MORTALS have been taught to believe that they have a material mind and that this mind contains a human memory which can be lost or impaired with the passing of time, a condition over which they seem to have little or no control. However, since all true consciousness is Mind, and Mind is God, each individual reflects Mind, or consciousness, in the same way that the sun expresses itself through its rays. Thus spiritual man always knows, because Mind is all-knowing. Knowledge from God is indestructible; it is infinite. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines God as "the all knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all loving, and eternal" (p. 587). Therefore that which Mind, God, knows, is forever. There is nothing else to know.
God has but one mode of expressing His knowledge: through His spiritual idea, man. So that which God knows, man knows, and this knowledge can never be impaired or lost; it is forever operating, is forever evidenced, and is inseparable from its source, Mind. It fills all space; so that the only true memory is man's knowing of all he needs to know as Mind's reflection. Man is heir to the permanency of God's knowledge. Every individual can progressively demonstrate such memory by proving he is the man God made. Mind is the only cause and, being all-knowing, reflects all the knowledge necessary to His likeness, man. If man could lose the power to know, this would suggest another cause or power besides God, who would no longer be all knowing. Does not the falsity of another power imply the setting aside of the First Commandment?
In the divine order there is no record of time, because there is no time in infinity. The days of God's reckoning are not twenty four hours in length. Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 584), "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded." A spiritual idea does not grow old. There are many instances in the Bible of health and vigor being maintained far beyond human limits of age and time. There is nothing to prevent one from using the knowledge of the timelessness of Life, which is his by divine right, his inheritance from his Father Mother God.
