Produced by Michael Gray RUDIMENTAL DIVINE SCIENCE RUDIMENTAL DIVINE SCIENCE BY MARY BAKER EDDY AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES [Image: Publishing Company Logo] Registered U. S. Patent Office Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy BOSTON, U.S.A. Authorized Literature of THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST In Boston, Massachusetts _Copyright, 1891, 1908_ BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY Copyright renewed 1919 --- All rights reserved --- PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS LITTLE BOOK IS TENDERLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL LOYAL STUDENTS, WORKING AND WAITING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF MIND-HEALING MARY BAKER EDDY CONTENTS DEFINITION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRINCIPLE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PERSONALITY OF GOD HEALING SICKNESS AND SIN INDIVIDUALITY OF GOD MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE NON-EXISTENCE OF MATTER MATERIALITY INTANGIBLE BASIS OF MIND-HEALING MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL MAN DEMONSTRATION IN HEALING MEANS AND METHODS ONLY ONE SCHOOL RUDIMENTAL DIVINE SCIENCE _How would you define Christian Science?_ 1 AS the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of 3 universal harmony. _What is the Principle of Christian Science?_ It is God, the Supreme Being, infinite and immortal 6 Mind, the Soul of man and the universe. It is our Father which is in heaven. It is substance, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love, -- these are the deific Principle. 9 _Do you mean by this that God is a person?_ The word person affords a large margin for misappre- hension, as well as definition. In French the equivalent 12 word is _personne_. In Spanish, Italian, and Latin, it is _persona_. The Latin verb _personare_ is compounded of the prefix _per_ (through) and _sonare_ (to sound). 15 In law, Blackstone applies the word _personal_ to _bodily presence_, in distinction from one's appearance (in court, for example) by deputy or proxy. 18 Other definitions of _person_, as give by Webster, are 1 "a living soul; a self-conscious being; a moral agent; especially, a living human being, a corporeal man, woman, 3 or child; an individual of the human race." He adds, that among Trinitarian Christians the word stands for one of the three subjects, or agents, constituting the Godhead. 6 In Christian Science we learn that God is definitely indi- vidual and not a _person_, as that word is used by the best authorities, if our lexicographers are right in defining 9 _person_ as especially a finite _human being_; but God is personal, if by _person_ is meant infinite Spirit.