A Right idea is always needed for correction of a wrong concept.
When the spiritual idea of Being dawned upon the receptive thought of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, enabling her to discern Deity as infinite Mind, divine Principle, the agelong belief that God was the author of a material creation began to lose its hold upon human thought. Mrs. Eddy's logical deduction from this purely spiritual premise, that "the Father Mind is not the father of matter" (Science and Health, p. 257) ruled out once and forever the notion of divine parentage for material man, and she confronted her readers with the inescapable query, "Of what, then, is Mind the Father?" The thought of fatherhood has been so associated with that of human personality that it is not always easy to replace this concept with the spiritual and scientific sense of Deity set forth in Christian Science.
The confusion which has arisen from the acceptance of the Adam-man as the real man still pervades the bulk of human thinking. In some measure we still accept a certain duality of being—mind and matter, flesh and Spirit—as the present status of existence; and much of our conscious effort is centered on freeing ourselves from the distress which belief in this duality incurs.
