In the heart of many people there is an innate yearning to realize man's inseparable unity with the Father. The homesickness of the prodigal son illustrates this human yearning, which eventually tires of belief in material selfhood and rises to journey toward a full understanding of the real man.
The journey to the Father's house and the finding of one's true selfhood need not be prolonged. It always involves turning away from the misconception that man is the possessor of a mortal personality and accepting the truth in Christian Science that he is spiritual, perfect, at one with God. "Man is the expression of God's being," declares Mary Baker Eddy with clarifying simplicity on page 470 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." A joyous quickening comes to the human heart when it learns that man's real selfhood has never left the presence and perfection of the Father's house, or divine consciousness.
The Bible has comforted mankind through the ages with the testimony that they cannot be separated from God. In our age an understanding of this actuality has been given humanity by Mrs. Eddy, whose devout consecration to the search for Truth rewarded her with the revelation that spiritual man cannot be separated from God because God and His manifestation are inseparable. This spiritual fact stood the test of demonstration which the Discoverer of Christian Science applied; and today all may apply the rules of Christian Science and experience the proof that there is only one God, good, and that only the divine nature and its expression are present. Proportionably as the student recognizes his union with and likeness to his Maker he finds the limiting suggestions of lack, loneliness, discord, sin, and sickness dropping from his thinking and experience.
