In replying to a question as to whether one should properly regard one's self as immortal, or mortal, Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 242): "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration."
The human intellect admits that a point is mathematically a purely mental abstraction, without dimension, extension, or relation. It becomes tangible in finite space only where located by suitable reference coordinates, without which it remains just nothing at all. Without dimensions it has and can have no supposititious opposite. It is truly a word that supplies an infinite yardstick by which to measure all human pride and pretension. Obviously, the extent of one's willingness to reduce all the dear concepts of his humanity, including even his so-called demonstrations, to the humbleness of a point, measures his spiritual power to perceive the infinite might of his sonship in Mind.
Just as no aggregate of instants could make a minute of time, so no number of points could produce a finite unit of space. The finite and the infinite cannot dwell together. A great gulf is fixed between them. Peter expressed the finite and unreal nature of time by writing, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
