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Mary Baker G. Eddy
Published by Good Press, 2020
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We shall never understand the science of being while we believe that Soul sins or is in the body, and when we do understand that science we shall be a law of Life to our bodies, even the higher law of Soul that prevails over sense and gives harmony and immortality to man. The so-called laws of matter can never make man healthy, harmonious, or immortal: hence the importance of understanding the spiritual law of being, that brings out the perfection and immortality of thoughts that we name things. Belief hath sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve a problem without its Principle. No more can we make the body harmonious without understanding Soul sufficiently to know that it governs the [ 33 ] body, and that the governor is not within the governed. The body is like numbers that are harmonious governed by their principle; the intelligence not in the number, but made manifest by it.
A belief of life in matter has no Life in God, and the apostle Paul tells us, “When God who is our life shall appear, we shall be like unto Him in glory.” To examine our body that we may learn what the state of our health is, or what our prospect for Life, is morally wrong; for it would take the government out of the hands of God. To employ drugs to destroy disease manifests no faith in God, the Principle of all harmony, and as one of the ancient healers and Christians writes, “He is a very present help in times of trouble.”
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