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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: No and Yes</p> +<p>Author: Mary Baker Eddy</p> +<p>Release Date: August 30, 2005 [eBook #16624]</p> +<p>Updated: June 25, 2017</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND YES***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3>E-text prepared by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (https://www.pgdp.net/)</h3> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a></p> +<h1>NO AND YES</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>MARY BAKER EDDY</h2> + +<h3>AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<p> +Published by The<br /> +Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy<br /> +BOSTON, U.S.A.<br /> +</p> + +<p><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></p><p> +Authorized Literature of<br /> +<span class="smcap">The First Church of Christ, Scientist</span><br /> +in Boston, Massachusetts<br /> +<br /> +1919 +</p> +<p> </p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></p> +<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2> + + +<p>It was the purpose of each edition of this pamphlet to benefit no favored +class, but, according to the apostle's admonition, to "reprove, rebuke, +exhort," and with the power and self-sacrificing spirit of Love to correct +involuntary as well as voluntary error.</p> + +<p>By a modification of the language, the import of this edition is, we trust, +transparent to the hearts of all conscientious laborers in the realm of +Mind-healing. To those who are athirst for the life-giving waters of a true +divinity, it saith tenderly, "Come and drink;" and if you are babes in +Christ, leave the meat and take the unadulterated milk of the Word, until +you grow to apprehend the pure spirituality of Truth.</p> + +<p>MARY BAKER EDDY</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></p> +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2> + +<p> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#PREFACE"><b>Preface</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#INTRODUCTION"><b>Introduction</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Disease_Unreal"><b>Disease Unreal</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Science_of_Mind-healing"><b>Science of Mind-healing</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_Christian_Science_of_the_Same_Lineage_as_Spiritualism_or"><b>Is Christian Science of the Same Lineage as Spiritualism or Theosophy?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_Christian_Science_from_Beneath_and_not_from_Above"><b>Is Christian Science from Beneath, and not from Above?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_Christian_Science_Pantheistic"><b>Is Christian Science Pantheistic?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_Christian_Science_Blasphemous"><b>Is Christian Science Blasphemous?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_There_a_Personal_Deity"><b>Is There a Personal Deity?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_There_a_Personal_Devil"><b>Is There a Personal Devil?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_Man_a_Person"><b>Is Man a Person?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Has_Man_a_Soul"><b>Has Man a Soul?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_34"><b>Is Sin Forgiven?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_There_any_such_Thing_as_Sin"><b>Is There any such Thing as Sin?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_There_no_Sacrificial_Atonement"><b>Is There no Sacrificial Atonement?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Is_There_no_Intercessory_Prayer"><b>Is There no Intercessory Prayer?</b></a></span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#Should_Christians_Beware_of_Christian_Science"><b>Should Christians Beware of Christian Science?</b></a></span><br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></p> +<h2><a name="NO_AND_YES" id="NO_AND_YES"></a>NO AND YES</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2> + + +<p>To kindle in all minds a common sentiment of regard for the spiritual idea +emanating from the infinite, is a most needful work; but this must be done +gradually, for Truth is as "the still, small voice," which comes to our +recognition only as our natures are changed by its silent influence.</p> + +<p>Small streams are noisy and rush precipitately; and babbling brooks fill +the rivers till they rise in floods, demolishing bridges and overwhelming +cities. So men, when thrilled by a new idea, are sometimes impatient; and, +when public sentiment is aroused, are liable to be borne on by the current +of feeling. They should then turn temporarily from the tumult, for the +silent cultivation of the true idea and the quiet practice of its virtues. +When the noise and stir of contending sentiments cease, and the flames die +away on the mount of revelation, we can read more clearly the tablets of +Truth.</p> + +<p>The theology and medicine of Jesus were one,—in the divine oneness of the +trinity, Life, Truth, and Love, which healed the sick and cleansed the +sinful. This trinity in unity, correcting the individual thought, is the +only Mind-healing<a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a> I vindicate; and on its standard have emblazoned that +crystallized expression, <span class="smcap">Christian Science</span>.</p> + +<p>A spurious and hydra-headed mind-healing is naturally glared at by the +pulpit, ostracized by the medical faculty, and scorned by people of common +sense. To aver that disease is normal, a God-bestowed and stubborn reality, +but that you can heal it, leaves you to work against that which is natural +and a law of being. It is scientific to rob disease of all reality; and to +accomplish this, you cannot begin by admitting its reality. Our Master +taught his students to deny self, sense, and take up the cross. Mental +healers who admit that disease is real should be made to test the +feasibility of what they say by healing one case audibly, through such an +admission,—if this is possible. I have healed more disease by the spoken +than the unspoken word.</p> + +<p>The honest student of Christian Science is modest in his claims and +conscientious in duty, waiting and working to mature what he has been +taught. Institutes furnished with such teachers are becoming beacon-lights +along the shores of erudition; and many who are not teachers have large +practices and some marked success in healing the most defiant forms of +disease.</p> + +<p>Dishonesty destroys one's ability to heal mentally. Conceit cannot avert +the effects of deceit. Taking advantage of the present ignorance in +relation to Christian Science Mind-healing, many are flooding our land with +conflicting theories and practice. We should not spread abroad <a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a>patchwork +ideas that in some vital points lack Science. How sad it is that envy will +bend its bow and shoot its arrow at the idea which claims only its +inheritance, is naturally modest, generous, and sincere! while the +trespassing error murders either friend or foe who stands in its way. Truly +it is better to fall into the hands of God, than of man.</p> + +<p>When I revised "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in 1878, +some irresponsible people insisted that my manual of the practice of +Christian Science Mind-healing should not be made public; but I obeyed a +diviner rule. People dependent on the rules of this practice for their +healing, not having lost the Spirit which sustains the genuine practice, +will put that book in the hands of their patients, whom it will heal, and +recommend it to their students, whom it would enlighten. Every teacher must +pore over it in secret, to keep himself well informed. The Nemesis of the +history of Mind-healing notes this hour.</p> + +<p>Dishonesty necessarily stultifies the spiritual sense which Mind-healers +specially need; and which they must possess, in order to be safe members of +the community. How good and pleasant a thing it is to seek not so much +thine own as another's good, to sow by the wayside for the way-weary, and +trust Love's recompense of love.</p> + +<p>Plagiarism from my writings is so common it is becoming odious to honest +people; and such compilations, instead of possessing the essentials of +Christian Science, are tempting and misleading.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a>Reading Science and Health has restored the sick to health; but the task +of learning thoroughly the Science of Mind-healing and demonstrating it +understandingly had better be undertaken in health than sickness.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Disease_Unreal" id="Disease_Unreal"></a><span class="smcap">Disease Unreal</span></h2> + +<p>Disease is more than <i>imagination</i>; it is a human error, a constituent part +of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,—namely, material sensation +and mental delusion. But an erring sense of existence, or the error of +belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn reality. On the +ground that harmony is the truth of being, the Science of Mind-healing +destroys the feasibility of disease; hence error of thought becomes fable +instead of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth and the +unreality of the error. A self-evident proposition, in the Science of +Mind-healing, is that disease is unreal; and the efficacy of my system, +beyond other systems of medicine, vouches for the validity of that +statement. Sin and disease are not scientific, because they embody not the +idea of divine Principle, and are not the phenomena of the immutable laws +of God; and they do not arise from the divine consciousness and true +constituency of being.</p> + +<p>The unreality of sin, disease, and death, rests on the exclusive truth that +being, to be eternal, must be harmonious. All disease must be—and can only +be—healed <a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a>on this basis. All true Christian Scientists are vindicating, +fearlessly and honestly, the Principle of this grand verity of +Mind-healing.</p> + +<p>In erring mortal thought the reality of Truth has an antipode,—the reality +of error; and disease is one of the severe realities of this error. God has +no opposite in Science. To Truth there is no error. As Truth alone is real, +then it follows that to declare error real would be to make it Truth. +Disease arises from a false and material sense, from the belief that matter +has sensation. Therefore this material sense, which is untrue, is of +necessity unreal. Moreover, this unreal sense substitutes for Truth an +unreal belief,—namely, that life and health are independent of God, and +dependent on material conditions. Material sense also avers that Spirit, or +Truth, cannot restore health and perpetuate life, but that material +conditions can and do destroy both human health and life.</p> + +<p>If disease is as real as health, and is itself a state of being, and yet is +arrayed against being, then Mind, or God, does not meddle with it. Disease +becomes indeed a stubborn reality, and man is mortal. A "kingdom divided +against itself is brought to desolation;" therefore the mind that attacks a +normal and real condition of man, is profanely tampering with the realities +of God and His laws. Metaphysical healing is a lost jewel in this +misconception of reality. Any contradictory fusion of Truth with error, in +both theory and practice, prevents one from healing scientifically, and +makes the last state of one's patients <a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a>worse than the first. If disease is +real it is not illusive, and it certainly would contradict the Science of +Mind-healing to attempt to destroy the realities of Mind in order to heal +the sick.</p> + +<p>On the theory that God's formations are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal, +and that God is the only creator, Christian Science refutes the validity of +the testimony of the senses, which take cognizance of their own +phenomena,—sickness, disease, and death. This refutation is indispensable +to the destruction of false evidence, and the consequent cure of the +sick,—as all understand who practise the true Science of Mind-healing. If, +as the error indicates, the evidence of disease is not false, then disease +cannot be healed by denying its validity; and this is why the mistaken +healer is not successful, trying to heal on a material basis.</p> + +<p>The evidence that the earth is motionless and the sun revolves around our +planet, is as sensible and real as the evidence for disease; but Science +determines the evidence in both cases to be unreal. To material sense it is +plain also that the error of the revolution of the sun around the earth is +more apparent than the adverse but true Science of the stellar universe. +Copernicus has shown that what appears real, to material sense and feeling, +is absolutely unreal. Astronomy, optics, acoustics, and hydraulics are all +at war with the testimony of the physical senses. This fact intimates that +the laws of Science are mental, not material; and Christian Science +demonstrates this.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a></p> +<h2><a name="Science_of_Mind-healing" id="Science_of_Mind-healing"></a><span class="smcap">Science of Mind-healing</span></h2> + + +<p>The rule of divinity is golden; to be wise and true rejoices every heart. +But evil influences waver the scales of justice and mercy. No personal +considerations should allow any root of bitterness to spring up between +Christian Scientists, nor cause any misapprehension as to the motives of +others. We must love our enemies, and continue to do so unto the end. By +the love of God we can cancel error in our own hearts, and blot it out of +others.</p> + +<p>Sooner or later the eyes of sinful mortals must be opened to see every +error they possess, and the way out of it; and they will "flee as a bird to +your mountain," away from the enemy of sinning sense, stubborn will, and +every imperfection in the land of Sodom, and find rescue and refuge in +Truth and Love.</p> + +<p>Every loving sacrifice for the good of others is known to God, and the +wrath of man cannot hide it from Him. God has appointed for Christian +Scientists high tasks, and will not release them from the strict +performance of each one of them. The students must now fight their own +battles. I recommend that Scientists draw no lines whatever between one +person and another, but think, speak, teach, and write the truth of +Christian Science without reference to right or wrong personality in this +field of labor. Leave the distinctions of individual character and the +discriminations and guidance thereof to <a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a>the Father, whose wisdom is +unerring and whose love is universal.</p> + +<p>We should endeavor to be long-suffering, faithful, and charitable with all. +To this small effort let us add one more privilege—namely, silence +whenever it can substitute censure. Avoid voicing error; but utter the +truth of God and the beauty of holiness, the joy of Love and "the peace of +God, that passeth all understanding," recommending to all men fellowship in +the bonds of Christ. Advise students to rebuke each other always in love, +as I have rebuked them. Having discharged this duty, counsel each other to +work out his own salvation, without fear or doubt, knowing that God will +make the wrath of man to praise Him, and that the remainder thereof He will +restrain. We can rejoice that every germ of goodness will at last struggle +into freedom and greatness, and every sin will so punish itself that it +will bow down to the commandments of Christ,—Truth and Love.</p> + +<p>I enjoin it upon my students to hold no controversy or enmity over +doctrines and traditions, or over the misconceptions of Christian Science, +but to work, watch, and pray for the amelioration of sin, sickness, and +death. If one be found who is too blind for instruction, no longer cast +your pearls before this state of mortal mind, lest it turn and rend you; +but quietly, with benediction and hope, let the unwise pass by, while you +walk on in equanimity, and with increased power, patience, and +understanding, gained from your forbearance. This counsel is not new, <a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a>as +my Christian students can testify; and if it had been heeded in times past +it would have prevented, to a great extent, the factions which have sprung +up among Scientists to the hindrance of the Cause of Truth. It is true that +the mistakes, prejudices, and errors of one class of thinkers must not be +introduced or established among another class who are clearer and more +conscientious in their convictions; but this one thing can be done, and +should be: let your opponents alone, and use no influence to prevent their +legitimate action from their own standpoint of experience, knowing, as you +should, that God will well regenerate and separate wisely and finally; +whereas you may err in effort, and lose your fruition.</p> + +<p>Hoping to pacify repeated complaints and murmurings against too great +leniency, on my part, towards some of my students who fall into error, I +have opposed occasionally and strongly—especially in the first edition of +this little work—existing wrongs of the nature referred to. But I now +point steadfastly to the power of grace to overcome evil with good. God +will "furnish a table in the wilderness" and show the power of Love.</p> + +<p>Science is not the shibboleth of a sect or the cabalistic insignia of +philosophy; it excludes all error and includes all Truth. More mistakes are +made in its name than this period comprehends. Divinely defined, Science is +the atmosphere of God; humanly construed, and according to Webster, it is +"knowledge, duly arranged and referred to general truths and principles on +which it is <a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a>founded, and from which it is derived." I employ this +awe-filled word in both a divine and human sense; but I insist that +Christian Science is demonstrably as true, relative to the unseen verities +of being, as any proof that can be given of the completeness of Science.</p> + +<p>The two largest words in the vocabulary of thought are "Christian" and +"Science." The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and +interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses +the <span class="smcap">All</span>-God. The life of Christ is the predicate and postulate of +all that I teach, and there is but one standard statement, one rule, and +one Principle for all scientific truth.</p> + +<p>My hygienic system rests on Mind, the eternal Truth. What is termed matter, +or relates to its so-called attributes, is a self-destroying error. When a +so-called material sense is lost, and Truth restores that lost sense,—on +the basis that all consciousness is Mind and eternal,—the former position, +that sense is organic and material, is proven erroneous.</p> + +<p>The feasibility and immobility of Christian Science unveil the true +idea,—namely, that earth's discords have not the reality of Mind in the +Science of being; and this idea—dematerializing and spiritualizing +mortals—turns like the needle to the pole all hope and faith to God, based +as it is on His omnipotence and omnipresence.</p> + +<p>Eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena of +being, governed by the immutable and <a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a>eternal laws of God; whereas matter +and human will, intellect, desire, and fear, are not the creators, +controllers, nor destroyers of life or its harmonies. Man has an immortal +Soul, a divine Principle, and an eternal being. Man has perpetual +individuality; and God's laws, and their intelligent and harmonious action, +constitute his individuality in the Science of Soul.</p> + +<p>In its literary expression, my system of Christian metaphysics is hampered +by material terms, which must be used to indicate thoughts that are to be +understood metaphysically. As a Science, this system is held back by the +common ignorance of what it is and what it does, and (worse still) by those +who come falsely in its name. To be appreciated, Science must be understood +and conscientiously introduced. If the Bible and Science and Health had the +place in schools of learning that physiology occupies, they would +revolutionize and reform the world, through the power of Christ. It is true +that it requires more study to understand and demonstrate what these works +teach, than to learn theology, physiology, or physics; because they teach +divine Science, with fixed Principle, given rule, and unmistakable proof.</p> + +<p>Ancient and modern human philosophy are inadequate to grasp the Principle +of Christian Science, or to demonstrate it. Revelation shows this +Principle, and will rescue reason from the thrall of error. Revelation must +subdue the sophistry of intellect, and spiritualize consciousness with the +dictum and the demonstration of Truth and Love.<a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a> Christian Science +Mind-healing can only be gained by working from a purely Christian +standpoint. Then it heals the sick and exalts the race. The essence of this +Science is right thinking and right acting—leading us to see spirituality +and to be spiritual, to understand and to demonstrate God.</p> + +<p>The Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Church of Christ, Scientist, in +Boston, were the outgrowth of the author's religious experience. After a +lifetime of orthodoxy on the platform of doctrines, rites, and ceremonies, +it became a sacred duty for her to impart to others this new-old knowledge +of God.</p> + +<p>The same affection, desire, and motives which have stimulated true +Christianity in all ages, and given impulse to goodness, in or out of the +Church, have nerved her purpose to build on the new-born conception of the +Christ, as Jesus declared himself,—namely, "the way, the truth, and the +life." Living a true life, casting out evil, healing the sick, and +preaching the gospel of Truth,—these are the ends of Christianity. This +divine way impels a spiritualization of thought and method, beyond doctrine +and ritual; and in nothing else has she departed from the old landmarks.</p> + +<p>The unveiled spiritual signification of the Word so enlarges our sense of +God that it makes both sense and Soul, man and Life, immaterial, though +still individual. It removes all limits from divine power. God must be +found all instead of a part of being, and man the reflection of<a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a> His power +and goodness. This Science rebukes sin with its own nothingness, and thus +destroys sin quickly and utterly. It makes disease unreal, and this heals +it.</p> + +<p>The demonstration of moral and physical growth, and a scientific deduction +from the Principle of all harmony, declare both the Principle and idea to +be divine. If this be true, then death must be swallowed up in Life, and +the prophecy of Jesus fulfilled, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me +shall never die." Though centuries passed after those words were originally +uttered, before this reappearing of Truth, and though the hiatus be longer +still before that saying is demonstrated in Life that knows no death, the +declaration is nevertheless true, and remains a clear and profound +deduction from Christian Science.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_Christian_Science_of_the_Same_Lineage_as_Spiritualism_or" id="Is_Christian_Science_of_the_Same_Lineage_as_Spiritualism_or"></a><span class="smcap">Is Christian Science of the Same Lineage as Spiritualism or +Theosophy?</span></h2> + + +<p>Science is not susceptible of being held as a mere theory. It is hoary with +time. It takes hold of eternity, voices the infinite, and governs the +universe. No greater opposites can be conceived of, physically, morally, +and spiritually, than Christian Science, spiritualism, and theosophy.</p> + +<p>Science and Health has effected a revolution in the minds of thinkers on +the subject of mediumship, and given impulse to reason and revelation, +goodness and virtue. A theory may be sound in spots, and sparkle like a +diamond, while other parts of it have no lustre. Christian Science <a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a>is +sound in every part. It is neither warped nor misconceived, when properly +demonstrated. If a spiritualist medium understood the Science of +Mind-healing, he would know that between those who have and those who have +not passed the transition called death, there can be no interchange of +consciousness, and that all sensible phenomena are merely subjective states +of mortal mind.</p> + +<p>Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism. This corruption had a renewal in the +Neoplatonic philosophy; but it sprang from the Oriental philosophy of +Brahmanism, and blends with its magic and enchantments. Theosophy is no +more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the +sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern +sky are to solar heat and light.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_Christian_Science_from_Beneath_and_not_from_Above" id="Is_Christian_Science_from_Beneath_and_not_from_Above"></a><span class="smcap">Is Christian Science from Beneath, and not from Above?</span></h2> + + +<p>Hear the words of our Master: "Go ye into all the world"! "Heal the sick, +cast out devils"! Christian Scientists, perhaps more than any other +religious sect, are obeying these commands; and the injunctions are not +confined to Jesus' students in that age, but they extend to this age,—to +as many as shall believe on him. The demand and example of Jesus were not +from beneath. Are frozen dogmas, persistent persecution, and the doctrine +of eternal damnation, from above? Are the dews <a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a>of divine Truth, falling on +the sick and sinner, to heal them, from beneath? "By their fruits ye shall +know them."</p> + +<p>Reading my books, without prejudice, would convince all that their purpose +is right. The comprehension of my teachings would enable any one to prove +these books to be filled with blessings for the whole human family. +Fatiguing Bible translations and voluminous commentaries are employed to +explain and prop old creeds, and they have the civil and religious arms in +their defense; then why should not these be equally extended to support the +Christianity that heals the sick? The notions of personality to be found in +creeds are far more mystic than Mind-healing. It is no easy matter to +believe there are three persons in one person, and that one person is cast +out of another person. These conceptions of Deity and devil presuppose an +impotent God and an incredible Satan.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><span class="smcap"><a name="Is_Christian_Science_Pantheistic" id="Is_Christian_Science_Pantheistic"></a>Is Christian Science Pantheistic?</span></h2> + +<p>Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither in matter nor in +the modes of mortal mind. It shows that matter and mortal mind have neither +origin nor existence in the eternal Mind. Thinking otherwise is what +estranges mortals from divine Life and Love. God is All-in-all. He is +Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Himself. Nothing that "worketh or +maketh a lie" is to be <a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a>found in the divine consciousness. For God to know, +is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist. If He +knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then mortality and discord must +be eternal. He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be +Truth.</p> + +<p>If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge would manifest evil +in Him and proceeding from Him. Christian Science shows that matter, evil, +sin, sickness, and death are but negations of Spirit, Truth, and Life, +which are positives that cannot be gainsaid. The subjective states of evil, +called mortal mind or matter, are negatives destitute of time and space; +for there is none beside God or Spirit and the idea of Spirit.</p> + +<p>This infinite logic is the infinite light,—uncomprehended, yet forever +giving forth more light, because it has no darkness to emit. Mortals do not +understand the All; hence their inference of some other existence beside +God and His true likeness,—of something unlike Him. He who is All, +understands all. He can have no knowledge or inference but His own +consciousness, and can take in no more than all.</p> + +<p>The mists of matter—sin, sickness, and death—disappear in proportion as +mortals approach Spirit, which is the reality of being. It is not enough to +say that matter is the substratum of evil, and that its highest attenuation +is mortal mind; for there is, strictly speaking, <i>no</i> mortal mind. Mind is +immortal. Death is the consequent of an <a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a>antecedent false assumption of the +realness of something unreal, material, and mortal. If God knows the +antecedent, He must produce its consequences. From this logic there is no +escape. Matter, or evil, is the absence of Spirit or good. Their +nothingness is thus proven; for God is good, ever-present, and All.</p> + +<p>"In Him we live, and move, and have our being;" consequently it is +impossible for the true man—who is a spiritual and individual being, +created in the eternal Science of being—to be conscious of aught but good. +God's image and likeness can never be less than a good man; and for man to +be more than God's likeness is impossible. Man is the climax of creation; +and God is not without an ever-present witness, testifying of Himself. +Matter, or any mode of mortal mind, is neither part nor parcel of divine +consciousness and God's verity.</p> + +<p>In Science there is no fallen state of being; for therein is no inverted +image of God, no escape from the focal radiation of the infinite. Hence the +unreality of error, and the truth of the Scripture, that there is "none +beside Him." If mortals could grasp these two words <i>all</i> and <i>nothing</i>, +this mystery of a God who has no knowledge of sin would disappear, and the +eternal, infinite harmony would be fathomed. If God could know a false +claim, false knowledge would be a part of His consciousness. Then evil +would be as real as good, sickness as real as health, death as real as +Life; and sickness, sin, and death would be as eternal as God.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></p> +<h2><a name="Is_Christian_Science_Blasphemous" id="Is_Christian_Science_Blasphemous"></a><span class="smcap">Is Christian Science Blasphemous?</span></h2> + + +<p>Blasphemy has never diminished sin and sickness, nor acknowledged God in +all His ways. Blasphemy rebukes not the godless lie that denies Him as +All-in-all, nor does it ascribe to Him all presence, power, and glory. +Christian Science does this. If Science lacked the proof of its origin in +God, it would be self-destructive, for it rests alone on the demonstration +of God's supremacy and omnipotence. Right thinking and right acting, +physical and moral harmony, come with Science, and the secret of its +presence lies in the universal need of better health and morals.</p> + +<p>Human theories, when weighed in the balance, are found unequal to the +demonstration of divine Life and Love; and their highest endeavors are, to +divine Science, what a child's love of pictures is to art. A child, in his +ignorance, may imagine the face of Dante to be the rapt face of Jesus. Thus +falsely may the human conceive of the Divine. If the schoolmaster is not +Christ, the school gets things wrong, and knows it not; but the teacher is +morally responsible.</p> + +<p>Good health and a more spiritual religion are the common wants; and these +wants have wrought this moral result,—that the so-called mortal mind asks +for what Mind alone can supply. This demand militates against the so-called +demands of matter, and regulates the present <a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a>high premium on Mind-healing. +If the uniform moral and spiritual, as well as physical, effects of +Christian Science were lacking, the premium would go down. That it +continues to rise, and the demand to increase, shows its real value to the +race. Even doctors will agree that infidelity, ignorance, and quackery have +never met the growing wants of humanity. Christian Science is no "Boston +craze;" it is the sober second thought of advancing humanity.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_There_a_Personal_Deity" id="Is_There_a_Personal_Deity"></a><span class="smcap">Is There a Personal Deity?</span></h2> + + +<p>God is infinite. He is neither a limited mind nor a limited body. God is +Love; and Love is Principle, not person. What the person of the infinite +is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the +fatherliness of this Supreme Being. God is individual, and man is His +individualized idea. While material man and the physical senses receive no +spiritual idea, and feel no sensation of divine Love, spiritual man and his +spiritual senses are drinking in the nature and essence of the individual +infinite. A sinful sense is incompetent to understand the realities of +being,—that Life is God, and that man is in His image and likeness. A +sinner can take no cognizance of the noumenon or the phenomena of Spirit; +but leaving sin, sense rises to the fulness of the stature of man in +Christ.</p> + +<p>Person is formed after the manner of mortal man, so <a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a>far as he can conceive +of personality. Limitless personality is inconceivable. His person and +perfection are neither self-created, nor discerned through imperfection; +and of God as a person, human reason, imagination, and revelation give us +no knowledge. Error would fashion Deity in a manlike mould, while Truth is +moulding a Godlike man.</p> + +<p>When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant +or cold, until better apprehended. This Principle is Mind, substance, Life, +Truth, Love. When understood, Principle is found to be the only term that +fully conveys the ideas of God,—one Mind, a perfect man, and divine +Science. As the divine Principle is comprehended, God's omnipotence and +omnipresence will dawn on mortals, and the notion of an everywhere-present +body—or of an infinite Mind starting from a finite body, and returning to +it—will disappear.</p> + +<p>Ever-present Love must seem ever absent to ever-present selfishness or +material sense. Hence this asking amiss and receiving not, and the common +idolatry of man-worship. In divine Science, God is recognized as the only +power, presence, and glory.</p> + +<p>Adam's mistiness and Satan's reasoning, ever since the flood,—when +specimens of every kind emerged from the ark,—have run through the veins +of all human philosophy. Human reason is a blind guide, a continued series +of mortal hypotheses, antagonistic to Revelation and Science. It is +continually straying into forbidden by-paths <a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a>of sensualism, contrary to +the life and teachings of Jesus and Paul, and the vision of the Apocalypse. +Human philosophy has ninety-nine parts of error to the one-hundredth part +of Truth,—an unsafe decoction for the race. The Science that Jesus +demonstrated, whose views of Truth Confucius and Plato but dimly discerned, +Science and Health interprets. It was not a search after wisdom; it was +wisdom, and it grasped in spiritual law the universe,—all time, space, +immortality, thought, extension. This Science demonstrated the Principle of +all phenomena, identity, individuality, law; and showed man as reflecting +God and the divine capacity. Human philosophy would dethrone perfection, +and substitute matter and evil for divine means and ends.</p> + +<p>Human philosophy has an undeveloped God, who unfolds Himself through +material modes, wherein the human and divine mingle in the same realm and +consciousness. This is rank infidelity; because by it we lose God's ways +and perpetuate the supposed power and reality of evil <i>ad infinitum</i>. +Christian Science rends this veil in the pantheon of many gods, and +reproduces the teachings of Jesus, whose philosophy is incontestable, bears +the strain of time, and brings in the glories of eternity; "for other +foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."</p> + +<p>Divine philosophy is demonstrably the true idea of the Christ, wherein +Principle heals and saves. A philosophy which cannot heal the sick has +little resemblance to Science, and is, to say the least, like a cloud +without rain,<a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a> "driven about by every wind of doctrine." Such philosophy +has certainly not touched the hem of the Christ garment.</p> + +<p>Leibnitz, Descartes, Fichte, Hegel, Spinoza, Bishop Berkeley, were once +clothed with a "brief authority;" but Berkeley ended his metaphysical +theory with a treatise on the healing properties of tar-water, and Hegel +was an inveterate snuff-taker. The circumlocution and cold categories of +Kant fail to improve the conditions of mortals, morally, spiritually, or +physically. Such miscalled metaphysical systems are reeds shaken by the +wind. Compared with the inspired wisdom and infinite meaning of the Word of +Truth, they are as moonbeams to the sun, or as Stygian night to the +kindling dawn.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_There_a_Personal_Devil" id="Is_There_a_Personal_Devil"></a><span class="smcap">Is There a Personal Devil?</span></h2> + + +<p>No man hath seen the person of good or of evil. Each is greater than the +corporeality we behold.</p> + +<p>"He cast out <i>devils</i>." This record shows that the term devil is generic, +being used in the plural number. From this it follows that there is more +than one devil. That Jesus cast several persons out of another person, is +not stated, and is impossible. Hence the passage must refer to the <i>evils</i> +which were cast out.</p> + +<p>Jesus defined devil as a mortal who is full of evil. "Have I not chosen you +twelve, and one of you <i>is a devil</i>?" His definition of evil indicated his +ability to cast it out. An <a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a>incorrect concept of the nature of evil hinders +the destruction of evil. To conceive of God as resembling—in personality, +or form—the personality that Jesus condemned as devilish, is fraught with +spiritual danger. Evil can neither grasp the prerogative of God nor make +evil omnipotent and omnipresent.</p> + +<p>Jesus said to Peter, "Get thee behind me, Satan;" but he to whom our Lord +gave the keys of the kingdom could not have been wholly evil, and therefore +was not a <i>devil</i>, after the accepted definition. Out of the Magdalen, +Jesus cast seven devils; but not one person was named among them. According +to Crabtre, these devils were the diseases Jesus cast out.</p> + +<p>The most eminent divines, in Europe and America, concede that the +Scriptures have both a literal and a moral meaning. Which of the two is the +more important to gain,—the literal or the moral sense of the word +<i>devil</i>,—in order to cast out this devil? Evil is a quality, not an +individual.</p> + +<p>As mortals, we need to discern the claims of evil, and to fight these +claims, not as realities, but as illusions; but Deity can have no such +warfare against Himself. Knowledge of a man's physical personality is not +sufficient to inform us as to the amount of good or evil he possesses. +Hence we cannot understand God or man, through the person of either. God is +All-in-all; but He is definite and individual, the omnipresent and +omniscient Mind; and man's individuality is God's own image and +likeness,—even <a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a>the immeasurable idea of divine Mind. In the Science of +good, evil loses all place, person, and power.</p> + +<p>According to Spinoza's philosophy God is amplification. He is in all +things, and therefore He is in evil in human thought. He is extension, of +whatever character. Also, according to Spinoza, man is an animal vegetable, +developed through the lower orders of matter and mortal mind. All these +vagaries are at variance with my system of metaphysics, which rests on God +as One and All, and denies the actual existence of both matter and evil. +According to false philosophy and scholastic theology, God is three persons +in one person. By the same token, evil is not only as real as good, but +much more real, since evil subordinates good in personality.</p> + +<p>The claims of evil become both less and more in Christian Science, than in +human philosophies or creeds: <i>more</i>, because the evil that is hidden by +dogma and human reason is uncovered by Science; and <i>less</i>, because evil, +being thus uncovered, is found out, and exposure is nine points of +destruction. Then appears the grand verity of Christian Science: namely, +that evil has no claims and was never a claimant; for behold evil (or +devil) is, as Jesus said, "a murderer from the beginning, and the truth +abode not in him."</p> + +<p>There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning +all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is +supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no +evil.<a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a> Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, +until God becomes the All and Only of our being. Having won through great +tribulation this cardinal point of divine Science, St. Paul said, "But now +we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that +we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the +letter."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_Man_a_Person" id="Is_Man_a_Person"></a><span class="smcap">Is Man a Person?</span></h2> + + +<p>Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the +material senses. Mind is more than matter, even as the infinite idea of +Truth is beyond a finite belief. Man outlives finite mortal definitions of +himself, according to a law of "the survival of the fittest." Man is the +eternal idea of his divine Principle, or Father. He is neither matter nor a +mode of mortal mind, for he is spiritual and eternal, an immortal mode of +the divine Mind. Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and +coeternal with Him.</p> + +<p>Man is not absorbed in Deity; for he is forever individual; but what this +everlasting individuality is, remains to be learned. Mortals have not seen +it. That which is born of the flesh is not man's eternal identity. +Spiritual and immortal man alone is God's likeness, and that which is +mortal is not man in a spiritually scientific sense. A material, sinful +mortal is but the counterfeit of immortal man.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a>The mind-quacks believe that mortal man is identical with immortal man, +and that the immortal is inside the mortal; that good and evil blend; that +matter and Spirit are one; and that Soul, or Spirit, is subdivided into +spirits, or souls,—<i>alias</i> gods. This infantile talk about Mind-healing is +no more identical with Christian Science than the babe is identical with +the adult, or the human belief resembles the divine idea. Hence it is +impossible for those holding such material and mortal views to demonstrate +my metaphysics. Theirs is the sensuous thought, which brings forth its own +sensuous conception. Mine is the spiritual idea which transfigures thought.</p> + +<p>All real being represents God, and is in Him. In this Science of being, man +can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine Principle, +or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below infinitude. Man's +real ego, or selfhood, is goodness. If man's individuality were evil, he +would be annihilated, for evil is self-destroying.</p> + +<p>Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be His +image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in molecule, +corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of +Science,—in the immutable harmony of divine law. Man is a celestial; and +in the spiritual universe he is forever individual and forever harmonious. +"If God so clothe the grass of the field, ... shall He not much more clothe +you, O ye of little faith?"</p> + +<p>Sin must be obsolete,—dust returning to dust, nothingness <a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a>to nothingness. +Sin is not Mind; it is but the supposition that there is more than one +Mind. It issues a false claim; and the claim, being worthless, is in +reality no claim whatever. Matter is not Mind, to claim aught; but Mind is +God, and evil finds no place in good. When we get near enough to God to see +this, the springtide of Truth in Christian Science will burst upon us in +the similitude of the Apocalyptic pictures. No night will be there, and +there will be no more sea. There will be no need of the sun, for Spirit +will be the light of the city, and matter will be proved a myth. Until +centuries pass, and this vision of Truth is fully interpreted by divine +Science, this prophecy will be scoffed at; but it is just as veritable now +as it can be then. Science, divine Science, presents the grand and eternal +verities of God and man as the divine Mind and that Mind's idea.</p> + +<p>Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man, and the two should not be +confounded. Bishop Foster said, in a lecture in Boston, "No man living hath +yet seen man." This material sinful personality, which we misname man, is +what St. Paul terms "the old man and his deeds," to be "put off."</p> + +<p>Who can say what the absolute personality of God or man is? Who living hath +seen God or a perfect man? In presence of such thoughts take off thy shoes +and tread lightly, for this is holy ground. Surely the probation of mortals +must go on after the change called death, that they may learn the +definition of immortal being; or else <a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a>their present mistakes would +extinguish human existence. How long this false sense remains after the +transition called death, no mortal knoweth; but this is sure, that the +mists of error, sooner or later, will melt in the fervent heat of +suffering, mortality will burst the barriers of sense, and man be found +perfect and eternal. Of his intermediate conditions—the purifying +processes and terrible revolutions necessary to effect this end—I am +ignorant.</p> + +<p>Inasmuch as these momentous facts in the Science of being must be learned +some time, now is the most acceptable time for beginning the lesson. If +Science is pointing the way, and is found to bring with it health, +holiness, and immortality, then to-day is none too soon for entering this +path. The proof that Christian Science is the way of salvation given by +Christ, I consider well established. The present, as well as the future, +reveals the fact that Truth is never understood too soon.</p> + +<p>Has Truth, as demonstrated by Jesus, reappeared? Study Christian Science +and practise it, and you will know that Truth has reappeared. What is +demonstrably true cannot be gainsaid; but getting the letter and omitting +the spirit of this Science is neither the comprehension of its Principle +nor the practice of its Life.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Has_Man_a_Soul" id="Has_Man_a_Soul"></a><span class="smcap">Has Man a Soul?</span></h2> + + +<p>The Scriptures inform us that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." Here +<i>soul</i> means sense and organic life; and <a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a>this passage refers to the Jewish +law, that a mortal should be put to death for his own sin, but not for +another's. Not Soul, but mortal sense, sins and dies. Immortal man has +immortal Soul and a deathless sense of being. Mortal man has but a false +sense of Soul and body. He believes that Spirit, or Soul, exists in matter. +This is pantheism, and is not the Science of Soul. The mind-quacks have so +slight a knowledge of Soul that they believe material and sinning sense to +be soul; and then they doctor this soul as if it were not even a material +sense.</p> + +<p>In Dr. Gordon's sermon on The Ministry of Healing, he said, "The forgiven +soul in a sick body is not half a man." Is this pantheistic statement sound +theology,—that Soul is in matter, and the immortal part of man a sinner? +Is not this a disparagement of the person of man and a denial of God's +power? Better far that we impute such doctrines to mortal opinion than to +the divine Word.</p> + +<p>To my sense, such a statement is a shocking reflection on the divine power. +A mortal pardoned by God is not sick, he is made whole. He in whom sin, +disease, and death are destroyed, is more than a fraction of himself. Such +sermons, though clad in soft raiment, are spiritless waifs, literary +driftwood on the ocean of thought; while Truth walks triumphantly over the +waves of sin, sickness, and death.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a>The law of Life and Truth is the law of Christ, destroying all sense of +sin and death. It does more than forgive the false sense named sin, for it +pursues and punishes it, and will not let sin go until it is +destroyed,—until nothing is left to be forgiven, to suffer, or to be +punished. Forgiven thus, sickness and sin have no relapse. God's law +reaches and destroys evil by virtue of the allness of God.</p> + +<p>He need not know the evil He destroys, any more than the legislator need +know the criminal who is punished by the law enacted. God's law is in three +words, "I am All;" and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim +of another law. God pities our woes with the love of a Father for His +child,—not by becoming human, and knowing sin, or naught, but by removing +our knowledge of what is not. He could not destroy our woes totally if He +possessed any knowledge of them. His sympathy is divine, not human. 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.</p> + +<p>Sympathy with sin, sorrow, and sickness would dethrone God as Truth, for +Truth has no sympathy for error. In Science, the cure of the sick +demonstrates this grand <a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a>verity of Christian Science, that you cannot +eradicate disease if you admit that God sends it or sees it. Material and +mortal mind-healing (so-called) has for ages been a pretender, but has not +healed mortals; and they are yet sick and sinful.</p> + +<p>Disease and sin appear to-day in subtler forms than they did yesterday. +They progress and will multiply into worse forms, until it is understood +that disease and sin are unreal, <i>unknown</i> to Truth, and never actual +persons or real facts.</p> + +<p>Our phraseology varies. To me <i>divine pardon</i> is that divine presence which +is the sure destruction of sin; and I insist on the destruction of sin as +the only full proof of its pardon. "For this purpose the Son of God was +manifested, that he might <i>destroy</i> the works of the devil" (1 John iii. +8).</p> + +<p>Jesus cast out evils, mediating between what is and is not, until a perfect +consciousness is attained. He healed disease as he healed sin; but he +treated them both, not as in or of matter, but as mortal beliefs to be +exterminated. Physical and mental healing were one and the same with this +master Metaphysician. If the evils called sin, sickness, and death had been +forgiven in the generally accepted sense, they would have returned, to be +again forgiven; but Jesus said to disease: "Come out of him, and enter no +more into him." He said also: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see +death;" and "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound <a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a>in +heaven." The misinterpretation of such passages has retarded the progress +of Christianity and the spiritualization of the race.</p> + +<p>A magistrate's pardon may encourage a criminal to repeat the offense; +because <i>forgiveness</i>, in the popular sense of the word, can neither +extinguish a crime nor the motives leading to it. The belief in sin—its +pleasure, pain, or power—must suffer, until it is self-destroyed. +"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_There_any_such_Thing_as_Sin" id="Is_There_any_such_Thing_as_Sin"></a><span class="smcap">Is There any such Thing as Sin?</span></h2> + + +<p>Frequently when I touch this subject my meaning is ignorantly or +maliciously misconstrued. Christian Science Mind-healing lifts with a +steady arm, and cleaves sin with a broad battle-axe. It gives the lie to +sin, in the spirit of Truth; but other theories make sin true. Jesus +declared that the devil was "a liar, and the father of it." A lie is +negation,—<i>alias</i> nothing, or the opposite of something. Good is great and +real. Hence its opposite, named <i>evil</i>, must be small and unreal. When this +sense is attained, we shall no longer be the servants of sin, and shall +cease to love it.</p> + +<p>The domination of good destroys the sense of evil. To illustrate: It seems +a great evil to belie and belittle Christian Science, and persecute a Cause +which is healing its thousands and rapidly diminishing the percentage of +sin. But reduce this evil to its lowest terms, <i>nothing</i>, and slander +<a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a>loses its power to harm; for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. The +reduction of evil, in Science, gives the dominance to God, and must lead us +to bless those who curse, that thus we may overcome evil with good.</p> + +<p>If the Bible and my work Science and Health had their rightful place in +schools of learning, they would revolutionize the world by advancing the +kingdom of Christ. It requires sacrifice, struggle, prayer, and +watchfulness to understand and demonstrate what these volumes teach, +because they involve divine Science, with fixed Principle, a given rule, +and unmistakable proof.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_There_no_Sacrificial_Atonement" id="Is_There_no_Sacrificial_Atonement"></a><span class="smcap">Is There no Sacrificial Atonement?</span></h2> + + +<p>Self-sacrifice is the highway to heaven. The sacrifice of our blessed Lord +is undeniable, and it was a million times greater than the brief agony of +the cross; for that would have been insufficient to insure the glory his +sacrifice brought and the good it wrought. The spilling of human blood was +inadequate to represent the blood of Christ, the outpouring love that +sustains man's at-one-ment with God; though shedding human blood brought to +light the efficacy of divine Life and Love and its power over death. Jesus' +sacrifice stands preeminently amidst physical suffering and human woe. The +glory of human life is in overcoming sickness, sin, and death. Jesus +suffered for all mortals to bring in this glory; and his purpose was to +show them that the way out of the flesh, out <a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a>of the delusion of all human +error, must be through the baptism of suffering, leading up to health, +harmony, and heaven.</p> + +<p>We shall leave the ceremonial law when we gain the truer sense of following +Christ in spirit, and we shall no longer venture to materialize the +spiritual and infinite meaning and efficacy of Truth and Love, and the +sacrifice that Jesus made for us, by commemorating his death with a +material rite. Jesus said: "The hour cometh, and now is, when the true +worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." They drink +the cup of Christ and are baptized in the purification of persecution who +discern his true merit,—the unseen glory of suffering for others. Physical +torture affords but a slight illustration of the pangs which come to one +upon whom the world of sense falls with its leaden weight in the endeavor +to crush out of a career its divine destiny.</p> + +<p>The blood of Christ speaketh better things than that of Abel. The real +atonement—so infinitely beyond the heathen conception that God requires +human blood to propitiate His justice and bring His mercy—needs to be +understood. The real blood or Life of Spirit is not yet discerned. Love +bruised and bleeding, yet mounting to the throne of glory in purity and +peace, over the steps of uplifted humanity,—this is the deep significance +of the blood of Christ. Nameless woe, everlasting victories, are the blood, +the vital currents of Christ Jesus' life, purchasing the freedom of mortals +from sin and death.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a>This blood of Jesus is everything to human hope and faith. Without it, how +poor the precedents of Christianity! What manner of Science were Christian +Science without the power to demonstrate the Principle of such Life; and +what hope have mortals but through deep humility and adoration to reach the +understanding of this Principle! When human struggles cease, and mortals +yield lovingly to the purpose of divine Love, there will be no more +sickness, sorrow, sin, and death. He who pointed the way of Life conquered +also the drear subtlety of death.</p> + +<p>It was not to appease the wrath of God, but to show the allness of Love and +the nothingness of hate, sin, and death, that Jesus suffered. He lived that +we also might live. He suffered, to show mortals the awful price paid by +sin, and how to avoid paying it. He atoned for the terrible unreality of a +supposed existence apart from God. He suffered because of the shocking +human idolatry that presupposes Life, substance, Soul, and intelligence in +matter,—which is the antipode of God, and yet governs mankind. The +glorious truth of being—namely, that God is the only Mind, Life, +substance, Soul—needs no reconciliation with God, for it is one with Him +now and forever.</p> + +<p>Jesus came announcing Truth, and saying not only "the kingdom of God is at +hand," but "the kingdom of God is within you." Hence there is no sin, for +God's kingdom is everywhere and supreme, and it follows that the human +kingdom is nowhere, and must be <i>unreal</i>. Jesus taught <a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a>and demonstrated +the infinite as one, and not as two. He did not teach that there are two +deities,—one infinite and the other finite; for that would be impossible. +He knew God as infinite, and therefore as the All-in-all; and we shall know +this truth when we awake in the divine likeness. Jesus' true and conscious +being never left heaven for earth. It abode forever above, even while +mortals believed it was here. He once spoke of himself (John iii. 13) as +"the Son of man which is in heaven,"—remarkable words, as wholly opposed +to the popular view of Jesus' nature.</p> + +<p>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. Had he been as +conscious of these evils as he was of God, wherein there is no +consciousness of human error, Jesus could not have resisted them; nor could +he have conquered the malice of his foes, rolled away the stone from the +sepulchre, and risen from human sense to a higher concept than that in +which he appeared at his birth.</p> + +<p>Mankind's concept of Jesus was a babe born in a manger, even while the +divine and ideal Christ was the Son of God, <a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a>spiritual and eternal. In +human conception God's offspring had to grow, develop; but in Science his +divine nature and manhood were forever complete, and dwelt forever in the +Father. Jesus said, "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power +of God." Mortal thought gives the eternal God and infinite consciousness +the license of a short-lived sinner, to begin and end, to know both evil +and good; when evil is temporal and God is eternal,—and when, as a sphere +of Mind, He cannot know beginning or end.</p> + +<p>The spiritual interpretation of the vicarious atonement of Jesus, in +Christian Science, unfolds the full-orbed glory of that event; but to +regard this wonder of glory, this most marvellous demonstration, as a +personal and material bloodgiving—or as a proof that sin is known to the +divine Mind, and that what is unlike God demands His continual presence, +knowledge, and power, to meet and master it—would make the atonement to be +less than the <i>at-one-ment</i>, whereby the work of Jesus would lose its +efficacy and lack the "signs following."</p> + +<p>From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures teach an infinite God, and none +beside Him; and on this basis Messiah and prophet saved the sinner and +raised the dead,—uplifting the human understanding, buried in a false +sense of being. Jesus rendered null and void whatever is unlike God; but he +could not have done this if error and sin existed in the Mind of God. What +God knows, He also predestinates; and it must be fulfilled. Jesus <a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a>proved +to perfection, so far as this could be done in that age, what Christian +Science is to-day proving in a small degree,—the falsity of the evidence +of the material senses that sin, sickness, and death are sensible claims, +and that God substantiates their evidence by knowing their claim. He +established the only true idealism on the basis that God is All, and He is +good, and good is Spirit; hence there is no intelligent sin, evil <i>mind</i> or +matter: and this is the only true philosophy and realism. This divine +mystery of godliness was the rock of Truth, on which he built his Church of +the new-born, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail.</p> + +<p>This Truth is the rock which the builders rejected; but "the same is become +the head of the corner." This is the chief corner-stone, the basis and +support of creation, the interpreter of one God, the infinity and unity of +good.</p> + +<p>In proportion as mortals approximate the understanding of Christian +Science, they take hold of harmony, and material incumbrance disappears. +Having one God, one Mind, one consciousness,—which includes only His own +nature,—and loving your neighbor as yourself, constitute Christian +Science, which must demonstrate the nothingness of any other state or stage +of being.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Is_There_no_Intercessory_Prayer" id="Is_There_no_Intercessory_Prayer"></a><span class="smcap">Is There no Intercessory Prayer?</span></h2> + + +<p>All prayer that is desire is intercessory; but kindling desire loses a part +of its purest spirituality if the lips try to <a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a>express it. It is a truism +that we can think more lucidly and profoundly than we can write or speak. +The silent intercession and unvoiced imploring is an honest and potent +prayer to heal and save. The audible prayer may be offered to be heard of +men, though ostensibly to catch God's ear,—after the fashion of Baal's +prophets,—by speaking loud enough to be heard; but when the heart prays, +and not the lips, no dishonesty or vanity influences the petition.</p> + +<p>Prophet and apostle have glorified God in secret prayer, and He has +rewarded them openly. Prayer can neither change God, nor bring His designs +into mortal modes; but it can and does change our modes and our false sense +of Life, Love, and Truth, uplifting us to Him. Such prayer humiliates, +purifies, and quickens activity, in the direction that is unerring.</p> + +<p>True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to +include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love +wherewith He loves us. Prayer begets an awakened desire to be and do good. +It makes new and scientific discoveries of God, of His goodness and power. +It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already have and are; +and most of all, it shows us what God is. Advancing in this light, we +reflect it; and this light reveals the pure Mind-pictures, in silent +prayer, even as photography grasps the solar light to portray the face of +pleasant thought.</p> + +<p>What but silent prayer can meet the demand, "Pray <a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a>without ceasing"? The +apostle James said: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, to +consume it on your lusts." Because of vanity and self-righteousness, +mortals seek, and expect to receive, a material sense of approval; and they +expect also what is impossible,—a material and mortal sense of spiritual +and immortal Truth.</p> + +<p>It is sometimes wise to hide from dull and base ears the pure pearls of +awakened consciousness, lest your pearls be trampled upon. Words may belie +desire, and pour forth a hypocrite's prayer; but thoughts are our honest +conviction. I have no objection to audible prayer of the right kind; but +the inaudible is more effectual.</p> + +<p>I instruct my students to pursue their mental ministrations very sacredly, +and never to touch the human thought save to issues of Truth; never to +trespass mentally on individual rights; never to take away the rights, but +only the wrongs of mankind. Otherwise they forfeit their ability to heal in +Science. Only when sickness, sin, and fear obstruct the harmony of Mind and +body, is it right for one mind to meddle with another mind, and control +aright the thought struggling for freedom.</p> + +<p>It is Truth and Love that cast out fear and heal the sick, and mankind are +better because of this. If a change in the religious views of the patient +comes with the change to health, our Father has done this; for the human +mind and body are made better only by divine influence.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a></p> +<h2><a name="Should_Christians_Beware_of_Christian_Science" id="Should_Christians_Beware_of_Christian_Science"></a><span class="smcap">Should Christians Beware of Christian Science?</span></h2> + + +<p>History repeats itself. The Pharisees of old warned the people to beware of +Jesus, and contemptuously called him "this fellow." Jesus said, "For which +of these works do ye stone me?" as much as to ask, Is it the work most +derided and envied that is most acceptable to God? Not that he would cease +to do the will of his Father on account of persecution, but he would repeat +his work to the best advantage for mankind and the glory of his Father.</p> + +<p>There are sinners in all societies, and it is vain to look for perfection +in churches or associations. The life of Christ is the perfect example; and +to compare mortal lives with this model is to subject them to severe +scrutiny. Without question, the subtlest forms of sin are trying to force +the doors of Science and enter in; but this white sanctuary will never +admit such as come to steal and to rob. Through long ages people have +slumbered over Christ's commands, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the +gospel;" "Heal the sick, cast out devils;" and now the Church seems almost +chagrined that by new discoveries of Truth sin is losing prestige and +power.</p> + +<p>The Rev. Dr. A.J. Gordon, a Boston Baptist clergyman, said in a sermon: +"The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and it is doing it to-day; and as +the faith of the Church <a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a>increases, and Christians more and more learn +their duty to believe all things written in the Scriptures, will such +manifestations of God's power increase among us." Such sentiments are +wholesome avowals of Christian Science. God is not unable or unwilling to +heal, and mortals are not compelled to have other gods before Him, and +employ material forms to meet a mental want. The divine Spirit supplies all +human needs. Jesus said to the sick, "Thy sins are forgiven thee; rise up +and walk!" God's pardon is the destruction of all "the ills that flesh is +heir to."</p> + +<p>All power belongs to God; and it is not in all the vain power of dogma and +philosophy to dispossess the divine Mind of healing power, or to cast out +error with error, even in the name and for the sake of Christ, and so heal +the sick. While Science is engulfing error in bottomless oblivion, the +material senses would enthrone error as omnipotent and omnipresent, with +power to determine the fact and fate to being. It is said that the devil is +the ape of God. The lie of evil holds its own by declaring itself both true +and good. The path of Christian Science is beset with false claimants, +aping its virtues, but cleaving to their own vices. Denial of the +authorship of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" would make a +lie the author of Truth, and so make Truth itself a lie.</p> + +<p>A distinguished clergyman came to be healed. He said: "I am suffering from +nervous prostration, and have to eat beefsteak and drink strong coffee to +support me through a sermon." Here a skeptic might well ask if the +atonement <a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a>had lost its efficacy for him, and if Christ's power to heal was +not equal to the power of daily meat and drink. The power of Truth is not +contingent on matter. Our Master said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and +are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Truth rebukes error; and +whether stall-fed or famishing, theology needs Truth to stimulate and +sustain a good sermon.</p> + +<p>A lady said: "Only He who knows all things can estimate the good your books +are doing."</p> + +<p>A distinguished Doctor of Divinity said: "Your book leavens my sermons."</p> + +<p>The following extract from a letter is a specimen of those received daily: +"Your book Science and Health is healing the sick, binding up the +broken-hearted, preaching deliverance to the captive, convicting the +infidel, alarming the hypocrite, and quickening the Christian."</p> + +<p>Christian Science Mind-healing is dishonored by those who take it up from +mercenary motives, for wealth and fame, or think to build a baseless fabric +of their own on another's foundation. They cannot put the "new wine into +old bottles;" they can never engraft Truth into error. Such students come +to my College to learn a system which they go away to disgrace. Stealing or +garbling my statements of Mind-science will never prevent or reconstruct +the wrecks of "<i>isms</i>" and help humanity.</p> + +<p>Science often suffers blame through the sheer ignorance of people, while +envy and hatred bark and bite at its heels. A man's inability to heal, on +the Principle of Christian<a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a> Science, substantiates his ignorance of its +Principle and practice, and incapacitates him for correct comment. This +failure should make him modest.</p> + +<p>Christian Science involves a new language, and a higher demonstration of +medicine and religion. It is the "new tongue" of Truth, having its best +interpretation in the power of Christianity to heal. My system of +Mind-healing swerves not from the highest ethics and from the spiritual +goal. To climb up by some other way than Truth is to fall. Error has no +hobby, however boldly ridden or brilliantly caparisoned, that can leap into +the sanctum of Christian Science.</p> + +<p>In Queen Elizabeth's time Protestantism could sentence men to the dungeon +or stake for their religion, and so abrogate the rights of conscience and +choke the channels of God. Ecclesiastical tyranny muzzled the mouth lisping +God's praise; and instead of healing, it palsied the weak hand outstretched +to God. Progress, legitimate to the human race, pours the healing balm of +Truth and Love into every wound. It reassures us that no Reign of Terror or +rule of error will again unite Church and State, or re-enact, through the +civil arm of government, the horrors of religious persecution.</p> + +<p>The Rev. S.E. Herrick, a Congregational clergyman of Boston, says: +"Heretics of yesterday are martyrs to-day." In every age and clime, "On +earth peace, good will toward men" must be the watchword of Christianity.</p> + +<p>Jesus said: "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven <a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a>and earth, that Thou +hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them +unto babes."</p> + +<p>St. Paul said that without charity we are "as sounding brass, or a tinkling +cymbal;" and he added: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; ... doth not +behave itself unseemly, ... thinketh no evil, ... but rejoiceth in the +truth."</p> + +<p>To hinder the unfolding truth, to ostracize whatever uplifts mankind, is of +course out of the question. Such an attempt indicates weakness, fear, or +malice; and such efforts arise from a spiritual lack, felt, though +unacknowledged.</p> + +<p>Let it not be heard in Boston that woman, "last at the cross and first at +the sepulchre," has no rights which man is bound to respect. In natural law +and in religion the right of woman to fill the highest measure of +enlightened understanding and the highest places in government, is +inalienable, and these rights are ably vindicated by the noblest of both +sexes. This is woman's hour, with all its sweet amenities and its moral and +religious reforms.</p> + +<p>Drifting into intellectual wrestlings, we should agree to disagree; and +this harmony would anchor the Church in more spiritual latitudes, and so +fulfil her destiny.</p> + +<p>Let the Word have free course and be glorified. The people clamor to leave +cradle and swaddling-clothes. The spiritual status is urging its highest +demands on mortals, and material history is drawing to a close. Truth +cannot be stereotyped; it unfoldeth forever. "One on God's <a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a>side is a +majority;" and "Lo, I am with you alway," is the pledge of the Master.</p> + +<p>The question now at issue is: Shall we have a practical, spiritual +Christianity, with its healing power, or shall we have material medicine +and superficial religion? The advancing hope of the race, craving health +and holiness, halts for a reply; and the reappearing Christ, whose +life-giving understanding Christian Science imparts, must answer the +constant inquiry: "Art thou he that should come?" Woman should not be +ordered to the rear, or laid on the rack, for joining the overture of +angels. Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moral agency; but they +should begin by admitting individual rights.</p> + +<p>The author's ancestors were among the first settlers of New Hampshire. They +reared there the Puritan standard of undefiled religion. As dutiful +descendants of Puritans, let us lift their standard higher, rejoicing, as +Paul did, that we are <i>free born</i>.</p> + +<p>Man has a noble destiny; and the full-orbed significance of this destiny +has dawned on the sick-bound and sin-enslaved. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: No and Yes + + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + + + +Release Date: August 30, 2005 [eBook #16624] +Updated: June 25, 2017 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND YES*** + + +E-text prepared by Justin Gillbank, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) + + + +NO AND YES + +by + +MARY BAKER EDDY + +Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures + +Published by The +Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy +Boston, U.S.A. + +Authorized Literature of +The First Church of Christ, Scientist +in Boston, Massachusetts + +1919 + + + + + + + +PREFACE + + +It was the purpose of each edition of this pamphlet to benefit no favored +class, but, according to the apostle's admonition, to "reprove, rebuke, +exhort," and with the power and self-sacrificing spirit of Love to correct +involuntary as well as voluntary error. + +By a modification of the language, the import of this edition is, we trust, +transparent to the hearts of all conscientious laborers in the realm of +Mind-healing. To those who are athirst for the life-giving waters of a true +divinity, it saith tenderly, "Come and drink;" and if you are babes in +Christ, leave the meat and take the unadulterated milk of the Word, until +you grow to apprehend the pure spirituality of Truth. + +MARY BAKER EDDY + + + + +CONTENTS + + +PREFACE + +INTRODUCTION + +DISEASE UNREAL + +SCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OF THE SAME LINEAGE AS SPIRITUALISM OR THEOSOPHY? + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FROM BENEATH, AND NOT FROM ABOVE? + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC? + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS? + +IS THERE A PERSONAL DEITY? + +IS THERE A PERSONAL DEVIL? + +IS MAN A PERSON? + +HAS MAN A SOUL? + +IS SIN FORGIVEN? + +IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN? + +IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT? + +IS THERE NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER? + +SHOULD CHRISTIANS BEWARE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE? + + + + +NO AND YES + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +To kindle in all minds a common sentiment of regard for the spiritual idea +emanating from the infinite, is a most needful work; but this must be done +gradually, for Truth is as "the still, small voice," which comes to our +recognition only as our natures are changed by its silent influence. + +Small streams are noisy and rush precipitately; and babbling brooks fill +the rivers till they rise in floods, demolishing bridges and overwhelming +cities. So men, when thrilled by a new idea, are sometimes impatient; and, +when public sentiment is aroused, are liable to be borne on by the current +of feeling. They should then turn temporarily from the tumult, for the +silent cultivation of the true idea and the quiet practice of its virtues. +When the noise and stir of contending sentiments cease, and the flames die +away on the mount of revelation, we can read more clearly the tablets of +Truth. + +The theology and medicine of Jesus were one,--in the divine oneness of the +trinity, Life, Truth, and Love, which healed the sick and cleansed the +sinful. This trinity in unity, correcting the individual thought, is the +only Mind-healing I vindicate; and on its standard have emblazoned that +crystallized expression, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. + +A spurious and hydra-headed mind-healing is naturally glared at by the +pulpit, ostracized by the medical faculty, and scorned by people of common +sense. To aver that disease is normal, a God-bestowed and stubborn reality, +but that you can heal it, leaves you to work against that which is natural +and a law of being. It is scientific to rob disease of all reality; and to +accomplish this, you cannot begin by admitting its reality. Our Master +taught his students to deny self, sense, and take up the cross. Mental +healers who admit that disease is real should be made to test the +feasibility of what they say by healing one case audibly, through such an +admission,--if this is possible. I have healed more disease by the spoken +than the unspoken word. + +The honest student of Christian Science is modest in his claims and +conscientious in duty, waiting and working to mature what he has been +taught. Institutes furnished with such teachers are becoming beacon-lights +along the shores of erudition; and many who are not teachers have large +practices and some marked success in healing the most defiant forms of +disease. + +Dishonesty destroys one's ability to heal mentally. Conceit cannot avert +the effects of deceit. Taking advantage of the present ignorance in +relation to Christian Science Mind-healing, many are flooding our land with +conflicting theories and practice. We should not spread abroad patchwork +ideas that in some vital points lack Science. How sad it is that envy will +bend its bow and shoot its arrow at the idea which claims only its +inheritance, is naturally modest, generous, and sincere! while the +trespassing error murders either friend or foe who stands in its way. Truly +it is better to fall into the hands of God, than of man. + +When I revised "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in 1878, +some irresponsible people insisted that my manual of the practice of +Christian Science Mind-healing should not be made public; but I obeyed a +diviner rule. People dependent on the rules of this practice for their +healing, not having lost the Spirit which sustains the genuine practice, +will put that book in the hands of their patients, whom it will heal, and +recommend it to their students, whom it would enlighten. Every teacher must +pore over it in secret, to keep himself well informed. The Nemesis of the +history of Mind-healing notes this hour. + +Dishonesty necessarily stultifies the spiritual sense which Mind-healers +specially need; and which they must possess, in order to be safe members of +the community. How good and pleasant a thing it is to seek not so much +thine own as another's good, to sow by the wayside for the way-weary, and +trust Love's recompense of love. + +Plagiarism from my writings is so common it is becoming odious to honest +people; and such compilations, instead of possessing the essentials of +Christian Science, are tempting and misleading. + +Reading Science and Health has restored the sick to health; but the task +of learning thoroughly the Science of Mind-healing and demonstrating it +understandingly had better be undertaken in health than sickness. + + + + +DISEASE UNREAL + +Disease is more than _imagination_; it is a human error, a constituent part +of what comprise the whole of mortal existence,--namely, material sensation +and mental delusion. But an erring sense of existence, or the error of +belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn reality. On the +ground that harmony is the truth of being, the Science of Mind-healing +destroys the feasibility of disease; hence error of thought becomes fable +instead of fact. Science demonstrates the reality of Truth and the +unreality of the error. A self-evident proposition, in the Science of +Mind-healing, is that disease is unreal; and the efficacy of my system, +beyond other systems of medicine, vouches for the validity of that +statement. Sin and disease are not scientific, because they embody not the +idea of divine Principle, and are not the phenomena of the immutable laws +of God; and they do not arise from the divine consciousness and true +constituency of being. + +The unreality of sin, disease, and death, rests on the exclusive truth that +being, to be eternal, must be harmonious. All disease must be--and can only +be--healed on this basis. All true Christian Scientists are vindicating, +fearlessly and honestly, the Principle of this grand verity of +Mind-healing. + +In erring mortal thought the reality of Truth has an antipode,--the reality +of error; and disease is one of the severe realities of this error. God has +no opposite in Science. To Truth there is no error. As Truth alone is real, +then it follows that to declare error real would be to make it Truth. +Disease arises from a false and material sense, from the belief that matter +has sensation. Therefore this material sense, which is untrue, is of +necessity unreal. Moreover, this unreal sense substitutes for Truth an +unreal belief,--namely, that life and health are independent of God, and +dependent on material conditions. Material sense also avers that Spirit, or +Truth, cannot restore health and perpetuate life, but that material +conditions can and do destroy both human health and life. + +If disease is as real as health, and is itself a state of being, and yet is +arrayed against being, then Mind, or God, does not meddle with it. Disease +becomes indeed a stubborn reality, and man is mortal. A "kingdom divided +against itself is brought to desolation;" therefore the mind that attacks a +normal and real condition of man, is profanely tampering with the realities +of God and His laws. Metaphysical healing is a lost jewel in this +misconception of reality. Any contradictory fusion of Truth with error, in +both theory and practice, prevents one from healing scientifically, and +makes the last state of one's patients worse than the first. If disease is +real it is not illusive, and it certainly would contradict the Science of +Mind-healing to attempt to destroy the realities of Mind in order to heal +the sick. + +On the theory that God's formations are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal, +and that God is the only creator, Christian Science refutes the validity of +the testimony of the senses, which take cognizance of their own +phenomena,--sickness, disease, and death. This refutation is indispensable +to the destruction of false evidence, and the consequent cure of the +sick,--as all understand who practise the true Science of Mind-healing. If, +as the error indicates, the evidence of disease is not false, then disease +cannot be healed by denying its validity; and this is why the mistaken +healer is not successful, trying to heal on a material basis. + +The evidence that the earth is motionless and the sun revolves around our +planet, is as sensible and real as the evidence for disease; but Science +determines the evidence in both cases to be unreal. To material sense it is +plain also that the error of the revolution of the sun around the earth is +more apparent than the adverse but true Science of the stellar universe. +Copernicus has shown that what appears real, to material sense and feeling, +is absolutely unreal. Astronomy, optics, acoustics, and hydraulics are all +at war with the testimony of the physical senses. This fact intimates that +the laws of Science are mental, not material; and Christian Science +demonstrates this. + + + + +SCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING + + +The rule of divinity is golden; to be wise and true rejoices every heart. +But evil influences waver the scales of justice and mercy. No personal +considerations should allow any root of bitterness to spring up between +Christian Scientists, nor cause any misapprehension as to the motives of +others. We must love our enemies, and continue to do so unto the end. By +the love of God we can cancel error in our own hearts, and blot it out of +others. + +Sooner or later the eyes of sinful mortals must be opened to see every +error they possess, and the way out of it; and they will "flee as a bird to +your mountain," away from the enemy of sinning sense, stubborn will, and +every imperfection in the land of Sodom, and find rescue and refuge in +Truth and Love. + +Every loving sacrifice for the good of others is known to God, and the +wrath of man cannot hide it from Him. God has appointed for Christian +Scientists high tasks, and will not release them from the strict +performance of each one of them. The students must now fight their own +battles. I recommend that Scientists draw no lines whatever between one +person and another, but think, speak, teach, and write the truth of +Christian Science without reference to right or wrong personality in this +field of labor. Leave the distinctions of individual character and the +discriminations and guidance thereof to the Father, whose wisdom is +unerring and whose love is universal. + +We should endeavor to be long-suffering, faithful, and charitable with all. +To this small effort let us add one more privilege--namely, silence +whenever it can substitute censure. Avoid voicing error; but utter the +truth of God and the beauty of holiness, the joy of Love and "the peace of +God, that passeth all understanding," recommending to all men fellowship in +the bonds of Christ. Advise students to rebuke each other always in love, +as I have rebuked them. Having discharged this duty, counsel each other to +work out his own salvation, without fear or doubt, knowing that God will +make the wrath of man to praise Him, and that the remainder thereof He will +restrain. We can rejoice that every germ of goodness will at last struggle +into freedom and greatness, and every sin will so punish itself that it +will bow down to the commandments of Christ,--Truth and Love. + +I enjoin it upon my students to hold no controversy or enmity over +doctrines and traditions, or over the misconceptions of Christian Science, +but to work, watch, and pray for the amelioration of sin, sickness, and +death. If one be found who is too blind for instruction, no longer cast +your pearls before this state of mortal mind, lest it turn and rend you; +but quietly, with benediction and hope, let the unwise pass by, while you +walk on in equanimity, and with increased power, patience, and +understanding, gained from your forbearance. This counsel is not new, as +my Christian students can testify; and if it had been heeded in times past +it would have prevented, to a great extent, the factions which have sprung +up among Scientists to the hindrance of the Cause of Truth. It is true that +the mistakes, prejudices, and errors of one class of thinkers must not be +introduced or established among another class who are clearer and more +conscientious in their convictions; but this one thing can be done, and +should be: let your opponents alone, and use no influence to prevent their +legitimate action from their own standpoint of experience, knowing, as you +should, that God will well regenerate and separate wisely and finally; +whereas you may err in effort, and lose your fruition. + +Hoping to pacify repeated complaints and murmurings against too great +leniency, on my part, towards some of my students who fall into error, I +have opposed occasionally and strongly--especially in the first edition of +this little work--existing wrongs of the nature referred to. But I now +point steadfastly to the power of grace to overcome evil with good. God +will "furnish a table in the wilderness" and show the power of Love. + +Science is not the shibboleth of a sect or the cabalistic insignia of +philosophy; it excludes all error and includes all Truth. More mistakes are +made in its name than this period comprehends. Divinely defined, Science is +the atmosphere of God; humanly construed, and according to Webster, it is +"knowledge, duly arranged and referred to general truths and principles on +which it is founded, and from which it is derived." I employ this +awe-filled word in both a divine and human sense; but I insist that +Christian Science is demonstrably as true, relative to the unseen verities +of being, as any proof that can be given of the completeness of Science. + +The two largest words in the vocabulary of thought are "Christian" and +"Science." The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and +interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses +the ALL-God. The life of Christ is the predicate and postulate of +all that I teach, and there is but one standard statement, one rule, and +one Principle for all scientific truth. + +My hygienic system rests on Mind, the eternal Truth. What is termed matter, +or relates to its so-called attributes, is a self-destroying error. When a +so-called material sense is lost, and Truth restores that lost sense,--on +the basis that all consciousness is Mind and eternal,--the former position, +that sense is organic and material, is proven erroneous. + +The feasibility and immobility of Christian Science unveil the true +idea,--namely, that earth's discords have not the reality of Mind in the +Science of being; and this idea--dematerializing and spiritualizing +mortals--turns like the needle to the pole all hope and faith to God, based +as it is on His omnipotence and omnipresence. + +Eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena of +being, governed by the immutable and eternal laws of God; whereas matter +and human will, intellect, desire, and fear, are not the creators, +controllers, nor destroyers of life or its harmonies. Man has an immortal +Soul, a divine Principle, and an eternal being. Man has perpetual +individuality; and God's laws, and their intelligent and harmonious action, +constitute his individuality in the Science of Soul. + +In its literary expression, my system of Christian metaphysics is hampered +by material terms, which must be used to indicate thoughts that are to be +understood metaphysically. As a Science, this system is held back by the +common ignorance of what it is and what it does, and (worse still) by those +who come falsely in its name. To be appreciated, Science must be understood +and conscientiously introduced. If the Bible and Science and Health had the +place in schools of learning that physiology occupies, they would +revolutionize and reform the world, through the power of Christ. It is true +that it requires more study to understand and demonstrate what these works +teach, than to learn theology, physiology, or physics; because they teach +divine Science, with fixed Principle, given rule, and unmistakable proof. + +Ancient and modern human philosophy are inadequate to grasp the Principle +of Christian Science, or to demonstrate it. Revelation shows this +Principle, and will rescue reason from the thrall of error. Revelation must +subdue the sophistry of intellect, and spiritualize consciousness with the +dictum and the demonstration of Truth and Love. Christian Science +Mind-healing can only be gained by working from a purely Christian +standpoint. Then it heals the sick and exalts the race. The essence of this +Science is right thinking and right acting--leading us to see spirituality +and to be spiritual, to understand and to demonstrate God. + +The Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Church of Christ, Scientist, in +Boston, were the outgrowth of the author's religious experience. After a +lifetime of orthodoxy on the platform of doctrines, rites, and ceremonies, +it became a sacred duty for her to impart to others this new-old knowledge +of God. + +The same affection, desire, and motives which have stimulated true +Christianity in all ages, and given impulse to goodness, in or out of the +Church, have nerved her purpose to build on the new-born conception of the +Christ, as Jesus declared himself,--namely, "the way, the truth, and the +life." Living a true life, casting out evil, healing the sick, and +preaching the gospel of Truth,--these are the ends of Christianity. This +divine way impels a spiritualization of thought and method, beyond doctrine +and ritual; and in nothing else has she departed from the old landmarks. + +The unveiled spiritual signification of the Word so enlarges our sense of +God that it makes both sense and Soul, man and Life, immaterial, though +still individual. It removes all limits from divine power. God must be +found all instead of a part of being, and man the reflection of His power +and goodness. This Science rebukes sin with its own nothingness, and thus +destroys sin quickly and utterly. It makes disease unreal, and this heals +it. + +The demonstration of moral and physical growth, and a scientific deduction +from the Principle of all harmony, declare both the Principle and idea to +be divine. If this be true, then death must be swallowed up in Life, and +the prophecy of Jesus fulfilled, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me +shall never die." Though centuries passed after those words were originally +uttered, before this reappearing of Truth, and though the hiatus be longer +still before that saying is demonstrated in Life that knows no death, the +declaration is nevertheless true, and remains a clear and profound +deduction from Christian Science. + + + + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OF THE SAME LINEAGE AS SPIRITUALISM OR +THEOSOPHY? + + +Science is not susceptible of being held as a mere theory. It is hoary with +time. It takes hold of eternity, voices the infinite, and governs the +universe. No greater opposites can be conceived of, physically, morally, +and spiritually, than Christian Science, spiritualism, and theosophy. + +Science and Health has effected a revolution in the minds of thinkers on +the subject of mediumship, and given impulse to reason and revelation, +goodness and virtue. A theory may be sound in spots, and sparkle like a +diamond, while other parts of it have no lustre. Christian Science is +sound in every part. It is neither warped nor misconceived, when properly +demonstrated. If a spiritualist medium understood the Science of +Mind-healing, he would know that between those who have and those who have +not passed the transition called death, there can be no interchange of +consciousness, and that all sensible phenomena are merely subjective states +of mortal mind. + +Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism. This corruption had a renewal in the +Neoplatonic philosophy; but it sprang from the Oriental philosophy of +Brahmanism, and blends with its magic and enchantments. Theosophy is no +more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the +sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern +sky are to solar heat and light. + + + + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FROM BENEATH, AND NOT FROM ABOVE? + + +Hear the words of our Master: "Go ye into all the world"! "Heal the sick, +cast out devils"! Christian Scientists, perhaps more than any other +religious sect, are obeying these commands; and the injunctions are not +confined to Jesus' students in that age, but they extend to this age,--to +as many as shall believe on him. The demand and example of Jesus were not +from beneath. Are frozen dogmas, persistent persecution, and the doctrine +of eternal damnation, from above? Are the dews of divine Truth, falling on +the sick and sinner, to heal them, from beneath? "By their fruits ye shall +know them." + +Reading my books, without prejudice, would convince all that their purpose +is right. The comprehension of my teachings would enable any one to prove +these books to be filled with blessings for the whole human family. +Fatiguing Bible translations and voluminous commentaries are employed to +explain and prop old creeds, and they have the civil and religious arms in +their defense; then why should not these be equally extended to support the +Christianity that heals the sick? The notions of personality to be found in +creeds are far more mystic than Mind-healing. It is no easy matter to +believe there are three persons in one person, and that one person is cast +out of another person. These conceptions of Deity and devil presuppose an +impotent God and an incredible Satan. + + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC? + +Christian Science refutes pantheism, finds Spirit neither in matter nor in +the modes of mortal mind. It shows that matter and mortal mind have neither +origin nor existence in the eternal Mind. Thinking otherwise is what +estranges mortals from divine Life and Love. God is All-in-all. He is +Spirit; and in nothing is He unlike Himself. Nothing that "worketh or +maketh a lie" is to be found in the divine consciousness. For God to know, +is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist. If He +knows matter, and matter can exist in Mind, then mortality and discord must +be eternal. He is Mind; and whatever He knows is made manifest, and must be +Truth. + +If God knows evil even as a false claim, this knowledge would manifest evil +in Him and proceeding from Him. Christian Science shows that matter, evil, +sin, sickness, and death are but negations of Spirit, Truth, and Life, +which are positives that cannot be gainsaid. The subjective states of evil, +called mortal mind or matter, are negatives destitute of time and space; +for there is none beside God or Spirit and the idea of Spirit. + +This infinite logic is the infinite light,--uncomprehended, yet forever +giving forth more light, because it has no darkness to emit. Mortals do not +understand the All; hence their inference of some other existence beside +God and His true likeness,--of something unlike Him. He who is All, +understands all. He can have no knowledge or inference but His own +consciousness, and can take in no more than all. + +The mists of matter--sin, sickness, and death--disappear in proportion as +mortals approach Spirit, which is the reality of being. It is not enough to +say that matter is the substratum of evil, and that its highest attenuation +is mortal mind; for there is, strictly speaking, _no_ mortal mind. Mind is +immortal. Death is the consequent of an antecedent false assumption of the +realness of something unreal, material, and mortal. If God knows the +antecedent, He must produce its consequences. From this logic there is no +escape. Matter, or evil, is the absence of Spirit or good. Their +nothingness is thus proven; for God is good, ever-present, and All. + +"In Him we live, and move, and have our being;" consequently it is +impossible for the true man--who is a spiritual and individual being, +created in the eternal Science of being--to be conscious of aught but good. +God's image and likeness can never be less than a good man; and for man to +be more than God's likeness is impossible. Man is the climax of creation; +and God is not without an ever-present witness, testifying of Himself. +Matter, or any mode of mortal mind, is neither part nor parcel of divine +consciousness and God's verity. + +In Science there is no fallen state of being; for therein is no inverted +image of God, no escape from the focal radiation of the infinite. Hence the +unreality of error, and the truth of the Scripture, that there is "none +beside Him." If mortals could grasp these two words _all_ and _nothing_, +this mystery of a God who has no knowledge of sin would disappear, and the +eternal, infinite harmony would be fathomed. If God could know a false +claim, false knowledge would be a part of His consciousness. Then evil +would be as real as good, sickness as real as health, death as real as +Life; and sickness, sin, and death would be as eternal as God. + + + + +IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS? + + +Blasphemy has never diminished sin and sickness, nor acknowledged God in +all His ways. Blasphemy rebukes not the godless lie that denies Him as +All-in-all, nor does it ascribe to Him all presence, power, and glory. +Christian Science does this. If Science lacked the proof of its origin in +God, it would be self-destructive, for it rests alone on the demonstration +of God's supremacy and omnipotence. Right thinking and right acting, +physical and moral harmony, come with Science, and the secret of its +presence lies in the universal need of better health and morals. + +Human theories, when weighed in the balance, are found unequal to the +demonstration of divine Life and Love; and their highest endeavors are, to +divine Science, what a child's love of pictures is to art. A child, in his +ignorance, may imagine the face of Dante to be the rapt face of Jesus. Thus +falsely may the human conceive of the Divine. If the schoolmaster is not +Christ, the school gets things wrong, and knows it not; but the teacher is +morally responsible. + +Good health and a more spiritual religion are the common wants; and these +wants have wrought this moral result,--that the so-called mortal mind asks +for what Mind alone can supply. This demand militates against the so-called +demands of matter, and regulates the present high premium on Mind-healing. +If the uniform moral and spiritual, as well as physical, effects of +Christian Science were lacking, the premium would go down. That it +continues to rise, and the demand to increase, shows its real value to the +race. Even doctors will agree that infidelity, ignorance, and quackery have +never met the growing wants of humanity. Christian Science is no "Boston +craze;" it is the sober second thought of advancing humanity. + + + + +IS THERE A PERSONAL DEITY? + + +God is infinite. He is neither a limited mind nor a limited body. God is +Love; and Love is Principle, not person. What the person of the infinite +is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the +fatherliness of this Supreme Being. God is individual, and man is His +individualized idea. While material man and the physical senses receive no +spiritual idea, and feel no sensation of divine Love, spiritual man and his +spiritual senses are drinking in the nature and essence of the individual +infinite. A sinful sense is incompetent to understand the realities of +being,--that Life is God, and that man is in His image and likeness. A +sinner can take no cognizance of the noumenon or the phenomena of Spirit; +but leaving sin, sense rises to the fulness of the stature of man in +Christ. + +Person is formed after the manner of mortal man, so far as he can conceive +of personality. Limitless personality is inconceivable. His person and +perfection are neither self-created, nor discerned through imperfection; +and of God as a person, human reason, imagination, and revelation give us +no knowledge. Error would fashion Deity in a manlike mould, while Truth is +moulding a Godlike man. + +When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant +or cold, until better apprehended. This Principle is Mind, substance, Life, +Truth, Love. When understood, Principle is found to be the only term that +fully conveys the ideas of God,--one Mind, a perfect man, and divine +Science. As the divine Principle is comprehended, God's omnipotence and +omnipresence will dawn on mortals, and the notion of an everywhere-present +body--or of an infinite Mind starting from a finite body, and returning to +it--will disappear. + +Ever-present Love must seem ever absent to ever-present selfishness or +material sense. Hence this asking amiss and receiving not, and the common +idolatry of man-worship. In divine Science, God is recognized as the only +power, presence, and glory. + +Adam's mistiness and Satan's reasoning, ever since the flood,--when +specimens of every kind emerged from the ark,--have run through the veins +of all human philosophy. Human reason is a blind guide, a continued series +of mortal hypotheses, antagonistic to Revelation and Science. It is +continually straying into forbidden by-paths of sensualism, contrary to +the life and teachings of Jesus and Paul, and the vision of the Apocalypse. +Human philosophy has ninety-nine parts of error to the one-hundredth part +of Truth,--an unsafe decoction for the race. The Science that Jesus +demonstrated, whose views of Truth Confucius and Plato but dimly discerned, +Science and Health interprets. It was not a search after wisdom; it was +wisdom, and it grasped in spiritual law the universe,--all time, space, +immortality, thought, extension. This Science demonstrated the Principle of +all phenomena, identity, individuality, law; and showed man as reflecting +God and the divine capacity. Human philosophy would dethrone perfection, +and substitute matter and evil for divine means and ends. + +Human philosophy has an undeveloped God, who unfolds Himself through +material modes, wherein the human and divine mingle in the same realm and +consciousness. This is rank infidelity; because by it we lose God's ways +and perpetuate the supposed power and reality of evil _ad infinitum_. +Christian Science rends this veil in the pantheon of many gods, and +reproduces the teachings of Jesus, whose philosophy is incontestable, bears +the strain of time, and brings in the glories of eternity; "for other +foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." + +Divine philosophy is demonstrably the true idea of the Christ, wherein +Principle heals and saves. A philosophy which cannot heal the sick has +little resemblance to Science, and is, to say the least, like a cloud +without rain, "driven about by every wind of doctrine." Such philosophy +has certainly not touched the hem of the Christ garment. + +Leibnitz, Descartes, Fichte, Hegel, Spinoza, Bishop Berkeley, were once +clothed with a "brief authority;" but Berkeley ended his metaphysical +theory with a treatise on the healing properties of tar-water, and Hegel +was an inveterate snuff-taker. The circumlocution and cold categories of +Kant fail to improve the conditions of mortals, morally, spiritually, or +physically. Such miscalled metaphysical systems are reeds shaken by the +wind. Compared with the inspired wisdom and infinite meaning of the Word of +Truth, they are as moonbeams to the sun, or as Stygian night to the +kindling dawn. + + + + +IS THERE A PERSONAL DEVIL? + + +No man hath seen the person of good or of evil. Each is greater than the +corporeality we behold. + +"He cast out _devils_." This record shows that the term devil is generic, +being used in the plural number. From this it follows that there is more +than one devil. That Jesus cast several persons out of another person, is +not stated, and is impossible. Hence the passage must refer to the _evils_ +which were cast out. + +Jesus defined devil as a mortal who is full of evil. "Have I not chosen you +twelve, and one of you _is a devil_?" His definition of evil indicated his +ability to cast it out. An incorrect concept of the nature of evil hinders +the destruction of evil. To conceive of God as resembling--in personality, +or form--the personality that Jesus condemned as devilish, is fraught with +spiritual danger. Evil can neither grasp the prerogative of God nor make +evil omnipotent and omnipresent. + +Jesus said to Peter, "Get thee behind me, Satan;" but he to whom our Lord +gave the keys of the kingdom could not have been wholly evil, and therefore +was not a _devil_, after the accepted definition. Out of the Magdalen, +Jesus cast seven devils; but not one person was named among them. According +to Crabtre, these devils were the diseases Jesus cast out. + +The most eminent divines, in Europe and America, concede that the +Scriptures have both a literal and a moral meaning. Which of the two is the +more important to gain,--the literal or the moral sense of the word +_devil_,--in order to cast out this devil? Evil is a quality, not an +individual. + +As mortals, we need to discern the claims of evil, and to fight these +claims, not as realities, but as illusions; but Deity can have no such +warfare against Himself. Knowledge of a man's physical personality is not +sufficient to inform us as to the amount of good or evil he possesses. +Hence we cannot understand God or man, through the person of either. God is +All-in-all; but He is definite and individual, the omnipresent and +omniscient Mind; and man's individuality is God's own image and +likeness,--even the immeasurable idea of divine Mind. In the Science of +good, evil loses all place, person, and power. + +According to Spinoza's philosophy God is amplification. He is in all +things, and therefore He is in evil in human thought. He is extension, of +whatever character. Also, according to Spinoza, man is an animal vegetable, +developed through the lower orders of matter and mortal mind. All these +vagaries are at variance with my system of metaphysics, which rests on God +as One and All, and denies the actual existence of both matter and evil. +According to false philosophy and scholastic theology, God is three persons +in one person. By the same token, evil is not only as real as good, but +much more real, since evil subordinates good in personality. + +The claims of evil become both less and more in Christian Science, than in +human philosophies or creeds: _more_, because the evil that is hidden by +dogma and human reason is uncovered by Science; and _less_, because evil, +being thus uncovered, is found out, and exposure is nine points of +destruction. Then appears the grand verity of Christian Science: namely, +that evil has no claims and was never a claimant; for behold evil (or +devil) is, as Jesus said, "a murderer from the beginning, and the truth +abode not in him." + +There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning +all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is +supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no +evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it, +until God becomes the All and Only of our being. Having won through great +tribulation this cardinal point of divine Science, St. Paul said, "But now +we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that +we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the +letter." + + + + +IS MAN A PERSON? + + +Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the +material senses. Mind is more than matter, even as the infinite idea of +Truth is beyond a finite belief. Man outlives finite mortal definitions of +himself, according to a law of "the survival of the fittest." Man is the +eternal idea of his divine Principle, or Father. He is neither matter nor a +mode of mortal mind, for he is spiritual and eternal, an immortal mode of +the divine Mind. Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and +coeternal with Him. + +Man is not absorbed in Deity; for he is forever individual; but what this +everlasting individuality is, remains to be learned. Mortals have not seen +it. That which is born of the flesh is not man's eternal identity. +Spiritual and immortal man alone is God's likeness, and that which is +mortal is not man in a spiritually scientific sense. A material, sinful +mortal is but the counterfeit of immortal man. + +The mind-quacks believe that mortal man is identical with immortal man, +and that the immortal is inside the mortal; that good and evil blend; that +matter and Spirit are one; and that Soul, or Spirit, is subdivided into +spirits, or souls,--_alias_ gods. This infantile talk about Mind-healing is +no more identical with Christian Science than the babe is identical with +the adult, or the human belief resembles the divine idea. Hence it is +impossible for those holding such material and mortal views to demonstrate +my metaphysics. Theirs is the sensuous thought, which brings forth its own +sensuous conception. Mine is the spiritual idea which transfigures thought. + +All real being represents God, and is in Him. In this Science of being, man +can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine Principle, +or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below infinitude. Man's +real ego, or selfhood, is goodness. If man's individuality were evil, he +would be annihilated, for evil is self-destroying. + +Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be His +image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in molecule, +corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of +Science,--in the immutable harmony of divine law. Man is a celestial; and +in the spiritual universe he is forever individual and forever harmonious. +"If God so clothe the grass of the field, ... shall He not much more clothe +you, O ye of little faith?" + +Sin must be obsolete,--dust returning to dust, nothingness to nothingness. +Sin is not Mind; it is but the supposition that there is more than one +Mind. It issues a false claim; and the claim, being worthless, is in +reality no claim whatever. Matter is not Mind, to claim aught; but Mind is +God, and evil finds no place in good. When we get near enough to God to see +this, the springtide of Truth in Christian Science will burst upon us in +the similitude of the Apocalyptic pictures. No night will be there, and +there will be no more sea. There will be no need of the sun, for Spirit +will be the light of the city, and matter will be proved a myth. Until +centuries pass, and this vision of Truth is fully interpreted by divine +Science, this prophecy will be scoffed at; but it is just as veritable now +as it can be then. Science, divine Science, presents the grand and eternal +verities of God and man as the divine Mind and that Mind's idea. + +Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man, and the two should not be +confounded. Bishop Foster said, in a lecture in Boston, "No man living hath +yet seen man." This material sinful personality, which we misname man, is +what St. Paul terms "the old man and his deeds," to be "put off." + +Who can say what the absolute personality of God or man is? Who living hath +seen God or a perfect man? In presence of such thoughts take off thy shoes +and tread lightly, for this is holy ground. Surely the probation of mortals +must go on after the change called death, that they may learn the +definition of immortal being; or else their present mistakes would +extinguish human existence. How long this false sense remains after the +transition called death, no mortal knoweth; but this is sure, that the +mists of error, sooner or later, will melt in the fervent heat of +suffering, mortality will burst the barriers of sense, and man be found +perfect and eternal. Of his intermediate conditions--the purifying +processes and terrible revolutions necessary to effect this end--I am +ignorant. + +Inasmuch as these momentous facts in the Science of being must be learned +some time, now is the most acceptable time for beginning the lesson. If +Science is pointing the way, and is found to bring with it health, +holiness, and immortality, then to-day is none too soon for entering this +path. The proof that Christian Science is the way of salvation given by +Christ, I consider well established. The present, as well as the future, +reveals the fact that Truth is never understood too soon. + +Has Truth, as demonstrated by Jesus, reappeared? Study Christian Science +and practise it, and you will know that Truth has reappeared. What is +demonstrably true cannot be gainsaid; but getting the letter and omitting +the spirit of this Science is neither the comprehension of its Principle +nor the practice of its Life. + + + + +HAS MAN A SOUL? + + +The Scriptures inform us that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." Here +_soul_ means sense and organic life; and this passage refers to the Jewish +law, that a mortal should be put to death for his own sin, but not for +another's. Not Soul, but mortal sense, sins and dies. Immortal man has +immortal Soul and a deathless sense of being. Mortal man has but a false +sense of Soul and body. He believes that Spirit, or Soul, exists in matter. +This is pantheism, and is not the Science of Soul. The mind-quacks have so +slight a knowledge of Soul that they believe material and sinning sense to +be soul; and then they doctor this soul as if it were not even a material +sense. + +In Dr. Gordon's sermon on The Ministry of Healing, he said, "The forgiven +soul in a sick body is not half a man." Is this pantheistic statement sound +theology,--that Soul is in matter, and the immortal part of man a sinner? +Is not this a disparagement of the person of man and a denial of God's +power? Better far that we impute such doctrines to mortal opinion than to +the divine Word. + +To my sense, such a statement is a shocking reflection on the divine power. +A mortal pardoned by God is not sick, he is made whole. He in whom sin, +disease, and death are destroyed, is more than a fraction of himself. Such +sermons, though clad in soft raiment, are spiritless waifs, literary +driftwood on the ocean of thought; while Truth walks triumphantly over the +waves of sin, sickness, and death. + +The law of Life and Truth is the law of Christ, destroying all sense of +sin and death. It does more than forgive the false sense named sin, for it +pursues and punishes it, and will not let sin go until it is +destroyed,--until nothing is left to be forgiven, to suffer, or to be +punished. Forgiven thus, sickness and sin have no relapse. God's law +reaches and destroys evil by virtue of the allness of God. + +He need not know the evil He destroys, any more than the legislator need +know the criminal who is punished by the law enacted. God's law is in three +words, "I am All;" and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim +of another law. God pities our woes with the love of a Father for His +child,--not by becoming human, and knowing sin, or naught, but by removing +our knowledge of what is not. He could not destroy our woes totally if He +possessed any knowledge of them. His sympathy is divine, not human. 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. + +Sympathy with sin, sorrow, and sickness would dethrone God as Truth, for +Truth has no sympathy for error. In Science, the cure of the sick +demonstrates this grand verity of Christian Science, that you cannot +eradicate disease if you admit that God sends it or sees it. Material and +mortal mind-healing (so-called) has for ages been a pretender, but has not +healed mortals; and they are yet sick and sinful. + +Disease and sin appear to-day in subtler forms than they did yesterday. +They progress and will multiply into worse forms, until it is understood +that disease and sin are unreal, _unknown_ to Truth, and never actual +persons or real facts. + +Our phraseology varies. To me _divine pardon_ is that divine presence which +is the sure destruction of sin; and I insist on the destruction of sin as +the only full proof of its pardon. "For this purpose the Son of God was +manifested, that he might _destroy_ the works of the devil" (1 John iii. +8). + +Jesus cast out evils, mediating between what is and is not, until a perfect +consciousness is attained. He healed disease as he healed sin; but he +treated them both, not as in or of matter, but as mortal beliefs to be +exterminated. Physical and mental healing were one and the same with this +master Metaphysician. If the evils called sin, sickness, and death had been +forgiven in the generally accepted sense, they would have returned, to be +again forgiven; but Jesus said to disease: "Come out of him, and enter no +more into him." He said also: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see +death;" and "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in +heaven." The misinterpretation of such passages has retarded the progress +of Christianity and the spiritualization of the race. + +A magistrate's pardon may encourage a criminal to repeat the offense; +because _forgiveness_, in the popular sense of the word, can neither +extinguish a crime nor the motives leading to it. The belief in sin--its +pleasure, pain, or power--must suffer, until it is self-destroyed. +"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." + + + + +IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN? + + +Frequently when I touch this subject my meaning is ignorantly or +maliciously misconstrued. Christian Science Mind-healing lifts with a +steady arm, and cleaves sin with a broad battle-axe. It gives the lie to +sin, in the spirit of Truth; but other theories make sin true. Jesus +declared that the devil was "a liar, and the father of it." A lie is +negation,--_alias_ nothing, or the opposite of something. Good is great and +real. Hence its opposite, named _evil_, must be small and unreal. When this +sense is attained, we shall no longer be the servants of sin, and shall +cease to love it. + +The domination of good destroys the sense of evil. To illustrate: It seems +a great evil to belie and belittle Christian Science, and persecute a Cause +which is healing its thousands and rapidly diminishing the percentage of +sin. But reduce this evil to its lowest terms, _nothing_, and slander +loses its power to harm; for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. The +reduction of evil, in Science, gives the dominance to God, and must lead us +to bless those who curse, that thus we may overcome evil with good. + +If the Bible and my work Science and Health had their rightful place in +schools of learning, they would revolutionize the world by advancing the +kingdom of Christ. It requires sacrifice, struggle, prayer, and +watchfulness to understand and demonstrate what these volumes teach, +because they involve divine Science, with fixed Principle, a given rule, +and unmistakable proof. + + + + +IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT? + + +Self-sacrifice is the highway to heaven. The sacrifice of our blessed Lord +is undeniable, and it was a million times greater than the brief agony of +the cross; for that would have been insufficient to insure the glory his +sacrifice brought and the good it wrought. The spilling of human blood was +inadequate to represent the blood of Christ, the outpouring love that +sustains man's at-one-ment with God; though shedding human blood brought to +light the efficacy of divine Life and Love and its power over death. Jesus' +sacrifice stands preeminently amidst physical suffering and human woe. The +glory of human life is in overcoming sickness, sin, and death. Jesus +suffered for all mortals to bring in this glory; and his purpose was to +show them that the way out of the flesh, out of the delusion of all human +error, must be through the baptism of suffering, leading up to health, +harmony, and heaven. + +We shall leave the ceremonial law when we gain the truer sense of following +Christ in spirit, and we shall no longer venture to materialize the +spiritual and infinite meaning and efficacy of Truth and Love, and the +sacrifice that Jesus made for us, by commemorating his death with a +material rite. Jesus said: "The hour cometh, and now is, when the true +worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." They drink +the cup of Christ and are baptized in the purification of persecution who +discern his true merit,--the unseen glory of suffering for others. Physical +torture affords but a slight illustration of the pangs which come to one +upon whom the world of sense falls with its leaden weight in the endeavor +to crush out of a career its divine destiny. + +The blood of Christ speaketh better things than that of Abel. The real +atonement--so infinitely beyond the heathen conception that God requires +human blood to propitiate His justice and bring His mercy--needs to be +understood. The real blood or Life of Spirit is not yet discerned. Love +bruised and bleeding, yet mounting to the throne of glory in purity and +peace, over the steps of uplifted humanity,--this is the deep significance +of the blood of Christ. Nameless woe, everlasting victories, are the blood, +the vital currents of Christ Jesus' life, purchasing the freedom of mortals +from sin and death. + +This blood of Jesus is everything to human hope and faith. Without it, how +poor the precedents of Christianity! What manner of Science were Christian +Science without the power to demonstrate the Principle of such Life; and +what hope have mortals but through deep humility and adoration to reach the +understanding of this Principle! When human struggles cease, and mortals +yield lovingly to the purpose of divine Love, there will be no more +sickness, sorrow, sin, and death. He who pointed the way of Life conquered +also the drear subtlety of death. + +It was not to appease the wrath of God, but to show the allness of Love and +the nothingness of hate, sin, and death, that Jesus suffered. He lived that +we also might live. He suffered, to show mortals the awful price paid by +sin, and how to avoid paying it. He atoned for the terrible unreality of a +supposed existence apart from God. He suffered because of the shocking +human idolatry that presupposes Life, substance, Soul, and intelligence in +matter,--which is the antipode of God, and yet governs mankind. The +glorious truth of being--namely, that God is the only Mind, Life, +substance, Soul--needs no reconciliation with God, for it is one with Him +now and forever. + +Jesus came announcing Truth, and saying not only "the kingdom of God is at +hand," but "the kingdom of God is within you." Hence there is no sin, for +God's kingdom is everywhere and supreme, and it follows that the human +kingdom is nowhere, and must be _unreal_. Jesus taught and demonstrated +the infinite as one, and not as two. He did not teach that there are two +deities,--one infinite and the other finite; for that would be impossible. +He knew God as infinite, and therefore as the All-in-all; and we shall know +this truth when we awake in the divine likeness. Jesus' true and conscious +being never left heaven for earth. It abode forever above, even while +mortals believed it was here. He once spoke of himself (John iii. 13) as +"the Son of man which is in heaven,"--remarkable words, as wholly opposed +to the popular view of Jesus' nature. + +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. Had he been as +conscious of these evils as he was of God, wherein there is no +consciousness of human error, Jesus could not have resisted them; nor could +he have conquered the malice of his foes, rolled away the stone from the +sepulchre, and risen from human sense to a higher concept than that in +which he appeared at his birth. + +Mankind's concept of Jesus was a babe born in a manger, even while the +divine and ideal Christ was the Son of God, spiritual and eternal. In +human conception God's offspring had to grow, develop; but in Science his +divine nature and manhood were forever complete, and dwelt forever in the +Father. Jesus said, "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power +of God." Mortal thought gives the eternal God and infinite consciousness +the license of a short-lived sinner, to begin and end, to know both evil +and good; when evil is temporal and God is eternal,--and when, as a sphere +of Mind, He cannot know beginning or end. + +The spiritual interpretation of the vicarious atonement of Jesus, in +Christian Science, unfolds the full-orbed glory of that event; but to +regard this wonder of glory, this most marvellous demonstration, as a +personal and material bloodgiving--or as a proof that sin is known to the +divine Mind, and that what is unlike God demands His continual presence, +knowledge, and power, to meet and master it--would make the atonement to be +less than the _at-one-ment_, whereby the work of Jesus would lose its +efficacy and lack the "signs following." + +From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures teach an infinite God, and none +beside Him; and on this basis Messiah and prophet saved the sinner and +raised the dead,--uplifting the human understanding, buried in a false +sense of being. Jesus rendered null and void whatever is unlike God; but he +could not have done this if error and sin existed in the Mind of God. What +God knows, He also predestinates; and it must be fulfilled. Jesus proved +to perfection, so far as this could be done in that age, what Christian +Science is to-day proving in a small degree,--the falsity of the evidence +of the material senses that sin, sickness, and death are sensible claims, +and that God substantiates their evidence by knowing their claim. He +established the only true idealism on the basis that God is All, and He is +good, and good is Spirit; hence there is no intelligent sin, evil _mind_ or +matter: and this is the only true philosophy and realism. This divine +mystery of godliness was the rock of Truth, on which he built his Church of +the new-born, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail. + +This Truth is the rock which the builders rejected; but "the same is become +the head of the corner." This is the chief corner-stone, the basis and +support of creation, the interpreter of one God, the infinity and unity of +good. + +In proportion as mortals approximate the understanding of Christian +Science, they take hold of harmony, and material incumbrance disappears. +Having one God, one Mind, one consciousness,--which includes only His own +nature,--and loving your neighbor as yourself, constitute Christian +Science, which must demonstrate the nothingness of any other state or stage +of being. + + + + +IS THERE NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER? + + +All prayer that is desire is intercessory; but kindling desire loses a part +of its purest spirituality if the lips try to express it. It is a truism +that we can think more lucidly and profoundly than we can write or speak. +The silent intercession and unvoiced imploring is an honest and potent +prayer to heal and save. The audible prayer may be offered to be heard of +men, though ostensibly to catch God's ear,--after the fashion of Baal's +prophets,--by speaking loud enough to be heard; but when the heart prays, +and not the lips, no dishonesty or vanity influences the petition. + +Prophet and apostle have glorified God in secret prayer, and He has +rewarded them openly. Prayer can neither change God, nor bring His designs +into mortal modes; but it can and does change our modes and our false sense +of Life, Love, and Truth, uplifting us to Him. Such prayer humiliates, +purifies, and quickens activity, in the direction that is unerring. + +True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to +include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love +wherewith He loves us. Prayer begets an awakened desire to be and do good. +It makes new and scientific discoveries of God, of His goodness and power. +It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already have and are; +and most of all, it shows us what God is. Advancing in this light, we +reflect it; and this light reveals the pure Mind-pictures, in silent +prayer, even as photography grasps the solar light to portray the face of +pleasant thought. + +What but silent prayer can meet the demand, "Pray without ceasing"? The +apostle James said: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, to +consume it on your lusts." Because of vanity and self-righteousness, +mortals seek, and expect to receive, a material sense of approval; and they +expect also what is impossible,--a material and mortal sense of spiritual +and immortal Truth. + +It is sometimes wise to hide from dull and base ears the pure pearls of +awakened consciousness, lest your pearls be trampled upon. Words may belie +desire, and pour forth a hypocrite's prayer; but thoughts are our honest +conviction. I have no objection to audible prayer of the right kind; but +the inaudible is more effectual. + +I instruct my students to pursue their mental ministrations very sacredly, +and never to touch the human thought save to issues of Truth; never to +trespass mentally on individual rights; never to take away the rights, but +only the wrongs of mankind. Otherwise they forfeit their ability to heal in +Science. Only when sickness, sin, and fear obstruct the harmony of Mind and +body, is it right for one mind to meddle with another mind, and control +aright the thought struggling for freedom. + +It is Truth and Love that cast out fear and heal the sick, and mankind are +better because of this. If a change in the religious views of the patient +comes with the change to health, our Father has done this; for the human +mind and body are made better only by divine influence. + + + + +SHOULD CHRISTIANS BEWARE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE? + + +History repeats itself. The Pharisees of old warned the people to beware of +Jesus, and contemptuously called him "this fellow." Jesus said, "For which +of these works do ye stone me?" as much as to ask, Is it the work most +derided and envied that is most acceptable to God? Not that he would cease +to do the will of his Father on account of persecution, but he would repeat +his work to the best advantage for mankind and the glory of his Father. + +There are sinners in all societies, and it is vain to look for perfection +in churches or associations. The life of Christ is the perfect example; and +to compare mortal lives with this model is to subject them to severe +scrutiny. Without question, the subtlest forms of sin are trying to force +the doors of Science and enter in; but this white sanctuary will never +admit such as come to steal and to rob. Through long ages people have +slumbered over Christ's commands, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the +gospel;" "Heal the sick, cast out devils;" and now the Church seems almost +chagrined that by new discoveries of Truth sin is losing prestige and +power. + +The Rev. Dr. A.J. Gordon, a Boston Baptist clergyman, said in a sermon: +"The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and it is doing it to-day; and as +the faith of the Church increases, and Christians more and more learn +their duty to believe all things written in the Scriptures, will such +manifestations of God's power increase among us." Such sentiments are +wholesome avowals of Christian Science. God is not unable or unwilling to +heal, and mortals are not compelled to have other gods before Him, and +employ material forms to meet a mental want. The divine Spirit supplies all +human needs. Jesus said to the sick, "Thy sins are forgiven thee; rise up +and walk!" God's pardon is the destruction of all "the ills that flesh is +heir to." + +All power belongs to God; and it is not in all the vain power of dogma and +philosophy to dispossess the divine Mind of healing power, or to cast out +error with error, even in the name and for the sake of Christ, and so heal +the sick. While Science is engulfing error in bottomless oblivion, the +material senses would enthrone error as omnipotent and omnipresent, with +power to determine the fact and fate to being. It is said that the devil is +the ape of God. The lie of evil holds its own by declaring itself both true +and good. The path of Christian Science is beset with false claimants, +aping its virtues, but cleaving to their own vices. Denial of the +authorship of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" would make a +lie the author of Truth, and so make Truth itself a lie. + +A distinguished clergyman came to be healed. He said: "I am suffering from +nervous prostration, and have to eat beefsteak and drink strong coffee to +support me through a sermon." Here a skeptic might well ask if the +atonement had lost its efficacy for him, and if Christ's power to heal was +not equal to the power of daily meat and drink. The power of Truth is not +contingent on matter. Our Master said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and +are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Truth rebukes error; and +whether stall-fed or famishing, theology needs Truth to stimulate and +sustain a good sermon. + +A lady said: "Only He who knows all things can estimate the good your books +are doing." + +A distinguished Doctor of Divinity said: "Your book leavens my sermons." + +The following extract from a letter is a specimen of those received daily: +"Your book Science and Health is healing the sick, binding up the +broken-hearted, preaching deliverance to the captive, convicting the +infidel, alarming the hypocrite, and quickening the Christian." + +Christian Science Mind-healing is dishonored by those who take it up from +mercenary motives, for wealth and fame, or think to build a baseless fabric +of their own on another's foundation. They cannot put the "new wine into +old bottles;" they can never engraft Truth into error. Such students come +to my College to learn a system which they go away to disgrace. Stealing or +garbling my statements of Mind-science will never prevent or reconstruct +the wrecks of "_isms_" and help humanity. + +Science often suffers blame through the sheer ignorance of people, while +envy and hatred bark and bite at its heels. A man's inability to heal, on +the Principle of Christian Science, substantiates his ignorance of its +Principle and practice, and incapacitates him for correct comment. This +failure should make him modest. + +Christian Science involves a new language, and a higher demonstration of +medicine and religion. It is the "new tongue" of Truth, having its best +interpretation in the power of Christianity to heal. My system of +Mind-healing swerves not from the highest ethics and from the spiritual +goal. To climb up by some other way than Truth is to fall. Error has no +hobby, however boldly ridden or brilliantly caparisoned, that can leap into +the sanctum of Christian Science. + +In Queen Elizabeth's time Protestantism could sentence men to the dungeon +or stake for their religion, and so abrogate the rights of conscience and +choke the channels of God. Ecclesiastical tyranny muzzled the mouth lisping +God's praise; and instead of healing, it palsied the weak hand outstretched +to God. Progress, legitimate to the human race, pours the healing balm of +Truth and Love into every wound. It reassures us that no Reign of Terror or +rule of error will again unite Church and State, or re-enact, through the +civil arm of government, the horrors of religious persecution. + +The Rev. S.E. Herrick, a Congregational clergyman of Boston, says: +"Heretics of yesterday are martyrs to-day." In every age and clime, "On +earth peace, good will toward men" must be the watchword of Christianity. + +Jesus 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." + +St. Paul said that without charity we are "as sounding brass, or a tinkling +cymbal;" and he added: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; ... doth not +behave itself unseemly, ... thinketh no evil, ... but rejoiceth in the +truth." + +To hinder the unfolding truth, to ostracize whatever uplifts mankind, is of +course out of the question. Such an attempt indicates weakness, fear, or +malice; and such efforts arise from a spiritual lack, felt, though +unacknowledged. + +Let it not be heard in Boston that woman, "last at the cross and first at +the sepulchre," has no rights which man is bound to respect. In natural law +and in religion the right of woman to fill the highest measure of +enlightened understanding and the highest places in government, is +inalienable, and these rights are ably vindicated by the noblest of both +sexes. This is woman's hour, with all its sweet amenities and its moral and +religious reforms. + +Drifting into intellectual wrestlings, we should agree to disagree; and +this harmony would anchor the Church in more spiritual latitudes, and so +fulfil her destiny. + +Let the Word have free course and be glorified. The people clamor to leave +cradle and swaddling-clothes. The spiritual status is urging its highest +demands on mortals, and material history is drawing to a close. Truth +cannot be stereotyped; it unfoldeth forever. "One on God's side is a +majority;" and "Lo, I am with you alway," is the pledge of the Master. + +The question now at issue is: Shall we have a practical, spiritual +Christianity, with its healing power, or shall we have material medicine +and superficial religion? The advancing hope of the race, craving health +and holiness, halts for a reply; and the reappearing Christ, whose +life-giving understanding Christian Science imparts, must answer the +constant inquiry: "Art thou he that should come?" Woman should not be +ordered to the rear, or laid on the rack, for joining the overture of +angels. Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moral agency; but they +should begin by admitting individual rights. + +The author's ancestors were among the first settlers of New Hampshire. They +reared there the Puritan standard of undefiled religion. As dutiful +descendants of Puritans, let us lift their standard higher, rejoicing, as +Paul did, that we are _free born_. + +Man has a noble destiny; and the full-orbed significance of this destiny +has dawned on the sick-bound and sin-enslaved. For the unfolding of this +upward tendency to health, greatness, and goodness, I shall continue to +labor and wait. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND YES*** + + +******* This file should be named 16624.txt or 16624.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/2/16624 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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