The Egyptians, like most of the earth's peoples, have long believed in the continuance of man's life after the physical heart stops functioning. Some of you have seen museum exhibits like the one in Turin, Italy, where are assembled the articles found in the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh. By the sarcophagus his relatives had placed supplies of his favorite foods, raiment, musical instruments, and other things which they believed would be enjoyed by him in the afterlife. Many beliefs are held by mortals concerning the nature of the hereafter, but the outstanding fact is that most men inherently believe that life goes on. They refuse to believe that the fleeting sense of material existence, measured off in unreasoned lengths by the yardstick time, is all there is to being.
The holocaust of war has been adding millions to the list of mortals who have passed from what we call "here" to that which is referred to as "the hereafter." Those remaining here naturally seek reassurance concerning their dear ones who have gone on. Christian Science has much comfort to offer them, for it teaches, as did Christ Jesus, that negative destructive physical forces can no more stop the conscious life of man than ignorance can put an end to intelligence, or darkness consume light. God is Spirit, Mind, the only real Life, and man's only true selfhood is the expression of this Life and Mind, and is as superior to destruction and ending as the intelligence and Life that is God.
The temporary, mortal sense of life and man is not the divine or true order of being, but a lying misconception which all must here or hereafter rise above and put off through an understanding of the spiritual and true nature of God as Mind, and man as His idea, or expression.
