THE questions, Who am I? Where did I come from? and, Where am I going? are of paramount importance to everyone. The world has searched and searched, yet until the advent of Christian Science it had escaped the answer. Christ Jesus knew. Rebuking human ignorance he said (John 8:14), "Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go." Unswervingly he claimed his individuality and identity as revealed in the first chapter of Genesis, where God made man in His own image and after His own likeness. By revealing the nature and essence of God, Christian Science reveals and makes practical the truth about man. When God pronounced His creation finished, the possibility of a lesser creation or dream was excluded.
From earliest times spiritually enlightened thought has perceived in a degree the fact that mortal, material life, so called, is a dream. So Adam was supposed to dream. "The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept," says the Bible (Gen. 2:21), and nowhere does it tell us that he ever awaked. So much is Biblical legend. Christian Science reveals the immortal truth that man is wholly spiritual, conceived by divine Mind, fashioned of Spirit, dwelling forever in Life. Man in God's likeness has no underived power; God alone is his Mind, and man has neither the ability nor the capacity to dream. Thus Adam himself is a dream, and neither God nor man dreams that dream. In her sermon "Christian Healing" Mary Baker Eddy discloses error's fallacy thus (p. 11): "A dream calleth itself a dreamer, but when the dream has passed, man is seen wholly apart from the dream." The dream is not an interlude in the reality of being. From first to last it is an illusion. What can be more substanceless than a dream that is itself the only dreamer?
Thus Adam, alias mortal man, being merely a dream, is a myth. He has neither actual origin, existence, nor continuity. He cannot account for himself or be accounted for. All human theories seeking to trace the origin of that which they misname material life lose themselves in a mist of ambiguity. Divine Principle alone is the source, origin, and continuity of life, and that which originates in Principle and derives therefrom expresses the nature, substance, and permanence of Principle.
