Story of Progress

The ruling thought of the past has been separation: man apart from God; earth apart from heaven; body apart from Spirit, believing the Spirit to be immortal and body mortal. Man has been taught to believe himself subject to ills, to fear ills, and to try to rid himself of them by external means. He has been taught that Spirit may survive sickness and death but that the body is subject to them.

Man has believed that his earthly life was a period of preparation, a necessary disciplinary time of training for a life to come; that he was virtuous when accepting with patience the experiences "sent" to him, as he thought, for his good. Based upon these confused concepts it is little wonder that the race has been having just that type of experience and has built into its consciousness an expectation of illness and hardships. So long as man thinks thus, so will he suffer. "I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts." Jer. 6:19

Gradually through the years, as individuals have risen above the race consciousness, there has come an awakening to God's plan for His creation. There has come an understanding that God is necessarily in His universe, since He is omnipresent and omniactive in everything everywhere; a divine Power which is acting continuously to bring forth his own wholeness, His own perfection, IIis own perfect functioning with ease, harmony, and all good.

Divine Science, in the light of this understanding, teaches that man may live consciously in and from the basis of Spirit. This true consciousness is the guarantee of the perfection of the body. This pure realization is the foreshadowing of harmony or health. Results are unfailing for by the law of expression, which operates with the same certainty as does the law of mathematics, like ever produces like.