Third Degree: Understanding.
Spiritual. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, Reality spiritual power, love, health, holiness.
In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as God's image appears. Science so reverses the evidence Spiritual universe before the corporeal human senses, as to make this Scriptural testimony true in our hearts, “The last shall be first, and the first last,” so that God and His idea may be to us what divinity really is and must of necessity be, — all-inclusive.
A correct view of Christian Science and of its adaptation to healing includes vastly more than is at first seen. Aim of Science Works on metaphysics leave the grand point untouched. They never crown the power of Mind as the Messiah, nor do they carry the day against physical enemies, — even to the extinction of all belief in matter, evil, disease, and death, — nor insist upon the fact is that God is all, therefore that matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind.
Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that Divine personality God is not corporeal, but incorporeal, — that is, bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is incorporeal.
As the words person and personal are commonly and ignorantly employed, they often lead, when applied to Deity, to confused and erroneous conceptions of divinity and its distinction from humanity. If the term personality, as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is infinite Person, — in the sense of infinite personality, but not in the lower sense. An infinite Mind in a finite form is an absolute impossibility.
