If Christian Science is to be scientifically demonstrated, every aspect of its teaching should be intelligently considered, for every point clearly understood aids the student in proving by healing that he is dealing solely with divine facts and an invariable spiritual law.
Because men and women believe that they live in a world of matter and dwell in material bodies, their so-called scientific study and investigation have led them directly away from the great spiritual fact which, when grasped, gives them the understanding of reality and of their true, perfect being. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 262): "We cannot fathom the nature and quality of God's creation by diving into the shallows of mortal belief. We must reverse our feeble flutterings —our efforts to find life and truth in matter—and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God." And she continues farther on: "The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly. Every concept which seems to begin with the brain begins falsely. Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms."
The mesmeric sense of matter and mortal mind is constantly leading mortals to look for cause where cause does not exist. Christian Science reveals that the great First Cause of all existence is Mind, that God, or Mind, is the only determining origin and animus of creation. It declares that because Mind as cause is wholly good and wholly perfect, so must be its effect. Many people, perhaps theoretically, accept the perfection of creation, but they do not recognize what this implies.
