"For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." Mary Baker Eddy has brought these words of St. Paul out of the sense of crucifixion into the consciousness of resurrection and ascension. On page 200 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes, "Christian Science says: I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him glorified."
We may not, then, stop at the crucifixion of Jesus, but must go on to the glorifying of the Christ. The writer of the letter to the Hebrews says that Jesus "offered up himself" (was crucified) "once for all"— that he "offered one sacrifice for sins for ever." Now Christian Science makes clear how we may understand and accept that sacrifice, not vicariously, but by rejecting error and glorifying truth in our every thought and deed. Christian Science offers for our acceptance the way of glory rather than the way of suffering.
This way is illumined by the understanding of God as Spirit, as Love, as All, the one indivisible Supreme Being, including in Love all that has existence. This was the import of Jesus' sacred career and triumphant ascension, all showing the way of Christ, Truth, glorified. On page 18 of Science and Health our Leader says, "He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility."
