No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of Pantheism, Gnosticism, Spiritualism, or Infidelity, and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science and I find the so-called power, will, or reason of the human mind, to be opposed to the Divine Mind, expressed through Science. Jesus demonstrated the power of Divine Science to heal mortal minds and bodies but this Science was lost sight of, and must again be spiritually discerned and it must be demonstrated (according to Christ's command) with signs following, to as many as shall believe on Him. My book may be distorted by shallow criticism or by inaccurate reporters, and its ideas forced temporarily into wrong channels but its truths will remain for the Christ-inspired to discern and follow. No human tongue or pen has suggested the contents of Science and Health, nor can tongue or pen ever overthrow it.
The inspired volume seemed illumined, reconciling right reason with revelation, and establishing the truths of Christian Science.
In following the leadings of this revelation, the Bible was my only text-book. This vision announced the equipollence of God, consecrated my affections anew, and revealed the glorious possibilities of the petition, Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven. These facts also revealed to me primeval existence, and the radiant realities of good and there was present to me, as never before, the awful unreality of evil. The great facts of omnipotence and omnipresence, of Spirit possessing all power and filling all space, - these facts contradicted forever, to my understanding, the notion that matter can be actual. This sense is, and evolves, a belief in matter that shuts out the true sense of Spirit. When apparently near the confines of mortal existence, standing already within the shadow of the death-valley, I learned certain truths: that all real being is the divine Mind and idea that the Science of Divine Mind demonstrates that Life, Truth, and Love are all-powerful and ever-present that the opposite of Science and Truth, named Error, is the false supposition of a false sense. The Principle thereof is divine and apodictical, governing all and it reveals the grand verity that one erring mind controlling another (through whatever medium) is not Science governed by God, the unerring Mind.
In the year 1868 I discovered metaphysical healing, and named it Christian Science.
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