Resurrection, to the student of Christian Science, is more than a distant event recorded in Christian history. It is more even than the vivid final triumph over death by a living Way-shower who expected his followers to do the same. The resurrection with which the Christian Scientist is most concerned at present is a continuing spiritualizing of thought, a daily rising above the entombing beliefs of life in matter.
Human beings have been taught that what identifies them mentally is inside matter and somehow associated with the brain, and that man is subject to his environment and is a creature of physical sense. Christian Science has come to break this false claim, to resurrect human thought from erroneous knowledge, and to provide salvation from the limiting beliefs that man is, or has been, entombed in matter.
The clearcut statement by Christian Science that man reflects God, and that the view of man as existing inside material experiences is a false view of man, helps expose the limiting results of the opposite belief. Man reflects God as a distinct, individual, perfect idea, neither inside nor absorbed by something called matter or by a mental state called a limiting, inharmonious experience. But it is living the truth that makes us free. Spiritual qualities, precious for their source, use, and eternality—such qualities as obedience, love, kindness, integrity, innocence, humbleness—when seen as inseparable from their source, God, and as reflected by spiritual man, can resurrect human thought from disease, sin, and death.
