Christian Science urges men to recognize their true selfhood and to live in accordance with this recognition, thus to obey the Master's command, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Mortals have a material concept of God's universe, manifested in decay and death, and it is this material concept that Christian Science seeks to destroy, so that we may behold all the glories of the universe even as God sees them.
Christian Science does not teach that the universe is an illusion, but on the contrary that everything in creation, from the least to the greatest, exists as the product of Spirit.
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lessons to be drawn from the parable of "the prodigal son" are inexhaustible, and in this story of the treatment accorded the two brothers by their father there seems to be also a hint as to the answer to a question which has puzzled many earnest seekers for the truth.
