Students of Christian Science seek an ever clearer understanding of the absolute perfection of God and His image, His compound idea, man. They find in human experience blessing and healing as they see more clearly that man, spiritual man, the only man, is indeed precisely as well, as strong, as intelligent, and as harmonious as his Father.
The need to distinguish in speech and writing as well as thought between man, the perfect reflection of the perfect Principle, and the erroneous material concept called mortal man is seen to be all-important in Christian Science. Rich rewards come to those who guard persistently against accepting the false human sense of self as real, or believing on the other hand that man has any consciousness of matter or evil. Mary Baker Eddy epitomizes this point in crisp, direct fashion when she writes on page 27 of "No and Yes," "Mortal man is the antipode of immortal man, and the two should not be confounded."
One learns through the study of Christian Science to acknowledge that because matter is full of imperfection, wholly unlike the one creator and His creation, it must be an illusion, and therefore that so-called mortal, material man exists only to mistaken human sense. Often, however, we find in writing and speech that some will, unwittingly perhaps, appear to refute what they have accepted as fact about God and man.
