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Rh again and in many places of this discovery, she says: “In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook”; “No human pen nor tongue taught me the science contained in this book”; “I have found nothing in ancient or modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in the straight and narrow way of Truth”; “Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. It has a spiritual and not a material origin. It is a divine utterance”; “He (Christ) left no definite rule for demonstrating the Principle of healing and preventing disease. This rule remained to be discovered in Christian Science”; “The Scriptures gave no direct interpretation of the scientific basis for demonstrating the spiritual Principle of healing until our Heavenly Father saw fit, through the Key to the Scriptures in Science and Health to unlock this mystery of godliness”; “The revelation of Truth in the understanding came to me gradually and apparently through divine power”; “To one ‘born of the flesh’, however, Divine Science must be a