Many ask, "How and when was matter created?" A careful perusal of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, shows us that material life is in the nature of a dream. Often in the Bible we find exhortations to awake. We read (Isa. 52: 1, 2), "Awake, awake; ... shake thyself from the dust." Paul wrote to the Romans (13:11), "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep."
Mankind still finds a fallacious satisfaction in believing that what is seen with the eyes, heard with the ears, touched, tasted, and smelled is the truth of being. So the Adam-dream apparently goes on, leading only to a sense of death and dissolution. However, as one proceeds with the study of the Bible and of Mrs. Eddy's writings, he glimpses more and more of spiritual life. The student of Christian Science is led to change his viewpoint, accepting the fact of life in Spirit, not in matter. He gradually loses his sense of life as inherent in matter. This false sense becomes gradually less and eventually fades out, ending in nothingness.
Thus progress in Science goes on, but the adversary, false material sense, always appears to be busy, tempting the student to ask, "How was a dream created?" It is like querying, "How was nothing created?" The material sense of life comes to us only through the five senses, which testify to a suppositional mortal mind. Mrs. Eddy shows us that mortal mind is unreal. On page 114 of Science and Health she says, "Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an improper use of the word mind."
