"How happened you to establish a college to instruct in metaphysics, when other institutions find little interest in such a dry and abstract subject?" Replying to this frank question, Mrs. Eddy comments in part on the divine metaphysics she taught: "It is a Science that has the animus of Truth. Its practical application to benefit the race, heal the sick, enlighten and reform the sinner, makes divine metaphysics needful, indispensable." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 38;
Divine metaphysics has the animus, vigor, and aliveness of Truth because of what it is, and because of what Truth, Mind, is. This Mind in its complete expression constitutes all wisdom and consciousness. What Mind knows comprises substance, beauty, reality, all true being. It includes the highest concepts conceivable.
Mind—in knowing—establishes all genuine knowledge, appearing to us as divine metaphysics, divine Science or Christian Science. So understood, divine metaphysics is not exploratory, tentative, experimental. Its essential spiritual nature separates it from sophistry, material psychology, or semantic stumbling blocks. It is not a finite system, a speculative human construct, or a groping for truth. And it is certainly not dry and abstract. Or irrelevant.
