Article July 7, 1923 Issue

The basis of Christian Science healing is...

Hiram W. Hayes, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,—Washington

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The basis of Christian Science healing is "perfect God and perfect man" (Science and Health, p. 259). The success of Christian Scientists in healing the sick is proportionate to their understanding of God, of divine Mind and its operations. Christian Science teaches that the word "soul" is misapplied when used to designate a human consciousness. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, and the only book in which the teachings of Mrs. Eddy are to be found in their completeness, it is specifically stated that the term Soul, or Spirit, as used in Christian Science, is synonymous with God. The following statements, all of which are fundamental, are also to be found on pages 466 and 469 of the Christian Science textbook: "Soul or Spirit signifies Deity and nothing else. There is no finite soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural." "Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality."

Christian Science classifies sickness and sin as error, which cannot exist in the one perfect divine Mind. Truth is eternal. If error existed in divine Mind, it would also be eternal, hence indestructible; but the truth and its opposite cannot possibly exist in consciousness at the same time.

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