I hope that you have found my attempt to illustrate the Christian Science ontology useful. I have presented it to you because it is a view of existence that I personally love and have benefited from greatly, the practice and implications of which I find to be of utmost importance.
In my view, we are just barely scratching the surface of this practice—like those first humble flights by the Wright Brothers barely scratched the surface of what the birds had shown was possible all along.
My priority has been clarity over depth. I have used the single biblical synonym for God, Mind, which to me most obviously relates to the subject of consciousness. The other six biblical synonyms Eddy utilized throughout her textbook are "... Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."* Each offers equal opportunities for discovery, practice, and demonstration. Each helps understand the nature of the other. And each exponentially expands our understanding of being, and hence, the experienced results of its science.
Man is the conscious identity of Mind. He is the activity of Life. He is the perception of Truth. He is the selflessness of Love. These are discoverable and provable outcomes of God.
I have also not strayed beyond the discussion of matter's unreality, except when I felt it could be understood in its context. In doing so, I have merely presented an introduction to the subject. I have explained what reality is not. The infinite and meaningful endeavor involves looking at what reality is.
Just like a math problem is solved by knowing the right solution rather than all the wrong ones, it is the understanding of reality, rather than its opposite, that heals. Yet I think these illustrations are sometimes necessary in our age to peel back the veil of materialism that seems to be draped over every scientific and theological perspective.
