NEVER in the history of the world has such a quantity and variety of human philosophy and science, so called, been offered to those who are hungry and searching for a satisfactory plan of living. Is there not in this an echo of Job's cry, "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!" And the answer is found in the words of Jesus, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
A dictionary defines "philosophy" in part as "study of causes and laws; reasoned science; metaphysics." Concerning philosophy, Mary Baker Eddy, the revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has much to say that is enlightening and convincing. Until she stripped from it all glamour and disguise, the subject was considered too deep and mysterious for many to understand, its interpretations being left to sages and scholars. She devoted years to the study of spiritual causation, and developed the subject with a depth and breadth which ultimately resulted in the Christian Science movement for establishing the Science of spiritual living.
Under the heading "Is There a Personal Deity?" in "No and Yes," our Leader points out the difference between human and divine philosophy in language so simple that all may understand. "Human philosophy," she explains (p. 21), "has an undeveloped God, who unfolds Himself through material modes, wherein the human and divine mingle in the same realm and consciousness." And she says, "This is rank infidelity; because by it we lose God's ways and perpetuate the supposed power and reality of evil ad infinitum." In the preceding paragraph she says: "Human philosophy has ninety-nine parts of error to the one-hundredth part of Truth,—an unsafe decoction for the race. The Science that Jesus demonstrated, whose views of Truth Confucius and Plato but dimly discerned, Science and Health interprets." On the same page, in a sentence of extreme simplicity but of supreme significance, she says, "Divine philosophy is demonstrably the true idea of the Christ, wherein Principle heals and saves." And many grateful men and women are bearing witness to the truth of this statement.
