"We need to understand the affirmations of divine Science, dismiss superstition, and demonstrate truth according to Christ," is the arresting statement of Mary Baker Eddy on page 149 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
In the light of scientific truth God's perfect creation, that sum total which comprises the infinite realm of reality as beheld in divine Science, is avowedly already established. Mortals can neither add to it nor subtract anything from it. Our purpose, then, when we affirm the truths of infinite being, is not to change anything, but rather to clarify and spiritualize our own concepts of life and thereby to come increasingly into conscious at-one-ment with the Father's divine plan of freedom for each of His ideas. This progressive individual demonstration of unity with the divine source of all true being, God, may be evidenced as healing of the distorted mentality, the disturbed or sinful heart, the sick body, unsettled home, or ailing business.
Among enlightened thinkers many of the cruder forms of superstition are disappearing. The lens of spiritual truth, however, brings to light various subtle superstitious beliefs which still need to be exposed and dismissed. These may well include such notions as laws of heredity, the belief that joy can fluctuate, that demand and supply are not in balance, that loss is natural and inevitable, that turning the pages of a calendar can rob one of his stature as man.
