THE student of geometry finds at the end of the theorem which in a series of statements is carried from proposition to logical conclusion, the letters "Q. E. D." These are the initials of three Latin words, Quod erat demonstrandum, meaning, "Which was to be demonstrated." The purpose of their appearance at the end of the discussion is to announce that the theorem has been proved, its truthfulness established through demonstration: the work to be done —the proof of the theorem—has been accomplished.
The student of Christian metaphysics has no formulated symbol to attest the accuracy of the proof of the propositions set forth in Christian Science, yet he is not without complete proof of the truth, logic, and demonstrability of its propositions. While the student of geometry deals with metaphysical reasoning and in the mental realm, his reasoning processes are those of the socalled mortal mind; they are human rather than divine. The student of Christian metaphysics, on the other hand, deals exclusively with the categories of divine Mind, with ideas which are emanations from the Mind which is God. But these ideas pertain wholly to spiritual truth; they partake of no phase of materiality, have no relation to the emanations of the so-called mortal mind. This false sense of Mind deals wholly with materiality, its subjective state, and in consequence has no relation to divinity, to the things of Spirit.
One class of thinkers, including many eminent physical scientists, limit their research entirely to the realm of materiality. Their findings are, accordingly, wholly confined to physical phenomena. They never venture beyond the realm of physical sense, except as they formulate some hypothetical theory to explain certain appearances for which they cannot account through the processes of reasoning or experimentation. But such theory is wholly speculative, and is as material as the phenomena which have called it forth. It brings them no nearer to the heart of the universe, to infinite Mind and its universe of perfect ideas, which constitute all reality.
