Every sincere Christian Scientist is continually striving to perfect his healing capacity so that he may be instant in relieving his fellow men from suffering, and also that he may bring about the quick, decisive healings which best promote the Cause of Christian Science. He gains these desired results by overcoming human will with the divine energy of Spirit.
The definition of "will," which Mary Baker Eddy gives in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," greatly aids the Christian Science healer in comprehending the unreality and powerlessness of human will. As part of her definition, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 597): "The motive-power of error; mortal belief; animal power. The might and wisdom of God." She concludes the definition by stating, "Will, as a quality of so-called mortal mind, is a wrong-doer; hence it should not be confounded with the term as applied to Mind or to one of God's qualities."
Human will means much more than personal willfulness. It is a wrongdoer, a false lawmaker, which claims to create and govern error. It is the motive power of evil. Human will stands in supposed opposition to the will of God and is therefore unreal. It may also be reasoned that matter and evil are simply aliases of human will; that error, in all of its variations, from a solitary atom to the entire material universe, from a single white lie to the total darkness of the sum of all evil, may be reduced to the unreality of human will.
