The light in which Christian Science presents the true meaning of resurrection arouses a genuine incentive to live truly, to become spiritually-minded, and to claim as ever present our eternal state of spiritual being. By revealing the divine Principle upon which to demonstrate immortal life, wherein is freedom from sorrow, aloneness, sin, sickness, and death, Christian Science obviates in our thinking the false sense of preparation for death, either as something inevitable or as a steppingstone to eternal life. It turns our thought to the basic truths of being that man is indestructible, eternal, and that heaven is here and now.
The realization that man, the reflection of divine Life, cannot die, that is, depart from Life, may be gleaned from the following statement by Mary Baker Eddy on page 331 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow." This explanation of Life, as God, brought to one suffering from a sense of bereavement not only healing but increased faith in God's perpetual goodness, and release from the fear of death.
In Jacob's experience, even after he saw the day breaking, he relinquished not his hold upon the messenger of Truth, saying, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." Similarly, in this student's experience, there was no letting go, no satisfaction realized, until the truth dawned upon her that resurrection is individual spiritual demonstration, and that this is the only way to attain to heaven or eternal life. With the orderly, consecrated study of Christian Science, she realized that the only progression there is or can be is the passing from material beliefs to spiritual understanding. Instantly it was realized that Love, patient and untiring, was leading her to eternal life; that commensurate with her understanding and effectual application of Christian Science she was actually traveling heavenward.
