PRIMED by the revelation of Christian Science, the student has no choice but to accept the fact that God, infinite good, is All-in-all, and through his spiritual understanding and growth, to reap the joy of proof. No other choice is possible since, as Mrs. Eddy points out in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 127), "There can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity." This scientific, primal, final choice of spiritual reality is God-inspired and law-sustained, and nothing real opposes it. The scientific thinker, bearing witness to Truth as did Christ Jesus, takes his stand for the perfection of the one creation and his own inclusion in it, for it is impossible actually to stray beyond "illimitable divinity." And it is equally impossible for anything erroneous to spring up in divinity or its manifestation. God's image has never strayed.
What, then, is there for the Christian Scientist mentally to combat? There is the general claim of obscuration or belief in inability to discern the one changeless creation and man's changeless spiritual identity. The false claim to be met and mastered is not that of a second creation, but of obscuration of the one perfect creation of Spirit. Our task is to realize that there is no such obscuration, since "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all," and that there is no reversal of reality, since, as our Leader says (ibid., p. 442), "Truth cannot be reversed, but the reverse of error is true." This is the message of spiritual truth which Christian Science is echoing and reechoing for the benefit of humankind. In this light of real being it is seen that one and all are standing before the throne of God, omnipotence enthroned.
Our joy as Christian Scientists consists in fully trusting the light of spiritual understanding which is ours by divine right, and reflecting it in order that the darkness may be cleared from human thought and the mist of sin and fear dispelled from human hearts. Despite all contrary and spurious evidence, we are required at all times to stand stanchly for the truth about God, man, and the universe, and to feel assured, moreover, of the reward and right result of this stanchness.
