THE true meaning of many passages of the Holy Scriptures is revealed only through spiritual interpretation of them. When Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent," it is evident that he wanted to impress upon his followers that man's real life does not depend upon material conditions, so-called health laws, and so on, but upon the right concept of God and His Christ. To know God and Jesus Christ is thus to gain a knowledge of eternal life. How definite! How direct! The earnest seeker for this knowledge will sooner or later gain it through Christian Science.
Always there have been seekers for light, thinkers who have sought for and caught glimpses of the Christ. Since the advent of Christian Science there are thousands who are searching the Scriptures as they never did before, earnestly seeking and striving to know God. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and the author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has said onpage 547: "The Scriptures are very sacred. Our aim must be to have them understood spiritually, for only by this understanding can truth be gained." Spiritual understanding, coupled with unshaken faith, can remove mountains of mortal beliefs, those false concepts of God and His creation which seem to retard progress Spiritward.
As the human concepts regarding God and His creation are laid off for the true facts of Spirit, and as we recognize God as divine Principle, the one and only Mind or Life, the illusion that there is life in matter is displaced by the true understanding that God, Spirit, is the only Life. Thus one gains the true sense of eternal life. Creation, the expression of God, Spirit, is always spiritual. Spirit being eternal, matter is recognized as temporal, and the testimony of the material senses is found to be always erroneous, for they are not of the Mind which made all. In the first chapter of Genesis we find that "God created man in his own image." And God is revealed in the Scriptures as Spirit. Therefore man, made in the image of Spirit, is spiritual and mental, not physical.
