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Chapter 2 - Scientific Metaphysical Healing - A Quest for The Truth.
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Truth cannot fail to manifest itself as Truth, or it would not be Truth. Without being Truth, God would not exist. What Christ Jesus recognized is timeless, changeless, unconditional, reality. Jesus simply suggested that we know what reality is, in order to experience what it holds in store for us. I, on the other hand, had been thinking in terms of some personal mental gymnastics for healing, which I had regarded as Christian Science treatment. Christ Jesus had talked about the effects of knowing or understanding the reality of being, he did not talk about mental gymnastics as a means to alter reality. I realized that the truth that Jesus knew and illustrated was the same that very moment than it had been in his days, and was as effective in healing that very instant, as it had been centuries earlier when it was demonstrated in Galilee by Christ Jesus, or a hundred years ago by Mary Baker Eddy. I recognized that I had a right, based on the nature of the truth of being, to be free of all pain. And so it was. At the very instant the pain ceased.
Jesus had demonstrated sickness as not being included in reality. His demonstrations were based on what he understood about reality. Even Christ Jesus could not have overturned reality if he had wanted to. No one can alter reality or truth, for God is Truth. One can only bring the human situation into accord with Truth.
In my case, the recognition of the timeless condition of truth was immediate, and astounding. The pain that had persisted all morning, literally flowed away. The problem never returned, not the next day, nor decades later.
In the Science that explores reality, one deals with absolute Truth. One has to. What has been illustrated as truth in one instance, must be regarded as an aspect of Truth in all instances. It is as simple as that. What Christ Jesus had demonstrated as the truth about the nature of God and man, can be our foundation upon which to build, even a superstructure of Truth "that rises to a mental monument, beyond the work of men's hands, even the outcome of their hearts."*(Miscellany 6:22) The concept of Truth is singular in nature. Truth cannot hold a contradiction to itself. Mortals do that. Truth is reflected in all that is wholly spiritual, that is real. Any contradicting evidence is based on error. We must separate the two.
The necessity for separating fables from fact makes Christ Jesus' words to Pontius Pilate tremendously important for us today, when he said that he had come to bear witness unto the truth. For his determination to bear witness unto the truth, he suffered the cross, the superstructure of envy and hate, but he proved it to be powerless. The Christian Scientist must understand the nothingness of error, and the all-inclusiveness of Truth. The superstructure of Truth requires a foundation that is free of error. Mary Baker Eddy writes: "He, who understands in a sufficient degree the Principle of Mind-healing, points out to his students error as well as truth, the wrong as well as the rite practice."*(Science and Health 454:14)
In a world of contradictory evidence, it is important to have an authoritative voice that sets apart the evidence of Truth from the evidence of erroneous concepts. Mary Baker Eddy explored this distinction in a scientific manner with demonstrable effects. The need for each human being is to achieve the same clarity of distinction and to go forward in this quest. Mary Baker Eddy was evidently aware that much more in this line of work needs to be done. She writes: "All of Truth is not understood; hence its healing power is not fully demonstrated."*(Science and Health 495:3) If we gain glimpses of Truth in divine Science, we are healed by them as Christ Jesus had promised, and this healing is in proportion to which human thought reflects the conditions of Truth and the nothingness of that which reflects error.
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