Mrs. Eddy opened up a new view of reality and individual capability when she began to teach, "Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence"Science and Health, p. 469. and gave "the scientific statement of being," which reads in part: "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."Ibid., p. 468.
Today the search for a better understanding of the source of intelligence is accelerated. Much of the exploration, including both the behavioral sciences and biology, centers on the brain. One researcher speaks of two Nobel Prize laureates in physics as concluding that the human brain "is our ultimate intellectual challenge in the last quarter of the twentieth century."Richard M. Restak, The Brain: The Last Frontier (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979), p. 3.
Contrast this with the Christian Science textbook's statement by Mrs. Eddy: "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements."Science and Health, p. 475. We find, then, the Christian Scientists' challenge is to be ever more dedicated to probing Mrs. Eddy's discovery regarding intelligence, to understand more what it means in a practical way that God is Mind and all is a manifestation of this supreme intelligence, to use this spiritual research in healing work.
