An
article in the Christian Science Sentinel recently made the arresting point that darkness never pierces light, but that light always extinguishes darkness.
At
medical school, Mesmer came across a medieval theory that magnets, passed over the ailing parts of a patient's body, cured him through the magnetic power supposed to flow from the planets and stars into the body.
At
the time some of the earth's great mountain peaks were systematically being scaled by pioneer mountaineers, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, was pioneering spiritual paths upward in the Science of Mind-healing.
