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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

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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

Disease mental

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

CHAPTER VII - PHYSIOLOGY

CHAPTER VIII - FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH

CHAPTER IX - CREATION

CHAPTER X - SCIENCE OF BEING

CHAPTER XI - SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED

CHAPTER XII - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE

CHAPTER XIII - TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

CHAPTER XIV - RECAPITULATION

KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES

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Disease mental

The hosts of AEsculapius are flooding the world with diseases, because they are ignorant that the human mind

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and body are myths. To be sure, they sometimes treat the sick as if there was but one factor in the case; but this one factor they represent to be body, not mind. Infinite Mind could not possibly create a remedy outside of itself, but erring, finite, human mind has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its redemption and healing.