When we look upon the world as it seems today, we behold men struggling everywhere for freedom. There are many forms of bondage, but all may be traced back to one delusive source, the belief of mind in matter or a power apart from God, ultimating in sin, disease, and death. Who does not wish to be free from this triad of errors? Who would not break the fetters of mortal fear, if he knew how? On page 84 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the way to perfect freedom, tells us, "Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired,—yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind."
Christ Jesus demonstrated complete freedom from the mesmerism of mortal mind. Every human belief in evil was overcome, as evidenced by his walking upon the water, multiplying the loaves and fishes, passing through closed doors, healing so-called incurable diseases, raising the dead, bringing himself out of the tomb, and finally ascending beyond the range of mortal apprehension. How did Jesus achieve and maintain such a fetterless state? Was it not through constant communion with his Father, divine Mind, whom he knew to be the source of all power? He did not claim that power was in himself. Let us listen to his words (John 5:19): "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."
In discovering Christian Science Mrs. Eddy discerned the rules which Jesus practiced in freeing mankind from the shackles of sin, disease, death, and all forms of limitation. She pointed out that such enslavement is not legitimate. It is not according to God's spiritual law of goodness that man, made in God's image and likeness, should be so bound by beliefs of evil. Such bondage is the result of accepting as real the claims of mortal mind—the belief in a mind apart from God—that man is a mortal and lives in a material body and in a material universe, that he is a servant to the material senses.
