Home is not in reality a place in time and sense; it is a state of eternity. All its belongings and adornments are ideas born of spiritual sense, and hence are unchangeable and indestructible, a joy forever.
Jesus said to the thief, "This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." We learn in Science that there never was any "Paradise lost." Man is never really born, educated, fed, clothed, nor grows from "youth to old age" in the dream of materiality. He never had, nor could have, the faintest conception of matter; his messengers (thoughts) have always beheld the face of his Father in Heaven, and he therefore knows nothing of a Paradise lost. Food, clothes, home, are found in denial of the claims of material sense. The true food of man is the word of God, and this is the healing power. In Spiritual sense language is clothing, and this teaches: home is conscious life in Spiritual sense, and this consciousness is the preaching of the Word. The whole revealed Word is the body of Mind, and this harmonious body constitutes Eden. Fed with the Word, clothed with its language in the freedom of its delivery and dispensation man is in Paradise — Home, Eden, Heaven.
It is when we have worked out of the dream of sense and have thus entered Paradise that there is realization that there never was a "Paradise lost." Taken from the cross of sensuality man first enters Paradise, and finds pleasure in the realm of Good; peace in the heart of Truth; joy in the bosom of Love, and gladness in the eloquence of Mind. Thus, in Spiritual sense, he recognizes salvation. We shall enter Heaven when we have only spiritual thoughts to reflect over the body — when it is realized that Love is the queen and Truth the king of home; that Life is its Light, Soul its music, Spirit its poetry, Mind its art, Good its atmosphere, and Principle its whole of foundation and superstructure. Strength, reality, beauty, are centered in Principle; it is this home or consciousness that is sweet and this home is eternal.
