IN the first chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy gives a comprehensive and wholly satisfying exposition of prayer. Here the earnest seeker after Truth learns how to pray aright; and a consciousness hungering for that bread "which cometh down from heaven" is truly fed.
In its highest sense, prayer is communion with God, wherein individual consciousness, reaching divine heights and being illumined by the divine, realizes that good alone is real, permanent, and enduring. This consciousness of good is arrived at through spiritual unfoldment.
In Christian Science we learn that "desire is prayer" (Science and Health, p. 1). This is a simple and yet profound definition of prayer. Our Leader uses the word "desire" many times in further elucidation of what constitutes true prayer.
