Has anyone yet taken up the systematic, topical study of Mrs. Eddy's Science and Health? By topical study, I mean tracing one subject from beginning to end of the volume. In the Tenth Chapter of Revelation we are commanded to "take it and eat it up." Eat what? The little book which the angel held in his hand, that it may become our Life. Science and Health is this book, sweet to the spiritual man, but bitter to the material man. It forms the connecting link between mortal and Immortal Mind, and leads us out of the one into the other.
There is a line of study which can be traced throughout the book, which might be compared to Jacob's ladder. It begins with Life, embracing all the harmonies of our being. As the roots are the life of a tree or a plant, so Life is the foundation of the study of Christian Science. Without it we could not take the first step from matter to Mind. This is the keynote of the chapter on Recapitulation, and contains the basic Science of Being. Mrs. Eddy states, that we must learn the Science of Life in order to reach the perfection of manhood. To understand God, as the Principle of all Being, and to live in accordance with this Principle, is the Science of Life.
Associated with Life are Substance and Intelligence. These three are mentioned together in many places, throughout the book; for our understanding of Life changes our view of the basis of Substance and Intelligence, from matter to Spirit.
