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Science and Health	King James Bible	Retrospection and Introspection
		-Autobiography of Mary Baker Eddy

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1	know that these ideals are real and eternal because drawn
	from Truth,--they will find that nothing is lost, and all
3	is won, by a right estimate of what is real."

	The other artist replies: "You wrong my experience.
	I have no mind-ideals except those which are both mental
6	and material. It is true that materiality renders these
	ideals imperfect and destructible; yet I would not ex-
	change mine for thine, for mine give me such personal
9	pleasure, and they are not so shockingly transcendental.
	They require less self-abnegation, and keep Soul well out
	of sight. Moreover, I have no notion of losing my old
12	doctrines or human opinions."

	Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought
	shall be real to you,--the material or the spiritual?
15	Both you cannot have. You are bringing out	Choose ye to-day
	your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal	Choose ye to-day
	or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you
18	try to have two models, then you practically have none.
	Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and
	forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the
21	real and the unreal.

	Hear the wisdom of Job, as given in the excellent trans-
	lation of the late Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D.:--

24	Shall mortal man be more just than God?
	Shall man be more pure than his Maker?
	Behold, He putteth no trust in His ministering spirits,
27	And His angels He chargeth with frailty.

	[[[Of old, the Jews put to death the Galilean Prophet,
	the best Christian on earth, for the truth he spoke and
30	demonstrated, while to-day, Jew and Christian can unite
	in doctrine and denomination on the very basis of Jesus'
	words and works. The Jew believes that the Messiah or
1	Christ has not yet come; the Christian believes that
	Christ is God. Here Christian Science intervenes, ex-
3	plains these doctrinal points, cancels the disagreement,
	and settles the question. Christ, as the true spiritual idea,
	is the ideal of God now and forever, here and everywhere.
6	The Jew who believes in the First Commandment is a
	monotheist; he has one omnipresent God. Thus the Jew
	unites with the Christian's doctrine that God is come and
9	is present now and forever. The Christian who believes
	in the First Commandment is a monotheist. Thus he
	virtually unites with the Jew's belief in one God, and
12	recognizes that Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself
	declared, but is the Son of God. This declaration of
	Jesus, understood, conflicts not at all with another of his
15	sayings: "I and my Father are one,"--that is, one in
	quality, not in quantity. As a drop of water is one with
	the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God
18	and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scrip-
	ture reads: "For in Him we live, and move, and have
	our being."]]]

21	I have revised SCIENCE AND HEALTH only to give a
	clearer and fuller expression of its original meaning. Spir-
	itual ideas unfold as we advance. A human perception of
24	divine Science, however limited, must be correct in order
	to be Science and subject to demonstration. A germ of in-
	finite Truth, though least in the kingdom of heaven, is the
27	higher hope on earth, but it will be rejected and reviled
	until God prepares the soil for the seed. That which
	when sown bears immortal fruit, enriches mankind only
30	when it is understood,--hence the many readings given
	the Scriptures, and the requisite revisions of SCIENCE AND
	HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.