The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, does not derive its authority from the consent of the governed. In its absolute Scientific sense it is the eternal, changeless expression of Spirit, without a visible form to the present finite sense.
It is pure Science to think of the invisible church and its invisible congregation of immortal individualities. It is ideal to the mortal, material sense; but, in fact, it is the only real, and that which we are to be, in consciousness. It is applied Science for us to make this realm of the ideal to mortal sense, the real in our immortal individual consciousness, and dwell "in the secret place of the Most High."
The fact that human beings know each other, in a mortal sense, now, is a prophecy that in the destruction of their mortality by the eternal increase of their immortal, spiritual understanding, of which all are capable, they will all some time realize the real, as individual ideas of Mind, sons and daughters of Spirit.
