TO those whose consciousness has become spiritually illumined through the perception of God as Mind, Spirit, the nature of God and of His universe is seen as wholly spiritual and perfect. Christian Science reveals that man is the reflection, or idea, of God and that, because of this, man's understanding is pure and perfect.
In order to demonstrate this purity of understanding in our thoughts and lives, it is essential that we cleanse our consciousness from all fleshly beliefs. We must consciously refrain from entertaining mesmeric or aggressive suggestions that flesh and not Spirit constitutes man and governs him. Thus we begin to understand the teaching of Christian Science that in reality we are spiritual beings, the children of God, not mortals or human personalities composed of both good and evil. This great truth of ourselves we learn to cherish as we would a pearl of great price.
In Christian Science we perceive that Christ, Truth, is the light that illumines our thoughts and lives with the purity of spiritual understanding. Our thoughts should not be contaminated with the elements of a supposititious mortal mind, but we must hold steadfastly to the absolute fact that all that is real is of God and is spiritual. It is the Christ, the divine idea of God, coming to our receptive thought that speaks to us of what life actually is and reveals the law of our being.
