SPIRITUAL discernment is the perception of reality, of that which is true about God, man, and the universe. It exists wholly apart from the material senses. It is a faculty of the all-seeing and all-knowing Mind, and its presence bears witness to the presence of the Christ. The Samaritan woman recognized it as such. She said to her friends after that memorable meeting with Jesus at Jacob's well (John 4:29), "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?"
Every earnest student of Christian Science longs for this spiritual vision which enables him to heal both sickness and sin. He continually strives to rise to the spiritually scientific basis of thought—perfect God, perfect man, and perfect universe— referred to as follows in the first chapter of Genesis (verse 31): "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Woman has been almost universally credited with possessing naturally an intuitive sense. Human philosophy defines this intuition, in part, as "innate or instinctive knowledge; immediate apprehension or cognition." But human philosophy fails to differentiate between the psychology of the so-called human mind, with all its acknowledged errors, uncertainties, and limitations, and that of the divine Mind and its prescience, power, and unchanging perfection.
