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Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES

SCIENCE AND HEALTH - Table Of Contents

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CHAPTER I - PRAYER

Deity unchangeable

The spiritual mathematics

Prayerful ingratitude

Efficacious petitions

Watchfulness requisite

Veritable devotion

Sorrow and reformation

Cancellation of human sin

Diabolism destroyed

Pardon and amendment

Mercy without partiality

Divine severity

Audible praying

Emotional utterances

Danger from audible prayer

Aspiration and love

Searching the heart

Summit of aspiration

Practical religion

The chalice sacrificial

Perfunctory prayers

Remission of penalty

Truth annihilates error

Desire for holiness

Prayer for the sick

Love impartial and universal

Public exaggerations

Corporeal ignorance

Bodily presence

Spiritualized consciousness

Spiritual sanctuary

Effectual invocation

Trustworthy beneficence

Loftiest adoration

The prayer of Jesus Christ

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CHAPTER II - ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST

Human reconciliation

Efficacious repentance

Jesus' sinless career

Perfect example

Behest of the cross

Inharmonious travellers

Moral retrogression

Wait for reward

Deliverance not vicarious

Justice and substitution

Doctrines and faith

Self-reliance and confidence

Life's healing currents

Radical changes

Purpose of crucifixion

True flesh and blood

Effective triumph

Individual experience

Christ's demonstration

Proof in practice

Recreant disciples

Help and hindrance

Misleading conceptions

Persecution prolonged

Christian warfare

The Fatherhood of God

Spiritual conception

Jesus the way-shower

Rebukes helpful

Fleshly ties temporal

Healing primary

Painful prospect

Sacred sacrament

Spiritual refreshment

Jesus' sad repast

Heavenly supplies

The holy struggle

Incisive questions

Millennial glory

Fellowship with Christ

The last breakfast

Spiritual Eucharist

Righteous retribution

Vicarious suffering

Martyrs inevitable

Complete emulation

Jesus' teaching belittled

Material pleasures

Mockery of truth

A belief suicidal

Present salvation

Sin and penalty

Suffering inevitable

Service and worship

Within the veil

The thorns and flowers

Healing early lost

Immortal achieval

A belief in death

Cruel desertion

Pentecost repeated

Convincing evidence

Jesus in the tomb

The deific naturalism

Obstacles overcome

Victory over the grave

The stone rolled away

After the resurrection

Spiritual interpretation

Corporeality and Spirit

Spiritual ascension

Pentecostal power

The traitor's conspiracy

Gethsemane glorified

Defensive weapons

Pilate's question

Students' ingratitude

Heaven's sentinel

Cruel contumely

A cry of despair

Divine Science misunderstood

The real pillory

Life-power indestructible

Example for our salvation

Master's business

Purity's rebuke

Saviour's prediction

Defamatory accusations

Reputation and character

Inspiring discontent

Bearing our sins

Inspiration of sacrifice

Spiritual friendship

Injustice to the Saviour

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CHAPTER III - MARRIAGE

Marriage temporal

Fidelity required

Mental elements

Affection's demands

Help and discipline

Chord and discord

A useful suggestion

Differing duties

Trysting renewed

Permanent obligation

Permanent affection

Centre for affections

Spiritual concord

Ascendency of good

Propensities inherited

Inheritance heeded

The Mind creative

Superior law of Soul

Spiritual origin

The rights of woman

Unfair discrimination

Benevolence hindered

Progressive development

Blessing of Christ

Righteous foundations

Powerless promises

Transition and reform

Salutary sorrow

Patience is wisdom

The gold and dross

Weathering the storm

Spiritual power

Basis of true religion

Insanity and agamogenesis

God's creation intact

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CHAPTER IV - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS SPIRITUALISM

The infinite one Spirit

Real and unreal identity

Spirits obsolete

Scientific phenomena

Incorrect theories

Opposing conditions

Bridgeless division

Unscientific investiture

Raising the dead

Vision of the dying

Real Life is God

Immaterial pleasure

A dream vanishing

Progress and purgatory

Unnatural deflections

Spirit intangible

Thought regarding death

Fallacious hypotheses

Mistaken methods

Divine strength

A denial of immortality

Mysticism unscientific

Physical falsities

Poor post-mortem evidence

No proof of immortality

Mind's manifestations immortal

Reading thoughts

Impossible intercommunion

Natural wonders

Conflicting standpoints

Scientific foreseeing

The Mind unbounded

Scientific foreknowing

Value of intuition

Hypocrisy condemned

Images of thought

Phenomena explained

Mental environment

Recollected friends

Illusions not ideas

Trance speaking illusion

Scientific improvisation

Divine origination

Mind is substance

Mortal delusions

Scientific finalities

Man's genuine being

Erroneous postulates

Knowledge of good and evil

The age's privilege

Logic and revelation

Derivatives of spirit

Ingratitude and denial

Spiritual insight

Christ's reappearance

Spiritual awakening

The darkest hours of all

Arena of contest

Millennial glory

Dangerous resemblances

Christianity still rejected

Spiritual foreshadowings

Revelation of Science

Science as foreign to all religion

Key to the kingdom

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CHAPTER V - ANIMAL MAGNETISM UNMASKED

Earliest investigations

Clairvoyance, magnetism

Personal conclusions

Mental despotism

Liberation of mental powers

The genus of error

Thought-transference

Perfection of divine government

Adulteration of Truth

Motives considered

Important decision

The misuse of mental power

Proper self-government

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CHAPTER VI - SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE

Christian Science discovered

Mission of Christian Science

Discontent with life

Demonstrable evidence

Light shining in darkness

New lines of thought

Scientific evidence

Solitary research

God's allness learned

Scriptural foundations

The demonstration lost and found

Mystical antagonists

Optical illustration of Science

Pertinent proposal

Confirmatory tests

One school of Truth

Unchanging Principle

On sandy foundations

Principle and practice

Reversible propositions

Metaphysical inversions

Definition of mortal mind

Imperfect terminology

Causation mental

Philological inadequacy

Divine synonyms

Divine reflection

Spiritual universe

Divine personality

Spiritual language

The miracles of Jesus

Opacity of the senses

Leaven of Truth

The divine and human contrasted

Certain contradictions

Unescapable dilemma

The sun and Soul

Reversal of testimony

Health and the senses

Historic illustrations

Perennial beauty

Astronomic unfoldings

Opposing testimony

Testimony of the senses

Spiritual sense of life

Ptolemaic and psychical error

Seeming and being

Scientific basis

Physical science a blind belief

Right interpretation

All force mental

Corporeal changes

The time and tide

Mortal nothingness

A lack of originality

Antagonistic questions

Science and Christianity

Scientific terms

No physical science

Practical Science

Mathematics and scientific logic

Truth by inversion

Antagonistic theories

Ontology needed

Reluctant guests

Excuses for ignorance

Children and adults

All evil unnatural

The error of carnality

Churchly neglect

John the Baptist, and the Messiah

Christ rejected

John's misgivings

Faith according to works

Judaism antipathetic

Priestly learning

Testimony of martyrs

Absence of Christ-power

Basis of miracles

Fear and sickness identical

The unity of Science and Christianity

The Christ-mission

Ancient spiritualism

Doubting disciples

A divine response

The true and living rock

Sublime summary

New era in Jesus

Healthful theology

Marvels and reformations

Science obscured

Opponents benefited

God invisible to the senses

The true worship

Anthropomorphism

More than profession required

No ecclesiastical monopoly

A change demanded

Two claims omitted

Selfishness and loss

Temple cleansed

Question of precedence

Methods rejected

Error not curative

Impossible coalescence

Will-power detrimental

Conservative antagonism

Ancient healers

The struggle and victory

Mystery of godliness

Matter versus matter

How healing was lost

Drugs and divinity

Christian Science as old as God

Reduction to system

Perusal and practice

A definite rule discovered

Jesus' own practice

The man of anatomy and of theology

Physiology deficient

Blunders and blunderers

Old-school physician

Tests in our day

The main purpose

Exploded doctrine

Intentions respected

Man governed by Mind

Mortal mind dethroned

All activity from thought

The author's experiments in medicine

Homoeopathic attenuations

Only salt and water

Source of contagion

Imaginary cholera

Children's ailments

Drug-power mental

Belief in physics

Nature of drugs

Dropsy cured without drugs

A stately advance

The modus of homoeopathy

Drugging unchristian

Mythology and materia medica

Footsteps to intemperance

Advancing degrees

Effects of fear

Mental conditions to be heeded

False source of knowledge

Obedient muscles

Anatomy and mind

Mind over matter

Restrictive regulations

Metaphysics challenges physics

Truth an alterative

Practical success

Testimony of medical teachers

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CHAPTER VII - PHYSIOLOGY

Man not structural

Causes of sickness

Delusions pagan and medical

Health from reliance on spirituality

The two masters

Half-way success

Belief on the wrong side

The divine authority

Disease foreseen

Changed mentality

Scientific foresight

Mind the only healer

Modes of matter

Physiology unscientific

Causation considered

Paradise regained

A closed question

Matter versus Spirit

Godless Evolution

Degrees of development

Identity not lost

When man is man

Individualization

Man not structural

Rise of thought

No ancestral dyspepsia

Pulmonary misbeliefs

Our modern Eves

Diseases not to be classified

One basis for all sickness

Mental and physical oneness

The effect of names

Poison defined mentally

Animal magnetism destroyed

Absent patients

Horses mistaught

Medical works objectionable

The invalid's outlook

Wrong and right way

The important decision

Manipulation unscientific

Not words but deeds

Physiology or Spirit

No material law

Laws of nature spiritual

Belief and understanding

Laws of human belief

A so-called mind-cure

Jesus and hypnotism

Evil negative and self-destructive

Ignorant idolatry

Action of mortal mind

Death and the body

Embryonic sinful thoughts

Disease a dream

Sense yields to understanding

Ascending the scale

Human reproduction

The immortal birth

Spiritual freedom

No physical affinity

Human power a blind force

The one real power

Mind cures hip-disease

Change of belief

Useful knowledge

Sin destroyed through suffering

Dangerous shoals avoided

Pangs caused by the press

Higher standard for mortals

Diet and dyspepsia

Harm done by physicians

Disease depicted

Mind over matter

Latent fear subdued

Homer and Moses

A mortal not man

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CHAPTER VIII - FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH

Practical preaching

The uses of truth

Harmonious life-work

Belief and practice

Sure reward of righteousness

Our belief and understanding

Suicide and sin

Unscientific theories

Creation perfect

Perceiving the divine image

Redemption from selfishness

Will-power unrighteous

Birth and death unreal

No evil in Spirit

Subordination of evil

Evident impossibilities

One primal cause

Seemingly independent authority

Sickness as only thought

Allness of Truth

Spiritual translation

Jesus' disregard of matter

Mind not mortal

Matter mindless

Matter sensationless

Nerves painless

Human falsities

No miracles in Mind-methods

Good indefinable

Music, rhythm of head and heart

Adam and the senses

Idolatrous illusions

The senses of Soul

Real being never lost

Light and darkness

Faith of Socrates

The serpent of error

Servants and masters

Personal identity

Paul's experience

Fatigue is mental

Mind never weary

Coalition of sin and sickness

Sickness akin to sin

Affirmation and result

Scientific beginning

Hygiene ineffectual

The reflex phenomena

Volition far-reaching

Starvation and dyspepsia

Mind and stomach

Life only in Spirit

Soul greater than body

The question of the ages

Heralds of Science

Sectarianism and opposition

Mental emancipation

Immortal sentences

Slavery abolished

Liberty's crusade

Cramping systems

House of bondage

Higher law ends bondage

Standard of liberty

No fleshly heredity

God-given dominion

Priestly pride humbled

No union of opposites

Self-constituted law

Sickness from mortal mind

God never inconsistent

Mental narcotics

The true healing

Destruction of all evil

Superiority to sickness and sin

Denials of divine power

Signs following

Profession and proof

Perfection gained slowly

Christ's mission

Efficacy of truth

Crumbs of comfort

Hospitality to health and good

Cleansing the mind

Teachers' functions

Physicians' privilege

Clergymen's duty

A mother's responsibility

Children's tractability

Teaching children

Deluded invalids

Patient waiting

Unimproved opportunities

Society and intolerance

Right views of humanity

Standpoint revealed

Antagonistic sources

Some lessons from nature

Perpetual motions

Progress demanded

The doom of sin

Spirit transforms

Spiritual baptism

The one only way

Divided vestments

Ancient and modern miracles

Mental telegraphy

Annihilation of error

Deformity and perfection

Man never less than man

Man not evolved

Perpetual youth

Man reflects God

Undesirable records

True life eternal

Eyes and teeth renewed

The divine loveliness

Love's endowment

Mental sculpture

Renewed selfhood

Illusive dreams

Philosophical blunders

Spirit the one Ego

Mortal existence a dream

Error self-destroyed

Illusion of death

Mortal mind's disappearance

Spiritual ignorance

Eternal man recognized

Testimony of sense

Testimony of Soul

Heaven-bestowed prerogative

Right endeavor possible

Patience and final perfection

The cross and crown

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CHAPTER IX - CREATION

Inadequate theories of creation

Finite views of Deity

No material creation

Tritheism impossible

No divine corporeality

Matter is not substance

Inexhaustible divine Love

Infinite physique impossible

Infinity's reflection

Individual permanency

God's man discerned

The divine image not lost

Immortal models

Spiritual discovery

Requisite change of our ideals

Thoughts are things

Unreality of pain

Immutable identity of man

Forgetfulness of self

Mind only the cause

Mortal man a mis-creator

No new creation

Mind's true camera

Self-completeness

Spiritual proofs of existence

Godward gravitation

Mortal birth and death

Blessings from pain

Decapitation of error

Uses of adversity

Beatific presence

The infinitude of God

Waymarks to eternal Truth

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CHAPTER X - SCIENCE OF BEING

Materialistic challenge

Confusion confounded

Divine metaphysics

Biblical foundations

Rejected theories

Prophetic ignorance

Studious disciples

New Testament basis

Spirituality of Scripture

Unspiritual contrasts

God the Principle of all

Science versus sense

Spiritual law the only law

Material knowledge illusive

Five senses deceptive

Impossible partnership

Spirit the starting-point

Divine synonyms

The divine completeness

Universal brotherhood

Perfection requisite

Like evolving like

Substance versus supposition

One cause supreme

Substance is Spirit

Material mortality

Spiritual tangibility

Pantheistic tendencies

The things of God are beautiful

Belief in many gods

Sensationless body

God and His image

The true new idea

Figures of being

Opposite symbols

Truth is not inverted

Source of all life and action

Spiritual structure

Mind never limited

Material recognition impossible

Our physical insensibility to Spirit

The human counterfeit

Material misconceptions

Salvation is through reform

Goodness a portion of God

Spiritual thoughts

The great conflict

The chief stones in the temple

The Christ-element

Wickedness is not man

Death but an illusion

Spiritual offspring

Death no advantage

Future purification

Sin is punished

Salvation and probation

Day of judgment

Primitive error

Elementary electricity

The counterfeit forces

Instruments of error

Mythical pleasure

Severed members

Mortals unlike immortals

Goodness transparent

Brainology a myth

Scientific purgation

Mixed testimony

Belief an autocrat

Self-improvement

Faith higher than belief

Truth's witness

Our Angelic messengers

Knowledge and Truth

Old and new man

The tares and wheat

The divine reflection

Inverted images and ideas

Identity not lost

Definition of man

Mental propagation

Man's entity spiritual

Man inseparable from Love

Harmony natural

Human reflection

Inverted images

Jewish traditions

Divinity not childless

The serpent's whisper

Bad results from error

Higher statutes

The great question

Wrestling of Jacob

Israel the new name

Life never structural

Thought seen as substance

The central intelligence

Soul imperishable

Sin only of the flesh

Soul impeccable

Man-made theories

The one anointed

Jesus the Scientist

The bodily resurrection

Opposition of materialists

Hebrew theology

The true sonship

Immaculate conception

Jesus as mediator

Spiritual government

Deadness in sin

The cup of Jesus

Material skepticism

What the senses originate

Sickness as discord

Unscientific introspection

God the only Mind

Scriptures misinterpreted

Interior meaning

Job, on the resurrection

Fear of the serpent overcome

Standpoints changed

Saving the inebriate

Uses of suffering

A bright outlook

Need and supply

Childlike receptivity

Paul's enlightenment

Abiding in Life

Indestructible being

Consecration required

Loving God supremely

Conversion of Saul

Image of the beast

Peremptory demands

Final destruction of error

Promise perpetual

Imitation of Jesus

Error destroyed, not pardoned

The hopeful outlook

The deific supremacy

The deific definitions

Life the creator

Allness of Spirit

The universal cause

Holy Ghost or Comforter

Messiah or Christ

The divine Principle and idea

Spiritual oneness

The Son's duality

Eternity of the Christ

Infinite Spirit

The only substance

Soul and Spirit one

The one divine Mind

The real manhood

Indivisibility of the infinite

God the parent Mind

Man reflects the perfect God

Purity the path to perfection

True idea of man

Truth demonstrated

Adam not ideal man

Evil not produced by God

Basis of health and immortality

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CHAPTER XI - SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED

Supported by facts

Commands of Jesus

Christianity scientific

Argument of good works

Personal experience

Proof from miracles

Example of the disciples

Strong position

Efficacy may be attested

The one divine method

Omnipotence set forth

Contradictions not found

God's idea the ideal man

Nothingness of error

Truth antidotes error

Serving two masters

Essential element of Christianity

All disease a delusion

Elimination of sickness

Full fruitage yet to come

Language inadequate

Substance spiritual

Both words and works

The divine life-link

Truth a present help

Fruitless worship

Spirit the tangible

Ghosts not realities

The real and the unreal

Superstition obsolete

Christian warfare

Healing omitted

Scientific consistency

Spiritual meaning

Practical arguments

Conditions of criticism

Weakness of material theories

Irreconciliable differences

Copartnership impossible

Two infinite creators absurd

Anthropomorphism

Matter impotent

Scientific and Biblical facts

Personal confidence

Two different artists

Choose ye to-day

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CHAPTER XII - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE

A gospel narrative

Parable of the creditor

Penitence or hospitality

Genuine repentance

Compassion requisite

Truth desecrated

Moral evils to be cast out

The true physician

Source of calmness

Genuine healing

Gratitude and humility

The salt of the earth

Real and counterfeit

Results of faith in Truth

Life independent of matter

The Christ treatment

Matter not medicine

No healing in sin

Like curing like

Transient potency of drugs

Diagnosis of matter

Ghost-stories inducing fear

Mind imparts purity, health, and beauty

Brain not intelligent

Veritable success

Recognition of benefits

Disease far more docile than iniquity

Love frees from fear

Mind circulates blood

Mind can destroy all ills

Temperature is mental

Science versus hypnotism

Latent fear diagnosed

Insidious concepts

Remedy for fever

Climate harmless

Mind governs body

Disease powerless

Jurisdiction of Mind

Power of imagination

Fevers the effect of fear

Misdirected contention

Benefits of metaphysics

A higher discovery

Ignorance of our rights

No laws of matter

God-given dominion

Hygiene excessive

Blissful ignorance

A clean mind and body

Beliefs illusive

Corporeal penalties

Not matter, but Mind

Benefit of philanthropy

Honest toil has no penalty

Our sleep and food

Doubtful evidence

Climate and belief

Erroneous despatch

Mourning causeless

Mind heals brain-disease

Right never punishable

Christian history

Sustenance spiritual

God sustains man

Diet and digestion

Scripture rebukes

Ancient confusion

Ultimate harmony

Unnecessary prostration

Treatment of disease

Righteous rebellion

Contradict error

Sin to be overcome

Illusions about nerves

Guarding the door

The strength of Spirit

No pain in matter

No real disease

Recuperation mental

Arguing wrongly

Divine authority

Aids in sickness

Mental quackery

Effacing images of disease

Avoid talking disease

False testimony refuted

Healthful explanation

Misleading methods

Remedy for accidents

Independent mentality

Naming maladies

The action of faith

Corporeal combinations

Automatic mechanism

Mental strength

Confirmation in a parable

Eradicate error from thought

Mortal mind controlled

Mortal mind not a healer

Effect of opposites

Medicine and brain

Skilful surgery

Indestructible life of man

The evil of mesmerism

Wrong-doer should suffer

Error's power imaginary

Disease-production

Appetites to be abandoned

Temperance reform

Sin or fear the root of sickness

Mental conspirators

Cumulative repentence

The leaves of healing

Sickness will abate

Resist to the end

Morbid cravings

Universal panacea

Immortal memory

Sin a form of insanity

Drugs and brain-lobes

Matter and animate error

Dictation of error

So-called superiority

Death no benefactor

Life eternal and present

Love casteth out fear

Naming diseases

Fear as the foundation

Unspoken pleading

Eloquent silence

Insistence requisite

The cure of infants

Ablutions for cleanliness

Juvenile ailments

Cure of insanity

Matter is not inflamed

Truth calms the thought

Effects of etherization

Sedatives valueless

The so-called physical ego

Evil thought depletes

Helpful encouragement

Disease to be made unreal

Christian pleading

Truthful arguments

Morality required

Relapse unnecessary

Conquer beliefs and fears

True government of man

Positive reassurance

Proper stimulus

Awaken the patient

How to treat a crisis

No perversion of Mind-science

Effect of this book

Disease neutralized

Bone-healing by surgery

Scientific corrective

Coping with difficulties

Formation from thought

Accidents unknown to God

Opposing mentality

Mind removes scrofula

Nothing to consume

The lungs re-formed

Soundness maintained

Our footsteps heavenward

Christian standard

Life not contingent on matter

Mortality vanquished

No death nor inaction

Intelligent consecration

The present immortality

Careful guidance

Clay replying to the potter

Continuity of existence

Life all-inclusive

A mental court case

Judge Medicine charges the jury

Mortal Man sentenced

Appeal to a higher tribunal

Counsel for defence

Charge of the Chief Justice

Christ the great physician

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CHAPTER XIII - TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Study of medicine

Failure's lessons

Refuge and strength

Charity to those opposed

Conforming to explicit rules

Blight of avarice

Exclusion of malpractice

Iniquity overcome

No trespass on human rights

Expose sin without believing in it

Wicked evasions

Truth's grand results

Adherence to righteousness

Right adjusts the balance

Inoculation of thought

Three classes of neophytes

Touchstone of Science

False claims annihilated

Treasure in heaven

Obligations of teachers

Indispensable defence

Egotistic darkness

Unwarranted expectations

Reliable authority

Winning the field

Knowledge and honesty

Metaphysical treatment

Impotence of hate

Love the incentive

Continuity of interest

Weakness and guilt

The trust of the All-wise

Integrity assured

Chicanery impossible

No dishonest concessions

This volume indispensable

Purity of science

Backsliders and mistakes

Mental charlatanism

Divinity ever ready

The panoply of wisdom

Advancement by sacrifice

Dangerous knowledge

Certainty of results

Ontology defined

Mischievous imagination

Author's early instructions

Proof by induction

Rapidity of assimilation

Divided loyalty

Anatomy defined

Scientific obstetrics

Unhesitating decision

Seclusion of the author

The right motive and its reward

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CHAPTER XIV - RECAPITULATION

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Real versus unreal

Mankind redeemed

Two chief commands

Soul not confined in body

Sinlessness of Mind, Soul

Spiritual synonyms

Eternity of Life

True sense of infinitude

The sole governor

The divine standard of perfection

Indestructible relationship

Celestial evidence

The test of experience

God's law destroys evil

Evanescent materiality

Unrealities that seem real

Christ the ideal Truth

Jesus not understood

Miracles rejected

Divine fulfilment

Truth destroys falsity

Fleshly factors unreal

Mortals are not immortals

Imperishable identity

The kingdom within

Material body never God's idea

Reflection of Spirit

Man inseparable from Spirit

A vacant domicile

Harmonious functions

Immortal birthright

Matter's supposed selfhood

Chaos and darkness

Spiritual reflection

Harmony from Spirit

Evil non-existent

Vapor and nothingness

The fruit forbidden

Sense and pure Soul

Sonship of Jesus

Sickness erroneous

True healing transcendent

Terms adopted by the author

Science the way

Mindless methods

Animal magnetism error

Error only ephemeral

Scientific translations

Material beliefs

Sense versus Soul

Permanent sensibility

Exercise of Mind-faculties

Understanding versus belief

Confirmation by healing

Belief and firm trust

All faculties from Mind

Possibilities of Life

Decalogue disregarded

Organic construction valueless

Will-power an animal propensity

Theories helpless

True nature and origin

Sleep an illusion

Man linked with Spirit

Material man as a dream

Spiritual existence the one fact

Mind one and all

Scientific ultimatum

Victory for Truth

Mental preparation

Mind destroys all ills

Inexhaustible divine Love

Reason and Science

Followers of Jesus

Destruction of all evil

Steadfast and calm trust

Rudiments and growth

Condition of progress

Triumph over death

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KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES

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CHAPTER XV - GENESIS

Spiritual interpretation

Spiritual overture

Deflection of being

Ideas and identities

Spiritual harmony

Mind's idea faultless

Light preceding the sun

Evenings and mornings

Spirit versus darkness

Spiritual firmament

Understanding imparted

Original reflected

Exalted thought

Unfolding of thoughts

Spirit names and blesses

Divine propagation

Ever-appearing creation

Mind's pure thought

Rising to the light

Rarefaction of thought

Divine nature appearing

Spiritual ideas apprehended

Geology a failure

Spiritual subdivision

Darkness scattered

Soaring aspirations

Seraphic symbols

Multiplication of pure ideas

Spiritual spheres

Continuity of thoughts

God's thoughts are spiritual realities

Qualities of thought

Creatures of God useful

The serpent harmless

Elohistic plurality

Reflected likeness

Love imparts beauty

Ideal man and woman

Divine personality

Birthright of man

Assistance in brotherhood

Perfection of creation

Infinity measureless

Resting in holy work

Love and man coexistent

Growth is from Mind

Spiritual narrative

The story of error

The two records

Erroneous representation

Hypothetical reversal

Mist, or false claim

Distinct documents

Jehovah or Elohim

Gods of the heathen

Jehovah a tribal deity

Creation reversed

Definitions of man

No baneful creation

Contradicting first creation

Record of error

No temptation from God

Creation's counterfeit

Hypnotic surgery

Mental midwifery

Mythical serpent

Divine providence

Error's assumption

Scriptural allegory

Biological inventions

Shame the effect of sin

Fear comes of error

The beguiling first lie

False womanhood

Spirit and flesh

Bruising sin's head

Judgment on error

New earth and no more sea

The fall of error

True attainment

Justice and recompense

Inspired interpretation

Spiritual gateway

Contrasted testimony

Erroneous conception

Only one standard

A type of falsehood

Scientific offspring

Cleansing upheaval

Allegiance to Spirit

Spiritual and material

Brotherhood repudiated

Murder brings its curse

Retribution and remorse

Climax of suffering

Dwelling in dreamland

Man springs from Mind

Material inception

First evil suggestion

Material personality

Erroneous standpoint

Mortality mythical

No truth from a material basis

Dawning of spiritual facts

Proof given in healing

Embryonic evolution

True theory of the universe

Scriptural perception

The clouds dissolving

Prediction of a naturalist

Methods of reproduction

The three processes

Deference to material law

Deep-reaching interrogations

Stages of existence

The real producer

The ascent of species

Transmitted peculiarities

Causation not in matter

Emergence of mortals

Persistence of species

Better basis than embryology

All nativity in thought

Being is immortal

Our conscious development

Mendacity of error

Ailments of animals

Ignorance the sign of error

The origin of divinity

Genera classified

The Christian's privilege

Ontology versus physiology

The curse removed

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CHAPTER XVI - THE APOCALYPSE

The new Evangel

To-day's lesson

True estimate of God's messenger

Persecution harmful

Espousals supernal

Divinity and humanity

Spiritual sunlight

Spiritual idea revealed

Spiritual idea crowned

Travail and joy

The dragon as a type

The sting of the serpent

Animal tendency

Malicious barbarity

Doom of the dragon

The conflict with purity

Spiritual guidance

Angelic offices

Dragon cast down to earth

Warfare with error

Paean of jubilee

The robe of Science

Expiation by suffering

Apathy to occultism

Receptive hearts

Hidden ways of iniquity

Christly warning

The armor of divinity

Pure religion enthroned

Native nothingness of sin

Fulfilment of the Law

Man's present possibilities

Nearness of Deity

Vials of wrath and consolation

Spiritual wedlock

The city foursquare

The royally divine gates

Revelation's pure zenith

The shrine celestial

Divine sense of Deity

The city of our God

CHAPTER XVII - GLOSSARY

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CHAPTER XVIII - FRUITAGE

RHEUMATISM HEALED

ASTIGMATISM AND HERNIA HEALED

SUBSTANCE OF LUNGS RESTORED

FIBROID TUMOR HEALED IN A FEW DAYS

INSANITY AND EPILEPSY HEALED

A CASE OF MENTAL SURGERY

CATARACT QUICKLY CURED

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE HEALED

THE TRUE PHYSICIAN FOUND

CANCER AND CONSUMPTION HEALED

A REMARKABLE CASE

INTENSE SUFFERING OVERCOME

HEALED OF RHEUMATISM AND BRIGHT'S DISEASE

GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS

FREED FROM NEURASTHENIC AND OTHER TROUBLES

MANY ILLS OVERCOME

A HELPFUL HEALING

RELIEF FROM MANY ILLS

HEALTH AND PEACE ATTAINED

HEALTH AND PEACE GAINED

CONSUMPTION QUICKLY CURED

A PROFITABLE STUDY

HEALED OF INFIDELITY AND MANY PHYSICAL ILLS

DISEASED EYES CURED

THE TEXTBOOK HEALED ME

OBSTINATE STOMACH TROUBLE HEALED

DYSPEPSIA QUICKLY HEALED

AFTER TWENTY YEARS' SUFFERING

FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE AND JOY

TRUTH MAKES FREE

DEAF EARS UNSTOPPED

SAVED FROM INSANITY AND SUICIDE

STOMACH TROUBLE HEALED

FREED FROM MANY YEARS OF SUFFERING

RELIEF FROM INTENSE SUFFERING

GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS

GRATEFUL FOR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

HEREDITARY DISEASE OF THE LUNGS CURED

TEXTBOOK APPRECIATED

RUPTURE AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLS HEALED

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER HEALED

LIVER COMPLAINT HEALED

A CONVINCING INVESTIGATION

DEAFNESS AND DROPSY HEALED

GRATEFUL FOR MANY BLESSINGS

A JOYFUL EXPERIENCE

AN EVER-PRESENT HELP

SEVERE EYE TROUBLE OVERCOME

A TESTIMONY FROM IRELAND

THE TEXTBOOK MAKES OPERATION UNNECESSARY

KIDNEY DISEASE AND EYE TROUBLE HEALED

DISEASE OF BOWELS HEALED

HEALED BY READING THE TEXTBOOK

A TESTIMONY FROM SCOTLAND

CURING BETTER THAN ENDURING

SEVERE ECZEMA DESTROYED

SCIENCE AND HEALTH A PRICELESS BOON

A CRITIC CONVINCED

A RESTLESS SENSE OF EXISTENCE DESTROYED

MORALLY AND PHYSICALLY HEALED

HEALTH AND UNDERSTANDING GAINED

AN EVER-PRESENT HELP FOUND

MANY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TROUBLES OVERCOME

A NEW LIFE GAINED

A VOICE FROM ENGLAND

DEPRAVED APPETITES OVERCOME

CATARRH OF THE STOMACH HEALED

SPINAL DISEASE HEALED

MANY TROUBLES OVERCOME

PREJUDICE OVERCOME

A CONVINCING TESTIMONY

HEALED PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY

A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH

HEALED AFTER MUCH SUFFERING

THROUGH GREAT TRIBULATIONS

A HELPFUL TESTIMONY

DESIRE FOR LIQUOR AND TOBACCO DISAPPEARED

AN EXPRESSION OF LOVING GRATITUDE

HEALED OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE

FIBROID TUMOR DESTROYED

LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

A GRATEFUL TESTIMONY

HEALED OF CONSUMPTION AND ASTHMA

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Godward gravitation

The universe of Spirit is peopled with spiritual beings,

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and its government is divine Science. Man is the off- spring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of Mind. Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual, - they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, - in order that sin and mortality may be put off.

This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en- larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.