Christian Science refers to God as absolute Principle, absolute Life. "Principle," Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "is absolute." Science and Health, p. 283; Her writings tell us the facts of God's categorical wholeness, irresistible power, universality. Principle stands alone, unchallenged, as the one originator and source of being, of pure reality.
The term "absolute" may also be applied to the fundamental truths of Christian Science, to its unqualified statements of God's omnipotence and man's perfection. Its teachings convey the absolute facts of being to mankind in understandable human language. Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, requires even in Sunday School, "The instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook." Manual of The Mother Church, Art. XX, Sect. 3;
As her written works are assimilated and lived they bring enlightenment, direction, and healing to human beings. They are not vaporous or vague theories; they are not a channel through which to escape matter's claim to reality, but the way to subordinate and eliminate those claims, demonstrating good right here. The teachings of Science revitalize and regenerate our ethical sense. They make us more consistently loving, improve health, and expand our demonstration of immortal substance.
