Age and time have no place in the Science of being and therefore do not touch man's true selfhood. Referring to this, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 258): "Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him belongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate." And on the same page, defining man, she says: "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."
As the infinite idea, man has no beginning and no end and therefore must forever be unfolding the glories of eternal being. The spiritual discernment that man has neither birth nor death enables one to understand and demonstrate ageless being. Time and age naturally do not enter into the demonstration of eternal Life. Christian Science points out that the time to start the proving of Life's continuity is now. Man as the ever-unfolding idea of Soul cannot decline, deteriorate, or decay. Every faculty and function of true being exists in eternal perfection. All the faculties and functions of man are declaring and evidencing their immortal and indestructible being. In Science, we see that man is the revelation of Soul's eternal spontaneity. The freshness, brightness, and sparkle of new ideas are forever in evidence. Mind's ideas appearing are always vital and ageless and show forth the eternality of being.
Teaching us, as Christian Science does, to live in the nowness of eternal Life, it is inevitable that one must have a perpetual expectancy of progressive, unfolding good. When one thinks from that scientific point of view, there can be no expectancy of age, decline, or death; no anticipation of a time of mental inactivity. In the omniaction of divine Mind there is no place for stoppage, no time, and no place to stop. The expression of God's being is forever. Man as the expression of Mind can never cease evidencing alertness, inspiration, buoyancy—ideas that are ever new and ever appearing.
