The healing practiced in Christian Science is based not on a blind belief or positive thinking or "I sure hope it works this time" but on a deeper understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him.
We learn in Christian Science that even healings of so-called incurable ailments are not miraculous or supernatural.
In the Preface to Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
