The Christ, which reveals the right idea of everything, is never, to spiritual sense, veiled or obscured, never enveloped in materiality, which claims to be either good or bad. The Christ is always present, showing forth eternal perfection in the form, outline, color, and in the being of spiritual man, the only real man. Because this is true, there is no place left for an opposite—for a sick, sinful, lacking, or dying man. But so-called mortal mind argues that there is such a place, and it is this specious argument that makes demands upon patient and practitioner.
Students of Christian Science readily recognize that the point at which one starts his treatment is important. "To begin rightly is to end rightly," we read on page 262 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. How does one begin rightly? He must begin with what is right and true and real, not with that which denies truth and reality. But it is surprising to note how frequently one is seen to start his reasoning about illness or inharmony of any kind with the error rather than with the truth concerning God and man. This should not be. The reasons are obvious. To begin one's treatment in Christian Science with error, to discuss it, to try to diagnose it materially and endeavor to point to its cause, to attempt to outline its course and predict its outcome, only tends toward a building up of the claims of error, when scientific work is to expose them and to reduce them to their own nothingness.
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 233), "The counter fact relative to any disease is required to cure it." Suffering sense often centers thought upon the counterfeit rather than the counterfact. The counterfeit veils or obscures the Christ, or right idea, or claims to do so. Obviously, then, the work of Science is to penetrate the seeming covering, or veil, so that the ever-present Christ shows forth to human consciousness.
