![]() ![]() The absolute metaphysical truth of only one God, good, and His perfect idea, man-established in individual and world consciousness-would heal the discords of the physical senses. The senses even tell us that because of these conditions, some people become tired of life itself. We then recognize what constitutes the actual reality of being, despite physical evidence to the contrary.įor example, the material senses tell us of wars, crime, terrorism, racial tension, and varying degrees of crisis in economic, social, political, national, and international relationships. From the basis of spiritual illumination we reason with childlike trust and a determination to know the truth that is necessary to heal suffering. Eddy we come upon spiritual truths that challenge the evidence of the physical senses. In the Bible and in Science and Health and other works of Mrs. Eddy, who discovered and systematized the underlying laws of the Master's practice of scientific Christianity. To make metaphysics practical for ourselves and others, we have first to turn to the teachings of the master Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, and to the writings of Mrs. Every man and every woman would desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite value and firm basis," Miscellaneous Writings, p. "Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a demand of the times. It is applicable to every human condition with healing results. Eddy's authoritative statement of Christian metaphysics shows it to be revelation rather than an empirical science, but thoroughly practical. The divine metaphysics of Christian Science is none of these. ![]() I also thought that in its religious aspects, metaphysics was the same as occult mysticism, available only to initiates and hermits. ![]() Before I began to investigate Christian Science, I thought all metaphysics was some farfetched abstract theory in the clouds of human intellectual reasoning, which extraordinary people and unscientific scholars used as an escape route from the world of reality. ![]()
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