Christ Jesus illustrated the immortality of life, and he showed us the way to become conscious of immortality and thus to experience it. The illustration began with his birth, of which Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Born of a woman, Jesus' advent in the flesh partook partly of Mary's earthly condition, although he was endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure. This accounts for his struggles in Gethsemane and on Calvary, and this enabled him to be the mediator, or way-shower, between God and men." Science and Health, p. 30;
His illustration of true life did not end with death, for in his consciousness of God as Life, there was no death to experience. He even went through the process of what the human senses called death to show the unreality of death. Mrs. Eddy says of Christian Scientists' communion, "They celebrate their Lord's victory over death, his probation in the flesh after death, its exemplification of human probation, and his spiritual and final ascension above matter, or the flesh, when he rose out of material sight." p. 35;
His showing us the way to become conscious of eternal Life is the greatest thing any individual has ever done for mankind. We accept this great gift—and enjoy its grand realities—to the extent that we follow the way Jesus marked for us.
