In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "There is no bridge across the gulf which divides two such opposite conditions as the spiritual, or incorporeal, and the physical, or corporeal.
"In Christian Science there is never a retrograde step, never a return to positions outgrown. The so-called dead and living cannot commune together, for they are in separate states of existence, or consciousness" (p. 74).
How does Christian Science reconcile this statement with Jesus' transfiguration on the mount given in Matthew (17:1–9), Mark (9:2–9), and Luke (9:28–36), where Jesus communes with Moses and Elias when he himself had not yet resurrected or ascended; Jesus was still in a physical state of existence. Even the disciples, in their less enlightened state, beheld this communion.
