The Scriptures reveal, in the first chapter of Genesis, God's spiritual universe, coexistent and coeternal with Him. Following this revelation of divine creation, there is set forth in succeeding chapters its suppositional opposite, a material view of creation. This view, the objectified belief of so-called mortal mind, constitutes the world cognized by the material senses. It is in this inverted, imperfect view of creation that mortal man, war, fear, hatred, revenge, disease, death, alone are found. Consequently, it is through the yielding of this inverted view to the spiritual idea—that is, through the establishment of the Christianly scientific idea of God and man in our consciousness—that these errors disappear and the kingdom of heaven, the reign of harmony, is individually realized.
Christian Science is in full accord with the inspired Word of Scripture. It acknowledges but one Mind, God, and that one infinite. In infinite Mind there is no material view of creation. In this Mind, no mesmeric mist of error ever arose to obscure the divine ever-presence. Our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us the basic truth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She writes (pp. 513, 514): "God creates all forms of reality. His thoughts are spiritual realities. So-called mortal mind—being nonexistent and consequently not within the range of immortal existence—could not by simulating deific power invert the divine creation, and afterwards recreate persons or things upon its own plane, since nothing exists beyond the range of all-inclusive infinity, in which and of which God is the sole creator."
From this it will readily be seen that true reconstruction is a spiritual process. It is the subordinating of the false testimony of the material senses to the facts of divine Science; therefore, its results transcend time. In "Unity of Good" (p. 46) Mrs. Eddy writes, "The scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual sense and source of being."
