The discovery of Christian Science has erased the belief of time as a great gulf separating humanity from the truth as it was taught and demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth. Christian Science reveals the uninterrupted operation of this truth as the evidence of the ever-present divine Principle that is Life, dynamic Being. Divine Principle is never affected by what is called time, is neither ancient nor modern, but the same from everlasting to everlasting—ever new, ever fresh, unfolding its own infinite perfection. It is just as present, potent, and lovingly dynamic today as when its expression was fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, states this most clearly in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says (p. 271), "Christ's Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God."
Jesus, no doubt, was familiar from his earliest days with the First Commandment given through Moses, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." He knew this "me" to be Spirit or Mind, infinite in oneness and power, having no opposite, so he was never hampered by the idolatry of duality. He knew that dynamic being proceeds from the oneness of Being, the infinite one Mind, conscious only of its own infinitude of Love and intelligence. In that simple but comprehensive declaration, "I and my Father are one," Jesus accepted the power bestowed upon man as the expression of Mind, the dynamic source of all being, and demonstrated that power. His consciousness of this Mind, divine Love, as his true being, was not spasmodic but constant and consistent, and over this pure understanding of omnipotent good, evil had no power to make itself believed. Because of this, every word of Jesus the Christ was dynamic, demonstrating the power of Spirit and dissipating the illusory phenomena of suppositional material forces. In the presence of this dynamic consciousness of pure Spirit, disease faded into nothingness. Before the penetrating light of Love sorrow was dispelled, sin was erased, death gave place to life, and the nobility and grandeur, the loveliness and harmony, of true being were brought into view.
On page 88 of her book "Retrospection and Introspection," Mrs. Eddy, speaking of one of the Christ's imperative commands, tells us, "It implies such an elevation of the understanding as will enable thought to apprehend the living beauty of Love, its practicality, its divine energies, its health-giving and life-bestowing qualities,—yea, its power to demonstrate immortality." Love is indeed dynamic, instant, and constant.
