A few months ago, I moved into a new house. To get down from the bedroom to the bathroom, there is a small staircase with four steps, and there is a night-light that illuminates these steps. During my second night in the house, though, I woke up and headed to the bathroom but somehow forgot about the steps. Losing my balance, I felt myself falling to the floor and cried out, “Oh, no!”
After hitting the floor, I immediately affirmed, “There has been no accident; I am fine!” This affirmation sprang from what I had learned in Christian Science.
Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy. She wrote the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which illuminates the spiritual meaning of the Bible. In the Lord’s Prayer are the words, “Thy kingdom come” (Matthew 6:10). The spiritual sense of this in Science and Health is, “Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present” (p. 16). This means that God’s kingdom is present now and always. In God’s kingdom everything is good, and therefore “accidents are unknown to God” (Science and Health, p. 424). So they do not have to have any reality in our consciousness.
