THE educated belief that limitation is inevitable is perhaps the most commonly encountered and the least understood of all human besetments. A dictionary defines "limitation" as a "boundary, restriction, a defining circumstance." There is a cure for it which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, points out with clearness and brevity in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 73): "Limitations are put off in proportion as the fleshly nature disappears and man is found in the reflection of Spirit."
What are the elements of the fleshly nature which must disappear? The sensuous nature has been regarded as one demanding pleasurable indulgence, but we must remember that the remorseless traits of revenge and jealousy are part of it; also the mean qualities of self-inflation, forming a network of traits, all leading to a despotic selfhood. The human heart in search of salvation represents a state of thought that is willing to leave false material beliefs.
When, through the study of Christian Science, we gain the spiritual realization of Truth through which to refute the seeming power of mental and physical ills, Spirit's power is proved, and they disappear. Reducing all ills to wrong thought, we are enabled to turn away from what appears to be, and begin to work out mentally that which is true as the effect of divine cause. Christian Science teaches that God and His ideas constitute true being. Logically it follows that the claim to existence of anything contrary to good must be a usurper. Truth is true every instant; our thinking has nothing to do with increasing or lessening its presence. We get at facts when we learn what God expresses, for that is all that is real.
