We have an inherent right to know the truth. We have a responsibility to live in accord with it. However, we do not make the truth true by knowing it or actual by living it. This is a simple, axiomatic, and important statement. It bases all true Christian Science treatment.
Christian Science has a wholly spiritual basis: God is good and All; man always has been, is now, and always will be His image and likeness. Mortality is not this likeness. Mortality is an assumption based on the evidence of the five physical senses. Immortality is the logical and practical standpoint from which the Christian Scientist works. The fact of immortality is recognized, but not created, when material sense gives way to spiritual understanding.
This spiritual postulate is denied by the claims of the flesh. But human thought can yield to it nonetheless. Mortals seem to have a kind of negative pride in evil. They believe that their troubles are to be credited to circumstances beyond their control and that these troubles will yield only to personal power or fortunate circumstances. It takes humility to give in to the allness of good, God, to yield to the fact that evil is not present, except in the darkness of illusion.
