Imagine sitting quietly, listening to God tell you of His nature and of man's true meaning and purpose, as a child listens attentively while a parent reads to him. Readers of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, often have felt they are doing what amounts to just this. The spiritual meaning of the Scriptures has been illumined to them by the truths contained in this book. They have felt themselves in the presence of the "still small voice" of our divine Parent, God. Thought has glimpsed something of the infinite self-revelation of Truth, which brings healing.
The divine Science contained in the textbook enables the truly open-minded reader to demonstrate something of the all-goodness of God and to experience the liberating effects of discerning man's relationship to Him as His spiritual offspring. Science presents the bold, unflinching truth of God's perfection and the perfection of His creation. It reveals the spiritual fact that you and I and all, in reality, reflect God's flawless nature.
Until we find this spiritual Science for ourselves, it seems that we are continually asked to make do with lesser interpretations of God than His own. We are asked to accept what amount to human, watered-down theories and philosophies that are at least partially material, and that don't truly satisfy our inner yearning for real familiarity with God, divine Spirit. But why should we put up with less than the best? Even a good human parent wouldn't ask us to do that, much less our divine Parent, God! As Mrs. Eddy says in another of her works, "God's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine definition of Deity differs essentially from the human." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 258.
