SPIRITUAL understanding banishes mortal misunderstanding and establishes the basis for stable health, happiness, and prosperity. Underlying all impoverishment and distress of mind and body is the lack of understanding God and His creation, and from this lack and its consequences Christian Science stands ready to rescue one and all. Since only that which is divinely true is scientifically understandable, it is to this positive purpose of knowing and utilizing the power of God that we should bend our every effort.
For example, if a student of Christian Science is faced with certain problems such as debt or disease, too much or too little to do, too spacious or too cramped an environment, he sets himself to understand the perfect harmony of God's creation. He embarks on the task of bringing his thoughts and aims under the government of divine Principle. Through his applied spiritual understanding he learns to solve human problems of whatever nature. Through his more spiritual outlook he fills his thoughts with divine content, and is thereby freed from the old discontent and its external effects.
In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy states (p.238), "God is understandable, knowable, and applicable to every human need.'' This fact silences the deceiving belief that Deity is beyond human ken and human need beyond divine help. Even as a mistake in mathematics is not scientifically knowable, so evil, the supposed absence of good, is not scientifically knowable. It is but an error of human belief, due to ignorance. Therefore as one's understanding of Christian Science increases, the old belief in evil and bondage is blotted out by the inpouring light of Truth and freedom.
