According to the teachings of the Bible we learn that God is infinite. When we look up into the sky on a starry night and gaze with wonderment upon countless numbers of stars and planets and think of the astronomer calculating into millions of miles of space, we begin to realize, in a degree, what is meant by the word infinite; that which has neither beginning nor end of time or space; that which is immeasurable.
It is obvious from this viewpoint that the infinite divine Mind does not recognize limitations of earthly time, and if there be no cognizance of time by Him in whom we have our being, how can there be time for man, who, according to Scripture, is the image or reflection of the infinite? Where, then, did the belief of earthly time originate? It is, of course, part of the belief in a material world rotating on its axis and revolving around a sun. This is the belief in days and nights, seasons and years, counterfeiting the true idea of which Mrs. Eddy writes on page 584 of Science and Health, where she says: "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and 'there shall be no night there.'" This sense of time has played a part in every human plan and has been accepted by humanity axiomatically. But when it is understood that every discordant condition in human affairs is based upon a belief in the reality of such earthly time, humanity will awake to the necessity of grasping the truth about time and applying it to every material problem, as poverty, sorrow, sin, disease, and death, all based upon the belief in a beginning and an ending.
Mortals have been mesmerized and have become slaves to a false sense of time, rising, eating, working, and playing, if there be time enough, and sleeping, at given hours. These beliefs of the human mind will lessen, however, in the experience of each individual in the exact ratio that the individual exercises man's God-given dominion over time.
