SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION - The Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute

egarding them as opportunities to prove that his science not onlyexists as pure being but also operates to refute mistakes in its owndomain. To him the word 'problem' has no negative overtones but hasits original meaning - of being simply some proposition thrown up byhis natural progression. As with mathematics, Christian Science isboth 'pure' and 'applied,' and these twin aspects are parallel to Jesus‟twin declaration, “I came forth from . . . and go to . . .”This means that to “go to the Father” demands that we prove inpractice our oneness with the divine by the disproof of all that seemsto stand in the way, - the disproof of twoness. The supposition thatthere could be an existence detached from the Principle of beingtakes form in a further supposition called life, substance andintelligence in matter; destroying the fantasy of twoness thereforemeans causing the discordant material concept to give place to thespiritual reality. Writing of Jesus, Mrs. Eddy says, “ His mission wasto reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is andwhat He does for man” (S & H 26:16). Metaphysically speaking, hewas bilingual. He translated the absolute ideal into language thathumanity can understand, and, using the divine mother tongue,translated humanity out of the dead language of mortality.Language 1This analogy of language is an apt one for the entire subject ofspiritual experience and of the resolution of the human problem, forwe are dealing not with two substances but with two ways ofdescribing the one realm. Language is the index of thoughtprocesses. Either we think of the universe as spiritual or we think of itas material, and we use different tongues accordingly. Both the Bibleand Science and Health are manuals for teaching us how thelanguage of Soul redeems our universe from the confusions of sense.- how the language of Spirit replaces that of matter. We find threeclasses of language clearly distinguished: first there are those ringingstatements where we hear God speaking; then there are the lyingclaims of material sense; thirdly the language of redemption, wherethe first kind of speech translates the second.In the Bible, the language of Spirit declares, “Thus saith the Lord . . . Iam the first. and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” “In the24