"It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you are Spirit and are life."—Jesus.
This subject is one, the discussion of which belongs in a very special manner and, indeed, in the sense of absolute finality, wholly within the sphere of instruction in Christian Science.
Under the titles of Philosophy, Ontology, and Theology, both before and since the Christian era, much thought, study and speculation concerning physics, and a so-called metaphysics or science above physics, has engaged the interested attention of individuals and of considerable numbers of the human race; yet true metaphysics, we believe, had not been discovered, practically stated and demonstrated until set forth in the present age, as Christian Science. The signification in use of the term metaphysics is traceable, through much depreciatory application of it, to an early definition which ought to be true, and is true of Divine Metaphysics, namely; a "Science of Being." as "relating to real Being," which terms are referred back as far, at least, as the time of Aristotle. Yet, as a system of teaching and practice, it must have been essentially wanting in the elements of true Science, to have won from successive generations, only the characterization of transcendental, supernatural, and impractical.
