{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_19666/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_19666","id":"gutenberg_19666","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19666","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Christian Science","Christianity"],"text":"Produced by Michael Gray\n\n\n\n\nRUDIMENTAL DIVINE\nSCIENCE\n\n\n\nRUDIMENTAL\nDIVINE SCIENCE\n\nBY\n\nMARY BAKER EDDY\nAUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO\nTHE SCRIPTURES\n\n\n[Image: Publishing Company Logo]\nRegistered\nU. S. Patent Office\n\n\nPublished by The\nTrustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy\nBOSTON, U.S.A.\n\nAuthorized Literature of\nTHE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST\nIn Boston, Massachusetts\n\n\n_Copyright, 1891, 1908_\nBY MARY BAKER G. EDDY\nCopyright renewed 1919\n---\nAll rights reserved\n\n---\nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\n\nTHIS LITTLE BOOK\nIS\nTENDERLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED\nTO ALL\nLOYAL STUDENTS, WORKING AND WAITING\nFOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE\nSCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING\n                MARY BAKER EDDY\n\nCONTENTS\n\nDEFINITION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\nPRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\nPERSONALITY OF GOD\nHEALING SICKNESS AND SIN\nINDIVIDUALITY OF GOD\nMATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE\nNON-EXISTENCE OF MATTER\nMATERIALITY INTANGIBLE\nBASIS OF MIND-HEALING\nMATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL MAN\nDEMONSTRATION IN HEALING\nMEANS AND METHODS\nONLY ONE SCHOOL\n\n\nRUDIMENTAL DIVINE\nSCIENCE\n\n_How would you define Christian Science?_                       1\n\nAS the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and\ndemonstrating the divine Principle and rule of                  3\nuniversal harmony.\n\n_What is the Principle of Christian Science?_\n\nIt is God, the Supreme Being, infinite and immortal             6\nMind, the Soul of man and the universe. It is our Father\nwhich is in heaven.  It is substance, Spirit, Life, Truth,\nand Love, -- these are the deific Principle.                    9\n\n_Do you mean by this that God is a person?_\n\nThe word person affords a large margin for misappre-\nhension, as well as definition.  In French the equivalent       12\nword is _personne_.  In Spanish, Italian, and Latin, it is\n_persona_.   The Latin verb _personare_ is compounded of\nthe prefix _per_ (through) and _sonare_ (to sound).             15\n\nIn law, Blackstone applies the word _personal_ to _bodily\npresence_, in distinction from one's appearance (in court,\nfor example) by deputy or proxy.                                18\n\nOther definitions of _person_, as give by Webster, are          1\n\"a living soul; a self-conscious being; a moral agent;\nespecially, a living human being, a corporeal man, woman,       3\nor child; an individual of the human race.\" He adds,\nthat among Trinitarian Christians the word stands for one\nof the three subjects, or agents, constituting the Godhead.     6\n\nIn Christian Science we learn that God is definitely indi-\nvidual and not a _person_, as that word is used by the best\nauthorities, if our lexicographers are right in defining        9\n_person_ as especially a finite _human being_; but God is\npersonal, if by _person_ is meant infinite Spirit.\n\nWe do not conceive rightly of God, if we think of Him           12\nas less than infinite.  The human person is finite; and\ntherefore I prefer to retain the proper sense of Diety by\nusing the phrase _an individual_ God rather than _a per-        15\nsonal_ God; for there is and can be but on infinite indi-\nvidual spirit, who mortals have named God.\n\nScience defines the individuality of God as supreme             18\ngood, Life, Truth, Love.  This term enlarges our sense\nof Diety, takes away the trammels assigned to God by\nfinite though, and introduces us to higher definitions.         21\n\n_Is healing the sick the whole of Science?_\n\nHealing physical sickness is the smallest part of Chris-\ntian Science.  It is only the bugle-call to thought and         24\naction, in the higher range of infinite goodness.  The\nemphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of\nsin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the           27\ncure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they       1\ndo not love to be sick.  Hence their comparative acqui-\nescence in your endeavors to heal them of bodily ills, and      3\ntheir obstinate resistance to all efforts to save them from\nsin through Christ, spiritual Truth and Love, which\nredeem them, and become their Saviour, through the              6\nflesh, from the flesh, -- the material world and evil.\n\nThis Life, Truth, and Love -- this trinity of good -- was\nindividualized, to the perception of mortal sense, in the       9\nman Jesus.  His history is emphatic in our hearts, and it\nlives more because of his spiritual than his physical healing.\nHis example is, to Christian Scientists, what the models        12\nof the masters in music and painting are to artists.\n\nGenuine Christian Scientists will no more deviate mor-\nally from that divine digest of Science called the Sermon       15\non the Mount, than they will manipulate invalids, prescribe\ndrugs, or deny God.  Jesus' healing was spiritual in its\nnature, method, and design.  He wrought the cure of             18\ndisease through the divine Mind, which gives all true\nvolition, impulse, and action; and destroys the mental\nerror made manifest physically, and establishes the oppo-       21\nsite manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmony\nand health.\n\n_By the individuality of God, do you mean that God has_          24\n_a finite form?_\n\nNo.  I mean the infinite and divine Principle of all\nbeing, the ever-present I AM, filling all space, including      27\nin itself all Mind, the one Father-Mother God.  Life,           1\nTruth, and Love are this trinity in unity, and their uni-\nverse is spiritual, peopled with perfect beings, harmonious     3\nand eternal, of which our material universe and men are\nthe counterfeits.\n\n_Is God the Principle of all science, or only of Divine or_     6\n_Christian Science?_\n\nScience is Mind manifested.  It is not material; neither\nis it of human origin.                                          9\n\nAll true Science represents a moral and spiritual force,\nwhich holds the earth in its orbit.  This force is Spirit,\nthat can \"bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades,\" and       12\n\"loose the bands of Orion.\"\n\nThere is no material science, if by that term you mean\nmaterial intelligence.  God is infinite Mind, hence there       15\nis no other Mind.  Good is Mind, but evil is not Mind.\nGood is not in evil, but in God only. Spirit is not in matter,\nbut in Spirit only. Law is not in matter, but in Mind only.     18\n\n_Is there no matter?_\n\nAll is Mind.  According to the Scriptures and Christian\nScience, all is God, and there is naught beside Him.  \"God      21\nis Spirit;\" and we can only learn and love Him through\nHis spirit, which brings out the fruits of Spirit and ex-\ntinguishes forever the works of darkness by His marvel-         24\nlous light.\n\nThe five material senses testify to the existence of\nmatter.  The spiritual senses afford no such evidence,          1\nbut deny the testimony of the material senses.  Which\ntestimony is correct?  The Bible says: \"Let God be              3\ntrue, and every man a liar.\"  If, as the Scriptures imply,\nGod is All-in-all, then all must be Mind, since God is\nMind.  Therefore in divine Science there is no material         6\nmortal man, for man is spiritual and eternal, he being\nmade in the image of Spirit, or God.\n\nThere is no material sense.  Matter is inert, inanimate,        9\nand sensationless, -- considered apart from Mind.  Lives\nthere a man who has ever found Soul in the body or in\nmatter, who has ever seen spiritual substance with the          12\neye, who has found sight in matter, hearing in the material\near, or intelligence in non-intelligence?  If there is any\nsuch thing as matter, it must be either mind which is           15\ncalled matter, or matter without Mind.\n\nMatter without Mind is a moral impossibility.  Mind\nin matter is pantheism.  Soul is the only real conscious-       18\nness which cognizes being.  The body does not see, hear,\nsmell, or taste.  Human belief says that it does; but\ndestroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could        21\nnot see materially; and so it is with each of the physical\nsenses.\n\nAccepting the verdict of these material senses, we should       24\nbelieve man and the universe to be the football of chance\nand sinking into oblivion.   Destroy the five senses as\norganized matter, and you must either become non-exist-         27\nent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is\nthe simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to       1\nthe equal inference that there is no matter.\n\n_The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assum-_         3\n_ing manifold forms and colors, -- are they not tangible and_\n_material?_\n\nAs Mind they are real, but not as matter.  All beauty           6\nand goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God;\nbut when we change the nature of beauty and goodness\nfrom Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a            9\nfalse conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes\nthe place of good.\n\nHas not the truth in Christian Science met a response           12\nfrom Prof. S. P. Langley, the young American astronomer?\nHe says that \"color is in _us_,\" not \"in the rose;\" and he\nadds that this is not \"any metaphysical subtlety,\" but a        15\nfact \"almost universally accepted, within the _last few_\n_years_, by physicists.\"\n\n_Is not the basis of Mind-healing a destruction of the evi-_    18\n_dence of the material senses, and restoration of the true_\n_evidence of spiritual sense?_\n\nIt is, so far as you perceive and understand this predi-        21\ncate and postulate of Mind-healing; but the Science of\nMind-healing is best understood in practical demonstra-\ntion.  The proof of what you apprehend, in the simplest         24\ndefinite and absolute form of healing, can alone answer\nthis question of how much you understand of Christian\nScience Mind-healing.   Not that all healing is Science,        1\nby any means; but that the simplest case, healed in Science,\nis as demonstrably scientific, in a small degree, as the most   3\ndifficult case so treated.\n\nThe infinite and subtler conceptions and consistencies\nof Christian Science are set forth in my work Science and       6\nHealth.\n\n_Is man material or spiritual?_\n\nIn Science, man is the manifest reflection of God, per-         9\nfeet and immortal Mind.  He is the likeness of God; and\nHis likeness would be lost if inverted or perverted.\n\nAccording to the evidence of the so-called physical             12\nsenses, man is material, fallen, sick, depraved, mortal.\nScience and spiritual sense contradict this, and they afford\nthe only true evidence of the being of God and man, the         15\nmaterial evidence being wholly false.\n\nJesus said of personal evil, that \"the truth abode not\nin him,\" because there is no material sense.  Matter, as        18\nmatter, has neither sensation nor personal intelligence.\nAs a pretension to be Mind, matter is a lie, and \"the\nfather of lies;\" Mind is not in matter, and Spirit cannot       21\noriginate its opposite, named matter.\n\nAccording to divine Science, Spirit no more changes its\nspecies, by evolving matter from Spirit, than natural           24\nscience, so-called, or material laws, bring about altera-\ntion of species by transforming minerals into vegetables\nor plants into animals, -- thus confusing and confounding       27\nthe three great kingdoms.  No rock brings forth an apple;       1\nno pine-tree produces a mammal or provides breast-milk\nfor babes.                                                      3\n\nTo sense, the lion of to-day is the lion of six thousand\nyears ago; but in Science, Spirit sends forth its own harm-\nless likeness.                                                  6\n\n_How should I undertake to demonstrate Christian Science_\n_in healing the sick?_\n\nAs I have given you only an epitome of the Principle,           9\nso I can give you here nothing but an outline of the prac-\ntice. Be honest, be true to thyself, and true to others;\nthen it follows thou wilt be strong in God, the eternal         12\ngood. Heal through Truth and Love; there is no other\nhealer.\n\nIn all moral revolutions, from a lower to a higher con-         15\ndition of thought and action, Truth is in the minority and\nerror has the majority.  It is not otherwise in the field\nof Mind-healing.  The man who calls himself a Christian         18\nScientist, yet is false to God and man, is also uttering\nfalsehood about good.  This falsity shuts against him the\nTruth and the Principle of Science, but opens a way             21\nwhereby, through will-power, sense may say the unchris-\ntian practitioner can heal; but Science shows that he makes\nmorally worse the invalid whom he is supposed to cure.          24\n\nBy this I mean that mortal mind should not be falsely\nimpregnated.  If by such lower means the health is seem-\ningly restored, the restoration is not lasting, and the patient 27\nis liable to a relapse, -- \"The last state of that man is       1\nworse than the first.\"\n\nThe teacher of Mind-healing who is not a Christian,             3\nin the highest sense, is constantly sowing the seeds of\ndiscord and disease.  Even the truth he speaks is more\nor less blended with error; and this error will spring up       6\nin the mind of his pupil.  The pupil's imperfect knowl-\nedge will lead to weakness in practice, and he will be a\npoor practitioner, if not a malpractitioner.                    9\n\nThe basis of malpractice is in erring human will, and\nthis will is an outcome of what I call _mortal mind_, -- a\nfalse and temporal sense of Truth, Life, and Love.  To          12\nheal, in Christian Science, is to base your practice on\nimmortal Mind, the divine Principle of man's being; and\nthis requires a preparation of the heart and an answer          15\nof the lips from the Lord.\n\nThe Science of healing is the Truth of healing.  If\none is untruthful, his mental state weighs against his          18\nhealing power; and similar effects come from pride,\nenvy, lust, and all fleshly vices.\n\nThe spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, with-       21\nout a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument,\nhas oftentimes healed inveterate diseases.\n\nThe thoughts of the practitioner should be imbued with          24\na clear conviction of the omnipotence and omnipresence\nof God; that He is All, and that there can be none beside\nHim; that God is good, and the producer only of good;           27\nand hence, that whatever militates against health, har-\nmony, or holiness, is an unjust usurper of the throne of        1\nthe controller of all mankind.  Note this, that if you have\npower in error, you forfeit the power that Truth bestows,       3\nand its salutary influence on yourself and others.\n\nYou must feel and know that God alone governs man;\nthat His government is harmonious; that He is too pure          6\nto behold iniquity, and divides His power with nothing\nevil or material; that material laws are only human be-\nliefs, which govern mortals wrongfully. These beliefs arise     9\nfrom the subjective states of thought, producing the be-\nliefs of a mortal material universe, -- so-called, and of\nmaterial disease and mortality.  Mortal ills are but errors     12\nof thought, -- diseases of mortal mind, and not of matter;\nfor matter cannot feel, see, or report pain or disease,\n\nDisease is a thing of thought manifested on the body;           15\nand fear is the procurator of the thought which causes\nsickness and suffering. Remove this fear by the true\nsense that God is Love, -- and that Love punishes nothing       18\nbut sin, -- and the patient can then look up to the loving\nGod, and know that He afflicteth not willingly the children\nof men, who are punished because of disobedience to His         21\nspiritual law.  His law of Truth, when obeyed, removes\nevery erroneous physical and mental state.  The belief\nthat matter can master Mind, and make you ill, is an            24\nerror which Truth will destroy.\n\nYou must learn to acknowledge God in all His ways.\nIt is only a lack of understanding of the allness of God,       27\nwhich leads you to believe in the existence of matter, or\nthat matter can frame its own conditions, contrary to the       1\nlaw of Spirit.\n\nSickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ;            3\nfirst to faith in Christ; next to belief in God as omnipo-\ntent; and finally to the _understanding_ of God and man\nin Christian Science, whereby you learn that God is good,       6\nand in Science man is His likeness, the forever reflection of\ngoodness.  Therefore good is one and All.\n\nThis brings forward the next proposition in Christian           9\nScience, -- namely, that there are no sickness, sin, and\ndeath in the divine Mind.  What seem to be disease, vice,\nand mortality are illusions of the physical senses.  These      12\nillusions are not real, but unreal.  Health is the conscious-\nness of the unreality of pain and disease; or, rather, the\nabsolute consciousness of harmony and of nothing else.          15\nIn a moment you may awake from a night-dream; just\nso you can awake from the dream of sickness; but the\ndemonstration of the Science of Mind-healing by no means        18\nrests on the strength of human belief.  This demonstra-\ntion is based on a true understanding of God and divine\nScience, which takes away every human belief, and,              21\nthrough the illumination of spiritual understanding, re-\nveals the all-power and ever-presence of good, whence\nemanate health, harmony, and Life eternal.                      24\n\nThe lecturer, teacher, or healer who is indeed a Christian\nScientist, never introduces the subject of human anatomy;\nnever depicts the muscular, vascular, or nervous opera-         27\ntions of the human frame.   He never talks about the\nstructure of the material body. He never lays his hands         1\non the patient, nor manipulates the parts of the body sup-\nposed to be ailing. Above all, he keeps unbroken the Ten        3\nCommandments, and practises Christ's Sermon on the\nMount.\n\nWrong thoughts and methods strengthen the sense of              6\ndisease, instead of cure it; or else quiet the fear of the\nsick on false grounds, encouraging them in the belief of\nerror until they hold stronger than before the belief that      9\nthey are first made sick by matter, and then restored\nthrough its agency. This fosters infidelity, and is mental\nquackery, that denies the Principle of Mind-healing.  If        12\nthe sick are aided in this mistaken fashion, their ailments\nwill return, and be more stubborn because the relief is\nunchristian and unscientific.                                   15\n\nChristian Science erases from the minds of invalids\ntheir mistaken belief that they live in or because of matter,\nor that a so-called material organism controls the health       18\nor existence of mankind, and induces rest in God, divine\nLove, as caring for all the conditions requisite for the well-\nbeing of man.  As power divine is the healer, why should        21\nmortals concern themselves with the chemistry of food?\nJesus said: \"Take no thought what ye shall eat.\"\n\nThe practitioner should also endeavor to free the minds         24\nof the healthy from any sense of subordination to their\nbodies, and teach them that the divine Mind, not material\nlaw, maintains human health and life.                           27\n\nA Christian Scientist knows that, in Science, disease\nis unreal; that Mind is not in matter; that Life is God,        1\ngood; hence Life is not functional, and is neither matter\nnor mortal mind; knows that pantheism and theosophy             3\nare not Science.  Whatever saps, with human belief,\nthis basis of Christian Science, renders it impossible to\ndemonstrate the Principle of this Science, even in the          6\nsmallest degree.\n\nA mortal and material body is not the actual individuality\nof man made in the divine and spiritual image of God.           9\nThe material body is not the likeness of Spirit; hence it\nis not the truth of being, but the likeness of error ? the\nhuman belief which saith there is more than one God, --         12\nthere is more than one Life and one Mind.\n\nIn Deuteronomy (iv. 35) we read:  \"The Lord, He is\nGod; there is none else beside Him.\"  In John (iv. 24)          15\nwe may read: \"God is Spirit.\"  These propositions, un-\nderstood in their Science, elucidate my meaning.\n\nWhen treating a patient, it is not Science to treat every       18\norgan in the body.  To aver that harmony is the real and\ndiscord is the unreal, and then give special attention to\nwhat according to their own belief is diseased, is scientific;  21\nand if the _healer realizes_ the truth, it will free his patient.\n\n_What are the means and, methods of trustworthy Christian_\n_Scientists?_                                                   24\n\nThese people should not be expected, more than others,\nto give all their time to Christian Science work, receiving\nno wages in return, but left to be fed, clothed, and sheltered  27\nby charity.  Neither can they serve two masters, giving         1\nonly a portion of their time to God, and still be Christian\nScientists.  They must give Him all their services, and         3\n\"owe no man.\"  To do this, they must at present ask a\nsuitable price for their services, and then _conscientiously_\n_earn their wages_, strictly practising Divine Science, and     6\nhealing the sick.\n\nThe author never sought charitable support, but gave\nfully seven-eighths of her time without remuneration, ex-       9\ncept the bliss of doing good. The only pay taken for her\nlabors was from classes, and often those were put off for\nmonths, in order to do gratuitous work.  She has never          12\ntaught a Primary class without several, and sometimes\nseventeen, free students in it; and has endeavored to take\nthe full price of tuition only from those who were able to      15\npay.  The student who pays must of necessity do better\nthan he who does not pay, and yet will expect and require\nothers to pay him.  No discount on tuition was made on          18\nhigher classes, because their first classes furnished students\nwith the means of paying for their tuition in the higher\ninstruction, and of doing charity work besides.  If the         21\nPrimary students are still impecunious, it is their own\nfault, and this ill-success of itself leaves them unprepared\nto enter higher classes.                                        24\n\nPeople are being healed by means of my instructions,\nboth in and out of class.  Many students, who have\npassed through a regular course of instruction from me,         27\nhave been invalids and were healed in the class; but ex-\nperience has shown that this defrauds the scholar, though       1\nit heals the sick.\n\nIt is seldom that a student, if healed hi a class, has left     3\nit understanding sufficiently the Science of healing to im-\nmediately enter upon its practice.  Why?  Because the\nglad surprise of suddenly regained health is a shock to         6\nthe mind; and this holds and satisfies the thought with\nexuberant joy.\n\nThis renders the mind less inquisitive, plastic, and tract-     9\nable; and deep systematic thinking is impracticable until\nthis impulse subsides.\n\nThis was the principal reason for advising diseased             12\npeople not to enter a class.  Few were taken besides inva-\nlids for students, until there were enough practitioners to\nfill in the best possible manner the department of healing.     15\nTeaching and healing should have separate departments,\nand these should be fortified on all sides with suitable and\nthorough guardianship and grace.                                18\n\nOnly a very limited number of students can advanta-\ngeously enter a class, grapple with this subject, and well\nassimilate what has been taught them.  It is impossible         21\nto teach thorough Christian Science to promiscuous and\nlarge assemblies, or to persons who cannot be addressed\nindividually, so that the mind of the pupil may be dissected    24\nmore critically than the body of a subject laid bare for\nanatomical examination.  Public lectures cannot be such\nlessons in Christian Science as are required to empty and       27\nto fill anew the individual mind.\n\nIf publicity and material control are the motives for           1\nteaching, then public lectures can take the place of private\nlessons; but the former can never give a thorough knowledge     3\nof Christian Science, and a Christian Scientist will never\nundertake to fit students for practice by such means. Lec-\ntures in public are needed, but they must be subordinate        6\nto thorough class instruction in any branch of education.\n\nNone with an imperfect sense of the spiritual significa-\ntion of the Bible, and its scientific relation to Mind-         9\nhealing, should attempt overmuch in their translation of\nthe Scriptures into the \"new tongue;\" but I see that\nsome novices, in the truth of Science, and some impostors are   12\ncommitting this error.\n\n_Is there more than one school of scientific healing?_\n\nIn reality there is, and can be, but one school of the          15\nScience of Mind-healing.  Any departure from Science is\nan irreparable loss of Science.  Whatever is said and\nwritten correctly on this Science originates from the Princi-   18\nple and practice laid down in Science and Health, a work\nwhich I published in 1875.  This was the first book, re-\ncorded in history, which elucidates a pathological Science      21\npurely mental.\n\nMinor shades of difference in Mind-healing have origi-\nnated with certain opposing factions, springing up among        24\nunchristian students, who, fusing with a class of aspirants\nwhich snatch at whatever is progressive, call it their first-\nfruits, or else _post mortem_ evidence.                         27\n\nA slight divergence is fatal in Science.  Like certain          1\nJews whom St. Paul had hoped to convert from mere\nmotives of self-aggrandizement to the love of Christ, these     3\nso-called schools are clogging the wheels of progress by\nblinding the people to the true character of Christian\nScience, -- its moral power, and its divine efficacy to         6\nheal.\n\nThe true understanding of Christian Science Mind-\nhealing never originated in pride, rivalry, or the deification  9\nof self.  The Discoverer of this Science could tell you of\ntimidity, of self-distrust, of friendlessness, toil, agonies, and\nvictories under which she needed miraculous vision to           12\nsustain her, when taking the first footsteps in this\nScience.\n\nThe ways of Christianity have not changed.  Meek-               15\nness, selflessness, and love are the paths of His testimony\nand the footsteps of His flock.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWORKS ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\nWRITTEN BY MARY BAKER EDDY\nPublished by the\nTrustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy\n\n---\n---\n\nSCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES\n\nIn one volume, 700 pages. The original, standard, and only textbook on\nChristian Science Mind-healing. Cloth, one to eleven copies inclusive\n(cloth only), each $3.00; twelve or more, each $2.75. Ooze leather,\nvest pocket size, single copy $8.00; twelve or more, each $2.75.\nMorocco, vest pocket size, single copy $3.50; twelve or more, each\n$3.25. 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