Plato said, "What thou seest, that thou beest." True seeing is inseparable from true being, revealing as it does man's spiritual heritage, boundless as divine Love itself. This truth shines gloriously in the thought and human experience of those who are learning to make their spiritual inheritance practically evident. With this vision of true heritage, Christian Scientists lay off, step by step, the perverse sense of material lineage and its handicaps. Man's heritage is his spiritual identity, his true consciousness, ringing with the dominion of divine Love. In a word, man's heritage is Godlikeness.
Two conditions of spiritual advance are that one should resolve to base all conclusions on the one premise of God, Spirit, and to think in the present. In order to carry out this resolve one must refuse any longer to think of himself as of material origin or as subjected to the laws and limitations of material sense. In proportion as the mental bondage is broken, the physical bondage ceases.
Christ Jesus indicated the futility of attempting to improve upon a false premise when he said, "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse." Christian Science, therefore, does not attempt to patch up materiality with spirituality. Man is a perfect individual being, endowed with spiritual health, intelligence, strength, and activity, all of which are eternally sustained by spiritual law.
