man immortal. If God, who is Life, were parted for a moment from His reflection, man, during that moment there would be no divinity reflected. The Ego would be unexpressed, and the Father would be childless, — no Father.

If Life or Soul and its representative, man, unite for a period and then are separated as by a law of divorce to be brought together again at some uncertain future time and in a manner unknown, — and this is the general religious opinion of mankind, — we are left without a rational proof of immortality. But man cannot be separated for an instant from God, if man reflects God. Thus Science proves man's existence to be intact.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 306

Light

¹ Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
² For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
³ And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
⁴ Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
⁵ Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

Isaiah 60 : 1-5

Likeness

God fashions all things, after His own likeness. Life is reflected in existence, Truth in truthfulness, God in goodness, which impart their own peace and permanence. Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and light. The grass beneath our feet silently exclaims, "The meek shall inherit the earth." The modest arbutus sends her sweet breath to heaven. The great rock gives shadow and shelter. The sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, brightens the flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth. Man, made in His likeness, possesses and reflects God's dominion over all the earth. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 516

Little book

¹ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
² And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
³ And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
⁴ And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
⁵ And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
⁶ And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
⁷ But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
⁸ And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
⁹ And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
¹⁰ And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
¹¹ And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

Revelation 10 : 1-11, in the King James Bible

Loosed

M.A.M. first bound, and then loosed (loosened) again, goes out with redoubled energy, knowing that its destruction is near at hand, and encompasses the camp of the saints – those who are demonstrating the Truth, and who dwell in the City of Divine Science. TThe true meaning of Satan ‘loosed again,’ is found in the definition of the verb ‘to loosen’ — to be less tight, firm, or compact (Webster). But the saints meet each Gog and Magog, or statement of M.A.M., with the denial of error, and the declaration of Love, which is ‘the fire that comes down from God out of heaven.’ It is only as Satan is bound and then loosed (loosened), and each saint is compelled to meet every statement of the error, that the army of evil is devoured, and the devil that deceived, is ‘cast into the lake of fire and brimstone’. It is in the constant handling of M.A.M. that the dragon, and the serpent, and the devil or Satan, is tormented forever and forever. The angel of the devil is the false human concept, or unit of personality, that is made up of the ‘self of sense,’ and the ‘sense of self’, and they are as ‘numerous as the sands of the sea’; but they can prevail not against the saints whose identities are forever in Mind, or God.

from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"),
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 138

Lord God

Lord God. Jehovah. This double term is not used in the first chapter of Genesis, the record of spiritual creation. It is introduced in the second and following chapters, when the spiritual sense of God and of infinity is disappearing from the recorder's thought, — when the true scientific statements of the Scriptures become clouded through a physical sense of God as finite and corporeal. From this follow idolatry and mythology, — belief in many gods, or material intelligences, as the opposite of the one Spirit, or intelligence, named Elohim, or God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 590 to 591

Lord

Lord. In the Hebrew, this term is sometimes employed as a title, which has the inferior sense of master, or ruler. In the Greek, the word kurios almost always has this lower sense, unless specially coupled with the name God. Its higher signification is Supreme Ruler.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 590

¹ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
² Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
³ The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
⁵ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

Psalm 114 : 1-7

The Lord's Prayer with spiritual interpretation

Our Father which art in heaven,
 Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,

Hallowed be Thy name.
 Adorable One.

Thy kingdom come.
 Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
 Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.

Give us this day our daily bread;
 Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
 And Love is reflected in love;

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
 And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
 For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 16 to 17

Love

The design of Love is to reform the sinner.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 35

Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 266

Divine Love corrects and governs man.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 57

Love is not hasty to deliver us from temptation, for Love means that we shall be tried and purified.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 22

I have only to trust in God, for Love is destroying disease. I can’t do it. Truth and Love are at work and error and hate can’t stand before them. They are destroying sin, disease and death. I know this and my faith in it cannot fail and I cannot fear.

from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 59

Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must "have her perfect work."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 454

God gives the lesser idea of Himself for a link to the greater, and in return, the higher always protects the lower. The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good. Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 518

Lovingkindness

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Jeremiah 31 : 3

¹ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
² Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
³ For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
⁴ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
⁶ Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
⁹ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalm 51 : 1-12

Loyalty

The present is ours; the future, big with events. Every man and woman should be to-day a law to himself, herself, — a law of loyalty to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 12

M

Malpractice

Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 442

Malpractice, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

No Malpractice, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Malpractice, from 1937 College by Bicknell Young

Chapter Sixty-nine, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

For Transgressors

There is no fear or effects from fear — no reversal. Malpractice with its supposed malpractitioners cannot send any thoughts here. There is but one Mind and that is good. No evil spirits, no poison, no theosophy can come, no evil suggestions, no suffering coming here or sent here because of the (law) court. Affirm without limitation the truth that perfect health is here, etc.

Ps. 91. No reversal. You cannot make laws. Divine Love governs all. You are governed by divine Love, you feel no envy, no revenge, no hatred. All you feel is Love, peace, and Love fills your thoughts and makes you happy and satisfied.

One Mind, Truth controls all. You are set free in the love of God, and you cannot make nor believe a lie. Truth declared is not reversed. It does appear and is manifest. No return of old beliefs. No M.A.M. to work through R.C., hypnotism, mesmerism, or theosophy, demonology, or old theology to hinder the work of the Cause of Christian Science. Divine Mind governs every hour and evil is powerless.

Malpractitioners cannot make laws. The lies they whisper hurt no one but themselves. Lies, hatred, revenge have no power but to destroy themselves every time they try to hurt anybody else. This is God’s law, it cannot be broken and it cannot make anybody suffer because we tell you this. You cannot help yourself and nobody can help you till you stop trying to hurt others. You can never prosper while you try to hurt others or make your students believe anybody is harming you, for nobody is doing this. Now you do see this and love God and man. Then turn to the right side in your consciousness and know this truth:

God alone reigns and all is Love.

A sinning thought should not be comforted but aroused, just as with anyone who is suffering for sin….Now retrace your mental practice, if it were a soothing treatment, and mentally arouse the patient.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 80

Man

Man. The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591

Man is the family name for all ideas, — the sons and daughters of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 515

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.

God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 258

Man has no underived power. That selfhood is false which opposes itself to God, claims another father, and denies spiritual sonship; but as many as receive the knowledge of God in Science must reflect, in some degree, the power of Him who gave and giveth man dominion over all the earth.

From “Is There No Death?” in Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy, page 37

Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness,

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 475

Keep distinctly in thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man; that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit, outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life and sensation. It breaks the dream of disease to understand that sickness is formed by the human mind, not by matter nor by the divine Mind.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 396

In divine Science, man is the true image of God. The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying. The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstration.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 259

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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 200

Man is not made to till the soil.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 517 to 518

Man, in Science, is as perfect and immortal now, as when “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”

from Unity of Good, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 42

Errors About Man, from 1937 College by Bicknell Young, pages 83-85

The Term MAN by Bicknell Young

Man, God’s Image by Bicknell Young

Man and Woman, from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 110

The discovery and founding of Christian Science has cost more than thirty years of unremitting toil and unrest; but, comparing those with the joy of knowing that the sinner and the sick are helped thereby, that time and eternity bear witness to this gift of God to the race, I am the debtor.

from Miscellaneous Writing
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 382

I even hope that those who are kind enough to speak well of me may do so honestly and not too earnestly, and this seldom, until mankind learn more of my meaning and can speak justly of my living.

from Miscellaneous Writing
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 264

For the world to understand me in my true light, and life, would do more for our Cause than aught else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide these two things from the world than to win any other points.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 112

Mary Baker Eddy on "Authorized Literature"

CARD, an insert added to the July 1891 edition of the Christian Science Journal, by Mary Baker Eddy

Material law

God never ordained a material law to annul the spiritual law. If there were such a material law, it would oppose the supremacy of Spirit, God, and impugn the wisdom of the creator. 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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 273 : 21-28

Material-senses

Divine metaphysics explains away matter. Spirit is the only substance and consciousness recognized by divine Science. The material senses oppose this, but there are no material senses, for matter has no mind.

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. The admission that there can be material substance requires another admission, — namely, that Spirit is not infinite and that matter is self-creative, self-existent, and eternal. From this it would follow that there are two eternal causes, warring forever with each other; and yet we say that Spirit is supreme and all-presence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 278 : 3-7, 12-22

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. All other systems — systems based wholly or partly on knowledge gained through the material senses — are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 269 : 21-28

Matter

Matter. Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life in non-intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death, and death in life; sensation in the sensationless; mind originating in matter; the opposite of Truth; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belief.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591

The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, — it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 277 : 24 (The realm)-32

…matter can make no conditions for man.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 120 : 11 (matter)-12

Matter is the primitive belief of mortal mind, because this so-called mind has no cognizance of Spirit. To mortal mind, matter is substantial, and evil is real. The so-called senses of mortals are material. Hence the so-called life of mortals is dependent on matter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 292 : 13-18

Divine metaphysics explains away matter. Spirit is the only substance and consciousness recognized by divine Science. The material senses oppose this, but there are no material senses, for matter has no mind.

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. The admission that there can be material substance requires another admission, — namely, that Spirit is not infinite and that matter is self-creative, self-existent, and eternal. From this it would follow that there are two eternal causes, warring forever with each other; and yet we say that Spirit is supreme and all-presence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 278 : 3-7, 12-22

Matter is neither created by Mind nor for the manifestation and support of Mind.

Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor co-operate, and one can no more create the other than Truth can create error, or vice versa.

Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic belief that there is mind in matter; but this belief contradicts alike revelation and right reasoning. 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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 279 : 9-10, 13-15, 22-29

In proportion as matter loses to human sense all entity as man, in that proportion does man become its master. He enters into a diviner sense of the facts, and comprehends the theology of Jesus as demonstrated in healing the sick, raising the dead, and walking over the wave. All these deeds manifested Jesus' control over the belief that matter is substance, that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any form of existence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 369

Matter cannot change the eternal fact that man exists because God exists. Nothing is new to the infinite Mind.

In Science, Mind neither produces matter nor does matter produce mind. No mortal mind has the might or right or wisdom to create or to destroy. All is under the control of the one Mind, even God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 544

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither Substance, Intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the garment of Jesus’ idea of Spirit.

Questions Answered by Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy as found in the June 1886 Christian Science Journal

Not matter, but Mind satisfieth.

Quote on the Mary Baker Eddy's Souvenir Spoon

Medicine

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17 : 22

Meek

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5 : 5

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalm 37 : 11

Meekly our Master met the mockery of his unrecognized grandeur. Such indignities as he received, his followers will endure until Christianity's last triumph. He won eternal honors. He overcame the world, the flesh, and all error, thus proving their nothingness. He wrought a full salvation from sin, sickness, and death. We need "Christ, and him crucified." We must have trials and self-denials, as well as joys and victories, until all error is destroyed.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 39

...the original meaning of the word is “liquid.” Thus the ability of all liquids to conform naturally and perfectly to the form they are poured into. The clay in the potter’s hands takes the form he moulds it into.

from Meekness and Restoration by Florence Roberts

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds. To keep the commandments of our Master and follow his example, is our proper debt to him and the only worthy evidence of our gratitude for all that he has done.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4

Memory

If delusion says, "I have lost my memory," contradict it. No faculty of Mind is lost. In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 407

Mercy

7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalm 85 : 7-13

⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
⁹ He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Psalm 103 : 8, 9

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Hebrews 8 : 12

Methodical

Mrs. Eddy was always a 'minute woman.' She said that Christian Scientists, having Principle as their measuring rods, should be the most methodical people in the world in the ordering of their personal lives, their homes, and their business affairs.

from Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, by Irving Tomlinson, page 165

Experience has taught me that the rules of Christian Science can be far more thoroughly and readily acquired by regularly settled and systematic workers, than by unsettled and spasmodic efforts. Genuine Christian Scientists are, or should be, the most systematic and law-abiding people on earth, because their religion demands implicit adherence to fixed rules, in the orderly demonstration thereof. Let some of these rules be here stated.

First: Christian Scientists are to “heal the sick” as the Master commanded.

In so doing they must follow the divine order as prescribed by Jesus, — never, in any way, to trespass upon the rights of their neighbors, but to obey the celestial injunction, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

In this orderly, scientific dispensation healers become a law unto themselves. They feel their own burdens less, and can therefore bear the weight of others’ burdens, since it is only through the lens of their unselfishness that the sunshine of Truth beams with such efficacy as to dissolve error.

It is already understood that Christian Scientists will not receive a patient who is under the care of a regular physician, until he has done with the case and different aid is sought. The same courtesy should be observed in the professional intercourse of Christian Science healers with one another.“

Second: Another command of the Christ, his prime command, was that his followers should “raise the dead.” He lifted his own body from the sepulchre. In him, Truth called the physical man from the tomb to health, and the so-called dead forthwith emerged into a higher manifestation of Life.

The spiritual significance of this command, “Raise the dead,” most concerns mankind. It implies such an elevation of the understanding as will enable thought to apprehend the living beauty of Love, its practicality, its divine energies, its health-giving and life-bestowing qualities, — yea, its power to demonstrate immortality. This end Jesus achieved, both by example and precept.

Third: This leads inevitably to a consideration of another part of Christian Science work, — a part which concerns us intimately, — preaching the gospel.

This evangelistic duty should not be so warped as to signify that we must or may go, uninvited, to work in other vineyards than our own. One would, or should, blush to enter unasked another’s pulpit, and preach without the consent of the stated occupant of that pulpit. The Lord’s command means this, that we should adopt the spirit of the Saviour’s ministry, and abide in such a spiritual attitude as will draw men unto us. Itinerancy should not be allowed to clip the wings of divine Science. Mind demonstrates omnipresence and omnipotence, but Mind revolves on a spiritual axis, and its power is displayed and its presence felt in eternal stillness and immovable Love. The divine potency of this spiritual mode of Mind, and the hindrance opposed to it by material motion, is proven beyond a doubt in the practice of Mind-healing.

from Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 87 to 89

Let all things be done decently and in order.

I Corinthians 14 : 40

Mrs. Eddy believed that if one’s thought was not orderly and exact in the things that make up present consciousness, that same thought would not be exact to give a treatment or use an exact science.

from Addresses, by Martha Wilcox, page 14

Mind

Mind. The only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591

All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 468

⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
¹³ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God.

Philippians 2 : 5-15

And be 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.

Romans 12 : 2

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

II Timothy 1 : 7

The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 295

The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease. Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it "every whit whole."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 371

The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight line. The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact.

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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 282

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
²² That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Ephesians 4 : 17, 18, 22, 23

Miracle

Miracle. That which is divinely natural, but must be learned humanly; a phenomenon of Science.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591

A miracle fulfils God's law, but does not violate that law. This fact at present seems more mysterious than the miracle itself. The Psalmist sang: "What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob." The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God's unchangeable law. Spiritual evolution alone is worthy of the exercise of divine power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 134

Miracles are impossible in Science, and here Science takes issue with popular religions. The scientific manifestation of power is from the divine nature and is not supernatural, since Science is an explication of nature. The belief that the universe, including man, is governed in general by material laws, but that occasionally Spirit sets aside these laws, — this belief belittles omnipotent wisdom, and gives to matter the precedence over Spirit.

It is contrary to Christian Science to suppose that life is either material or organically spiritual. Between Christian Science and all forms of superstition a great gulf is fixed, as impassable as that between Dives and Lazarus.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 83

Money

Finance, from Collected Writings by Bicknell Young

Money, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Money Thought, from Essays and Other Footprints, (the "Red Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy

Business, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

I Timothy 6 : 10, in the King James Bible

Moral

Relating to the practice, manners or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, and with reference to right and wrong. Conformed to rules of right, or to the divine law respecting social duties; virtuous; just; Reasoning or instructing with regard to vice and virtue.

from the 1828 Webster's Dictionary

The divine Principle of healing is proved in the personal experience of any sincere seeker of Truth. Its purpose is good, and its practice is safer and more potent than that of any other sanitary method. The unbiased Christian thought is soonest touched by Truth, and convinced of it. Only those quarrel with her method who do not understand her meaning, or discerning the truth, come not to the light lest their works be reproved. No intellectual proficiency is requisite in the learner, but sound morals are most desirable.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page x

The earthly price of spirituality in a material age and the great moral distance between Christianity and sensualism preclude Christian Science from finding favor with the worldly-minded.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 36

There is moral freedom in Soul.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 58

Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and goodness cannot injure others, and must do them good.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 95

Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 96

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 harmonious 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.

As human thought changes from one stage to another of conscious pain and painlessness, sorrow and joy, — from fear to hope and from faith to understanding, — the visible manifestation will at last be man governed 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.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 125

Clara Choate went to Mrs. Eddy one night, asking her to come and help her four-year-old, who was ill. She had tried to heal him herself, but with no results. Mrs. Eddy came and prayed at his bedside for a few minutes. Suddenly the little boy turned and began kicking the wall next to his bed as hard as he could. Mrs. Eddy sat quietly without saying a word. He continued until he was tired; then he turned in bed again and fell asleep healed. Later, Mrs. Choate asked her teacher at a meeting of students how she had treated her son. Mrs. Eddy replied:

The only thought that I had was "Warren Choate, your mother governs here with the Truth."

Mrs. Choate, you don't govern that child morally when he is well, so you can't heal him when he is ill. You have done all that could be done except that you had neglected to handle the moral question, and this must be handled in every case whether it be an adult or a small child. You never make him mind, and if you give him a command you don't insist upon his carrying it out.

The student who related this account went on to comment, "This lesson was brought home forcibly to us in the Association because we would never have considered that the moral question should be handled in the case of a child."

from Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, by von Fettweis and Warneck, page 131

Moral idiocy

As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind. It is the false belief that mind is in matter, and is both evil and good; that evil is as real as good and more powerful. This belief has not one quality of Truth. It is either ignorant or malicious. The malicious form of hypnotism ultimates in moral idiocy.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 103

Moral Idiocy and its Manifestations by Paul R. Smillie

Moral Idiocy

Morning

Morning. Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591

Mortal

A mortal sinner is not God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil, which declares that man begins in dust or as a material embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 475 to 476

The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God's creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 260

Mortals are not like immortals, created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear.

The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 296

By those uninstructed in Christian Science, nothing is really understood of material existence. Mortals are believed to be here without their consent and to be removed as involuntarily, not knowing why nor when. As frightened children look everywhere for the imaginary ghost, so sick humanity sees danger in every direction, and looks for relief in all ways except the right one. Darkness induces fear. The adult, in bondage to his beliefs, no more comprehends his real being than does the child; and the adult must be taken out of his darkness, before he can get rid of the illusive sufferings which throng the gloaming. The way in divine Science is the only way out of this condition.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 371

Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality may be put off.

This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 265

Soul and matter are at variance from the very necessity of their opposite natures. Mortals are unacquainted with the reality of existence, because matter and mortality do not reflect the facts of Spirit.

With its divine proof, Science reverses the evidence of material sense. Every quality and condition of mortality is lost, swallowed up in immortality. Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man in origin, in existence, and in his relation to God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 215 : 7-10, 22-26

Mortal man

Mortal man must be shaken out of his complacence. Otherwise he will never make an effort sufficient to throw off mortality, or to accomplish anything constructive along spiritual lines.

From Watching Point 107 in 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter

Mortal mind

Mortal Mind. Nothing claiming to be something, for Mind is immortal; mythology; error creating other errors; a suppositional material sense, alias the belief that sensation is in matter, which is sensationless; a belief that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of matter; the opposite of Spirit, and therefore the opposite of God, or good; the belief that life has a beginning and therefore an end; the belief that man is the offspring of mortals; the belief that there can be more than one creator; idolatry; the subjective states of error; material senses; that which neither exists in Science nor can be recognized by the spiritual sense; sin; sickness; death.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 591 to 592

Mortal mind is the acknowledged seat of human motives. It forms material concepts and produces every discordant action of the body. If action proceeds from the divine Mind, action is harmonious. If it comes from erring mortal mind, it is discordant and ends in sin, sickness, death. Those two opposite sources never mingle in fount or stream. The perfect Mind sends forth perfection, for God is Mind. Imperfect mortal mind sends forth its own resemblances, of which the wise man said, "All is vanity."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 239

Take away the mortal mind, and matter has no more sense as a man than it has as a tree. But the spiritual, real man is immortal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 250 : 25-27 (to 2nd .)

The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 295

Mortal Mind and Matter Analyzed — Chapter Twenty-five, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

Understanding the Operation of Mortal Mind — Chapter Thirty-six, from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter

TREATMENT AGAINST MORTAL MIND
 No shadow of mortal mind can touch me, there is nothing to fear. God works in me to will and to do, and I shall perform my work. No cloud can touch me, or my patients. We must not fear for the struggles that come, for they must be met. All that is within me is the spirit of victory. Awake, spirit of Truth; cast off these shackles of mortal fear and distress. Come forth and be manifest in me. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy

Mortal mind has not been kind enough to me to cause me to want to loiter in it.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 235

Moses

Moses. A corporeal mortal; moral courage; a type of moral law and the demonstration thereof; the proof that, without the gospel, — the union of justice and affection, — there is something spiritually lacking, since justice demands penalties under the law.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

Mother

Mother. God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

Mountain

²³ For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
²⁴ Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 591Mark 11 : 23, 24

Multiply

Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply, — to manifest His power. Man is not made to till the soil. His birthright is dominion, not subjection. He is lord of the belief in earth and heaven, — himself subordinate alone to his Maker. This is the Science of being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 517

Muscles

Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its mandate, — by reason of its demand for and supply of power. Not because of muscular exercise, but by reason of the blacksmith's faith in exercise, his arm becomes stronger.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 199

N

Name

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm 8 : 9

Nation

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Psalm 33 : 12

Nature

All nature teaches God's love to man, but man cannot love God supremely and set his whole affections on spiritual things, while loving the material or trusting in it more than in the spiritual.

Working and praying with true motives, your Father will open the way.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 43

Immortal Mind heals what eye hath not seen; but the spiritual capacity to apprehend thought and to heal by the Truth-power, is won only as man is found, not in self-righteousness, but reflecting the divine nature.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 179

Need

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 494

Neighbor

⁴³ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
⁴⁵ That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
⁴⁶ For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 5 : 43-46

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.

Selfishness tips the beam of human existence towards the side of error, not towards Truth. Denial of the oneness of Mind throws our weight into the scale, not of Spirit, God, good, but of matter.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 205

To love one's neighbor as one's self, is a divine idea; but this idea can never be seen, felt, nor understood through the physical senses.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 88

New Commandment

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

John 13 : 34, in the King James Bible

New

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

II Corinthians 5 : 17

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Revelation 21 : 5

New Jerusalem

New Jerusalem. Divine Science; the spiritual facts and harmony of the universe; the kingdom of heaven, or reign of harmony.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
² And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
³ And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
¹⁰ And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
¹¹ Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
²³ And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
²⁴ And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
²⁵ And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 21 : 1-4, 10, 11, 23-27

St. John's corporeal sense of the heavens and earth had vanished, and in place of this false sense was the spiritual sense, the subjective state by which he could see the new heaven and new earth, which involve the spiritual idea and consciousness of reality. This is Scriptural authority for concluding that such a recognition of being is, and has been, possible to men in this present state of existence, — that we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain. This is indeed a foretaste of absolute Christian Science. Take heart, dear sufferer, for this reality of being will surely appear sometime and in some way. There will be no more pain, and all tears will be wiped away. When you read this, remember Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you." This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility.

The Revelator also takes in another view, adapted to console the weary pilgrim, journeying "uphill all the way."

He writes, in Revelation xxi. 9: —

And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

This ministry of Truth, this message from divine Love, carried John away in spirit. It exalted him till he became conscious of the spiritual facts of being and the "New Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of heaven," — the spiritual outpouring of bliss and glory, which he describes as the city which "lieth foursquare."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 573 : 19 (St. John’s)-16

This sacred city, described in the Apocalypse (xxi. 16) as one that "lieth foursquare" and cometh "down from God, out of heaven," represents the light and glory of divine Science. The builder and maker of this New Jerusalem is God, as we read in the book of Hebrews; and it is "a city which hath foundations." The description is metaphoric. Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols. Did not Jesus illustrate the truths he taught by the mustard-seed and the prodigal? Taken in its allegorical sense, the description of the city as foursquare has a profound meaning. The four sides of our city are the Word, Christ, Christianity, and divine Science; "and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there." This city is wholly spiritual, as its four sides indicate.

As the Psalmist saith, "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King." It is indeed a city of the Spirit, fair, royal, and square. Northward, its gates open to the North Star, the Word, the polar magnet of Revelation; eastward, to the star seen by the Wisemen of the Orient, who followed it to the manger of Jesus; southward, to the genial tropics, with the Southern Cross in the skies, — the Cross of Calvary, which binds human society into solemn union; westward, to the grand realization of the Golden Shore of Love and the Peaceful Sea of Harmony.

This heavenly city, lighted by the Sun of Righteousness, — this New Jerusalem, this infinite All, which to us seems hidden in the mist of remoteness, — reached St. John's vision while yet he tabernacled with mortals.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 575 : 7-7 next page

What further indication need we of the real man's incorporeality than this, that John saw heaven and earth with "no temple [body] therein"? This kingdom of God "is within you," — is within reach of man's consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 576

This spiritual, holy habitation has no boundary nor limit, but its four cardinal points are: first, the Word of Life, Truth, and Love; second, the Christ, the spiritual idea of God; third, Christianity, which is the outcome of the divine Principle of the Christ-idea in Christian history; fourth, Christian Science, which to-day and forever interprets this great example and the great Exemplar. This city of our God has no need of sun or satellite, for Love is the light of it, and divine Mind is its own interpreter. All who are saved must walk in this light. Mighty potentates and dynasties will lay down their honors within the heavenly city. Its gates open towards light and glory both within and without, for all is good, and nothing can enter that city, which "defileth, ... or maketh a lie."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 577

Night

Night. Darkness; doubt; fear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

Noah

Noah. A corporeal mortal; knowledge of the nothingness of material things and of the immortality of all that is spiritual.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

No

A mental assassin’s treatment of No, which is the thought of a person thinking No to every thought of you, results in a complete nullifying of what you are trying to do. The No treatment is a blanket and results in blankness and thoughtlessness.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 258

Now

We own no past, no future, we possess only now. If the reliable now is carelessly lost in speaking or in acting, it comes not back again. Whatever needs to be done which cannot be done now, God prepares the way for doing; while that which can be done now, but is not, increases our indebtedness to God.

from Now and Then by Mary Baker Eddy

Now Is the Time! by Florence Roberts

O

Obedience

Obeying the divine Principle which you profess to understand and love, demonstrates Truth. Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God, — is obedience; being “faithful over a few things.” If in one instance obedience be lacking, you lose the scientific rule and its reward: namely, to be made “ruler over many things.”

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 116 to 117 (link to whole article)

Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, "doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?"

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 256 : 19 (Who)-23

God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them. Mortal mind would transform the spiritual into the material, and then recover man's original self in order to escape from the mortality of this error. Mortals are not like immortals, created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 295

Overcoming by Obedience, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox

Learn to obey; but learn first what obedience is. When God speaks to you through one of His little ones, and you obey the mandate but retain a desire to follow your own inclinations, that is not obedience. I sometimes advise students not to do certain things which I know it were best not to do, and they comply with my counsel; but, watching them, I discern that this obedience is contrary to their inclination. Then I sometimes withdraw that advice and say: “You may do it if you desire.” But I say this not because it is the best thing to do, but because the student is not willing — therefore, not ready — to obey.

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 8 to 9

Observe

¹⁶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
¹⁷ And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Matthew 28 : 16-20

Occupation

A Christian Scientist does not have to change his occupation in order to get to Heaven. He has to change his belief. Let his occupation go on. We cannot all be practitioners right away in a minute; the world has to have its business men. Things have to be bought and sold and the world cannot get along without these, and it is a wonderful thing that Christian Scientists are doing these things, and the thought of Christian Scientists is helping the whole world. Do all to the glory of God. Do all in the demonstration of good.

from Association Addresses, by Bicknell Young, page 10 of the 1925 Address

Offspring

Keep distinctly in thought that man is the offspring of God, not of man; that man is spiritual, not material; that Soul is Spirit, outside of matter, never in it, never giving the body life and sensation.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 396

In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry. His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence. Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 63

The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings, and its government is divine Science. Man is the offspring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind. Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 264

Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, — of Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I am, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 289

Oil

Oil. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

Ointment

⁶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
⁷ There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
⁸ But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
⁹ For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
¹⁰ When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
¹² For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
¹³ Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

Matthew 26 : 6-13

Old man

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
¹⁹ Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ;
²¹ If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
²² That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴ And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ephesians 4 : 17-24

⁸ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
¹¹ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
¹³ Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Colossians 3 : 8-13

You must get rid of the ‘old man,’ the old woman; you cannot make them better and keep them. You are not getting rid of the old man if you try to make him better. If you should succeed in making him better, he would stay with you. If you patch up the old and say it is good enough, you do not put it off, but keep it. If you try to make the old satisfactory, you are preparing to keep it, not to put it off. We have but one Mind; and to abide in this perfect freedom of individuality is the resurrection, is to have risen above material or lower demands. The resurrective sense is positive; it is ‘yea, yea and nay, nay.’ The resurrective sense does not listen compromisingly to error. It is always about its ‘Father’s business,’ – reflecting Principle. Jesus’ whole life was resurrective; that is, his life was a constant conscious rising spiritually above sin, sickness, death; and his resurrection from the grave was to sense a type of divine Love’s final triumph over the human belief that matter is substance, or has power to impose limitations to Mind or man.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 98

Opinion

In Christian Science mere opinion is valueless. Proof is essential to a due estimate of this subject. Sneers at the application of the word Science to Christianity cannot prevent that from being scientific which is based on divine Principle, demonstrated according to a divine given rule, and subjected to proof. The facts are so absolute and numerous in support of Christian Science, that misrepresentation and denunciation cannot overthrow it. Paul alludes to "doubtful disputations." The hour has struck when proof and demonstration, instead of opinion and dogma, are summoned to the support of Christianity, "making wise the simple."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 341 to 342

When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the testimony of the material senses with divine Science. Let your higher sense of justice destroy the false process of mortal opinions which you name law, and then you will not be confined to a sick-room nor laid upon a bed of suffering in payment of the last farthing, the last penalty demanded by error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 390

Organization

Physical science (so-called) is human knowledge, — a law of mortal mind, a blind belief, a Samson shorn of his strength. When this human belief lacks organizations to support it, its foundations are gone. Having neither moral might, spiritual basis, nor holy Principle of its own, this belief mistakes effect for cause and seeks to find life and intelligence in matter, thus limiting Life and holding fast to discord and death.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 124

Overcome

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16 : 33

At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 571

P

Parables of Christ Jesus

The Wise and the Foolish Builders

Matthew 7:24–27
Luke 6:46–49

New Wine into Old Wineskins

Matthew 9:16–17
Mark 2:21–22
Luke 5:37–39

The Strong Man

Matthew 12:29
Mark 3:27
Luke 11:21–22

The Two Debtors

Luke 7:41–43

The Sower

Matthew 13:3–9
Mark 4:3–9
Luke 8:5–8

The Lamp Under a Bushel

Matthew 5:14–15
Mark 4:21–25
Luke 8:16–18

The Growing Seed

Mark 4:26–29

The Tares

Matthew 13:24–30

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25–37

The Friend at Night

Luke 11:5–8

The Rich Fool

Luke 12:16–21

The Barren Fig Tree

Luke 13:6–9

The Mustard Seed

Matthew 13:31–32
Mark 4:30–32
Luke 13:18–19

The Leaven

Matthew 13:33
Luke 13:20–21

The Hidden Treasure

Matthew 13:44

The Pearl

Matthew 13:45–46

Drawing in the Net

Matthew 13:47–50

Parable of the Householder's Treasure

Matthew 13:51–52

The Wedding Feast

Luke 14:7–14

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28–33

The Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:10–14
Luke 15:4–6

The Unforgiving Servant

Matthew 18:23–35

The Lost Coin

Luke 15:8–9

The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11–32

The Unjust Steward

Luke 16:1–13

The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19–31

The Master and Servant

Luke 17:7–10

The Unjust Judge

Luke 18:1–8

The Pharisee and the Publican

Luke 18:9–14

The Workers in the Vineyard

Matthew 20:1–16

The Two Sons

Matthew 21:28–32

The Wicked Husbandmen

Matthew 21:33–41
Mark 12:1–9
Luke 20:9–16

The Great Banquet

Matthew 22:1–14
Luke 14:15–24

The Budding Fig Tree

Matthew 24:32–35
Mark 13:28–31
Luke 21:29–33

The Faithful Servant

Matthew 24:42–51
Mark 13:34–37
Luke 12:35–48

The Ten Virgins

Matthew 25:1–13

The Talents or Minas

Matthew 25:14–30
Luke 19:12–27

The Sheep and the Goats

Matthew 25:31–46

Pardon

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 55 : 7

Divine Love corrects and governs man. Men may pardon, but this divine Principle alone reforms the sinner. God is not separate from the wisdom He bestows. The talents He gives we must improve. Calling on Him to forgive our work badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Mere legal pardon (and there is no other, for divine Principle never pardons our sins or mistakes till they are corrected) leaves the offender free to repeat the offence, if indeed, he has not already suffered sufficiently from vice to make him turn from it with loathing. Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but wipes it out in the most effectual manner. Jesus suffered for our sins, not to annul the divine sentence for an individual's sin, but because sin brings inevitable suffering.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 11

Does erudite theology regard the crucifixion of Jesus chiefly as providing a ready pardon for all sinners who ask for it and are willing to be forgiven?

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 24

Passover

The Passover, which Jesus ate with his disciples in the month Nisan on the night before his crucifixion, was a mournful occasion, a sad supper taken at the close of day, in the twilight of a glorious career with shadows fast falling around; and this supper closed forever Jesus' ritualism or concessions to matter.

His followers, sorrowful and silent, anticipating the hour of their Master's betrayal, partook of the heavenly manna, which of old had fed in the wilderness the persecuted followers of Truth. Their bread indeed came down from heaven. It was the great truth of spiritual being, healing the sick and casting out error. Their Master had explained it all before, and now this bread was feeding and sustaining them.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 32

Past

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Ecclesiastes 3 : 15, in the King James Bible

We must detach thought from the dead past and use the opportunity of the present hour.

Catherine Young

Patience

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4

Patience is symbolized by the tireless worm, creeping over lofty summits, persevering in its intent.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 515

We reach the Science of Christianity through demonstration of the divine nature; but in this wicked world goodness will "be evil spoken of," and patience must bring experience.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4

Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must "have her perfect work."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 454

Peace

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6 : 24-26

And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not:

Judges 6 : 23 (to :)

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jeremiah 29 : 11

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Mark 4 : 39

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14 : 27

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4 : 7

Perfect

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 5 : 48

When man demonstrates Christian Science absolutely, he will be perfect. He can neither sin, suffer, be subject to matter, nor disobey the law of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 372

The divine demand, "Be ye therefore perfect," is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 253

Declare continually your own perfection and freedom, and let the true and divine destroy the mesmerism that argues that you are sad and unhappy. This idea is your Saviour.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 226

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. God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won. To stop eating, drinking, or being clothed materially before the spiritual facts of existence are gained step by step, is not legitimate. When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path. Imperfect mortals grasp the ultimate of spiritual perfection slowly; but to begin aright and to continue the strife of demonstrating the great problem of being, is doing much.

During the sensual ages, absolute Christian Science may not be achieved prior to the change called death, for we have not the power to demonstrate what we do not understand. But the human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 254

Perfect Love

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

I John 4:18

Perfect Models

We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 248

Persecution

Remember, thou Christian martyr, it is enough if thou art found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master's feet! To suppose that persecution for righteousness' sake belongs to the past, and that Christianity to-day is at peace with the world because it is honored by sects and societies, is to mistake the very nature of religion. Error repeats itself. The trials encountered by prophet, disciple, and apostle, "of whom the world was not worthy," await, in some form, every pioneer of truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 28

Persecution represents a quality of human thought that Truth can take advantage of, as in the case of St. Paul. He persecuted Christians up to the point of killing them; but when Truth reversed this erroneous action, he became as zealous in behalf of Christianity, as he had been opposed to it before.

from Watching Point 130 in 500 Watching Points,
by Gilbert Carpenter

Conflict and persecution are the truest signs that can be given of the greatness of a cause or of an individual, provided this warfare is honest and a world-imposed struggle. Such conflict never ends till unconquerable right is begun anew, and hath gained fresh energy and final victory.

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 10

Personality

from Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy, page 73-74

What, then, is the material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man's counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death. The unreality of the claim that a mortal is the true image of God is illustrated by the opposite natures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 285

Person

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Acts 10 : 34

Pests

MICROBES; GERMS; BACILLI; RATS; INSECTS;

PESTS: Declare the usefulness of all God’s created ideas, and further declare that none of these ideas desire to harm or destroy your house, goods, or flesh. This demesmerizes the insect or the animal. God does not kill. Love does not kill.

Illustration given: Worms on vines. Complaint made, and I declared the usefulness and harmlessness of all God’s ideas. Worms departed; do not know where."

from Teaching and Addresses on Christian Science, by Edward A. Kimball, page 141

Pharisee

Pharisee. Corporeal and sensuous belief; self-righteousness; vanity; hypocrisy.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 592

Physician

A person skilled in the art of healing; one whose profession is to prescribe remedies for diseases.
In a spiritual sense, one that heals moral diseases; as a physician of the soul.

from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

Who is it that understands, unmistakably, a fraction of the actual Science of Mind-healing?

It is he who has fairly proven his knowledge on a Christian, mental, scientific basis; who has made his choice between matter and Mind, and proven the divine Mind to be the only physician. These are self-evident propositions: That man can only be Christianized through Mind; that without Mind the body is without action; that Science is a law of divine Mind. The conclusion follows that the correct Mind-healing is the proper means of Christianity, and is Science.

from <Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 269

That individual is the best healer who asserts himself the least, and thus becomes a transparency for the divine Mind, who is the only physician; the divine Mind is the scientific healer.

from <Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 59

Pilgrim

When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have melted away in the fire of love which came down from heaven. The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom, in the rights of conscience.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 176 : 20-24

If you launch your bark upon the ever-agitated but healthful waters of truth, you will encounter storms. Your good will be evil spoken of. This is the cross. Take it up and bear it, for through it you win and wear the crown. Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 254

Pison

Pison (river). The love of the good and beautiful, and their immortality.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Place

Place by Mary Baker Eddy

Our Place, from the December 1, 1883 Christian Science Journal by Pioneer

Poison

Another point to be noted in these pages is Mrs. Eddy’s frequent use of the names of various poisons, and her insistence that students use a terminology that included such names. On May 26, 1903, she said to her household: “If you take up arsenic, you will hit it in most of the cases in 1903.”

Mrs. Eddy was past mistress of the art of formulating arresting, as well as scientific, terminology that would challenge thought, when perhaps it had become jaded in its use of familiar arguments. A declaration loses its incisiveness through much use; and since the efficacy of Science is in proportion to the extent that thought is mentalized as well as spiritualized, the use of certain material terms in connection with that which is obviously mental, becomes a help in resolving things into thoughts, and so aiding one in reaching that vantage where one admits that, even in the human realm, when one tells the truth about the lie, all is mind. For instance, when one takes material poison and suffers ill effects, mortal mind, not matter, causes such effects.

Thus the lesson Mrs. Eddy was bringing home to her students, concerning mental causation, became more potent when she called upon them to handle certain poisons like arsenic and mercury, when it was evident that she was referring to no possibility of such poisons having been taken or being present materially. Thus she was referring to mesmeric poison, operating exactly as the hypnotist operates, when he causes a burn to appear with a piece office.

On August 9, 1900, she wrote to the Board of Directors, “The one devil, evil, takes thought by drugs as well as siege. The drugs are morphine, opium, hashish, arsenic, rhus-radicant, strychnine. There is a need of awakening before it is too late.”

There is no doubt, but that the effect of all mortal suggestions on the advancing student is like poison in the mental realm. Is it strange, therefore, that Mrs. Eddy should find this out, and instruct students to work accordingly?

from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 16 to 17

Mrs. Eddy once said to Lydia Hall, “Lydia, did you know that the malpractitioner can argue ether, liquor or any other poison and it has the same effect upon the body as if it were taken individually? The mental poisons: Ether, cyanide of potassium, arsenic. Poisons the effect of which is violent pain: Calcium, hellebore and aconite. Poisons that produce stupefaction and paralysis: Opium, hemlock, prussic acid. Poisons that produce violent convulsions and delirium: Strychnine and belladonna.”

from Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy

There is no one to administer arsenical poison. It cannot be administered behind an unsuspected lie of cold-taking, sewer gas, or any other lie to hide it. Arsenic cannot be concealed. Arsenic cannot kill. The law of divinity — declaration is demonstration — overcomes and destroys the law of arsenical poisoning and its effects. There can be no fear of it. Arsenical poison cannot cause mental apathy.

Handle hypnotically administered poison.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 84

Porter

Reverse the case. Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously. When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them. The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 392 to 393

Power

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Romans 13 : 1

There is not sufficient spiritual power in the human thought to heal the sick or the sinful. Through the divine energies alone one must either get out of himself and into God so far that his consciousness is the reflection of the divine, or he must, through argument and the human consciousness of both evil and good, overcome evil.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 352

Practice

I cannot see that a person can exactly get into the practice. The practice in a certain way gets into them. It seems to be that when spiritual understanding is so accurate that a human being is entirely subservient to that understanding, he is in the practice, for it has become his real life...

from Association Addresses, by Bicknell Young, page 7 of the 1925 Address

Praise

¹ O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
² For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.

Psalm 117 : 1, 2

Prayer

³ We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
¹² Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Colossians 1 : 3, 9-13

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love. … Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind.

Thoughts unspoken are not unknown to the divine Mind. Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 1

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ, — Truth and Life. If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is cancelled, and that man is made better merely by praying, prayer is an evil. He grows worse who continues in sin because he fancies himself forgiven.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 5

Prayer cannot change the unalterable Truth, nor can prayer alone give us an understanding of Truth; but prayer, coupled with a fervent habitual desire to know and do the will of God, will bring us into all Truth. Such a desire has little need of audible expression. It is best expressed in thought and in life.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 11

The test of all prayer lies in the answer to these questions: Do we love our neighbor better because of this asking? Do we pursue the old selfishness, satisfied with having prayed for something better, though we give no evidence of the sincerity of our requests by living consistently with our prayer? If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbor unselfishly, and bless them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 9

PRAYER FOR ONESELF — I thank Thee, Father-Mother God, that neither ignorant, fraudulent, nor malicious mortal mind can reach me, affect me mentally, physically, financially, or otherwise; and I know it, for God is the only power; that I am not the victim of aggressive mental suggestion, nor the target of M.A.M. claiming to operate through any channel whatever, but I am the blessed legal child of God, spiritual, immortal, all-harmonious, perfect, happy, healthy, pure, sinless, free, and fearless and diseaseless, and deathless, expressing the substance of all good.

Hold yourself constantly and consciously under God’s eternal law of blessing, of happiness, harmony, health, peace, joy, power, progress, protection, abundance; there is no other law, — only a contrary mortal mind lie which you are awake and alert to, and not under.

from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the "Blue Book"), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 63

Evening Prayer, from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments by Mary Baker Eddy

You pray for God to heal you, but should you expect this when you are acting oppositely to your prayer, trying everything else besides God, and believe that sickness is something He cannot reach, but medicine can? as if drugs were superior to Deity.

The Scripture says, "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss;" and is it not asking amiss to pray for a proof of divine power, that you have little or no faith in because you do not understand God, the Principle of this proof? Prayer will be inaudible, and works more than words, as we understand God better. The Lord's Prayer, understood in its spiritual sense, and given its spiritual version, can never be repeated too often for the benefit of all who, having ears, hear and understand. Metaphysical Science teaches us there is no other Life, substance, and intelligence but God. How much are you demonstrating of this statement? which to you hath the most actual substance, — wealth and fame, or Truth and Love? See to it, O Christian Scientists, ye who have named the name of Christ with a higher meaning, that you abide by your statements, and abound in Love and Truth, for unless you do this you are not demonstrating the Science of metaphysical healing. The immeasurable Life and Love will occupy your affections, come nearer your hearts and into your homes when you touch but the hem of Truth's garment.

from Christian Healing, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 15 to 16

Prejudice

Because divine Science wars with so-called physical science, even as Truth wars with error, the old schools still oppose it. Ignorance, pride, or prejudice closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped. When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 144

Presence

My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Exodus 33 : 14, in the King James Bible

Pressure

Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must renounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 451

Pride

As in Jesus' time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in. The strong cords of scientific demonstration, as twisted and wielded by Jesus, are still needed to purge the temples of their vain traffic in worldly worship and to make them meet dwelling-places for the Most High.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 142

The pride of priesthood is the prince of this world. It has nothing in Christ. Meekness and charity have divine authority.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 270

Human pride is human weakness. Self-knowledge, humility, and love are divine strength.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 358

Pride, envy, or jealousy seems on most occasions to be the master of ceremonies, ruling out primitive Christianity.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 64

Primitive Christianity

To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.

From the 88th edition of the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy

Principle

Principle. See chapter on Recapitulation, page 465. (link)

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God.

God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.

The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea and spiritual individuality, but the material so-called senses have no cognizance of either Principle or its idea. The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 258 : 11-15, 19-24

The Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned by spiritual sense. They are set forth in Jesus' demonstrations, which show — by his healing the sick, casting out evils, and destroying death, "the last enemy that shall be destroyed," — his disregard of matter and its so-called laws.

Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man, the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 210

Probation

Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character and being qualified for a happier state.

from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

Man’s probation after death is the necessity of his immortality; for good dies not and evil is self-destructive, therefore evil must be mortal and self-destroyed. If man should not progress after death, but should remain in error, he would be inevitably self-annihilated. Those upon whom “the second death hath no power” are those who progress here and hereafter out of evil, their mortal element, and into good that is immortal; thus laying off the material beliefs that war against Spirit, and putting on the spiritual elements in divine Science.

from Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 2

Progress

Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 233

Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal. Either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusions regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense and self. The old man with his deeds must be put off. Nothing sensual or sinful is immortal. The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 296

Prophecy

The Science of Christian healing, or the basis and tendency thereof, can be taught, but the Principle of this Science can never be fully understood unless you strive for the spirit of Truth and Love; then quench not the spirit, and despise not prophecy, and let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

from Fragments gathered from Unpublished Items ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, page 61

...real Christian Scientists understand the nature of prophecy. Foreseeing evil is but the ability to discern what already exists in mortal mind, and, if it stops there, is not only valueless but may lead to highly objectionable results, in belief, by serving the purposes of mental malpractice. If we can foresee evil we can, through Christian Science work, prevent evil from happening, and this is exactly what we should do. ... When such a prophecy is presented, something should occur within our own mental vision, where Science is being announced and its Principle is being declared, which will offset that prophecy, and all the beliefs that are said to justify it. ... The more radical this work is, the more certain are we to find the desired results in improved human conditions.

from Association Addresses by Bicknell Young, page 15 of the 1926 Address and page 2 and 4 of the 1921 Address

One morning Mrs. Eddy was examining us in her study, putting various questions to us. Finally she said, "Dear ones, you have answered well. Now that you have been so patient with Mother, what can she do for you?" We were all surprised at the question, but Mr. Strang, I believe it was, spoke up finally, "Mother, will you prophesy for us?" Her face clouded for just an instant, and then she said, "To perform the demonstration of prophecy always includes a temptation of animal magnetism. Now I have always found this rule of help: When you are about to prophesy, always handle animal magnetism and all need for prophecy will be gone. Why? Because faith in God will have taken its place!" But next day she referred to this again, and said, "My dear students, God has told me this much for you: At the end of this century, Christian Science will be the only universally acknowledged religion in the world, because the other religions have no demonstrating basis. But much work remains undone, much self-denial waits for us all before this can be fulfilled. The main thing is for us to handle M. A. M. that would make us fold our hands till this manifests itself. But Truth demands work, work, work! Never forget that!"

From Collectanea of items by and about Mary Baker Eddy, pages 68 to 69 of the Addenda

God selected many students for many positions in Mrs. Eddy's time. When they failed — if they did — it was not God's mistake in selecting them, but it was their failure properly to take advantage of and utilize His knowledge, and thus make themselves worthy. This is the law and the prophets. First, we perceive the truth as a prophecy, and then through the law, we make it permanent. Without prophecy one would never heal a case, and without law one could never make it permanent. The practitioner must perceive the perfection of the patient, although to the senses that perfection is not acknowledged. Then he uses the law to dissipate the illusion so that that which we know, will be acknowledged by the senses as well as by the understanding.

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, by Gilbert Carpenter

If Mrs. Eddy saw that divine Mind was entering universal consciousness at a certain rate, she could prophesy that within a certain length of time divine Mind would come into the ascendency to such a degree, that the entire outward manifestation would change. In making this prophecy she wanted students to feel that this change would come in an appreciable length of time, since, if they felt that it would be millions of years before it would come, they might lag in their present effort.

Mrs. Eddy knew that in this process mortal mind's latent opposition to Truth would come to the surface and be manifested in war, pestilence, famine, want and woe. On page 96 of Science and Health she writes, “Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding.”

Knowledge of what is taking place in the mental realm, a work which according to Mrs. Eddy will be completed in the year 2100, should cause students of today to work harder and to be more determined to keep divine Mind in the ascendency, since they have nothing to fear! The whole world is gradually coming over to the side of Truth, as error is being destroyed. It is true that mortals will gradually lose the manifestation of mortal mind, because mortal mind is losing its control in the mental realm.

It was as if Mrs. Eddy had said, “I can look ahead and see that as divine Mind comes into greater ascendency, the whole world will be saved, since the manifestation of general thought will change to accord with spiritual consciousness. Those who welcome it will be lifted up, while those who resist it will be cast down, as they see that which they prize disappearing, which is only part of a dream.”

from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, by Gilbert Carpenter

Prophet

Prophet. A spiritual seer; disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Prosper

² Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
³ For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
⁴ I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

III John : 2-4

Protective work

Christian Science Protective Work by Bicknell Young

Punish

In common justice, we must admit that God will not punish man for doing what He created man capable of doing, and knew from the outset that man would do. God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil."

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 357

Purification

Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear, — this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony. The purification of sense and self is a proof of progress. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

The way is straight and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God is the only Life. It is a warfare with the flesh, in which we must conquer sin, sickness, and death, either here or hereafter, — certainly before we can reach the goal of Spirit, or life in God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 324

Purse

Purse. Laying up treasures in matter; error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Q

Quicken

¹. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Romans 4:17.
². To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to.
³. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
⁴. To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.
⁵. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalms 119:25.

From the 1828 Webster's Dictionary

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Psalm 119 : 50

He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8 : 11

Quotes on Ishtar and Marduk

Quotes on Ishtar and Marduk

Quotes on Mary Baker Eddy's place

Very gently the Teacher asked if any would translate passages from the Bible into the new tongue for her, and started the first young man who volunteered on Luke 24:1. The second to volunteer was Mrs. Mims and the Teacher called her to the platform to sit by her side saying she wanted all to see her. When she translated the second verse of Luke 24 (“And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.”) Mrs. Mims started by saying, “The stone was the concentrated human belief that life was limited, and they saw that Life had rolled it away and that man was immortal — that he was never born and never dies.” But she did not stop there. She went on to say:

They saw what our beloved mother has through Science and Health enabled us to see. Through the book we have seen all that they saw and more, and we owe it all to her, to this beloved one who is God’s messenger today.

After she had returned to her seat, the Mother said that she had given a beautiful exegesis but “I have one fault to find — it was not necessary to mention me.” The class was deeply moved: one arose, and with eyes full of tears said, “Mother, how could we forget you?” Judge Hanna stood and in heart-rending tones said:

Mother, let me tell you this. Sometimes all the machinations of evil that are conceivable to the human mind seem to be hurled at us, and sometimes for days the world seems black. Every argument that the ingenuity of evil can suggest whispers, trying to hide your mission, and the light returns only when we see you as you are the revelator of this Truth.

The spontaneity of the occasion was beautiful to behold as one after another arose and expressed the importance to him of acknowledging the Mother’s position. A strange wonderful look of humility and self-effacement was on her face along with tears of joy. Then she responded:

My dear children, if you had not seen it, I should have had to teach you this. I could not have avoided telling you that when my students become blinded to me as the one through whom Truth has come in this age, they miss the path. I would have had to tell you.

from The Founding by Doris Grekel, pages 365 to 366

...a true sense of [Mary Baker Eddy] is essential to the understanding of Christian Science; ... [Mrs. Eddy's] recognition of her true status enabled her to withstand the opposition directed against her ... This same recognition is equally vital to our movement...it will establish unity in the Field with regard to the vital question of our Leader’s relation to Scriptural prophecy.

Mrs. Eddy’s Place, from the Christian Science Sentinel, June 5, 1943

[Mrs. Eddy] named her home ‘Pleasant View’; and in writing to Mr. Knapp about it, she said that she had longed for a home by the seaside, but instead God had prepared it on a hillside. She wrote, ‘My house here stands upon a very sightly hill, and the sides remind me of the Galilean slopes where my brother walked, and wept, and prayed.’

from The Destiny of the Mother Church by Bliss Knapp, page 17

Quotes on orientalism

Quotes on orientalism

Quotes on witchcraft

Quotes discussing witchcraft

R

Reality

Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be contradictions of reality.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 335

Reason

For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 492

The dream that matter and error are something must yield to reason and revelation. Then mortals will behold the nothingness of sickness and sin, and sin and sickness will disappear from consciousness. The harmonious will appear real, and the inharmonious unreal.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 347

Reason is the most active human faculty. Let that inform the sentiments and awaken the man's dormant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will be saved, but is saved.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 327 to 328

Reasoning from false premises never presented correct conclusions.

from Science and Health, 1875, by Mary Baker Eddy

Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a chance to manifest itself.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 452

Rebellion

Instead of blind and calm submission to the incipient or advanced stages of disease, rise in rebellion against them. Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and in this way you can prevent the development of pain in the body. No law of God hinders this result. It is error to suffer for aught but your own sins. Christ, or Truth, will destroy all other supposed suffering, and real suffering for your own sins will cease in proportion as the sin ceases.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 391

Rebuttal to the claim that we worship Mary Baker Eddy

If the right thinker and worker’s servitude is duly valued, he is not thereby worshipped. One’s idol is by no means his servant, but his master. And they who love a good work or good workers are themselves workers who appreciate a life, and labor to awake the slumbering capability of man. And what the best thinker and worker has said and done, they are not far from saying and doing. As a rule the Adam-race are not apt to worship the pioneer of spiritual ideas, — but ofttimes to shun him as their tormentor. Only the good man loves the right thinker and worker, and cannot worship him, for that would destroy this man’s goodness.

from Message for 1900, by Mary Baker Eddy

Receptivity

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John 1 : 12, in the King James Bible

Recompense

The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

Ruth 2 : 12, in the King James Bible

Red Dragon

Red Dragon. Error; fear; inflammation; sensuality; subtlety; animal magnetism; envy; revenge.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Red Sea

As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear, — as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy, — so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 566

I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind.

The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs and from the educational systems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 226

Reformer

Religions in general admit that man becomes finally spiritual. If such is man’s ultimate, his predicate tending thereto is correct, and inevitably spiritual. Wherefore, then, smite the reformer who finds the more spiritual way, shortens the distance, discharges burdensome baggage, and increases the speed of mortals’ transit from matter to Spirit — yea, from sin to holiness? This is indeed our sole proof that Christ, Truth, is the way. The old and recurring martyrdom of God’s best witnesses is the infirmity of evil, the modus operandi of human error, carnality, opposition to God and His power in man. Persecuting a reformer is like sentencing a man for communicating with foreign nations in other ways than by walking every step over the land route, and swimming the ocean with a letter in his hand to leave on a foreign shore. Our heavenly Father never destined mortals who seek for a better country to wander on the shores of time disappointed travellers, tossed to and fro by adverse circumstances, inevitably subject to sin, disease, and death. Divine Love waits and pleads to save mankind — and awaits with warrant and welcome, grace and glory, the earth-weary and heavy-laden who find and point the path to heaven.

from Message for 1902, by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 10 to 11

Reform

Reform comes by understanding that there is no abiding pleasure in evil, and also by gaining an affection for good according to Science, which reveals the immortal fact that neither pleasure nor pain, appetite nor passion, can exist in or of matter, while divine Mind can and does destroy the false beliefs of pleasure, pain, or fear and all the sinful appetites of the human mind.

What a pitiful sight is malice, finding pleasure in revenge! Evil is sometimes a man's highest conception of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger. Then he loses pleasure in wickedness, and it becomes his torment. The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way.

Fear of punishment never made man truly honest. Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to proclaim the right.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 327 : 1-13 (to 2nd .), 22-24

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 22

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 327

Psalm 46 : 11 (to 1st .), in the King James Bible

⁹ Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
¹⁰ There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalm 91 : 9-11, in the King James Bible

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
² Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
³ Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
⁴ There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
⁶ The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord,
⁹ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46 : 1-3 (to 1st .), 4-7 (to 1st .), 8 (to 2nd ,), 9, 10, in the King James Bible

Regeneration

...new birth by the grace of God; that change by which the will and natural enmity of man to God and his law are subdued, and a principle of supreme love to God and his law, or holy affections, are implanted in the heart.

from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary

Rejoice

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven:

Matthew 5 : 12 (to : )

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
⁵ Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
⁹ Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Philippians 4 : 4-9

Renew

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Titus 3 : 5, in the King James Bible

And be 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.

Romans 12 : 2, in the King James Bible

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40 : 31, in the King James Bible

⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Colossians 3 : 9, 10, in the King James Bible

Repent

¹⁴ Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
¹⁵ And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

James 4 : 7, 8 (to 1st .), 10, in the King James Bible

If the evil is over in the repentant mortal mind, while its effects still remain on the individual, you can remove this disorder as God's law is fulfilled and reformation cancels the crime. The healthy sinner is the hardened sinner.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 404

Through repentance, spiritual baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material beliefs and false individuality. It is only a question of time when "they shall all know Me [God], from the least of them unto the greatest." Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body.

There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality — to have no other consciousness of life — than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the senses.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 242

Resist

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4 : 7, 8 (to 1st .), 10, in the King James Bible

Resurrection

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Through all the disciples experienced, they became more spiritual and understood better what the Master had taught. His resurrection was also their resurrection. It helped them to raise themselves and others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into the perception of infinite possibilities. They needed this quickening, for soon their dear Master would rise again in the spiritual realm of reality, and ascend far above their apprehension. As the reward for his faithfulness, he would disappear to material sense in that change which has since been called the ascension.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 34

Reuben

Reuben (Jacob's son). Corporeality; sensuality; delusion; mortality; error.

from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 593

Revelation

The book of Revelation