From his first acceptance of Christian Science as a demonstrable and practical teaching, the student has commenced to make progress Spiritward. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 296): "Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal."
As we become acquainted with the truth of God's allness, understand more of His nature, and know ourselves to be coexistent with all that is good and harmonious, we are progressively able to drop the mortal sense of things. This sense was never real and never belonged to the true way of living.
We ask ourselves, "What steps can we take to be satisfied in our own consciousness that we are gaining an elevated realization of existence?" True praying leads us to the foundation of true living. Communion with God is prayer. In unity of thought with the divine, we are able to lay aside human will and our sense of physicality. Doing this, we gain a clear thought of man's oneness with eternal Life, God, as Life's expression.
