Mary Baker Eddy describes the type of reader who will most benefit from the Christian Science textbook when she dedicates the pages of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures "to honest seekers for Truth." Science and Health, p. xii. What a person believes to be truth provides the structure to a person's experience—defining how he or she lives, and what that person is or isn't afraid of. Truth, as explained in Science and Health, however, is so much more than what the five physical senses or human reason presents to us. Divine Truth is synonymous with God. Divine Truth is a profound power, a spiritual, loving, infinite force. It is the substance of man's being. Every spiritual fact of God's creation conveys the truth of Truth—the nature of reality.
We can discover for ourselves the truth of all reality; that it originates in God, manifesting His goodness and all-power, transcending materiality. We can learn that our own true identity as God's man is the expression of the divine nature. The truth which God creates is spiritually, permanently intact, always and absolutely good. Christian Science doesn't create truth, but it does reveal the present spiritual reality to our consciousness.
What might be the motive for "Truth-seeking"? Most people yearn for something truly substantial in their lives, and ultimately we encounter that kind of lasting satisfaction only in God. Most of the time, humanly devised "truth" leads to a dead end. Human opinion and conventional materiality are not the source of our answers. What we want is not found in anything but the Truth itself—in God.
