My immediate recovery from the effects of an injury caused by an accident, an injury that neither medicine nor surgery could reach, was the falling apple that led me to the discovery how to be well myself, and make others so.
Even to the physician who attended me, and rejoiced in my salvation from sickness, I could not then explain the modus of my relief; I could only assure him that the Spirit had wrought the miracle — a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with God's law.
I then withdrew from society about three years, to ponder my mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the Science of Mind,that should “take the things of God” and show them to the creature, and reveal the great curative Principle, God.
The Bible was my textbook. It answered my questions as to how I was healed; but the Scriptures had to me a new meaning, a new tongue. Their spiritual signification appeared; and I apprehended for the first time, in their spiritual meaning, Jesus' teaching and demonstration , and the Principle and rule of Metaphysical Healing, — in a word, Christian Science.
The miracles recorded in the Bible, which had before seemed to me supernatural, grew divinely natural and apprehensible. It was uninspired interpreters whose ignorance pronounced Christ's healing miraculous, instead of seeing therein the operation of divine law.
Jesus of Nazareth was a natural and divine Scientist. He was so before the material world saw him. He who antedated Abraham, and gave the world a new date in the Christian era, was a Christian Scientist, who needed no discovery of the Science of Being, in order to rebuke the evidence of the material senses with his spiritual evidence. To one “born of the flesh,” however, Divine Science must be a discovery. Woman must give it birth. It must be begotten of purity, since none but the pure in heart can see God — the Principle
