The art of true listening and true hearing is learned through the undivided love of God, infinite good, which Christian Science quickens and sustains in every sincere student. But until this Science of Christianity taught us to reason only from the standpoint of God's allness—absolute Truth—our way of thinking was haphazard and its results were unsatisfying.
Many human beings, although religiously inclined, are as yet spiritually unenlightened and therefore superstitious. Others regard themselves as avowed atheists, scorning anything that savors of religion. Still others take the middle road of agnosticism, a phase of passive neutrality. In the illumined way of positive divine Truth there is no neutrality, no vagueness, no helplessness. Today, in rapidly increasing numbers, students of Christian Science are learning the art of true listening and true hearing, which enables them to make fundamentally wise decisions in thought and everyday life.
The revelation of Christian Science is the outcome of Mary Baker Eddy's profound and inspired study of the Bible and is fully stated by her in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." This key opens the door of divinely logical reasoning and shuts out the debasing, depressing, and deceiving arguments of so-called mortal mind, the antithesis of the one infinite divine Mind. Because of the pure teaching and redemptive ministry of Christian Science, which destroys sin and heals disease, mental manacles fall away.
