Day 138: Semi-metaphysics

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There are times, like today, that I think how many times have I read these pages and missed this idea? I'm so grateful for journal developed by The Mother Church. This read of Science and Health has been so much clearer and easier because of the slow pace and short readings.

These two pages are the first pages of the chapter titled Science of Being. The word that popped out to me was semi-metaphysics. Semi-metaphysics is the belief in both matter and Spirit, as a progression away from a completely materialistic belief system.

Then Mary Baker Eddy defines metaphysics:

Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.

Then in the next paragraph, MBE delves into these ideas of Soul as:

perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, -- they are good and eternal. 

She ends this reading with:

One only of the following statements can be true: [1] that everything is matter; [2] that everything is Mind. Which one is it?