Erroneous postulates

Certain erroneous postulates should be here considered in order that the spiritual facts may be better apprehended.

The first erroneous postulate of belief is, that substance, life, and intelligence are something apart from God.

The second erroneous postulate is, that man is both mental and material.

The third erroneous postulate is, that mind is both evil and good; whereas the real Mind cannot be evil nor the medium of evil, for Mind is God.

The fourth erroneous postulate is, that matter is intelligent, and that man has a material body which is part of himself.

The fifth erroneous postulate is, that matter holds in itself the issues of life and death, — that matter is not only capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, but also capable of imparting these sensations. From the illusion implied in this last postulate arises the decomposition of mortal bodies in what is termed death.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Acts of charity receive justification and protection.

Giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, is a Christian service. Laying down his life for a good deed, Mortal Man should find it again. Such acts bear their own justification, and are under the protection of the Most High.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Learn and prepare for reign of universal harmony

Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Spirit possesses all power

The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, learned in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Washing the body of all the impurities of flesh

One's aim, a point beyond faith, should be to find the footsteps of Truth, the way to health and holiness. We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity. The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all the impurities of flesh, signifies that the pure in heart see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

God's Love is infinite and unchanging

Jesus' life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God is Love, whereas priest and rabbi affirmed God to be a mighty potentate, who loves and hates. The Jewish theology gave no hint of the unchanging love of God.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Passage from sense to Soul

As the children of Israel were guided triumphantly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear, — as they were led through the wilderness, walking wearily through the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating the promised joy, — so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who love God. Stately Science pauses not, but moves before them, a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, leading to divine heights.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The unfathomable grandeur of infinite Mind

Unfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough!
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Ideas of sense are perfectly real and tangible

Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.
These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The universe is filled with spiritual ideas

God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them.

- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

One creator and one creation

There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The reality beyond fading finite forms

Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind?
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

You hurt yourself trying to injure another.

The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one's self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

God's laws never set aside.

A miracle fulfils God's law, but does not violate that law. This fact at present seems more mysterious than the miracle itself.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

There is no power opposed to God.

In Science, you can have no power opposed to God, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

There is but one power - Mind

Only by understanding that there is but one power, - not two powers, matter and Mind, - are scientific and logical conclusions reached.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Gender is mental, not material

God determines the gender of His own ideas. Gender is mental, not material. The seed within itself is the pure thought emanating from divine Mind.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

I and my Father are one.

That he made "himself equal with God," was one of the Jewish accusations against him who planted Christianity on the foundation of Spirit, who taught as he was inspired by the Father and would recognize no life, intelligence, nor substance outside of God.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

One supremacy

If what opposes God is real, there must be two powers, and God is not supreme and infinite. Can Deity be almighty, if another mighty and self-creative cause exists and sways mankind?
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

One God, Unity.

God is one. The allness of Deity is His oneness.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

So much broadcast today, so little understanding.

It was the ignorance of our forefathers in the departments of knowledge now broadcast in the earth, that made them hardier than our trained physiologists, more honest than our sleek politicians.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Fire

FIRE.  Fear; remorse; lust; hatred; destruction; affliction purifying and elevating man.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Triumph!!

Love must triumph over hate.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Logic and revelation concide

Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we believe otherwise, we may be sure that either our logic is at fault or that we have misinterpreted revelation.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

No Ecclesiastical Monopoly in Revelation

All revelation (such is the popular thought!) must come from the schools and along the line of scholarly and ecclesiastical descent, as kings are crowned from a royal dynasty.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

A bright outlook

Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause, — wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

God sustains man.

The fact is, food does not affect the absolute Life of man, and this becomes self-evident, when we learn that God is our Life.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Sustenance spiritual

Admit the common hypothesis that food is the nutriment of life, and there follows the necessity for another admission in the opposite direction, — that food has power to destroy Life, God, through a deficiency or an excess, a quality or a quantity. This is a specimen of the ambiguous nature of all material health-theories. They are self-contradictory and self-destructive, constituting a "kingdom divided against itself," which is "brought to desolation." If food was prepared by Jesus for his disciples, it cannot destroy life.
- Science and Health with key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Travail and joy

Revelation xii. 2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Also the spiritual idea is typified by a woman in travail, waiting to be delivered of her sweet promise, but remembering no more her sorrow for joy that the birth goes on; for great is the idea, and the travail portentous.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Soul's inexhaustible source

Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Joy

The leaves clap their hands as nature's untired worshippers.
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy