A student of Christian Science once wrote to Mrs. Eddy regarding a certain incident and requested her comment. The student had been criticized because she had referred to her true identity as an immortal idea of the one divine Mind. In her reply Mrs. Eddy approved the student's statement concerning her spiritual selfhood; then she added: "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration."The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 242;
At times our perception that man's spiritual being is absolute in its purity and perfection is clear enough to result in immediate healing. On other occasions, when perception is not so clear, healing is more gradual, and we find that a denial of error's claims to reality, place, and power is essential in order to increase our responsiveness to our application of spiritual verities. We need to be watchful, however, that we do not allow our denials of error to have predominance over our positive affirmations of Truth, or we may find ourselves regarding error as an entity, possessing law and dominion.
Christ Jesus' understanding of the perfection and perpetual harmony of God and His spiritual creation was absolute; it was never affected by the evidence of the material senses, which falsely represent man as a sick or sinful mortal. That Jesus expected not only his disciples but all believers in time to come to emulate his works was indicated when he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."John 14:12;
