As Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 530). "The history of error is a dream-narrative ." In the allegory depicting the genesis of this dream, it is recorded that, even with the mortal sense of loss and separation from God, produced by the acceptance of and belief in the false testimony of the physical senses regarding the presence, power, and intelligence of evil, there came at the same time the assurance that there would be an awakening from this dream when "the seed" of the woman should bruise the head of error. "The seed" of error would, however, through the destruction of the pure or spiritual concept, attempt to impede the divine idea which spiritual revelation, "the seed of the woman," had come to restore. The hope of and the longing for the fulfillment of this promise have ever since animated humanity.
All down the ages there have been those who have perceived, more or less clearly, man's unity with God. and have demonstrated this unity in proportion to their understanding. Enoch, it is recorded, "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." Through realization of the truth that there is but one Mind, good, which is eternal Life, he was able to bring the human mind into subjection to the divine, and so was enabled to overcome the belief that death is the portal to eternal Life, God. But his understanding was not sufficient to fulfill the full test that would be required of him who was to bruise the head of the serpent; namely, that he should pass through the belief of death, and overcome, and thus destroy this belief. Later Moses appeared, and, having penetrated to "the backside of the desert." he, too, learned that there is but one Mind, good, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," and that this Mind is Life eternal, which is never in man, but which is expressed through, and reflected by, man, by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all who are governed by this one Mind, and seek to have no mind of their own. With this understanding, Moses led the Israelites out of their bondage to material beliefs, alias mortal mind, into a higher understanding of God as the one Mind, good, and man's dominion over all untoward conditions while he obeyed none other than this divine Mind. But great as was his understanding, it was not sufficient to prevent his yielding, on occasions of great provocation, to the suggestions of the human mind and so he realized that he would be unable to pass the supreme test. He foresaw, however, that one would come who would fulfill this test, so he reassured his followers, "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken." And so, although his was not the privilege to lead humanity across the Jordan, still.
"By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,"
