By her discovery of the Science of Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy brought to mankind true definitions of God, man, law, the universe. To her spiritualized thought, God interpreted Himself as demonstrable Principle, not inaccessible, but ever present. Those who recognize the magnitude of Christian Science find their lives transformed. Their mental horizons widen, and their thoughts often rise above mundane, mortal life as they glimpse spiritual, immortal existence in God.
Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 258, 259): "God's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine definition of Deity differs essentially from the human. It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning, when 'all things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made.'"
It is obvious that Deity alone can actually define Himself. The human mind of itself can come only to such conclusions as its limited outlook allows. This fact was noted by Xenophanes, a philosopher of ancient Greece, who fought traditional anthropomorphic conceptions of Deity. He said, "If oxen or lions had hands, oxen would make gods like oxen, horses would make gods like horses." Far in advance of his times, Xenophanes believed in "one supreme God . . . like to mortals neither in body nor in thought." He declared, "The All is One, and the One is God."
