THE quest for God begins when the mortal sense of existence becomes aware of its own limitations— its own captivity. Indeed, the very fact that God is All and infinite, and thereby all-inclusively ever present, makes such an awakening possible. Christian Science declares, and progressively proves, that God is divine Principle. Divine Principle, in order to be Principle, cannot be conscious of anything but its own nature. Therefore, this absolute Principle admits, manifests, and includes only its own entirely perfect, infinite, harmonious idea.
This seems incomprehensible according to mortal sense testimony, and so it is. Mortal sense testimony, being a mere pretense, cannot discern that which is infinite. However, mortal sense testimony can be made to recognize its own restrictions and imperfections. It can be shown, in Christian Science, that there need be no fear of a vacuum when this mortal sense testimony surrenders itself as a mere illusion. The fear of a vacuum, however, accounts for the great reluctance on the part of mortal sense to make this surrender.
Mortal sense—itself a state of fear — is of nothing more afraid than to be left alone. The average human person, representing the mortal sense of man, if told that he must reject the testimony of his senses, feels that he is nowhere. The explanation of this feeling is that mortal sense could not even appear to exist if it were not a sense or material concept of that which is real or spiritual. Hence the attempt of material sense, through ignorance of something better, to enthrone its own objectification, matter, and its willingness to enslave and confine itself to matter's limitations and imperfections. It is apparent in human experience that while a place thousands of miles away can be at once in one's thought, the human body seems still to require a more or less cumbersome process of transportation in order to be there.
