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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

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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

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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Mind never weary

You do not say a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body is as material as the wheel. If it were not for what the human mind says of the body, the body, like the inanimate wheel, would never be weary. The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness.