MATERIAL theories attribute to the human mind certain primary powers or properties, one of which is named feeling. In the wide meaning of this term are included both the simple and instinctive physical sensations and the rational sentiments or emotions. Thus has human thought, groping toward the primal attributes of divine Mind, attempted to circumscribe intelligence within matter, and as it becomes more specific, to classify unbounded spiritual sense as five personal senses, without which, according to mortal belief, there can be no awareness, no perception, no comprehension, no intuition, no discrimination.
Christian Science, coming, as Jesus said of the Christ, that men may have life "more abundantly," does not depend upon material analyses or classifications. It makes its first and continuing and ultimate stroke against the entire belief of life and intelligence in matter, declaring unequivocally that all real sensibility is spiritual, never material. It denies the existence of mortal mind, which is supposed to feel all the simple and complex emotions and sentiments that comprise human experience.
So radical a position would appear to be annihilative, were not a positive truth immediately established. But Christian Science gives while it takes away. It heals by destroying that which makes healing necessary. It reverses the entire testimony of material sense, the false evidence of mortal mind, denying that the true senses of man are materially mental and physical, or that man lives in sentient matter or has cognitions through material intelligence. At the same time it affirms and establishes the truth that divine Mind possesses and expresses all the primary powers of intelligence, volition, and feeling, and that spiritual man is the perfect and complete reflection of all that God is. It shows, moreover, that this fact of true being is as available now as it ever has been, or can be, awaiting only individual realization and demonstration.
