“All disease, she {Mary Baker Eddy}, asserted in her 1876 first edition of 'Science and Health,' the bible of her new faith, was a fiction of the soul. Neither disease nor matter existed. Both were creations of the soul which symbolized the universal mind, of Jesus Christ, at work.” SoulDiseaseChristian ScienceMary Baker Eddy Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox