Christian Science teaches us to look out from God, divine perfection. How else could we obey the lofty injunction of Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"? In Christian Science, the distress of human frailty is exchanged for the joy of spiritual individuality. In the reflection of one perfect God there is perfection for all. In the oneness of being there is no suspension of harmony and dominion.
On this basis Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 104), "According to Christian Science, perfection is normal,—not miraculous." Health, then, as understood in Christian Science, is divinely natural and everlastingly complete. Perfection knows no degrees. So there are no degrees or stages of health, and no retrogression. Health is wholeness. Through Christian Science we renounce fear of the body. We abandon superstitious faith in empirical remedies and palliatives because we understand that health, being part of perfection, or reflection of God, is spiritual, normal, and indestructible. The one perfect health is eternally represented in God and His reflection, man.
The same law of perfection governs the intelligence of man, who is the expression of Mind, God. This intelligence is exempt from deterioration, deflection, disturbance believed to be associated with brain and nerves. Nonintelligent matter is not the medium or controller of the intelligence of man. God's reflection is under God's control.
