"God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis. Mind manifests all that exists in the infinitude of Truth." These statements are from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 258). Her works are replete with similar truths.
God's offspring or spiritual idea, man, possesses by reflection immeasurable capacity. Awareness of Mind as the only and continuous source of intelligence and good— an uninterrupted source from which stems an unending revelation of Truth—is gained through spiritual sense. "Spiritual sense," Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 209), "is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God."
As a truer concept of God and man unfolds, human receptivity expands. Spiritual discernment and growth assuredly unite us with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. As the divine power is understood, we increasingly demonstrate the truths which Jesus so naturally apprehended; and as a result individual ability is improved. It is our privilege and duty as Christian Scientists to demonstrate spiritual capacity, which is in reality ours as ideas of God.
