JESUS' ability to heal instantly is explained by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She writes (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." We learn in Christian Science that man is spiritual and perfect because made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit. As we comprehend more of the nature and character of the real man, we see the unreality of mortal man, and the false beliefs that have been attached to our erroneous concept of man disappear.
If we would demonstrate our God-given ability to heal instantly, we must constantly claim that our real selfhood is created in the likeness of God. Habakkuk says of God that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and cannot "look on iniquity" (Hab. 1:13) . As we demonstrate this purity of vision, we shall see ourselves and our brother man as in reality perfect, manifesting only what is Godlike, and thus we shall be able to heal ourselves and others instantly.
By holding steadfastly to the truth which Habakkuk stated and refusing to accept as real any testimony of material sense that would make her believe anything about man that is not true about God, a Christian Science practitioner was able to heal in one treatment a case of goiter. And during a Christian Science lecture the writer was instantly healed of a sore that had resulted from a cut received in an accident. Over a period of several weeks this condition had failed to yield to Christian Science treatment. As the lecturer brought out the reality of the spiritual man and the unreality of so-called mortal man, the writer so clearly realized her spiritual selfhood as her only being that all the troublesome physical manifestations vanished, and she left the lecture completely healed.
