The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has revealed the Science of Christianity to this age and the spiritual meaning of the Bible. She writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 110), "The Scriptures were illumined; reason and revelation were reconciled, and afterwards the truth of Christian Science was demonstrated." She adds, in speaking of the textbook: "No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it."
To the material thought, the Bible appears to be a chronicle of human events, of times, places, and persons. But spiritually-minded thinkers throughout the Christian era have seen and recorded, in varying degrees of spiritual insight, much of the higher meaning of the Bible. Since the era of Christ Jesus, however, none save Mrs. Eddy have based their teaching on the proposition that Christianity is Science, the truth of being. And yet clearer, higher views of the divine Word have always had their rightful place in the chain of Christian thought, and have kept alive that holy zeal which has preserved the records of spiritual truth.
"The most distinguished theologians in Europe and America," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 320 of Science and Health, "agree that the Scriptures have both a spiritual and literal meaning. In Smith's Bible Dictionary it is said: 'The spiritual interpretation of Scripture must rest upon both the literal and moral.'"
