CHRISTIAN SCIENCE discloses God's universal, loving control of His own creation. Every spiritual desire, every right effort to progress, belongs to His jurisdiction and evidences the ever-presence of His infinite self-expression. Hence it is fruitful in accomplishment, for divine Love blesses its own creation, supporting with the force of omnipotence every impulse of good. The searching wisdom of Proverbs declares (16:1), "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord."
Describing true prayer in "No and Yes," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 39): "It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already have and are; and most of all, it shows us what God is. Advancing in this light, we reflect it; and this light reveals the pure Mind-pictures, in silent prayer, even as photography grasps the solar light to portray the face of pleasant thought."
Every step in spiritual advancement is measured by the unveiling of "the pure Mind-pictures"—spiritual views of God's creation, which dispel temporal, mortal thoughts appearing as matter and limitation of good. The prayer of unselfed love acknowledges God as All, as one infinite, all-inclusive Person, and willingly abandons mortal consciousness and its perceptions as unreal and false.
