My suffering (Mrs. Eddy’s) is from believing other people’s thoughts about me; I say, Mary, it is not other people’s sin, it is your own thought; nothing can MAKE you sin, you do it yourself. There is no prenatal belief that can make you believe it, there is nothing but God and His idea. The devil tempted Jesus; said, come down and I will give you all you see; and the devil had not an acre of ground to give; and has nothing to give you. Jesus did not stop to argue with a lie (argument of error); did not say, now Mr. Devil I will argue with you about it; he said, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan.’ He ‘spake the word and it was done.’ Shut it all out. You do not have to argue; KNOW. KNOW God and His idea, and not argue about sin.  Mary Baker Eddy    (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p,1-2)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 14 

If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was “the way, the truth, and the life,” cognize it? 

Christ Jesus’ sense of matter was the opposite of that which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission was to translate substance into its original meaning, Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water into wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised the dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of his own tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually vanquished matter and its supposed laws. Walking the wave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter is substance; healing through Mind, he removed any supposition that matter is intelligent, or can recognize or express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the world.

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the garment of Jesus’ idea of matter. Christ was “the way;” since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through a human person, a spiritual revelation of man’s possible earthly development.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.74:11-5)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 13 

“The new tongue” is the spiritual meaning as opposed to the material. It is the language of Soul instead of the senses; it translates matter into its original language, which is Mind, and gives the spiritual instead of the material signification.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Christian Healing, p.7:6-10)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 12

Science, understood, translates matter into Mind, rejects all other theories of causation, restores the spiritual and original meaning of the Scriptures, and explains the teachings and life of our Lord.  It is religion’s“ new tongue,” with “signs following,” spoken of by St. Mark. It gives God’s infinite meaning to mankind, healing the sick, casting out evil, and raising the spiritually dead. Christianity is Christlike only as it re‐iterates the word, repeats the works, and manifests the spirit of Christ.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.25:12-15)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 11 

The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health With Key To The Scriptures. P.209:16)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 10 

Evil in the beginning claimed the power, wisdom, and utility of good; and every creation or idea of Spirit has its counterfeit in some matter belief. Every material belief hints the existence of spiritual reality; and if mortals are instructed in spiritual things, it will be seen that material belief, in all its manifestations, reversed, will be found the type and representative of verities priceless, eternal, and just at hand. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.60:26)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 9 

Error wants to be let alone, but we are not going to let it alone.  Rather will we continue our effort at right thinking until the absurd and illegitimate argument that man is flesh and bones – organized matter – is met and the ideas of God manifested.  (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.222)

MATTER AS FINITE YIELDING TO THE INFINITE – 8 

The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul. 

These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health, With Key To The Scriptures, p.269:13-20)