The acme of anything is its highest point reached, its culmination. It is helpful to note that Mary Baker Eddy, in a passage found in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 100), designates the acme of Christian Science as the coincidence of the divine with the human. Then she explains further: "Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celestial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite." From such statements we gather that spiritual facts must be worked out in our present experience if we would rise above the human sense of life into the consciousness of the divine.
In working out spiritual facts, the Christian Scientist maintains the absolute truths of this Science—omnipresent God, perfect man, unlimited intelligence, harmonious association of ideas—as the basis of demonstration. These facts do not seem abstruse or impractical when they are brought to bear upon human problems through Christian Science, which especially concerns the application of absolute Truth to humanity. Instead, they are seen transforming human consciousness, lifting its conceptions to higher levels, refining thought, strengthening moral and spiritual impulses, and releasing energies of mercy and love, which are the very essence of Science.
Without this transformation there is no evidence that God is understood as All and that man is being perceived in Science as spiritual and God-governed. Understanding invariably transforms. It never leaves a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance unchanged, but spiritualizes whatever it embraces. For this reason religious theory can never be mistaken for spiritual understanding. Paul saw proof as a requisite of understanding, and he wrote to his friends in Rome (12:2), "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
