Mary Baker Eddy's uncovering of mortal existence as a dream is of immense help to one in realizing his true existence as the reflection of God, Spirit, and in identifying himself as spiritual, not material. She makes it plain in her writings that the more fully we awaken from the dream of life, substance, and intelligence in matter, the less power the dream seems to have over us.
The inviolability of our real, spiritual existence by the various phases of the mortal dream is fundamental to Christian Science practice, in which separation between the real and the unreal is essential. This is more readily accomplished as the beliefs of material existence are understood to be an attempted imposition, in the form of a dream, upon God and His reflection, man. Dealing with this, Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.99), "The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God's spiritual, perfect man."
The continuity and eternality of Life are understood more easily when we realize that we must have antedated the imposition, for otherwise it would not be an imposition but an integral part of ourselves, which is exactly what the carnal mind, the deceiver, would have us believe it is. Christ Jesus said (John 17:5), "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was;" that is, before the dream seemed to begin.
