The healing practice of Christian Science includes as an important element a recognition that man unfailingly expresses intelligence. This recognition is a potent factor in restoring physical normality and in resolving many types of individual problems, as well as other problems, with a wider impact.
True intelligence is not an activity of a physical brain or of a finite personal mentality, measurable by tests or quotients. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy speaks of it as "the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,—Life, Truth, and Love,—named God."Science and Health, p. 469; Beyond material test or measure, this intelligence is expressed by individual spiritual ideas, the sons and daughters of God, of the one infinite Mind which fully knows and maintains its own harmonious creation.
The healing recognition that man always expresses intelligence is much more than an activity of enlightened human consciousness assenting to a spiritual fact. This recognition certainly includes and impels such assent; but essentially divine Truth is asserting and affirming itself. Infinite intelligence, as well as governing all that is divine, is constantly asserting its power and presence in a way that can be humanly discerned.
