WHATEVER his problem may be, a Christian Scientist approaches it with his textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in hand. As a traveler who is about to start on a journey takes his maps and charts his course, deciding upon the route best suited to him in his present contemplated travel, so the Christian Scientist, on his spiritual journey, looks and adheres to the great directing truths which his textbooks hold for him, that he may with certainty let God govern his thinking. Through pure desire and selfless seeking, through an understanding of his unity with God, his progress will eventuate in the complete unfolding of good in his consciousness.
In seeking to discover the kingdom of God within our consciousness, we begin by listening for the voice of God. What is Mind's great edict concerning man? "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion." Herein man is predestined to fulfill, express forever, the glory and perfection of the Father-Mother God. There can be no fear in this divinely ordained sonship. The power that creates man in the image and likeness of Love is forever holding man in the law of good. "Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present" (Science and Health, p. 16). Mrs. Eddy here declares the eternal law of good for man, thus establishing his forever relationship to the Father.
Every day, however, we are facing a false, mortal concept of man as material, facing the lie of matter in its numerous manifestations. These false concepts, the reverse of the true man, have to be met and mastered through applying the truth about God and His man in our thinking. As we replace false beliefs with true thoughts, we are conforming to the law of God, good. In the second chapter of Genesis we find material sense claiming intelligence for matter, forming a so-called matter man out of "the dust of the ground"—false beliefs—and crediting God as the source and maker of a material creation. What is our remedy for this falsity? It is to know God as Truth. It is to see and to apply the facts of Spirit in our daily thinking and living.
