If Christian Science just taught about Deity—about the eternality of Love and the glory of man and the universe as divine Life's expression—then we could be excused for thinking that although Science was intriguing, extraordinary, or a very beautiful way of thinking, it was rather insignificant when the crunch of trouble really came in human life. But Christian Science doesn't merely teach about the nature of God and of man in God's image. It reveals to human thought the nature of Deity and its creation in a way that is comprehensible, winning, and appreciable in mankind's affairs: applicable to human suffering and limitation.
Science speaks to us of the allness of Spirit, Soul, and the magnificence and majesty of all that belongs to Soul. But it doesn't cut the rope between human beings and common-sense practical living so that we drift out into a sea of philosophical speculations. It leaves us with no sense whatsoever that the divine is remote from the human, or separate from it. Science insists that the divine coincides with the human and that this can be proved in healing—healing in a deep and broad sense. Its Discoverer, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Science speaks when the senses are silent, and then the evermore of Truth is triumphant. The spiritual monitor understood is coincidence of the divine with the human, the acme of Christian Science."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 100;
The human is blessed by the divine as we admit the presence of the divine. The more of divinity we admit into our thought, the better our humanity, because the divine—being omnipresent— coincides with the human. The more we admit the oneness of divine Mind, the more are the divine and the human seen to coincide. The divine becomes evident in the healing of disease, the diminishing of lack, the universalizing of our love. Because the divine coincides with the human, being is not two-tiered—the divine is not far-off in either space or time. God, the creator of all, is here, and is expressed in the glowing and permanent beauty of man, His outcome. The divine is being manifested wherever we perceive true goodness and life and love.
