At the moment of her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy began her great mission as interpreter of the Bible. It was at this moment, when she grasped the spiritual import of a passage in Matthew she had been reading, that the Science of the Bible dawned on her spiritual sense. And at this moment she experienced an immediate recovery from a serious injury. She had found the connection between true theology and healing.
In this brief moment Mrs. Eddy discovered the truth of man's pure and sinless life in Spirit and recognized that matter is the subjective state of the carnal, or mortal, mind—the mind described by Paul as "enmity against God." Rom. 8:7. She saw the distinction between being carnally-minded and being spiritually-minded and the healing effect of the latter on health (see Miscellaneous Writings, p. 24). Subsequent years of eager search of the Bible brought her the understanding of divine law—the force of God's will—and its power over matter and sin as this is recorded in the Scriptures' pages. The life and teachings of Christ Jesus taught her true theology, which includes healing.
To demonstrate Christian Science, one must have some comprehension of the spiritual standpoints from which our Leader interprets the Scriptures: the allness and goodness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter, which is Spirit's opposite; the perfection of God's man, whose origin and abilities are found in Spirit, not in matter; and the suppositional nature of evil, which has no place in God's creation.
