The Scientific Statement of Being
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In 1886, Mary Baker Eddy published her first glimpse of the Scientific Statement of Being. Its refinement continued—again and again—until its present form in 1907.
This revelation underscores Eddy's discovery in Christian Science that:
God is divine Mind, pure consciousness
This Mind is the only Mind
Notice the subtleties in the evolution of the excerpts below about consciousness and matter, and savor their precious unfoldment.
1876
All is mind and there is no matter.¹
1881
All is mind; there is no matter. ²
1886
All is Mind.³
1891
All is Mind; there is no matter.⁴
1894
All is infinite Mind and its manifestation.⁵
1896
All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation,
for God is All in all.⁶
1902
All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation,
for God is All-in-all.⁷
Eddy’s Final Scientific Statement of Being
in the Christian Science textbook:
There is no life, truth, intelligence
nor substance in matter.
All is infinite Mind
and its infinite manifestation,
for God is All-in-all.
Spirit is immortal Truth;
matter is mortal error.
Spirit is the real and eternal;
Matter is the unreal and temporal.
Spirit is God,
and man is His image and likeness.
Therefore, man is not material, he is spiritual.⁸
We must always rewrite
everything we read.⁹
— Margaret Laird
Fast forward to 2024. Modern science today confirms Eddy’s cognition that matter—the concept of something separate and apart from pure consciousness—does not and cannot exist.
Discoveries in quantum physics confirm that matter is not a thing but rather the appearance of a thing; this is why matter is said to be an illusion. Note that the ‘thing’ is not the illusion; instead, the illusion is the perception of something independent of consciousness.
We do not abandon things,
but only the material sense of things.¹⁰
— Arthur Corey
What disappears in divine revelation,
is not human self-hood
but the belief that selfhood
is material and corporeal.¹¹
— Margaret Laird
What’s metaphysically scientific isn’t what we see with our eyes, but what we perceive with our spiritual vision.
Matter is not made of matter. Nor are you!¹²
— Deepak Chopra
Consciousness is all there is.¹³
— Dr. Tony Nader
Pure consciousness is all there is.¹⁴
— Margaret Laird
This world appears to be material.
Yet in reality, it is pure consciousness.¹⁵
— Yoga Vasishtha
Thus, today, standing on the shoulders of ancient Vedic Science, Christian Science, modern quantum physics, and contemporary Metaphysical Science, we do not seek to get rid of things but rather to see things as they really are: as manifestations of the one Mind. Here’s just one way we might today express the Scientific Statement of Being:
There is no life, truth, intelligence,
or substance in the concept called matter.
All is infinite pure consciousness and
its infinite manifestation,
for consciousness is All-in-all.
Consciousness is God, immortal Truth.
The concept of matter—
of something separate and apart from divinity—
is a mistaken, illusory point of view.
Consciousness being infinite, All,
such separation is impossible.
Consciousness is the real and eternal.
The concept of matter is the unreal and temporal.
Consciousness is divine, and
man (ifestation) is its divine image and likeness.
Therefore, neither the divine image
nor ‘things’ are—or could ever be—‘material.’
Reality is eternally ‘one unbounded ocean
of consciousness in motion.’¹⁴
I AM THAT.
THOU ART THAT.
ALL THIS IS THAT.
THAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS.¹⁵
— The Upanishads
Waves of the Ocean
[1] Mary B. G. Eddy, Science of Man, 1876 (distributed by the Rare Book Company), p. 5
[2] Mary B. Glover Eddy, Science and Health: Third Edition, 1881, (University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge), p. 7
[3] Mary Baker G. Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Sixteenth Edition, (University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge), 1886), p. 211
[4] Mary Baker G. Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Fiftieth Edition, (University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge), 1891), p. 451
[5] Revisions of the Scientific Statement of Being by Mary Baker Eddy, https://articles.plainfieldcs.com/mary-baker-eddy/revisions-of-the-scientific-statement-of-being/ 08.26.2024
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, (The Christian Science Board of Directors, 1971), p. 468
[9] Margaret Laird, London 1965 Seminar, (The Institute of Metaphysical Science)
[10] Arthur Corey, Christian Science Class Instruction, (DeVorss & Co., 1950), p.151
[11] Margaret Laird, Christian Science Re-Explored: A Challenge to Original Thinking, (The Institute of Metaphysical Science, 2010), p. 246
[12] Deepak Chopra, Matter is not made of matter. Nor are you!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3zmFou0mSw 08.19.2024
[13] Dr. Tony Nader, Consciousness is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life, (Hay House LLC, 2024), p. xxii
[14] Margaret Laird, London 1965 Seminar, (The Institute of Metaphysical Science)
[15] Dr. Tony Nader, Consciousness is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life, (Hay House LLC, 2024), p. 37
[16] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: Introduction, (Maharishi Vedic University Press, 1994), p. 319
[17] Anna J. Bonshek, Mirror of Consciousness: Art, Creativity, and Veda, (Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2001), p. 197
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