AN eminent English philosopher, speaking of the utility of a study of philosophy, said that it consisted in the measure of comfort it brought into men's lives, the comfort of hope and expectation. If this can be predicated of that which is largely speculative in its methods, what assurance of comfort should accrue from the study of practical and exact divine metaphysics, whose revelations are of God's nature, of true existence, and have been developed and formulated into an exact Science, capable of being demonstrated by the veriest child.
The metaphysics of the schools consists in the examination of those assumptions of the so-called human mind which have come to be accepted by it as natural, fundamental, and ultimate. Now the common ground on which all the assumptions of merely human systems of science, religion, ethics, and medicine rest is the reality of matter, evil, personality, material-mindedness. Any system, therefore, which challenges this basis will hardly be found popular among the superstructures that have been raised like houses built by foolish men, as in the gospel story, on the ever shifting sands of human belief. This may account for the interesting fact that the study of metaphysics is taken up by comparatively few students in the leading universities of the world to-day.
In divine metaphysics, the truths of which are revealed in the Bible, and made clear, developed, and formulated into a scientific system in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Ego, Mind, substance, is found to be divine, not human; good, not evil; Spirit, not matter; and the counterfeits—evil, matter, and the human, carnal mind—are not merely explained away, but demonstrated to be unreal contradictions of divine Being, or of ultimate reality.
