"IT is no more Christianly scientific to see disease than it is to experience it," Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 421). Christian Science reveals that Christianly scientific seeing means seeing that all reality is the creation of divine Mind, God, and is forever included in this perfect Mind; that since God is immutable good, His idea, man, has not fallen and never can fall from spiritual perfection. Mortal failings, then, are not attributable to man, the image and likeness of God, but to an educated belief that man is mortal.
Not only when we experience disease do we need to be healed of it. If we see disease as real, we must be healed. Never indifferent to one who seems to be experiencing disease, we give him all the loving compassion and tenderness we can; yet whatever error we see, must be healed in our own thought. Only as we do this are we being Christianly scientific. Indeed, Christ Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount considered that those are hypocrites who behold the error in another while indulging it themselves. He said (Matt. 7:5), "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Christian Science teaches that disease is never more than an image in mortal mind made manifest on the body. An understanding of this shows both the necessity and the possibility of effacing the image of disease.
