"The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 20 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1901. To realize that individual spiritual consciousness is our "own being" and that we have no other—no isolated, solitary, personal selfhood apart from our creative Principle, God—is to be aware of joy and inspiration, peace and dominion, health and harmony, substance and supply. These are the things which the world can neither give, understand, nor take away.
The advancing Scientist increasingly experiences this aloneness with his own being, the source or Principle of which is God, Love. He is learning to reject the testimony of the deceptive material senses and to yield to the Mind of Christ. He accepts omnipresent spiritual sense as reality and reverses the personal senses, which would limit all good. Thereby the beauty, purity, and sublimity of Soul pervade his being, and the consciousness of their supposed opposites fades and disappears.
In her book "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy says (p.36): "Jesus' true and conscious being never left heaven for earth. It abode forever above, even while mortals believed it was here." And she continues in the next paragraph, "The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, disease, and death, and was conscious only of God, of good, of eternal Life, and harmony. Hence the human Jesus had a resort to his higher self and relation to the Father, and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being,—holding the mortal as unreal, and the divine as real."
