Mary Baker Eddy writes in her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science.” In a related book (Miscellaneous Writings) she says of Christian Science:

“It is the soul of divine philosophy, and there is no other philosophy. It is not a search after wisdom, it is wisdom: it is God’s right hand grasping the universe, — all time, space, immortality, thought, extension, cause, and effect; constituting and governing all identity, individuality, law, and power. It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing apart from this Mind, one God, is self-created or evolves the universe.”

Mrs. Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, explains this discovery of scientific Christianity. It illumines the Bible and teaches that God is all good, supreme, ever present Love. It identifies man as God’s beloved child, His unfallen image and likeness. This view of reality based on original perfection gives man divine authority to refuse evil.

Read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures online here.

Mary Baker Eddy, who would become a world figure and founder of a major religion, was born in 1821 on a small farm in Bow, New Hampshire. She grew up in a family devoted to daily Bible study, and she learned to turn to God during numerous challenges in her youth and early adult life. In the winter of 1866, she slipped on an icy sidewalk and was carried to her home with injuries so severe that she was not expected to survive. Calling for her Bible, she found an account of Jesus’ healing so illuminated that she was herself healed. She spent the next several years pursuing this discovery of Jesus’ healing method, began taking students, and in 1875 published Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

To read more about this remarkable woman, visit The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.