Christian Science is the Science of self-completeness. It teaches that man is complete and perfect now. His forever function and perpetual purpose is to image forth the complete and perfect Father-Mother Mind, which is God. The abiding awareness of this great fact of our being constitutes for each one of us spiritual self-completeness.
Once only, in all her published writings, does Mary Baker Eddy employ the term "self-completeness." With her clear, characteristic phraseology she tells us on page 264 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness." Our own recognition of Life as Spirit and of being as spiritual must expand. Expand into what? Into self-completeness and sufficiency that find nothing wanting, nothing lacking for the manifestation of present perfection here and now.
A number of years ago a student of Christian Science came face to face with a sudden and tragic sense of personal loss. This was fully and permanently healed when the truth that self-completeness finds "all in God, good," was perceived. Gratefully and joyously it was realized that the ceaseless symphony of Soul contains no incomplete chords, no missing notes, no broken melodies.
