Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." Knowing, as a result of her discovery, the allness and ever-presence of God, Mrs. Eddy demonstrated the facts of being, and thus again and again peace and harmony were maintained in her own experience and in that of others. She knew with a confidence born of practical experience that in proportion as thought becomes aware of "the Science of Spirit, God," the discordant testimony of physical sense is rendered null and void.
This "psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God," is in no way dependent upon the evidence of material sense or mortal belief. It is apart from and wholly transcends all the claims and suggestions of material scholasticism, philosophy, materia medica. This "psychology" was understood and applied by Christ Jesus, who at the close of his ministry gave to the students who had listened to his teaching during those three years these arresting assurances: "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Such are the outward and visible signs, the natural, inevitable effects of the true "psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God," which Jesus constantly employed.
Jesus, however, was not a psychologist in the sense in which the word is generally used today. When he gave a command, or made a promise to his followers, he knew and spoke only of things that were absolutely true, and therefore capable of demonstration. His true understanding of "psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God," not only cured sickness and sin, but elevated human thought and experience.
