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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

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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

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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Instruments of error

The five physical senses are the avenues and instru-

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ments of human error, and they correspond with error. These senses indicate the common human belief, that life, substance, and intelligence are a unison of matter with Spirit. This is pantheism, and carries within itself the seeds of all error. If man is both mind and matter, the loss of one finger would take away some quality and quantity of the man, for matter and man would be one.