Divine Science: Its Principles and Practice

2013 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Compiled from Truth and Health by Fannie B. James and Divine Science and Healing by Malinda E. Cramer. The Church of Divine Science is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement. The group was formalized in San Francisco in the 1880s under Malinda Cramer. Divine Science defines itself as an organized teaching pertaining to God and the manifestation of God in Creation. It holds that its foundation truth is that limitless Being God is Good is equally present everywhere and is the All of everything. It defines God as pure Spirit absolute changeless eternal manifesting in and as all Creation yet also transcending Creation and that evil is therefore neither necessary nor permanent and has no reality within itself but has existence only so long as human beings support it by believing in it. Like other New Thought churches Divine Science considers healing very important and emulates the work of Jesus Christ who in the New Testament cures many people. The Denver Churchs founder Nona Brooks stated The whole of Divine Science is the practice of the Presence of God. Truth comes through the Bible Affirmative prayer contemplation and meditation and the practice of the presence of God here and now.