Christian Science reveals to human consciousness that since Life is God, Spirit, it must be self-existent, without beginning and without ending. The moment we begin to perceive that Life is Spirit, and that now we are living in a spiritually created, indestructible universe, the fear of age, incapacity, decrepitude, or any loss of faculties, begins to abate. With the unfolding of Truth and the correction of false material beliefs these erroneous concepts are overcome—proved to be unreal.
We are taught in Christian Science that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"(p. 269)"Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul." This process in our thinking need not, should not, be delayed. We must give up the illusion that there is another state or realm in which it would be easier to overcome error, and that the transition called "passing on" is in any way going to help in solving our seeming problems. Here and now we must begin to lift our thought above these difficulties, by knowing that there is no actual realm but the spiritually mental realm. Immortality is present and available through correct or spiritual thinking.
A fundamental premise in Christian Science practice is that God is infinite Mind. We may begin today to realize that whatever our material activities may seem to be, in our true selfhood we are immortal ideas of divine Mind. As we exchange erroneous material concepts for eternal spiritual facts, we shall find that we are not really living in a discordant physical universe from which we must pass in order to gain harmony and immortality. Rather shall we find that our true existence always has been, is, and forever must remain in God's spiritual universe, governed by divine Principle. It should be steadily borne in thought that matter exists only as a supposition. Therefore, it is nothing but a superstitious fallacy and has no life to lose.
