HOW wonderful it is that in the textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives us relative and absolute statements of truth! The relative statements, which recognize human beliefs, are there to communicate Christian Science to mankind so that they may study and learn of the realm of the real. While absolute statements, which recognize only the truth of being, give the basis from which we may heal.
Often a newcomer to Christian Science finds it difficult to accept or to understand the radical statements of absolute truth to be found in the textbook. But what light can come into consciousness when a relative statement is read and its inspiring message becomes a bridge to the absolute!
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 298, "When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat." We know that in an absolute sense the real, spiritual man— the only man there is—is now, always has been, and always will be. But what comfort, what hope and joy, this statement quoted above brings to the struggling heart, to one who may not acknowledge his true spiritual self as being right now in the realm of the real!
