"The work of healing, in the Science of Mind, is the most sacred and salutary power which can be wielded," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 54 of "Retrospection and Introspection." This is an inspiring challenge to demonstrate, as did the great Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, that good overcomes evil at every point. Truth destroys error, bringing to light the allness of God. good, and the nothingness of all unlike Him.
Mankind's commonly accepted version of that which needs to be healed, be it sickness, sin, or any other discord, tends toward the position that the error is at least momentarily a part of the individual or of his affairs, therefore real; that it is here under divine sanction for one reason or another; that there is a cause for it; that weather, food, contagion, heredity are responsible for sickness; and that through suffering one reaches heaven.
Not so in Christian Science, which teaches that only that which is of God, good, is real, and that man, because he is the reflection of God, is conscious only of that which comes from divine Love. Through spiritual right thinking, refusing to associate that which is contrary to good with ourselves, we realize spiritual perfection. We do not look for harmony in material conditions or health in matter, because they are not to be found there. But through the consciousness of the perfection of God and His universe including man we recognize that right where we are —in Love's realm, Life's realm, Principle's realm, the realm of reality—all is harmonious, and that nothing changesthere. The result of such prayerful thinking is called healing, but actually it is the discarding of false mortal mind beliefs for spiritual truths. Truth destroys error, proving its nothingness, and brings to light the allness of God, good.
