The problem before all research, as it struggles through the dark, foreboding jungle of mortal belief, is Reality. When limited sense is aroused by the strong claims of Christian Science, it says if a certain disease is not real, it expresses a woful ignorance as to what Reality is.
There is, indeed, a certain manifestation of mortal sense, true to that sense, but if the disease can be healed it shows the first state to be unreal. Why? Because Reality is unchangeable fact. If this said disease is a permanent fact, it is always to be a disease; and, a correlative thought under this condition of permanency, it always has been a disease without a beginning. What is the conclusion? If the disease had a beginning, it also has an ending. Therefore, it is temporal, lacking true basis, for Reality is Eternity itself.
The Real has the only power that can affect and govern man, and are we taking too high a standard when we endeavor to understand, with the author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "The realm of the real is spiritual"? (p. 173). But why not also material? Let us see. The grand old Book speaks to us, and it whispers that "things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." God as the first cause must also be the last cause or Reality, and He being omnipotent, can matter be involved within Spirit? So, if God is eternal, He must make all things like to Himself.
