"The Bible contains the recipe for all healing." This sentence from page 406 in Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is quite an incentive to students of the Bible and those seeking healing.
A recipe provides ingredients, method or set of instructions, and often a photograph which offers proof of the end product. One must generally adhere closely to the quantities and types of ingredients and to the method offered. The result will then hopefully match the desired result. It is a disciplined but artful approach and the aim is a tasty meal.
I love how Science & Health is full of quotes from the Bible.
In the Preface, I found the following:
vii: 20 Though empires fall, "the Lord shall reign forever." --> Exodus 15:18 and Psalms 146:10
viii: 12 The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, - by healing both disease and sin; and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men. --> John 18:38 (Pilate's question)
viii: 21 A vigorous "No" is the response deducible from two connate facts, - the reputed longevity of the Antediluvians, and the rapid multiplication and increased violence of diseases since the flood. --> Antediluvians = those living prior to the Biblical flood (Genesis 6-10)
ix: 18 Today, though rejoicing in some progress, she still finds herself a willing disciple at the heavenly gate, waiting for the Mind of Christ. --> I Cor. 2:16
xi: 16 and 19-21 They are the sign of Immanuel, or "God with us," - a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised.
--> Matthew 1:23, Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1
xii: 23 In the spirit of Christ's charity, -- as one who "hopeth all things, endureth all things," and is joyful to bear consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick, -- she commits these pages to honest seekers for Truth. - I Corinthians 13:7
Julie Swannell
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