Through studying Christian Science and practicing its teachings, I’ve been having what feels like a spiritual awakening. But it’s more than uncovering a sense of my own spirituality. I’m becoming more aware of the real, spiritual nature of everything.
The Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy make it clear that we are destined to find that the universe is actually made up of God’s good qualities. God, infinite Mind, expresses Himself throughout all creation. As you or I might appreciate the idea of a flower or a friend, the divine Mind upholds us all as spiritual ideas, each playing an essential role in one universal family.
As the Discoverer of Christian Science, Eddy really forwarded humanity’s awakening. A crucial point in her own spiritual development, which led to her discovery, came while turning to the Bible for help after a life-threatening injury. She writes: “When apparently near the confines of mortal existence, standing already within the shadow of the death-valley, I learned these truths in divine Science: that all real being is in God, the divine Mind, and that Life, Truth, and Love are all-powerful and ever-present; that the opposite of Truth,—called error, sin, sickness, disease, death,—is the false testimony of false material sense, of mind in matter; that this false sense evolves, in belief, a subjective state of mortal mind which this same so-called mind names matter, thereby shutting out the true sense of Spirit” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 108).
