The demonstration of Christian Science includes not just the overcoming of error but the positive spiritual building necessary to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth for all. Mrs. Eddy has arresting things to say about this work of spiritual building. Of her students who are loyal to Christ and human obligations she writes, "They build for time and eternity."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 264; And she reminds us of the great spiritual requirements of so doing when she states, "We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity."Science and Health, p. 241;
But if we recognize, as we all must, that God is the actual builder, the only creative power, how can we speak of ourselves as engaged in the work of spiritual building? Certainly it is not our work to create the facts of Spirit. God has already done that. God's creation is complete, is here and now established as the fact of being. Yet the spiritual fact of God and His expression, which is the only reality of being, is gradually objectified in our experience as we open our hearts to the Word of revelation.
Responding through spiritual sense to the realities God's Word unfolds, we bring the spiritual fact to light through demonstration. This demonstration constitutes spiritual building. It is empowered, not by any autonomous creative ability of our own— for we have no capacities we have not derived from God—but by our reflection of the creative power of divine Spirit.
