The Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with Mrs. Eddy's other writings and what is in strict accord therewith, provide us with all we know of the Science of overcoming. The Bible begins its revelations on overcoming by declaring the truth about creation. The seven days— and the definition of "day" in the Glossary of Science and Health (p. 584) should be held in remembrance—present the sequence of revelations which culminate in the overcoming of chaos and darkness, all forms of error. We will overcome, as Christ Jesus overcame, by holding fast to the facts of spiritual creation. Every healing thought, every Christian Science treatment, is based on the truth that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," which is held to in the "scientific statement of being," on page 468 of Science and Health. Likewise John, the great metaphysician, begins his gospel with the same truth: "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Science and Health is with the Bible in teaching that, in the Science of overcoming, it is of first importance rightly to understand the subject of creation.
The Bible and the Christian Science textbook teach that God did not make the material sense of the universe which the material eye believes it sees, but rather that the seven days of creation correspond to seven periods of progress in the apprehension of the Science of overcoming. Do we not recall that memorable day when we awakened to the fact that the first chapter of Genesis and the second chapter give two different accounts of man's origin: the first, the true history; the second chapter, the false history of man? Then do we not remember when, in the light of our beloved Leader's revelation, it dawned on us that the first chapter of Genesis was not an account of the making of man out of nothing, but rather a revelation of God's spiritual universe, which is and always has been at-one with Him?
We read in Genesis: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Does this light (revelation) come to us all at once? Rather, do we not get the truth step by step; and is not this revelation still coming to us? Can we look upon any time and say, "That was the time when my progress was complete"? Rather, what we know to-day of Christian Science is knowledge that has come to us by successive stages of progress. And what is most important, we know that we have been able to overcome error as we have taken what our Leader calls the "advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind" (Science and Health, p. 513). Constant progress in Christian Science makes possible constant overcoming. A so-called Christian Scientist, who is not taking "advancing spiritual steps," is a mortal devoid of dominion. A Christian Scientist who is rejoicing in these "steps" in apprehension, is also rejoicing in the victories of Truth.
