Watching Point 485

485 — WATCH that you realize that Mrs. Eddy not only made the demonstration to write Science and Health, with God as its Author, but to add to it spiritual healing, that all who read it are privileged to experience. She also taught Science and Health, talked it, wrote it in letters to students, and lived it herself. Hence in studying her life and writings, the demand is to transform everything into Science and Health. This endeavor will promote spiritual growth, and reveal higher applications and meanings of Truth as one is ready for them.

It is as if Science and Health was the Rock which God dropped into the pool of Mrs. Eddy’s consciousness. At once the ripples or concentric rings began to cover her entire thought and life. It is not enough, therefore, to study the Rock. We must study her rings if we ever hope to have them cover our entire thought and life.

On August 25, 1908, Mrs. Eddy directed a worker in her home as follows: “Take this up in every watch: Mrs. Eddy’s face is not deformed. Her eyes are large, natural; sight, hearing and memory are never lost. Her finger joints are natural.”

Do you believe that the above watch was Science and Health, when on casual reading it does not sound so? Read 486:23 and 243:32.

After one has learned the scientific way to apply divine power to bring out right results, demonstration requires that one set forth the human need. Why invoke divine power unless you hold in thought some specific need to be met? On page 54 of Pulpit and Press we find quoted with Mrs. Eddy’s approval, “The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual.” What was Mrs. Eddy doing but calling on her students in their watch to see the perfect man, entirely apart from the distortion of materiality? Then the correctness of their effort would be indicated in right physical results.