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Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES

SCIENCE AND HEALTH - Table Of Contents

CHAPTER I - PRAYER

CHAPTER II - ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST

CHAPTER III - MARRIAGE

CHAPTER IV - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS SPIRITUALISM

CHAPTER V - ANIMAL MAGNETISM UNMASKED

CHAPTER VI - SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE

CHAPTER VII - PHYSIOLOGY

CHAPTER VIII - FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH

CHAPTER IX - CREATION

CHAPTER X - SCIENCE OF BEING

CHAPTER XI - SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED

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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

CHAPTER XIII - TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

CHAPTER XIV - RECAPITULATION

KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES

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God sustains man

The fact is, food does not affect the absolute Life of man, and this becomes self-evident, when we learn that God is our Life. Because sin and sickness are not qualities of Soul, or Life, we have hope in immortality; but it would be foolish to venture beyond our present understanding, foolish to stop eating until we gain perfection and a clear comprehension of the living Spirit. In that perfect day of understanding, we shall neither eat to live nor live to eat.