“Truth is God.”—Page 183, edition of 1898.
“Truth, God, is not the Father of error.”—Page 469, edition of 1898.
Quimby:
Eddy:
“How can I most rapidly advance in the understanding of Christian Science? Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe the spirit. Adhere to its divine Principle, and follow its behests, abiding steadily in Wisdom, Love, and Truth.”—Page 491, edition of 1898.
Quimby:
“Error is matter.”
“Matter has no intelligence.”
“To give intelligence to matter is an error which is sickness.”
“Matter has no intelligence of its own, and to believe intelligence is in matter is the error which produces pain and inharmony of all sorts; to hold ourselves we are a principle outside of matter, we would not be influenced by the opinions of man, but held to the workings only of a principle, Truth, in which there are no inharmonies of sickness, pain, or sin.”
“For matter is an error, there being no substance, which is Truth in a thing which changes and is only that which belief makes it.”
“Christ was the Wisdom that knew Truth dwelt not in opinion and that matter was but opinion that could be formed into any shape which the belief gave to it, and that the life which moved it came not from it, but was outside of it.”
Eddy:
“Matter is mortal error,”—Page 169, edition of 1881.
“The fundamental error of mortal man is the belief that matter is intelligent.”—Page 122, edition of 1881.
“Laws of matter are nothing more or less than a belief of intelligence and life in matter, which is the procuring cause of all disease; whereas God, Truth, is its positive cure.”—Page 127, edition of 1881.
“There is no life, truth, intelligence, or substance in matter.”—Page 464, edition of 1898.
[It will be seen that every idea contained in this last passage, Mrs. Eddy’s famous “scientific statement of being,” the mental repetition of which constitutes Christian Science “treatment,” is taken from Dr. Quimby’s writings.]
This paralleling of Eddyism, or Christian Science, with Quimbyism shows that, as late as 1870, Mrs. Eddy professed to have learned from Quimby, that error is sickness; that belief is sickness; that discord is sickness; that there is no life, truth, intelligence, or substance in matter; that matter is error; that the belief of intelligence in matter is the cause of all disease; that Truth is God; that there is no other truth but God; that God is Principle; that Wisdom, Love and Truth are Principle; that Truth is health and cures sickness; that harmony, by destroying disharmony, cures disease; and, finally, that all disease originates in mind and is cured by mind alone.