Mankind is constantly searching for that which will better human conditions. True education can do this. It has for its purpose enlightenment. It is not solely the acquisition of related facts. It is learning to think and act in a manner which will be of individual and universal benefit.
What are the first lessons in the process of spiritual education? What are the rudiments from which we must advance? Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle." This, then, is the starting point: "God, Spirit, is All-in-all." This "All-in-all" is divine, self-existing Principle, Mind, Love. "All," as the word implies, signifies that nothing can be added to or subtracted from God; that He is complete, entire, whole, indivisible, perfect, infinite; that everything within Him is in conformity with this infinite perfection, and that there is nothing outside of God.
In our effort to gain the understanding of Truth, which frees from the limitations of material thinking and physical sense testimony, we are aided by the loving provisions which our Leader has made for our self-instruction in Christian Science. Published in the Christian Science Quarterly are the weekly Lesson-Sermons, which are earnestly studied by every sincere, active Christian Scientist each day and which are read in Christian Science churches throughout the world on Sunday. The subject matter contained therein is presented in a comprehensive, logical manner which is easily understood. By systematic study a disciplining of thought is accomplished.
