TO give him the comprehension of divine law expressed by the Ten Commandments, "the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount" (Exodus 19:20). Likewise, the action of divine Principle lifted Mary Baker Eddy's comprehension above the level of human thought when she gained the spiritual understanding which is expressed as Christian Science.
Of course, Mrs. Eddy did not attain to entire Christian Science on that Sunday in February of 1866 when she made a recovery from a serious injury immediately after reading an account of Christian healing in one of the Gospels. Nor did Christian Science cease unfolding to her consciousness in the latter part of 1866 when, as she has written, she "gained the scientific certainty that all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phenomenon" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 24). She attained to other degrees of progress before 1870 when she copyrighted her first pamphlet, and by 1875 when she finished composing the first edition of her principal work. Her further progressive stages are not so clearly marked, but they are indicated in many ways besides the additions to her writings.
