Students of Christian Science, trusting Love's healing touch to free them from bondage to materiality, find the true sense of resurrection in the proportion that human belief in and reliance upon material ways and means yield to the understanding of good alone as real. On page 593 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "resurrection" as "spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." In the light which this definition throws upon the subject, it may be seen that resurrection is a continuous un-foldment of Truth to individual human consciousness until all error, all belief of life in or of matter, is destroyed by the understanding of God, good, as eternal, harmonious, all-inclusive Life.
Mrs. Eddy gives the meaning of the word "Gethsemane" as follows (ibid., p. 586): "Patient woe; the human yielding to the divine; love meeting no response, but still remaining love." These words inspire with renewed faith and hope those who are striving progressively to demonstrate Truth in obedience to the definite rules laid down for us in the Bible and the writings of our beloved Leader. We are assured that Love ever remains the same, and that the demonstration of Love bears the fruits of love in daily life. To human sense this "yielding to the divine" may seem distressing and undesirable, but without it there can be no resurrection or "spiritualization of thought," no abiding consciousness of true peace and heavenly harmony.
The Christian Scientist may at times be tempted to believe in fear, discord, disease, tragedy, and loss as real. Nevertheless, he learns to face the challenge of error and walk steadfastly on in the truth, according to the measure of his present understanding, realizing that Mind, Life, Truth, Love, is cognizant only of good. The student of Christian Science knows that the so-called mortal mind is not true, because God did not make it; and on this basis he can resist evil and prove the reality of good. Whatever the human circumstance, however dense the darkness, deep the error, or poignant the sorrow into which he may seem to be plunged, the Christ, Truth, as revealed in Christian Science, is ever at hand to enlighten the understanding, displace error, and mercifully to heal grief. He does not expect to weave again in the same pattern the broken threads of human life, or to regain past experiences, however pleasant or humanly desirable these may seem to have been. He must give up a personalized sense of good and evil, with never a yearning, backward glance, and press on in faith to new and higher joys.
