Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me," thus indicating that there is but one right way to gain a knowledge of God, of divine Truth. It is therefore essential that one should understand what Christian Science means to the world. If one does not know that it is a revelation of Truth to this age, of the Comforter promised by the Master, or the reappearing of the Christ, Truth, he has failed to take even the first steps toward the understanding of Christian Science and is liable to go adrift on the shores of materiality; to be influenced by human opinions, false theories, man-made doctrines and philosophies.
This revelation of Truth had to be spiritually revealed, and it is therefore necessary to understand the relation which the revelator bears to the revelation, in order that the foundation may be firmly and scientifically laid for all who seek help in Christian Science. In order to trace logically the unfoldment of human thought leading up to this revelation, it is helpful to begin with Genesis and follow the steps taken by different ones in their emergence from a material to a spiritual understanding of God and man. The opening statement in the book of Genesis reads, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Then follows a record of the entire creation "from the infinitesimal to infinity," as Mrs. Eddy describes it on page 503 of Science and Health, ending with man made in God's image and likeness, male and female, having full dominion. The Scripture tells us that God in beholding His creation declared it "very good."
It was thus that Moses first spiritually discerned the truth about God and man, but as Josephus states in his history of creation, Moses afterward began "to talk Philosophically;" in other words, he listened to the testimony of material sense, this causing a mystification of thought and obscuration of spiritual vision. He then gave the very antithesis of the true creation, as shown in the Adam dream related in the second chapter of Genesis.
