MARY BAKER EDDY considered the subject of marriage of sufficient importance to include a chapter on it in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In this chapter our Leader writes (p. 56), "Until the spiritual creation is discerned intact, is apprehended and understood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision of the Apocalypse,—where the corporeal sense of creation was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from heaven,—marriage will continue, subject to such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue."
Centuries before the discovery of Christian Science the need for moral regulations was discerned by Moses, the great Hebrew leader. He also recognized that his task was twofold. He must lead the Israelites out of Egypt, but he must also lead them into the true worship of the great "I AM THAT I AM" (Ex. 3:14). It was natural for Moses to turn to Spirit, God, for the way to accomplish this task. Had not God promised to direct and guide him all the way, even from Egypt to the Promised Land?
As a result of his communion with God, the Commandments were revealed to Moses as the supreme law of the Holy One of Israel. This law made plain to the Israelites that if God was to be their God and they were to be His people, they must worship and serve Him with purity, fidelity, and constancy.
