Shortly before Christ Jesus was to depart from this earth, he said to his disciples (John 14:27), "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." The peace which the Master left does not rest upon material power or diplomatic influence, but is a spiritual fact, eternally established in the kingdom of heaven, which he came to reveal.
Christian Science explains God's kingdom as a state of mind or divine order in which all of God's creations dwell in perfect accord. No assertion of human will can change or disturb this ideal state, for it manifests God's will.
The Master patiently turned human thought away from the world, the material sense of life, to the unseen realm of Spirit. His precepts were deeply metaphysical, consequently perfectly scientific, since the truly scientific is beyond the physical and expresses the invisible divine.
