In absolute Truth there is but one language, the mode of communication that the divine Mind knows. Principle communicating to its infinite idea all good is the true utterance. The unlimited spiritual man understands all that divine Spirit unfolds, and what God has for man to know is without bounds. This ideal mode of expression is the only real activity, because Mind and its idea constitute all that exists.
The glimpse which mankind has of this spiritual language makes up the world's knowledge of this "new tongue." This glimpse, however faint at present, is becoming increasingly clear as Christian Science, which reintroduced this higher sense of speaking and thinking, spreads. Those who understand this Science are they of whom Christ Jesus prophesied, "These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues."
The perception of this absolute language of Mind reaches humanity in proportion as men acquire spiritual sense, and in the form in which they can understand it. Of this Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," beginning on page 209: "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God. It shows the superiority of faith by works over faith in words. Its ideas are expressed only in 'new tongues;' and these are interpreted by the translation of the spiritual original into the language which human thought can comprehend." But here again, when men use this human speech, which is merely a suppositional counterfeit of the true expression of Mind, they find apparent difficulty in expressing spiritual meaning. Mrs. Eddy discusses this in Science and Health, beginning on page 114, as follows: "Apart from the usual opposition to everything new, the one great obstacle to the reception of that spirituality, through which the understanding of Mind-science comes, is the inadequacy of material terms for metaphysical statements, and the consequent difficulty of so expressing metaphysical ideas as to make them comprehensible to any reader, who has not personally demonstrated Christian Science as brought forth in my discovery. Job says: 'The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.' The great difficulty is to give the right impression, when translating material terms back into the original spiritual tongue." Once again, on page 272 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy deals with this subject when she gives this definition of just what constitutes the "new tongue" in this human sense of things, "The spiritual sense of the Scriptures brings out the scientific sense, and is the new tongue referred to in the last chapter of Mark's Gospel."
