If the power of Christian Science were merely human, it could not have brought about the vast number of healings it has since Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of it in 1866. Such power does not lie within human means. The great significance of this power lies in the fact that Christian Science is of God, coming with renewed inspiration with each victory over human distress or limitation. Writing of the Science she discovered, Mrs. Eddy says in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 28) "Its Principle is divine, not human, reaching higher than the stars of heaven."
Demonstrating a divine Principle is a far cry from merely getting one's body in working order or one's finances running smoothly or one's personal relationships in a harmonious state. Demonstrating divine Principle calls for a dropping away of the mortal sense of existence in some measure and at least a glimpse of the spiritual consciousness of being. Progress in demonstrating the Principle of Science must be gauged by the clearer views of spiritual creation one gains and the power these views give him over the materialistic views offered by the physical senses.
We need often to examine our objectives in applying Christian Science in our affairs. We need to be certain that our efforts are really to prove the divine Principle of being that reaches "higher* than the stars of heaven." Too often we are tempted to desire the same material goals that mortals work for, but to attain them through prayer in Science. To build for eternity, one must have eternal objectives.
