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Science and Health

presence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict God's allness learned forever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good.

Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man's perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.

In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook. The Scriptures were Scriptural foundations illumined; reason and revelation were reconciled, and afterwards the truth of Christian Science was demonstrated. No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it. This book may be distorted by shallow criticism or by careless or malicious students, and its ideas may be temporarily abused and misrepresented; but the Science and truth therein will forever remain to be discerned and demonstrated.

Jesus demonstrated the power of Christian Science to heal mortal minds and bodies. But this power was lost The demonstration lost and found sight of, and must again be spiritually discerned, taught, and demonstrated according to Christ's command, with “signs following.” Its Science must be apprehended by as many as believe on Christ and spiritually understand Truth.

No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of