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Christian Science

CHAPTER II
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Your empty and foolish imaginings are profanation and blasphemy, and can do you an injury.

It is wiser and better and holier to recognize and confess that there is no such thing as disease or pain or death." "I am full of imaginary tortures," I said, "but I do not think I could be any more uncomfortable if they were real ones.

What must I do to get rid of them ?" "There is no occasion to get rid of them since they do not exist.

They are illusions propagated by matter, and matter has no existence; there is no such thing as matter." "It sounds right and clear, but yet it seems in a degree elusive; it seems to slip through, just when you think you are getting a grip on it." "Explain." "Well, for instance: if there is no such thing as matter, how can matter propagate things ?" In her compassion she almost smiled.

She would have smiled if there were any such thing as a smile.
"It is quite simple," she said; "the fundamental propositions of Christian Science explain it, and they are summarized in the four following self-evident propositions: 1.


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