OUR Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave to a waiting world her discovery of the true interpretation of "time," which, in part, she declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 595) to be "limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge;" thus denning time in terms of the changeable nature of that which is human.
It is related in the sixth chapter of John's gospel that after Jesus had gone up into a mountain, where he sat with his disciples, he saw a great company coming. He said to Philip, "Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?" indicating that according to human custom it would be necessary for some one to go into a neighboring town and make the purchase, which might have occupied several hours. This he said to prove Philip; for Jesus knew himself what he would do. Then he had the men, in number about five thousand, sit down upon the grass, and took the five barley loaves and two small fishes which they had with them and proved before them all the unreality of the belief of time. He also proved that the belief of material substance is false; for the five thousand partook of the loaves and fishes; and afterwards there were "filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves," under his command that nothing be lost. The multitude marveled, and would have taken him and made him a king for performing such a wonderful act; but he departed from them into a mountain by himself.
The same evening his disciples went down to the sea and went over toward Capernaum by boat; but Jesus was not with them. A violent storm arose; and the disciples were afraid after they had rowed about three miles. Then "they see Jesus walking on the sea, and . . . they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went." Time and space were "then and there obliterated, not only for Jesus, but for the disciples also. In the Mind which is God there is no limited sense of either space or time.
