Occasionally practitioners, Readers, and other members of The Mother Church are solicited to purchase unauthorized books and other literature which claim to elucidate the teachings of Christian Science.
In the Bible as well as in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and other published writings of Mary Baker Eddy, students of Christian Science have the only textbooks they need for self-instruction in Christian Science. (See Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art. IV, Sect. 1, and Art. XXI, Sect. 3.)
In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy has given us the full and final revelation of the Science of being. The student who would progress in his understanding and demonstration will do well to confine his study of the teachings of Christian Science to the Bible, the writings of our Leader published by the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy, and the authorized publications of The Christian Science Publishing Society. Thus he will safeguard his thinking from the confusion or adulteration which would result from studying books based upon personal interpretation of our Leader's writings and which add nothing to the pure Science which she herself has given us.
