A promise of Christ Jesus and one of the basic precepts of Christian Science practice is, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32; Christian Scientists speak of knowing the truth when they pray. This is because their starting point is that true, spiritual being is good, harmonious, and intact. God is Truth, and so what is true is God, good, and what emanates from Him. What is not good is not true, in the sense that it is not fundamental or eternal.
Ignorance of Truth, God, may cause us to believe that something other than good exists, but ignorance of the truth is not an alternative to the truth but a misconception of it. It is important to see that ignorance is not something in its own right. A limited, incomplete, or distorted view of the truth does not alter or compete with Truth. The human concept is not an alternative to the divine but a misconception of it. A misconception does not improve. It can only lessen and—in the end—yield. Yield to what? To Truth. All the praying in the world will not cause Truth to be true or alter what is; but knowing the truth does cause ignorance to dissolve, thus revealing the truth that already exists.
An illustration may help. On a misty morning it may appear that the trees and landscape are distorted. Where is the distortion? In the landscape? In our thought? The appearance of distortion is incidental to the heavy mist and, with the coming of the sun, both mist and the appearance of distortion dissolve.
