Christian Science (1907)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.<br> This is an OCR edition with typos.<br> Excerpt from book:<br> would disappear. Also, without doubt, it is the Third Degree that contributes another remarkable specialty to Christian Science—viz., ease and flow and lavishness of words, and rhythm and swing and smoothness. There must be a special reason for this?" "Yes—God-all, all-God, good God, non- Matter, Matteration, Spirit, Bones, Truth." "That explains it." "There is nothing in Christian Science that is not explicable; for God is one, Time is one, Individuality is one, and may be one of a series, one of many, as an individual man, individual horse; whereas God is one, not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal." " These are noble thoughts. They make one burn to know more. How does Christian Science explain the spiritual relation of systematic duality to incidental deflection?" " Christian Science reverses the seeming relation of Soul and body—as astronomy reverses the human perception of the movement of the solar system—and makes body tributary to the Mind. As it is the earth which is in motion, while the sun is at rest, though in viewing thesun rise one finds it impossible to believe the sun not to be really rising, so the body is but the humble servant of the restful Mind, though it seems otherwise to finite sense; but we shall never understand this while we admit that soul is in body, or mind in matter, and that man is included in non-intelligence. Soul is God, unchangeable and eternal; and man coexists with and reflects Soul, for the All-in-all is the Altogether, and the Altogether embraces the All- one, Soul-Mind, Mind-Soul, Love, Spirit, Bones, Liver, one of a series, alone and without an equal." " What is the origin of Christian Science ? Is it a gift of God, or did it just happen?" " In a sense, it is a gift of God. That is to say, its powers ar... <p>Mark Twain's witty, caustic attack on Christian Science and its founder Mary Baker Eddy came about as a result of his fear in 1898, that Christian Science would spread so rapidly, it would control Congress by the 1930s. In the first paperback edition available to the public in more than 50 years, Twain analyzes Mrs. Eddy's greed, lust for power, self-dedication, and incoherent writing. </p>

Author(s): Mark Twain  

ISBN 10: 0217457339
ISBN 13: 9780217457330
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Publication: August 2009