Joseph Mann recorded Mrs. Eddy’s words to him as follows (Mary Baker Eddy, A Life Size Portrait, first edition, page 232): “You must get rid of the ‘old man,’ the old woman; you cannot make them better and keep them.  You are not getting rid of the old man if you try to make him better.  If you should succeed in making him better, he would stay with you.  If you patch up the old and say it is good enough, you do not put it off, but keep it.  If you try to make the old satisfactory, you are preparing to keep it, not to put it off.”   Mary Baker Eddy, Carpenter, Jr., 500 Watching Points, #205)

Prayer

            Thou infinite Life, Thou infinite strength, Thou are here. You are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. You are strengthened with might by His spirit in the inner man. Flow through me, spirit of divine Love, to do this healing. Divine Love flows everywhere and is reflected through you as well as through the most advanced Scientists. Look up and feel its beams of warmth and live in it.   Mary Baker Eddy   (Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.126)

Consciousness is a respondence of divine actuality.   Mary Baker Eddy   (Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.80)

June 5, 1903. You must have the balance on the right side; a row of ciphers without the numeral ‘1’ is nothing; now have your ‘1’ with God; there is no evil; God is All. There is nothing (cipher) that can weigh against God.   Mary Baker Eddy   (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.6)

3.

Only the good has power. God is my health. God is my wisdom. The belief of sickness is not true, and is brought on by animal mag­netism, universal false belief. I am not subject to the laws of mortal belief in sickness, sin and death, and the belief lasts only while I believe in the power of matter. I am hid with Christ in God where no mortal sense can find me and where no mortal belief can reach me. Mind sustains man. I am renewed daily in the image and likeness of God and cannot lose one faculty which ex­presses my divinity. I am free from the beliefs that have claimed to hold me in bondage. I am free.  Mary Baker Eddy   (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.52)

2.

I am not dependent upon any personality for my needs. Malicious animal magnetism cannot hide my work from me, nor make me feel failure or lack. I am born free, not in bondage to anyone or anything, for divine Principle leads me. There is no power in anger, ill-temper, scorn, or contempt. There is no power in prejudice, or superstition. There is no power in selfishness, envy, jealousy, pride, hate, malice, or revenge. I am a law against all that is false. I deny that the appearance that we call matter has any life, substance, or intelligence, because God is the only Life.   Mary Baker Eddy   (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.52)

1.

Let the divine Mind illuminate and abolish mental malprac­tice until there is not a dark corner; then we shall know that neither food, climate, nor any seeming condition can affect the body in any way, for there is but one cause, God, good. God is the only actor, the only Saviour, the only governor of man. There is no confusion in Truth. Malicious animal magnetism cannot sepa­rate me from my best and greatest good, nor limit my supply in any way. It cannot touch me with any claim of poverty in myself or in anyone else. Spirit is my unlimited source of supply.   Mary Baker Eddy  (Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays on Christian Science, p.52)

The argument is merely the mental preparation which brings thought into spiritual oneness.  Mrs. Eddy once said this very thing to Laura Sargent who wrote it down as follows:  “Mother said in the old way mortal belief had one devil; now it had many, but we must not call it they, but evil.  She said when we take up our watch, we do not help her with our thought; we simply clear our own thought of the belief of evil, and this is getting rid of our thought and getting out of God’s way so the light can shine through, and this blessed light helps us and all in its shining.  This is the blessed, blessed way from sense to Soul.”   (Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #206)