HOW very important to individual growth and progress in Christian Science is the spiritual understanding of the way in which the various absolute truths used in Science apply to one's human thinking! The importance of this is emphasized by Mrs. Eddy in these words in Miscellany (p. 218): "The introduction of pure abstractions into Christian Science, without their correlatives, leaves the divine Principle of Christian Science unexplained, tends to confuse the mind of the reader, and ultimates in what Jesus denounced, namely, straining at gnats and swallowing camels."
The Christian Scientist does not wave aside his so-called human consciousness, but he strives daily to keep in view the spiritual qualities of his true consciousness. He is alert to face up honestly to the evils and inconsistencies in all mortal character, overcome them with Christlike qualities, and so prove individually that good is real and that evil is unreal and impersonal.
One awakens to his perfect consciousness, God's reflection, only as he strives to prove in his thinking and conduct that the spiritual qualities constituting true consciousness are an ever-present reality. When one grasps the depth of meaning in the spiritual fact that there is one Mind, he sees that there is no limit to the good each individual can realize.
