"Is there more than one school of Christian Science?" asks Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 112). And part of her answer reads: "Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, therefore, be but one method in its teaching. Those who depart from this method forfeit their claims to belong to its school, and they become adherents of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some other school. By this is meant that they adopt and adhere to some particular system of human opinions."
What, then, is this one true school of scientific metaphysics, or Christian Science? Obviously it must be the method of teaching used by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science herself, because nobody knows anything about Christian Science today except what they have learned from Mrs. Eddy or from her writings. Through the pure, clear transparency of her uplifted thought came the final and complete revelation of Truth. She is God's messenger, and if we would demonstrate the great Science she has revealed, then we must strive to gain something of her sense of her own discovery.
It is important to take note of what she calls "the only possible correct version of Christian Science." These words appear on page 356 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany." The context in which they appear reads as follows:
