Life, Truth, and Love for All

Mary Baker Eddy gives a metaphysical expression of spiritual anatomy, and how to view it, in her textbook,  Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, page 462. She asks an important questions about thoughts. She says:

“Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity, and origin. Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question. This branch of study is indispensable to the excision of error. The anatomy of Christian Science teaches when and how to probe the self-inflicted wounds of selfishness, malice, envy, and hate. It teaches control of mad ambition. It unfolds the hallowed influences of unselfishness, philanthropy, spiritual love. It urges the government of the body both in health and in sickness. The Christian Scientist, through understanding mental anatomy, discerns and deals with the real cause of disease. The material physician gropes among phenomena, which fluctuate every instant under influences not embraced in his diagnosis, and so he may stumble and fall in the darkness.”

I thank Mary Baker Eddy for giving this insightful interpretation of anatomy from a spiritual perspective, not material. We are commonly taught to view anatomy in one way only. Mary Baker Eddy shows another way, that of a metaphysical perspective.