Science and Health and Healing
We love sharing healing ideas and spiritual resources with you.
This month’s spotlight is on Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science.
Science and Health has had a transformative and healing effect for hundreds of thousands of people since it was first written in 1875. Reading Room staff members can tell you of their own experiences of healing as a result of the transforming ideas in this wonderful book.
Visitors to the Reading Room who have begun to read Science and Health also tell us of their transformations. A frequent visitor, while studying for her college classes, picked up Science and Health and began reading. A couple hours later, she exclaimed that it was “an awesome book” and decided to purchase it. Later on, she said the spiritual ideas she was reading in the book helped her recover quickly when she fell on the ice and hit her head. She related that she had had experiences in the past when she fell and hit her head and had had difficult symptoms. This time was very different for her and she expressed gratitude for the spiritual enlightenment she had that had brought about this healing.
Our magazines, the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal provide numerous testimonies of healing. Many healings are those that the medical profession has diagnosed.
Rob Gilbert, a Christian Science teacher and practitioner tells about the experience a medical doctor had with Science and Health. The doctor had been reading the book and had posted a passage from it in his office. Shortly after this, an oncologist sent a patient to him for pain management.
Over several weeks and contrary to expectations, the patient got progressively better and was healed. When questioned about how this occurred, the patient said it wasn’t the physician or the oncologist who healed him. He had even quit going to the oncologist. The patient said it was the passage from Science and Health posted on the wall that facilitated the healing. He had written it down and had pondered and prayed with that passage until he was healed.
The passage states, "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well. Sorrow is turned into joy when the body is controlled by spiritual Life, Truth, and Love" (p. 14).
On the strength of further study of Science and Health, the physician said he healed a man of an inoperable cancer in his bowels. Read the complete article.
Science and Health is a book that can change limited, restricted thinking so that the Word of God, spiritual ideas about Life, Truth and Love, become uppermost in thought and healing can occur. And by healing, we mean any kind of healing—physical, mental, emotional, financial, relationship, lack of any kind.
We recommend this book to you. It has been declared by The Women’s National Book Association as “one of seventy-five by women whose words have changed the world.”
*”The Seen and the Unseen” by Rob Gilbert. The Christian Science Journal, May 2009.