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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Aequus)

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The author, Mary Baker Eddy, was far ahead of her time in what she not only understood about God and mankind, but what she accomplished as a woman over 100 years ago. Other authors have attempted to discuss such ideas as what is real, what is illusion, what is God, Life, Truth, evil, good, etc. but have fallen short in the consistancy of their reasoning and conclusions. I find no contradictions here, only inspired thinking. I have actually had healings as a result of reading this book, and I recommend it to others regardless of religious affiliation.

I am not your typical respondent on this book. Most likely, a person of the Christian Science Religion would write about this amazing book. The book IS AMAZING. It was written by a woman in the l800's. In my opinion, she was absolutely brilliant, but also a "channel" of higher spirituality. This is where the C.S. would differ with me. The language is so advanced/awkward at times, and yet it has a breathtaking aliveness and beauty , poetic and profound that it cannot be overlooked as one of the most majestic and powerful books on healing in this century. I feel a kind of "electrical buzz" in my mind as the truth scintilates through my being, head to toe in certain passages. I encourage any one to attend a Testimony meeting on Wednesday nights ...even a non C.S. It is a wonderful testimony to healing that is lacking in most Christian denominations. My greatest argument with the author of this book is the amount of control she left over the followers...too much rigidity of application, in my opinion. I truly believe that God can heal us with prayer. Unfortunately, I do feel that many people are lacking the spiritual understanding as yet, to fully manifest such a healing. In certain cases, I feel this can be tragic, when doctors, who God ALSO Created, could possibly have helped. So, although I love the book and its principles, I hold a bit of reservation in how it is most commonly applied within the strictures of its church. Read the book in spite of what I have said, and be blessed! Linda Schiller-Hanna

This 700-page book opened up my understanding of God and the Bible light-years beyond what many traditional theological views ever did. It also helped me give up and destroy appetites for alcohol, tobacco, foul language, pornography, gambling and other forms of laciviousness. It eliminated my dependence on matter for healing and allowed me to trust all my cares to God. This is a book you won't read once. Re-reading it unlocks the Bible's healing message and strengthens your trust in the efficacy of prayer and in the power of the Almighty.

(...) Using words on a page in a book to describe completely un-material ideas about spiritual existence to you and me is a difficult thing for anyone to do. Couple that with the fact that the book's author is trying to essentially show the reader how to wake up to an unseen reality--to show, in the context of primitive Christianity (and not what might be called centuries of classical churchy dogma), that spiritual existence is real, and the material is not, and what that really means to you and me right now and always--and you begin to see how difficult writing a book like Science And Health must have been, or would be for anybody. It's quite a Big topic requiring much thought to understand and "use". A seeming repetition (with intelligent variations) in this book is vital. If you're trying to say "God, good, is All, and man and universe reflect him completely", and you're trying to teach this and show this to the matter-bound reader, you're gonna need more than that one sentence to make that challenging point. I'd say you'd need as many thought-provoking ways as possible, so if your eyes slide off some of the statements, others will perhaps be more understandable to you, and as you read you start to GET it. (...) read Science And Health for yourself and make up your own mind; read it on its own terms, because it has many things to say that you won't find anywhere else, and it says them quite articulately. If you find yourself glued to Dr. Dave on Oprah and reading Deepak, you might want to go deeper to the book that is acknowledged as starting the whole "healing" movement of the twentieth century that we are only now in the last few years seeing bubble up on TV. This one is the real deal and is here to stay.

I am so very gratetful for the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy... and what she has left behind for us...nearly a century ago. I wish more people (anyone, not just Christian Scientists) would spend some time reading and thinking about the wisdom and truth in this wonderful book. Every day we are tested more and more... this is a great aid in getting through the harder times in life. In fact, this book proves that there is a lot more to life then most of us really imagine.

This is one of those books that seems to have a life of its own. As part of my quest for deeper spiritual insight, I have been reading Science and Health for about 8 years, and every single time I open it, there is something new in there! For the reader unfamiliar with Christian Science, Eddy lays out a method for healing the way that Jesus healed--through oneness of mind with our Father, God. For those wondering what the difference is between Christian Science and other Christian denominations or New Age religions, the great divide between CS and all other systems is the idea that the entire universe was created by God, Spirit, and is therefore totally spiritual, not material. All other theologies, including atheism, make the universe either totally material, or a mixture of spirit and matter. While many people (including me) have been healed of ailments while reading this book as their thought is adjusted to be more in line with the laws of Spirit, I have found the primary effect to be one of complete transformation of character--I am more my Father's girl than ever.

Science and Health has been part of my life since I have been a child. It is the most revolutionary book on paper. It makes you travel to the correct channels of thought that heal you in matters of love, work and the physical. If you are an assidous reader of New Age books, or New Thought, this is much more deep and inspiring; especially full of the most outstanding Truth that highlightens the true man as a Spiritual Being. Mary Baker Eddy, who was ahead of her time, wrote this book more than a century ago, and not until today other authors like Deepak Chopra or Marianne Williamson take the veil out of "some" of these truths. However, Mary Baker Eddy unveils them all. If you like to read authors who have been inspired in the original, well, for goodness sake...read the orignal!

There are several things unique about the Aequus edition that are not apparent on their face. First, the editors of this edition sought to restore, as closely as possible, the last edition approved by the original author, Mary Baker Eddy, in her life time. In doing this, among other things, Aequus restore the drawing of Mrs. Eddy that was in that edition. Also, Aequus restored two testimonies, subsequently removed and replaced after Eddy's passing in 1910. Just as the Book started on a note of the coming of light into human thought, so also the last testimony was deliberatly approved by Eddy to end the entire book with the same theme of light. In fact, with the last testimony restored, the last word IS "light," which is exactly as Eddy intended it. She also intended that the last page be a full page. David Keyston and Aequus are to be commended for this courageous and noble undertaking in true Christian education. My hat goes off to them!!

This book is like no other. It is a book about life, how to live it, and how the world works. Topics include prayer, creation, marriage, healing, and many more. This book has helped me a lot.

If you have ever yearned for an understanding of God or wondered how to the early Christians healed (and how healing can be still practiced today), you will be satisfied by this book. This book has changed my life...and in many ways made it possible. My grandmother was restored from a fatal sickness through reading this book. I am so grateful for this book has brought countless blessing to me and my family. If you take the book with an open heart and read it through, you will be blessed and healed too.