"Absolute" means without a flaw or mixture or limitation of any kind. In Christian Science absolute refers exclusively to God and His spiritual creation. This creation, which includes man, is eternal, good, forever perfect.
In contrast to this, the human scene includes limitation, discord, sorrow—many forms of imperfection—in its distorted presentation of being. This good-and-evil concept of existence would appear to obscure the absolute. It presents an erroneous view of life. Because of its invalidity, this false view must eventually yield to the facts of God's absolute, spiritual creation, as darkness is unable to withstand light. This yielding of the limited to the limitless, the imperfect to the perfect, the erroneous to the absolute, results in healing—an eradication of imperfection.
Healing in Christian Science, therefore, is based on the understanding of the absolute—God's harmony and perfection. Spiritual laws derive from God—divine Principle—and are eternally operative.
