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Man is defined by Mary Baker Eddy in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as, "The compound idea of infinite Spirit; the spiritual image and likeness of God; the full representation of Mind" ( p. 591 ).

While a student of Christian Science soon learns to expect rapid physical healing through Science, he is sometimes less awake to the need of right expectation in regard to speedy healings of faults of character. The definition of "Gad (Jacob's son)" in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is as follows ( p.

Holy Bible , book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine: Mine to tell me whence I came; Mine to tell me what I am. This verse from Hymn No.

When Christ Jesus healed the sick and solved human problems, he proved that the utilization of the power of God brings instantaneous results. The student of Christian Science, striving to emulate the great Way-shower, sometimes wonders why his declarations of the truth of being are not attended by the same immediate healing.

No similarity exists between divine dominion and personal domination. God-given dominion springs from the impulsion of the one Mind, which holds its creation in mighty and eternal control.

Awakening is not a process that really occurs in Deity, for the divine Mind is eternally alert and active. One cannot conceive of omniactive divine Principle as ever sleeping or even requiring sleep.

Christians have always admitted the power of God to heal sin, but from about the third century until the present era they have, with a few exceptions, either denied the possibility of the Christian healing of sickness or attempted to use it merely as an adjunct to the current form of materia medica. It remained for Mary Baker Eddy to discover in the latter half of the nineteenth century the underlying Principle which Christ Jesus demonstrated and to give her discovery to the world as Christian Science.

Until defined in Christian Science, soul generally was thought of as something of a nebulous nature, something which was supposed to enter the body at birth, to escape from it at death, and then to go into an eternity of bliss or woe. Though capable of joy and suffering, this shadowy being was believed to be immortal.

Marco Polo says that in his travels he came to a village in Persia whose inhabitants claimed it to be the starting point of the Wisemen's journey. According to the villagers' tale, there were three Wisemen: a young man, a middle-aged man, and an older man.

Strictly speaking, the word "character" refers to the traits and qualities which distinguish individuals or objects, whether good or bad. But to speak of someone as a person "of character" or of a nation as a nation "of character" generally implies the possession of a high degree of moral force and righteousness.