In speaking of Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 26), "His mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man." In another of her writings (No and Yes, p. 26) she refers to the celestial nature of man. From these two references the student may deduce that man, as the offspring of God, is divinely cared for through spiritual laws, everlastingly loved and provided for. This deduction leads to a clearer sense of the eternal coexistence of God and man, and to a deeper comprehension of the Master's work.
"The Science of celestial being," or divine Science, maintains the order of heavenly existence, demonstrates spiritual perfection, and is the law of immortality. It is the only Science of man. It governs him absolutely and eternally. Through this Science all the essentials of his eternal being are supplied to him from the divine substance of Spirit. The Science of man's being preserves the indestructible relationship between the infinite source, the essentials of existence, and man's individual expression of Life.
"All that is true is a sort of necessity, a portion of the primal reality of things," our Leader writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 1). Then all that is of God is necessary and available to man as His likeness, this availability depending upon the Science of man's oneness with celestial substance. Since the essentials of existence dwell forever in this substance, they are never developed in matter nor manipulated by it. Thus no shortage, waste, or absence of anything indispensable to perfect being can ever really occur. All that man receives from God is eternal, never passing through a finite form or a negative condition.
