CHRIST JESUS' demonstration, in his scientific sonship with God, of the infinite ability of Spirit was also the demonstration, for all mankind, of the inability of corporeality. Every proof of Spirit's allness which his words and works exemplify is also proof of the nothingness of the supposititious opposite of that allness: corporeal sense, denounced by Jesus as both lie and liar, and appearing to itself to have identity as mortal man.
Christian Science makes clear the distinction between the carnal or so-called mortal mind characterized by Paul as "enmity against God" and the human mind, which contains more or less of the light of divine influence. Spiritualized thought, the result of humble, prayerful study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and of practice of its exact rules, recognizes the truth instead of the counterfeit apparent in mortal beliefs— mortal mindedness. Spiritualized thought enables the student to discern when Mrs. Eddy, in this book, uses the term "human mind" in its unenlightened aspect, carnal or mortal mindedness, and when she means the state of advancing thought which has in some measure let in the light of Truth in giving place to the divine Mind. Corporeal sense, the darkness of materiality, is a state of self-deception and has no ability to enlighten itself; it disappears before the enlightenment of Truth. Also it has no ability to resist Truth.
Christ Jesus' proof of the nothingness of corporeality has prepared the so-called human mind to awaken out of its self-mesmerism to accept the fact that far from being an entity, mortal mind is merely a limited, false belief, or concept, about Mind, God. This awakening serves to instruct the erring human mind out of itself, enabling it willingly to give place to the Christ, Truth. Because of Jesus' incomparable showing forth in precept and example of the infinite ability of Spirit, God, we can see that any suggestion of imperfection, weakness, failure, lack, immediately brands itself: I am nothing, for my real name is the inability of corporeality.
