To one who seems bound by disease or sin, limited by lack or loneliness, or trapped by dictatorship or war, it may appear as if a line were drawn between him and the solution of his problems. Perhaps he has struggled with his difficulties so long that this dividing line looms as an impassable barrier. Yearningly he looks beyond this line to the health, freedom, happiness, wisdom, peace, or abundance he desires. Or possibly in despair he has become resigned to his supposed inability to cross over error's barricade into the promised land of harmony and holiness.
To such a one in his darkness can dawn, like the sun shining across the highest mountain barriers of earth, the light of the great Comforter, or "Spirit of truth," promised by Christ Jesus. Because it explains and exemplifies all that the Master taught and did. Christian Science is this Comforter. It will tenderly speak, with a message substantially like this: "Be of good cheer! The barrier between you and your freedom is only an imaginary one. You have drawn this illusory line in your ignorance of God, who is infinite Mind, omnipresent Life, knowing no bounds. You have drawn it with, your fears, which are groundless because the one Mind is divine Love, the only creator, who would not make anything that could cause anyone to be afraid. You have drawn it with your material beliefs, which are false, because the all-knowing Mind is Spirit, or Soul, and the real universe and man are entirely spiritual. Nothing really stands between you and the solution of your problems. You need only rise out of false, mortal concepts into the true consciousness of immortal Mind, expressing its perfection and harmony in individual spiritual man, its image or idea."
The imaginary line called the equator marks the circle round the earth, midway between the poles, and is the point from which latitudes are reckoned. It is often spoken of as if it were real, yet no one believes there is actually a divider there. A person living near the equator, in Ecuador or Borneo, for instance, has no difficulty in crossing the place where this line is said to be. One can, in the light of Christian Science, transcend the imaginary barrier which so-called mortal mind would place between him and the freedom that belongs to man, the reflection of the one immortal Mind.
