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agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or
millenarianism and the demonstrable truths of Christian
Science; and I find the will, or sensuous
reason of the human mind, to be opposed to
the divine Mind as expressed through divine Science.
(Optical illustration of Science)
Christian Science is natural, but not physical. The
Science of God and man is no more supernatural than
is the science of numbers, though departing
from the realm of the physical, as the Science
of God, Spirit, must, some may deny its right to
the name of Science. The Principle of divine metaphysics
is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization
of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate
its Science. Divine metaphysics reverses perverted
and physical hypotheses as to Deity, even as the explanation
of optics rejects the incidental or inverted
image and shows what this inverted image is meant to
represent.
(Pertinent proposal)
A prize of one hundred pounds, offered in Oxford University,
England, for the best essay on Natural Science,
- an essay calculated to offset the tendency of
the age to attribute physical effects to physical
causes rather than to a final spiritual cause, - is one of
many incidents which show that Christian Science meets
a yearning of the human race for spirituality.
(Confirmatory tests)
After a lengthy examination of my discovery and its
demonstration in healing the sick, this fact became evident
to me, - that Mind governs the body,
not partially but wholly. I submitted my
metaphysical system of treating disease to the broadest
practical tests. Since then this system has gradually
gained ground, and has proved itself, whenever scientifically
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