What vague and diverse ideas have been entertained about heaven at different times! Many agree in imagining it to be a wonderful place where there is no pain or sorrow, and where everybody is happy. Yet these very people are terrified at the thought of death, which they think they must undergo in order to reach this wonderful place! Why is this? Surely it is because mortal mind thinking never does arrive at any satisfactory conclusion! It is so easily changed, and so readily influenced by persons or conditions, that after all is said and done it does not feel too sure about the conclusions of its own reasoning, and so is doubtful!
Our concept of heaven undergoes a great change as we study the Bible in the light which Christian Science throws upon it; and what is such a joy is that one loses all fear regarding it. We want to attain this heavenly harmony as soon as we can, this harmonious or right thinking which reveals harmony within—heaven right here! As we go on in our study, we learn that we have got to get some understanding of what Life is, Life, which Jesus described as a knowledge of God and of His Son Jesus Christ. To reach heaven we must find out all we can about our loving Father-Mother God and the man of His creating; and as we get at the truth we cease to believe in any material illusion.
Life is God. God is infinite; therefore Life is infinite. And God is the Life of man; therefore man cannot know death. We must get a more abundant sense of Life, if we would reach a perpetual state of harmony and know death to be an illusion, which in time will be overcome or destroyed.
