The difference between spiritual perception and uninspired human outlining is clearly shown in Christian Science. Spiritual perception apprehends God's guidance and boundless care for His children; whereas mere human outlining presents something deemed desirable. We may eschew material imaginings and be fit to receive divine direction in proportion to the purity of our thought, the rightness of our desire, and our willingness to obey God's will.
Mary Baker Eddy says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 249,) "Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence." The student of Christian Science sees that between spiritual perceptiveness and its fruitage and between imperfect models and their disillusionments there can be no conciliation. He constantly turns from "illusive ideals" to God's "own models of excellence," and as his thought and endeavor are reconciled with God, he is endowed with the Christ-power, which accomplishes all good.
In daily affairs, tentative steps are sometimes necessary. To take them with full faith in God's guidance that these steps will be blessed or corrected will antidote human outlining. The blessing is frequently contained in the correction, though it is not always immediately recognized. Often the proper step is discerned through spiritual intuition. But we must never fall into the error of mentally setting up a solidly outlined material picture and then trying to invoke the aid of Mind to bring it to pass.
