"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Cor. iv. 18.
This is a clear, positive, Christian Science statement. In it Paul declares most emphatically that the things which seem most real to mortals, are temporal, unreal, but for a moment. On the other hand, he says the things which are not seen, that is, the creations of Mind, of which our poor mortal senses can never know, are the evidences of our being, the testimonies of our relationship to the great creative Principle, and the only things that will endure.
To a person who has never examined this passage in the light of Christian Science, it seems a hard statement to believe. "The evidence of the senses is so real," he says." What can be more substantial, more enduring than the granite hills? What more lasting than this old earth under our feet?" These things do all exist, but they are materially real only to our human sense of them; and this sense we must overcome, even as our Master did, when He said:" Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." That is, He had overcome the false human conception of the world. As long as we see things as material, so long are we still under this law of mortal belief. We must finally come to such a state of mind as to see all things as existing in Mind and Mind only. This is true progression.
