"Knowing that Soul and its attributes were forever manifested through man," writes our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 210), "the Master healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame, thus bringing to light the scientific action of the divine Mind on human minds and bodies and giving a better understanding of Soul and salvation."
The Scriptures declare, in the first chapter of Genesis, that God created man in His own image and likeness. Man, therefore, must express the pure, eternal qualities and attributes of Soul, Spirit, God. He cannot be separated from the beautiful, good, and true, but manifests all the characteristics of the One "altogether lovely." He cannot be touched by the discords and impurities of sense, and this truth, understood and demonstrated, enables us to rise above sin, disease, and death, and to find the real man, our only true selfhood, which is "hid with Christ in God."
Mortal belief claims that we are material, born of the flesh; consequently that we express the imperfections and weaknesses of the so-called carnal mind. Because of this, mortals believe that they are just as likely to be sick as they are to be healthy, that they love the pleasures of sensuousness more than the joys of Soul, and that they learn to hate more readily than they learn to love. But this is not the truth about man, and these conditions are illusions of the senses, appearing in the Adam-dream only. They have no place in the reality of being.
