There is something so divine and unalterable in Christ Jesus' many wonderful statements of truth that no one can doubt that they point to a fixed Principle governing all existence. Also the Master's loving, healing ministry evidences the demonstration of this Principle in human affairs. His teachings are imbued with the assurance that the one and only cause is God, who is the perfect, unchangeable, and loving creator. Jesus referred often to God as the Father of all and to man as His beloved son. And the eternal indivisibility of this divine relationship is revealed in his words (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one." Since the perfection of cause ensures the perfection of its effect or expression, man must be ever perfect.
Perfection, then, is not something to be gained at some far-off future time, but is a present fact of being to be demonstrated here and now. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 104), "According to Christian Science, perfection is normal—not miraculous." And she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 259), "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,— perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration."
Those who are living in accordance with the teachings of Christian Science are bearing witness to the fact that health instead of sickness, harmony instead of unhappiness, success instead of failure, are normal experiences, even while much of humanity is suffering from its own false concepts and material beliefs. Although the world presents a complex and disturbing pattern of living, Science reveals that the man of God's creating is not included in this pattern, since God's man could never fall from his original state of perfection. Man, then, is not a discordant mortal or a finite human being who attempts to use Principle to order or maintain a private selfhood of his own. He is Principle's expression, its idea, and Principle knows nothing beyond its own harmonious self-inclusiveness; it knows no mistake, no conflict, no disease.
