To live in the consciousness of uninterrupted good, to experience the happiness of true being, is to demonstrate Christian Science in its naturalness and simplicity. Joy, health, harmony, abundance proceed from divine Mind; and because man is the expression of divine Mind he necessarily expresses these and all other divine qualities, not intermittently, but continuously. God is eternally manifesting Himself, and His manifestation is the only real man. Where God is, right ideas are. They abound in the spiritual universe as naturally available and as essentially useful as air about the earth. Man, in his true being, lives eternally, and the loveliness of creation is ever unfolding to him. He dwells in the heaven of harmonious being; therefore, scientifically speaking, he is not in need of salvation.
Why, then, does humanity experience difficulty in attaining and maintaining peace and happiness? Is it not because of the human mind's unwillingness to give up its belief in its own reality, substance, and power? To relinquish belief in a carnal mind is the human step necessary to the understanding of divine Mind.
We rise to heights of spiritual attainment as we know man to be the very expression of divine Principle, Love, and let our daily deeds conform to this spiritual fact. Personal sense, or mortal mind, on the other hand, which thinks of itself as independently having work of its own to do, develops pride, envy, greed, fear, hatred, and such other qualities as lead to discord and confusion and to the apparent need of salvation. The physical senses offer the only means by which these falsities can be either expressed or recognized; therefore, when the obstacle of personal sense is eliminated, the real man appears. As the mountain which has been obscured by mist does not have to be built up again when the mist clears, so spiritual consciousness does not have to be created anew, but is recognized as eternally existent and immediately understandable in proportion as the mist of belief in material selfhood is dispersed.
