"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." These are the opening verses of St. John's Gospel.
The thrice-repeated "Word" has echoed down the centuries, but its profound spiritual intent has rarely been understood. The Word has a twofold meaning: the Christ-idea, embraced in God, and the visible sign as illustrated in the healing power of Jesus. The twofold significance of the Word is apprehensible through spiritual sense only. Jesus' inward understanding of his spiritual origin, together with the outward expression of that understanding in healing, constituted the supreme proof of his divine mission—the Word made flesh.
The Word opens the path to a higher understanding of divine Life. The higher and scientific understanding of Life, the revelation of the Science of Christianity, has been given to this age by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
