288 : 20-30 The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death.
Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses. The Christ-element in the Messiah made him the Way-shower, Truth and Life. (Emphasis Added)
From what Jesus knew as the real man, created in God’s image and likeness and from what Mrs. Eddy describes as the perfect man, who is the reflection of God, I must accept with the deepest gratitude who I am and live that Truth. That man is the perfect man, immortal, sinless, “forever unlimited by the mortal senses,” with no material substance, hence not subject to the material claims of sickness, dis-ease, inharmony etc.. Is this real, perfect man what I am re-educating myself to know as what is true about me?
When Jesus healed, He spoke to the perfect, immortal man, whose perfection is changeless; as when He commanded the lame to get up and walk and the withered hand to stretch forth. This is the “man” that was revealed in Mrs. Eddy’s healings from Mark 3 and Matt 9, the Truth, which has given the world this everlasting salvation. So am I daily knowing myself as this perfect man?
Peter V. Ross’ article: https://articles.plainfieldcs.com/early-workers/peter-v-ross/the-simplicity-of-metaphysical-practice/ ends with this paragraph,” One moves directly toward freedom, breaking the hypnotism of disease, age, oppression, and dissolution, when he acknowledges that spiritual man, faultless and imperishable, is his very and only self. It is this everlasting man that Christian Science appraises as perfect.” This right thinking of the Truth about who we are helps make simpler our metaphysical practice.