AT the beginning of one's experience in the study of Christian Science, the truths of God and His creation are not always quickly grasped. Almost immediately, however, the student has a solid conviction that he has found the truth. Like the dawn of morning light, the truth about God and man begins to illumine his thought and dispel the darkness of a false, material sense of existence with its attendant fears, doubts, and discouragements.
The pages of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, bring to the seeker the angelic messages of Love's infinitude and of God's allness—of His ever-presence and complete supremacy over all error or evil. They reveal that man is not a sinful mortal but the perfect expression of God, Spirit, even His image and likeness, as the Scripture teaches; that evil is not of God's creating and is therefore impotent to affect the health, happiness, and life of man.
The understanding that man is endowed with all the good which God bestows gently unfolds to the seeker the vision of man's completeness and his perfection as the idea of God. This growing vision of the real man is accompanied by the student's regeneration. He becomes a new creature in Christ as old things pass away and all things become new.
