Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Her acute desire to recover her health led her to seek healing in the various systems fashionable of the period. An experience in 1866 when Eddy had a physical healing of serious injuries while reading the Bible led her to investigate more and more into the system of healing Mary Baker Eddy would eventually term "Christian Science. However he never followed through on his promise.

Married three times Mary Baker Eddy took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage. Mary Baker Eddy (July 16 1821 – December 3 1910) was the founder of Christian Science (1879) a system of religious thought and practice adopted by the Church of Christ Scientist. She was also known from her third marriage as Mary Baker Glover Eddy or Mary Baker G.