Christian Scientists understand that in proportion as any fact of being is recognized and realized in its true import, it is demonstrated; for by such realization the false sense which alone seemed to obscure the fact is dispelled. It is therefore of great practical advantage to know the nature of the ideas of God, divine Mind, which constitute the true creation. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has made it plain that these ideas are the realities underlying what the material senses mistakenly behold, and that, useful and desirable as material things may be, humanly speaking, these absolute creations of Mind are in all respects far better. She has shown, scientifically, that it is they which must bring and do bring the genuine satisfaction which material things continually seem to promise, but never actually give.
One readily sees in Christian Science why spiritual realities are satisfying. They are the creations of God, who is infinite Mind, infinite substance, infinite Love. What kind of creation would intelligence, which is one with perfect Love, and which is not limited in wisdom, resourcefulness, or resources, conceive and make? That is the kind God has made, and the only kind. Mrs. Eddy indicates its character when she writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 269), "These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense,— they are good and eternal."
Now a fact concerning these ideas, which serves most usefully in the practice of Christian Science, is that they are in every instance complete, lacking nothing for individual expression of the infinitude and wholly satisfactory character of Mind. As Mrs. Eddy states (ibid., p. 302), "Principle is not to be found in fragmentary ideas." One may well consider what this means in a practical way to every human being who heeds it. To human sense, everything is incomplete; everything lacks something that it needs for perfect satisfaction. If something momentarily appears to have all that is necessary for serving well, there is always what to material sense seems the certainty that such a condition cannot last.
