XVIII. Truth, spiritually discerned, is scientifically understood. It casts out error and heals the sick. Christian Science differs from material science; but not on that account is it less scientific. On the contrary, Christian Science is preeminently scientific, being based on Truth, the Principle of all Science.
XIX. Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune God, or Divine Principle. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, — the same in essence, though multiform in office. The Holy Ghost reveals this triune Principle, and is embodied in Divine Science, leading into all Truth. Christ means the God-anointed, or the Messiah. Christ Jesus was the man set apart by God, as His word come to the flesh. Mary's conception was spiritual, for only such purity could reflect the ideal of Truth and Love, which was to be incarnate in the good and pure Jesus. Into the divine ideal of manhood the sensual element cannot enter. Thus it was that Jesus became the coincidence, the agreement, of the divine and human.
He was a mediator between humanity and Spirit — the voice of Truth, speaking to the human senses through Science. As Paul says, “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” He was the rebuke of Spirit, dispelling the illusions of the senses. With this Divine Mind he healed the sick and cast out evils, disease, and death, arising from a belief in materialized Mind.
XX. Our baptism is a purification from the flesh. Our church is built on Christ, the Divine Principle of the man Jesus. We can unite with this church only as we are new born of Spirit, — as we reach the Life that
