y because I am
struggling for emancipation." Mrs. Eddy may heal you, but that does not
prove that her interpretation of Scripture is true. Because this
happens, that does not necessarily follow. Neither, because a thing
precedes a thing or goes with a thing, is the thing the cause of the
thing. On page five hundred fifty-three is this: "Adam was created
before Eve. Herein it is seen that the maternal egg never brought forth
Adam. Eve was formed from Adam's rib, not from a fetal ovum."

In reading things like this in "Science and Health," let us not be too
severe on Mrs. Eddy, but just bear in mind that such silly superstitions
and barbaric folklore are yet officially believed by all orthodox
clergymen and members of orthodox churches. You can accept a belief in
Adam's fall and the vicarious atonement and still make money and have
good health.

Page one hundred two: "The mild forms of animal magnetism are
disappearing, and its aggressive features are coming to the front. The
looms of crime, hidden in the dark recesses of mortal thought, are every
hour weaving webs more complicated and subtle. So secret are its present
methods that they ensnare the age into indolence, and produce the very
apathy on this subject which the criminal desires."

This passage reveals the one actually dangerous thing in Christian
Science--the fallacy that one mind can weave a web that will work the
undoing of another. This is the basis of a belief in witchcraft, and
justifies the hangings at Salem. On page one hundred three I find this:
"As used in Christian Science, animal magnetism or hypnotism is the
specific term for error, or mortal mind."

"It is the false belief that mind is in matter, and both evil and good;
that evil is as real as goodness, and more powerful. This belief has not
one quality of truth or good. It is either ignorant or malicious. The
malicious form of animal magnetism ultimates in moral idiocy. The
truths of immortal mind sustain man; and they annihilate the fables and
mortal mind, whose flimsy and gaudy pretensions, like silly moths, singe
their own wings and fall into dust. In reality there is no mortal mind,
and consequently no transference of mortal thought and will-power." Page
five hundred two: "Spiritually followed, the book of Genesis is the
history of the untrue image of God, named a sinful mortal. This
deflection of being, rightly viewed, serves the spiritual actuality of
man, as given in the first chapter of