If you understand the Principle of scientific mental healing, you can heal by its power. This power is divine because it comes from God, from the Mind that is Love, and it operates as law.
Christ Jesus healed by this power. Knowing that it is of God, he could say without equivocation to all mankind, to you and to me, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."John 8:32; Mrs. Eddy discovered and demonstrated the divine Principle of Jesus' healing, and she placed these words of his on the epigraph page of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. Their scientific meaning points to the theme and thesis of the textbook.
Science and Health makes clear that it is through knowing the truth, or praying scientifically, that healing occurs in Christian Science. Such prayer involves denying what the material senses say and understanding through spiritual sense that nothing exists but God, Spirit, and His perfect creation. Scientific prayer acknowledges the divine Principle that is always operating on man's behalf—one infinite Mind forever knowing its own allness and perfection. This knowing constitutes and sustains man, God's incorporeal idea. It establishes his being under divine law.
