During a very busy time in an office the writer kept the following words, written on a slip of paper, before him on his desk: "Keep in touch." To observers this was a routine business notation, but for the writer it was a constant reminder to keep in touch with his Father-Mother, God; to keep his consciousness receptive to the ceaseless inflow of spiritual ideas, revivifying, feeding, and sustaining him throughout the day. He realized that obedience to this simple admonition, as understood through the teachings of Christian Science, would solve every human problem.
"Is it humanly possible," one may ask, "to keep thought constantly in touch with the divine Mind throughout busy days?" Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us that it is both possible and necessary in order that we may progress rapidly in spiritual understanding. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" she writes on page 160, "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science."
The real man, being the reflection of God, cannot be separated from his divine source any more than a sunbeam can be separated from the sun. This spiritual and perfect man is the only man there is. However, the mythological carnal mind claims to create and govern something that reflects or expresses it, calling its deception mortal man. This counterfeit of God's man exists in a dream world, entirely separate from truth or reality. At some time, either through Science or through suffering, this sense dream must be dispelled and the human consciousness become aware of the Christ, or divine message, speaking to it. Then healings will result and the burden of mortal existence grow less.
