All that ever has been or ever can be is now, in the realm of the real. Students of Christian Science are growing in the understanding that God's work is complete, and that it is good. That which seems to be new is but newly revealed to the individual consciousness, for all that is real has always existed in divine Mind. It is written in Ecclesiastes: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us."
Some are prone to think of human existence as the beginning and the end of all that is. When we keep our thought on the earthly, we do not comprehend God's universe, in which mortality has no part. If we think about the passage of time as affecting our true being, we are simply limiting our progress in the realization of the eternality of God's universe, including man as His image and likeness.
Knowing the "nowness" of reality and the "neverness" of evil, which would tempt us to believe in a power apart from God, hastens the realization that "now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." One of the fundamental truths that all must admit is that Life is not in matter. Life is ever present, boundless, and abundant. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 249): "Life is, like Christ, 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.' Organization and time have nothing to do with Life."
