Although sages and philosophers have never succeeded in fathoming the mystery of being, the yearning heart of mankind still readies out in the hope that sometime and somehow the riddle of the universe will be solved. Agnosticism of this description is all the more astonishing on the part of Christendom, when we consider how conclusively the great Teacher disposed of the paradox of mortal existence nearly two thousand years ago.
Mortals, he declared, must be born again, else they cannot see the kingdom of God. Blinded as they are to the truth through habitual exercise of material sense, they must turn about and face the question spiritually before they can perceive God and His ways; in other words, they must learn to think aright. Now right thinking is the manifestation or reflection of intelligence, and the only real intelligence, as the practical application of Christian Science proves, is God, Spirit, divine Mind. Hence the impossibility of coming to understand the truth of being by any process of alleged thinking from an unspiritual standpoint.
Properly speaking, it is as impossible to think apart from the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," the spiritually enlightened sense which reflects divine Mind, as it is to see without light. In essaying to work its way out of darkness and error into light, the carnal mind—which, as the apostle Paul declares, "is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be"—is sure to get into deep water and be overwhelmed. Mrs. Eddy says, "As mortals do not comprehend even mortal existence, how ignorant must they be of the all-knowing Mind and of His creations" (Science and Health, p. 187).
