IN describing the effect of the true nature of health, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 373), "Establish the scientific sense of health, and you relieve the oppressed organ." What is "the scientific sense of health"? Is there a state of health which is unassailable?
Health is commonly regarded as a condition of the body, not perhaps unconnected in many instances with the human mind. But in Christian Science we learn that the human mind has no power to produce health or to destroy it. Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 151), "The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man."
The scientific sense of health is a natural condition of the scientific man, and the scientific man is the one of whom we learn in Christian Science. The five physical senses do not tell us anything concerning the scientific man. These senses, testify to an opposite view, namely, a variable mortal. The mortal is a temporal or material definition of man, the outcome of sensuality. In this so-called man health seems dependent on matter, but this is not the scientific sense of health, which belongs to the scientific man. Where do we find this man? If you will admit the basic Scriptural premise of man's creation and identify yourself therewith, you will be none other than the scientific man. The premise referred to is to be found in Genesis (1:26): "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
