By watching an apple fall from a tree to the ground, Sir Isaac Newton is said to have been led to the discovery of what is termed the law of gravitation. Briefly stated, gravitation is a force which, acting on all material bodies throughout the universe, causes them to be attracted or drawn to one another. Its operation is particularly noted in the form of earthward attraction. Material objects are always drawn downward toward the center of the earth.
The prophet Elisha proved what is called gravitation to be but a limiting belief of material sense when he caused the sunken ax head to rise to the water's surface. Several of the great Biblical characters gave similar striking proofs of the power of spiritual law to annul so-called material law. In particular did our great Way-shower, Christ Jesus, do so. By his demonstrations of divine power he showed humanity how to overcome the limitations of material sense and mortal existence. His teachings indicate that in order to live peacefully, happily, and healthfully, it is necessary to attain to an understanding of the perfect and immutable spiritual law which governs all that God has created. When he walked on the water, fed the multitudes, raised the dead, he proved that real law is the law of Spirit, not of matter.
The carnal or mortal mind falsely avers that man is composed of mortal and material elements. It also claims that he shall be held earth-bound, and that eventually by the process of disintegration he must mingle with earth's elements. Another belief of this so-called mind is that every mortal has within him an immortal soul, which is freed on the death of the mortal. The logic of the theory of an immortal soul within a mortal body has long been questioned by thinking people; but not until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy was the impossibility of immortality commingling with mortality made plain. Literal interpretation of the Scriptures, in all probability, gave rise to the theory. However, it is now conceded by many distinguished theologians that the Scriptures have, besides the literal, a deeply spiritual meaning. Spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures is the foundation of the Christian Science religion, for it was by divine inspiration that Mrs Eddy discovered the demonstrable truths contained in the Bible in regard to God, man, and the universe. And it is because these healing truths are demonstrable that her textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings, are so diligently studied by increasing multitudes throughout the world.
