In recent months I've become increasingly aware of an opening of thought—a growing willingness among people to consider new ideas. The ideas I'm referring to, however, are so different from the normal course of human thinking that an outside observer who hasn't fully investigated them for himself might even wonder why a rational person should take them seriously.
Yet, although these ideas are radical to the strictly matter-based perceptions of life and the universe, they are nonetheless demonstrably practical in human experience, for these are the ideas and truths that explain the Science of Christ—the Science of Life, God, and of man's relationship to God. They speak of God as pure, infinite Spirit, the one Mind, and of all God's creation, including man, as absolutely and perfectly spiritual. This is the divine reality, which allows for no sin, no sickness, no limitation, no mortality; and it permits not even a semblance of power to evil.
Challenging traditional notions of the physical sciences, the ideas of divine Science assert that matter, in all its various forms and constructs, is without actual origin, purpose, or substantive consequence. Such a purely metaphysical interpretation of life concludes that whatever lacks permanence or appears in any degree less than good is thereby to be classified as "unreal," an illusion, a fundamental misapprehension of the corporeal senses. Within the inspired framework of the Science of Christ, or Christian Science, all suppositions of material life, biological intelligence, and physical sensation are conceded neither primary nor ultimate validity, nor can they be accorded any authority to determine or outline the course of man's life.
