Nothing true and actual is unknown to God or man, because divine Mind sees, knows, and understands all, and man reflects the all-knowing Mind. If material sense sought the divine foretelling with the same fervency, confidence, and trust that it exercises when seeking to commune with the superstitious unknown, it would soon come out of its chaos and confusion into the harmony of divine knowing. On page 596 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines the word unknown in part as "that which spiritual sense alone comprehends, and which is unknown to the material senses."
The way so-called mortal mind peers fearfully into a dark unknown and pictures what it believes was recently illustrated by a letter which a man showed to a Christian Science practitioner. This letter had been sent out to businessmen all over the country. It was supposed to be advance information foretelling trade conditions and warning its readers that business was on a decline and would soon be much worse. The man was almost in a state of panic because of this mortal mind prognostication regarding the future.
The letter used the word recession again and again. A dictionary defines this term as an "act or fact of receding or retiring," and the word recess it defines as a "suspension of business ... for a short time." The letter also spoke of business as though it were a living thing that could act and react or take a vacation of its own volition, separate from men's thinking. This is impossible, inasmuch as business is wholly a state of consciousness, and is good or bad, active or inactive, according to the beliefs men entertain.
