Blow, winds of God awake and blow
The mists of earth away!
These beautiful lines are by the poet Whittier. According to the teachings of Christian Science, the mists of earth are the false beliefs, doctrines, and hypotheses based on a material sense of creation. According to this false sense of existence, man begins as a material embryo, takes on the characteristics of material ancestry, and passes through various stages of mortal existence, embracing its joys and sorrows, pains and pleasures, growth, maturity, and decay. This existence ends in a belief of death, followed by a continuation of existence beyond the grave.
This false sense, or mist, with its doubts and fears, is what the winds of God are blowing away through the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science. What, it may be asked, are the winds of God? On page 597 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "wind" thus: "That which indicates the might of omnipotence and the movements of God's spiritual government, encompassing all things. Destruction; anger; mortal passions."
