The Illusions of Christian Science, Its Philosophy Rationally Examined

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MATTER, AN ILLUSION ? NON-EXISTENT. Hamlet ? Do you see nothing there? Queen ? Nothing at all: yet all that is I see. ? Hamlet. The basic principle of Christian Science, on which is founded its claim of healing, is that: Mind is All, and matter is naught. (p. 3.) What men have regarded as matter is not...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MATTER, AN ILLUSION ? NON-EXISTENT. Hamlet ? Do you see nothing there? Queen ? Nothing at all: yet all that is I see. ? Hamlet. The basic principle of Christian Science, on which is founded its claim of healing, is that: Mind is All, and matter is naught. (p. 3.) What men have regarded as matter is not anything. It is only an appearance, an illusion, conjured up in mortal mind. False sense evolves, in belief, a subjective state of mortal mind, which this same mind calls matter. (p. 2.) The foundation of the law of healing in the philosophy of Christian Science rests on the principle that matter does not exist, and the appearance of its existence is an illusion caused or produced in mortal mind. It is, therefore, necessary for us to examine this doctrine concerning matter more fully, that we may see what this position involves. Matter is defined in Science and Health as follows: Mythology; mortality; another name for mortal mind; illusion; intelligence, substance, and life in non- intelligence and mortality; life resulting in death, and death in life; sensation in the scnsationless; mind originating in matter; the opposite of Truth; the opposite of Spirit; the opposite of God; that of which immortal Mind takes no cognizance; that which mortal mind sees, feels, hears, tastes, and smells only in belie f. (p. 582.) Matter will be f1nally proven to be nothing but a mortal belief, wholly inadequate to affect man through its supposed organic action or existence. (p. 19.) Omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence . . . contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual. (p- 4-) God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. (p. 7.) Science shows that what is termed matter is but the subjective state of mortal mind. (p. 8.) ...