In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we find this statement: "God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self government, reason, and conscience." Science and Health, p. 106; Anything inalienable cannot be given away or disposed of even if one wishes. Even if abused in ignorance or willfulness, inalienable rights are always present to be discovered, valued, and utilized.
According to Christian Science, "there is moral freedom in Soul." p. 58; Soul, God, expressing itself in man's true being, emits the light of Spirit, which impels the freedom to act rightly, spontaneously. Accepting the government of Soul, one is freed from the burden of living under a sense of guilt and penalty. Through spiritual sense, Soul informs one of his individual ability to govern himself rightly by reflection. Taking his information from Soul, one learns to reject suggestions of the material senses as not his own voluntary thinking. Soul informs him that he is upright, whole, and free; whereas the material senses inform him of the opposite.
The elements of self centeredness, appetite, depraved will, and fear, believed to be a normal part of human nature, would, if they could, rob one of his freedom and his right of self government. The human mind, resisting self discipline, puts up the argument that to do right should not be such hard work. But to row upstream takes a bending of the back and a strong pull on the oars. Spiritual energy joyously applied in the work of living daily in accord with Soul's law means working in opposition to the downward tendencies of apathetic conformity to personal or material sense. The human mind seems disinclined to exert the effort to stand or even to move against the stream but tends to drift in the line of least resistance, imagining itself to be free and happy until it is brought up sharply to find that it is going in the wrong direction—actually giving up its freedom and losing the ability to govern itself.
