The man whom God knows and cherishes has a glorious history. This history, however, is spiritual, not material. It is unsullied by sinful sense, base thoughts, unmanly deeds, or selfish motives. In it there are no sickly, sordid, or fearful memories. It contains no record of lack, limitation, lost opportunity, injustice, war, accident, or suffering. It includes nothing that can leave a scar. This being so, any belief to the contrary, any experience or combination of experiences etched on mortal consciousness and labeled a regrettable or discordant past, can be utterly wiped out as we learn the truth of man's glorious history and daily put this knowledge into practice.
Does someone who clings to the ills and regrets of a so-called past question this statement? A thorough and honest investigation of the teachings of Christian Science will dispel his doubts. According to this Science, all mortal experience, the only place where the beliefs of sin and suffering can ever be found, is a false sense of man's origin and history, and this false sense disappears when the truth regarding man is understood.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, pages 501 to 521, is a scientific explanation of the spiritual record of creation as set forth in the book of Genesis. This explanation concludes: "All that is made is the work of God, and all is good. We leave this brief, glorious history of spiritual creation (as stated in the first chapter of Genesis) in the hands of God, not of man, in the keeping of Spirit, not matter,—joyfully acknowledging now and forever God's supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence." Spiritual creation, God's unfoldment of His own perfection, power, glory, omnipresence, and sinless beauty and goodness in man, is true history.
