The Holy Bible states that man is the offspring of God, Spirit, thereby forever linking man to his divine source. The book of Malachi confirms this: "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?"Mal. 2:10.
Being so linked, man cannot, in spiritual fact, be a finite, physical mortal separated from God, as our physical senses persuade us to believe. The physical senses, being no part of God, of Spirit, cannot testify accurately to man's real nature. Thus to human sense there does seem to be a separation between man and God, the creator of all. But this is an illusory state rather than an actual one.
Through the Science of Christ, Christian Science, we can reason logically from spiritual cause, God, to scientific effect, man, His reflection, and so reach the correct conclusion of harmony and reality. Such reasoning is not, as it may seem, merely the activity of the human mind. It is proof of the very Christ itself, active in human consciousness as the power of the God who is intelligent omnipresence.
To make God's reality practical and effective in our present existence is the function of the Christ. Only as the Christ, the true idea of God, imparts to us the recognition of man's spirituality and present sonship with God can we in any degree come to and be at one with the Father. As Christ Jesus said, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me."John 14:6.
Christian Science confirms and elucidates this scientific fact. Only through Christ, Truth, is Spirit demonstrated as man's source and substance. Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health: "Matter cannot connect mortals with the true origin and facts of being, in which all must end. It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator."Science and Health, p. 491.
Christian Science thus reveals the seeming missing link to be no longer missing but the ever-present divine reality. It is the universal, impersonal, everpresent, ever-active, ever-available Christ. It is the unseen, largely unknown, often unwanted, invisible presence and power of God's nature active in and uplifting individual consciousness.
As we consistently purify and so spiritualize our thinking, the Christ orients human consciousness, arresting, reversing, and replacing its inherent materiality with Mind's divine ideas, the constituents of real selfhood. Consciousness is thereby lifted into a higher, more spiritual idealism. Christly purity, Christly chastity, and Christly unselfed love become in greater degree the habitual state of our thinking and living. Selfishness then gives way to a more sincere concern for the welfare of others. We become more patient and helpful with the failings of others. This love and forbearance indicate that the Christ is shining a little more clearly, a little more fully, in our thought, and so awakening in us a more spiritual state of consciousness.
Only through such Christianization can the spiritual creation, including man, be understood and demonstrated to be already complete. We must look away from the material and earthy, as Christ Jesus implied, and seek the kingdom of heaven—the spiritual. Only in this way will we realize how closely the Christ links us to God and to His harmony and peace. We will then find ourselves in ever greater degree affirming and living the spiritual fact as the reality of our present being.
Bridging the gap between the human and the divine, the Christ is the unobstructed way through which God is ceaselessly communicating to us the divine ideas that link us inseparably to Him. As these divine ideas, flowing from God, the divine Mind, are welcomed in thought, they progressively remove from consciousness the limiting beliefs that assert we have a sinful, mortal selfhood. Thus it is that Mrs. Eddy writes, "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship." Ibid., p. 316.
