Referring to the great revelation which came to her, Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 108,109), "My discovery, that erring, mortal, misnamed mind produces all the organism and action of the mortal body, set my thoughts to work in new channels, and led up to my demonstration of the proposition that Mind is All and matter is naught as the leading factor in Mind-science."
Note well that the leading factor in Mind-science, or Christian Science, has two points: the allness of Mind, and the nothingness of matter. Neither of these points can be ignored by us as students of Christian Science if we are to accept the full revelation which came to Mrs. Eddy. We must do more than acknowledge the allness of God. We cannot ignore error, or matter, or push it aside blindly. We must detect it as error, examine it in the light of Truth, and reject it as unreal, before we can finally dispose of it as nothing.
The two points which constitute the leading factor of Christian Science are constantly dealt with by our Leader throughout her writings. In "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468) she not only affirms the reality and allness of Mind, but also denies in four separate statements the reality of matter. In the Tenets of Christian Science she refers to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus as serving to uplift human consciousness to understand God's allness and the nothingness of matter.
