The declaration of Christian Science that all evil and its consequences,— sin. sickness, and death,— are unreal, rightly understood is the basis of all Mind-healing, misunderstood it is frequently perverted into expressions such as these, "You merely think you are sick," "It is all your imagination." Such statements betray not only ignorance of Christian Science but also of the terms "unreality" and "imagination."
As understood in Christian Science reality applies only to that which is spiritual, indestructible, eternal, harmonious, immutable, and immortal. It means God, and all that is God-like or God-made, and from this basis of all-inclusive, infinite Good it excludes all conditions of belief based on the testimony of the material senses.
The scientific understanding of the term unreality as applied to sin and disease, leaves no place for a mind or power from which such conditions could emanate, hence they are designated or defined as false beliefs which disappear as the understanding of that which is real and eternal appears. On the other hand, the ordinary comprehension of the words "unreality" and "imagination" leave the supposition of a mind apart from God undenied and uncondemned, and consequently the very root of all error untouched.
