Have you ever considered the fact that a Christian Science Reading Room exists to alert the community that human experience does not exist in a realm separate from God's government? A Reading Room can be thought of as the leaven of Truth and Love at work, permeating the neighborhood with a sense of Christ's new appearing, bringing healing and order to every aspect of human life. (Of course, it isn't the Reading Room that does this, but the prayer of those manning it and supporting it!) Christ, Truth, reveals that the human and the divine actually coincide. Jesus and later his disciples began their ministry by preaching ". . . the kingdom of God is at hand." Mark 1:15 The Reading Room is a place where this evangelical work continues within the world today.
The belief that there is a disconnection between human experience and the Divine can result in much effort to establish a connection that already exists. Conscious being, like a pool produced by a spring, is the product of Soul, Spirit. The union between Soul and man is permanent and unalterable. The true nature and character of man are defined by Soul, God, who sustains man's existence. Consider the spring and the pool. If the spring stopped, the pool inevitably would go dry. The immortal activity of Soul prevents man from going dry. Whenever we look back at the source and cause of our being, we see the glory, power, perfection, majesty, and goodness of God, and then we realize, as Jesus revealed, that all this—the kingdom of God—constitutes the actual substance of our lives, even in what we call human experience.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was organized "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17 Part of the enormous significance of Jesus' life for humanity is that it reveals the coincidence of the human and the divine. What's another way of saying this? God's intent, His will, is made fully manifest in spiritual man—in his life and being. Consequently, in proportion as Christ—which reveals what God knows of Himself and of His creation, man and the universe—permeates our consciousness, we discover that every aspect of our human existence correlates with the divine model established by God. From one perspective, Christ appears to transform life; healing, harmony, purity, and justice appear in our lives. From another perspective, the eternal union or oneness of God and man has been realized and remains apparent.
