Intelligence governs the universe and man. Christian Scientists and many who are not yet Scientists will agree with this statement. This intelligence is God, the supreme wisdom, power, and presence, the universal Mind. The material senses assume total ignorance of this Mind, hence the need to cultivate spiritual sense with which to discern or understand God and His spiritual creation.
In the practice of Christian Science the evidence of the material senses must be continually denied and discredited. The truth regarding any situation is discerned only through the denial of material sense and the exercise of spiritual sense.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 298), "Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality." From this statement by our inspired Leader it is clear that spiritual sense appears as an orderly unfoldment. For instance, intuition is the power of knowing, innate or instinctive knowledge, rather than knowledge obtained through human or material reasoning. One has heard it said, "I instinctively feel that Christian Science is the truth, although I have not studied the subject deeply." This intuitive sense of the truth is a departure from material sense, which accepts as real what it sees, hears, feels, or believes.
