Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures (Project Gutenberg eBook #3458)
book · 2002
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SUMMARY
Project Gutenberg's plain-text transcription of Eddy's Christian Science textbook, fetched directly (HTTP 200, 1,376,501 bytes). The ebook's own header states only an ebook release date (2002) and most-recent-update date (2021); it does NOT state which historical print edition it transcribes. Two passages are quoted from this text, each given as two adjoining marker-window fragments (see note below): 1:1-1:3 ('THE prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are' continuing 'possible to God,- a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.') and 14:12-18 ('Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual, - neither in nor of matter, - and the body will then utter no' continuing 'If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well.'), both addressing generic sickness, not a named disease. The plain-text transcription embeds its own page:line citation markers (e.g. "1:3", "14:15") inline roughly every three lines; each fragment above is confined to a single marker-to-marker window so its own wording is contiguous exactly as transcribed, rather than splicing across a marker the way an unbroken multi-line quote of this file otherwise would. A third passage at the SH 390:27-391:6 locator (the 'Agree to disagree' / 'incipient stages' / 'Thou art whole!' passage on cancer, consumption, and smallpox) is word-for-word identical, modulo hyphenation, to the same passage as it currently appears on the official christianscience.com Chapter XII page (see christianscience-com-science-and-health-chapter-xii). This source is cited for wording only, not as proof of a specific historical print edition, sale, stock, or purchase.
NOTES
Eddy’s Christian Science textbook, cited here through the readable, currently-maintained Project Gutenberg plain-text transcription (eBook #3458). The transcription’s wording at the SH 390:27-391:6 locator matches the current official web capture of Chapter XII, establishing that this “approaching symptoms”/“incipient stages” passage on cancer, consumption, and smallpox is the same text Eddy’s own book and the church’s own current online edition both carry — not that any specific dated print edition (e.g. 1875 first edition or a post-1906 revised printing) has been independently established. The mechanism of Eddy’s doctrine (disease as a false belief of “mortal mind” overthrown by “the spirit of Truth” / “spiritual Life, Truth, and Love”) is sourced to this text directly, as Eddy’s own proposed, doctrinal explanation — not as demonstrated physiology or a demonstrated cure.