Isaiah and John prophesied of a new heaven and a new earth. Paul talked much of the "new man, which after God is created." These ideas appeal to all mortals who have traveled far in their earthly pilgrimage, most of whom would be glad to exchange much of what they call their heaven, earth, and man for a new and better creation.
Christian Science removes the seeming mystery from all such prophecies, and shows the way to know all the "newness of life,"—all the radiant freshness of a new heaven and earth and man. It says to one who is searching for a better experience that he must turn resolutely away from the material theories in which he is steeped, away from preconceived notions of creation, and accept Mrs. Eddy's tremendous statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 471), "The spirituality of the universe is the only fact of creation." God, Mind, Spirit, is the creator; and a universe of spiritual ideas is the only possible product of divine Mind. Must not, then, creation express the substance of its creator? In perfect Mind can there be darkness, failure, a worn or sorrowful creation, material or discouraged ideas? Assuredly not; but only perfect spiritual truths of man and the universe.
On page 264 of Science and Health we are told, "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible." This unfolding to us of the truths of the universe will not be the creation of anything new to God, who beheld all things "very good;" but it will be new to us. This unfolding, this unceasing revelation of Truth, this appearing to our consciousness of the already existing spiritual facts of reality, constitutes creation for us, and is that which will progressively reveal the new heavens and the new man. We do not need to wait, then, for something to be done—for a universe to be created. Already all good is complete and unvarying, infinitely abundant, awaiting our realization and appropriation. Paul speaks of man "renewed in knowledge." The true man has always been perfect; and as this knowledge dawns in human consciousness the whole sense of man—of his capabilities, health, character, of his present and future—is renewed, brought nearer to the great original truth.
