It should be plain to all reasonable thinkers that there cannot be two real but divergent creations, the one spiritual and harmonious, the other material and discordant; for Spirit and matter, harmony and discord, are opposites. In his second epistle to the Corinthians, Paul tells us that "the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Therefore, Christian Science declares that the spiritual creation is real and eternal, and that its opposite, the so-called material creation, is necessarily unreal and temporal.
Nevertheless, ever since the mist or material misapprehension of the spiritual creation claimed to arise and becloud human consciousness, mankind has been accepting as real a false sense of creation, including discord, sin, disease, and death. This false sense is the covering, or veil, of material illusion, to which the Scripture refers as having been cast over all people since the material dream began, but which, the prophet also declares, would be removed or dispelled by spiritual understanding in the dispensation of the looked-for Messiah.
In the fullness of God's time, the awakener came in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, later known as Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus, who demonstrated the unreality of sense-evidence by triumphing over the universally accepted beliefs of gravitation, time, space, sin, disease, and death. Furthermore, Christ Jesus taught others to follow his example; and they, in turn, taught others also; thereby proving indisputably Christianity's scientific, universal utility. If there had been any reality in the material conditions which Jesus and his students overcame, they could not have destroyed those conditions.
