Before I began to investigate Christian Science, I thought all metaphysics was some farfetched abstract theory in the clouds of human intellectual reasoning, which extraordinary people and unscientific scholars used as an escape route from the world of reality. I also thought that in its religious aspects, metaphysics was the same as occult mysticism, available only to initiates and hermits.
The divine metaphysics of Christian Science is none of these. Mrs. Eddy's authoritative statement of Christian metaphysics shows it to be revelation rather than an empirical science, but thoroughly practical. It is applicable to every human condition with healing results.
"Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a demand of the times. Every man and every woman would desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite value and firm basis,"Miscellaneous Writings, p. 232 writes Mrs. Eddy. To make metaphysics practical for ourselves and others, we have first to turn to the teachings of the master Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, and to the writings of Mrs. Eddy, who discovered and systematized the underlying laws of the Master's practice of scientific Christianity. In the Bible and in Science and Health and other works of Mrs. Eddy we come upon spiritual truths that challenge the evidence of the physical senses. From the basis of spiritual illumination we reason with childlike trust and a determination to know the truth that is necessary to heal suffering. We then recognize what constitutes the actual reality of being, despite physical evidence to the contrary.
