Neither materia medica, chemistry, physics, nor any of the other so-called natural sciences, however useful to mankind they may be, can ever unfold the spiritual facts of body. All human theories ultimately fail, because they incorporate within their premises the basic error that God, Spirit, is not All—that matter, the supposititious opposite of Spirit, is real and substantial. Only the Science of Christianity, the Christ, or Truth, by which Jesus demonstrated the Principle of the First Commandment, can dispel the falsities incorporated in all mortal premises and conclusions and supply the spiritual facts by which body may be defined accurately and helpfully.
Christian Science, in its revelation of what constitutes body, starts from the basic premise, and maintains throughout reasoning, conclusion, and demonstration, that God is the one and only cause, as the Scriptures reveal Him to be, the one and only creator, law, action, substance, Life, and intelligence. Christian Science, in accord with the demonstrable spiritual import of the Scriptures, maintains that this omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Being must and does have evidence, or creation, that this creation is the only real creation, and that it is perfect and incorporeal, as the reflection or evidence of Spirit must be and is. Next, Christian Science declares—as do such inspired passages of the Scriptures as the first chapter of Genesis—that this one and only creation of the one and only creator, God, is fully manifested, or reflected, by God in and as His compound idea, man, whom He is continuously revealing as His never-ceasing, complete image and likeness of His never-ceasing being.
Christian Science declares, further, that because God is the only God, He is one indivisible, inseparable whole, therefore infinitely individual, the infinite One. Hence the nature of God's image or likeness, man, must be and is individual. There is but one idea, man, but that idea is infinitely individualized by God in the manifestation of His infinite individuality. The real individual selfhood of each one of us is eternally established.
