In the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." on page 595, we are given a definition of the word "sun" which is helpful in considering the subject of uninterrupted Life. The definition given there by Mary Baker Eddy reads as follows: "Sun. The symbol of Soul governing man,—of Truth, Life, and Love." How uninterrupted is the shining of the sun, no matter what may be the nature of that which seems to hide it, the threat of raging storm, the murk of windless clouds, or the dark night unlit by lesser light. The sun still shines uninterrupted in its radiance, a symbol of Life, Truth, and Love. Our privilege is to find ourselves eternally identified with Soul and its uninterrupted shining, rather than with the clouds, the storms, and the darkness of the senses, which seem to hide the light of Truth and our true being.
Life, veritable spiritual life, is never interrupted by the claim of material birth, nor by the experiences which follow that birth on the way to death. None of the storms and stresses, ecstasies or agonies of the dream of mortal living interrupt the clear shining, the purity and spiritual bliss of true Life or of its reflection, man and the universe.
Spiritual Life, true consciousness, is never impressed by evil, never diminished by its claims, nor scarred by its illusions. Life maintains its own beneficent nature in omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and omniaction, and uninterruptedly expresses itself in infinite individuality. This truth understood is the greatest healing power in the universe. This was proved to one student of Christian Science who had struggled for many weeks with a physical difficulty which did not yield to her own earnest work and that of a Christian Science practitioner. One day this idea, a ray of light, shone through the seeming darkness of fear and suffering: "My eternal, individual, spiritual being never has been, and is not now, interrupted by fear, sickness, or disease." At that instant the healing began and was shortly consummated.
