If the material universe is a myth, whence and how came this appearance of one? This is one of the most troublesome questions to young students, and readers of Science and Health. We know the scientific answer, that it never came in reality, and "ye are of your father, the devil, who was a liar from the beginning, etc." But still the question arises, Whence the appearance of reality? This is wherein the lie consists, in appearing like Truth, real. As long as we accept the evidence of so-called personal sense, we are deceived; as long as the senses seem real, error will seem real; the evidence to the belief of personal sense, of reality in material things, will not change, any more than the sun appears to change, when we know that it is stationary, and the earth revolves instead. We must look to the spiritual sense for the true idea of God, and the reality of being, which tells us there is no matter, that God is one mind instead of many, and good is all powerful, etc. Thus the facts of science, and the evidence of our belief of personal sense, are forever at war. Only one can be true; one must be substantial, and the other an illusion; one, Truth, the other a lie, or inverted truth.
Did you ever notice the similarity between the rainbow and its reflection? The colors are the same; and the false is a pretty good counterfeit of the true. But the marked difference is that the colors are reversed in the reflection. This portrays the exact relation between spiritual and material man, between the spiritual and material universe; the latter is the counterfeit of the former, inverted in every instance, and fainter, without the real life and sparkle of the spiritual, or true existence. If we will only remember the lesson of the rainbow and its reflection, and apply it to every material condition and appearance, we will not find ourselves puzzled, and continually wondering and dwelling on the reason of this or that.
Seek the spiritual fact of all things, as the astronomers do, to find the truth of astronomy, and as all scientists do, regardless of our limited vision.
