ON page 488 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Mind alone possesses all faculties, perception, and comprehension. Therefore mental endowments are not at the mercy of organization and decomposition,—otherwise the very worms could unfashion man. If it were possible for the real senses of man to be injured, Soul could reproduce them in all their perfection; but they cannot be disturbed nor destroyed, since they exist in immortal Mind, not in matter."
Spiritual man, created by God in His own image and likeness, reflects the sight and other faculties of all-seeing creative Mind. Man's senses, inherent in Mind, are eternal; they therefore cannot be lost or deteriorate. Their immortality and perpetuity are evidenced through spiritual understanding. In the light of omnipotent Truth and Love, immortal man is identified as the perfect idea of divine Principle, the one infinite Life, God. Reflecting the divine energies of Life, individual man is intact. He is held securely in the all-encompassing embrace of infinite Love and cannot be identified with anything unlike his creator. The all-intelligent Mind has bestowed upon him, through reflection, God's munificent nature.
All that spiritual man has, derives from Mind. Nothing outside of Spirit can influence him, for he has no organic or material composition. Comprised of the elements of Spirit and maintained by divine Love, he is impervious to the false beliefs of variable and dimming sight entertained in the thought of mortals. Spiritual man and his creator are not cognizant of matter, which is but the subjective state of mortal mind. Nor can this so-called mind cognize Spirit and its manifestations. Spirit and matter are opposites: one is real, the other is unreal; consequently they cannot commingle.
