The fact that God, good, is omnipresent signifies that His qualities are ever present. Christian Science teaches that since God is Spirit and His creation, man, is His own reflection, His image and likeness, all that is unlike God—materiality, lack, sin, sickness, death, and all evil—is actually illusive and unreal. However, merely accepting this teaching does not always bring to one the harmony, peace, and health which are so universally desired. Human experience is the outward manifestation of what is embraced in human thought. Hence, for true harmony to appear in one's experience, harmonious or Godlike thoughts must be entertained. This involves a correction with spiritual truth of the unrealities which have appeared to humanity as reality. Human consciousness must be brought into accord with Truth. It must learn that where a mortal seems to be, there is an individual son of God.
Material sense never created anything; it merely misrepresents what God has created. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 507, 508): "Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source. Mortal sense inverts this appearing and calls ideas material. Thus misinterpreted, the divine idea seems to fall to the level of a human or material belief, called mortal man." Thus mortality is seen to be a mask, which claims to hide reality but which Christian Science lifts.
One student of Christian Science learned the necessity not only of denying errors of material sense but also of recognizing the presence of reality, of God's creation, as alone active. During the so-called depression several years ago he found himself suddenly without a position, and the bank with which he did business closed. He was very fearful, but in accordance with what he had learned of Christian Science he began earnestly to deny the reality of this fear and its power to govern him. This was a proper thing to do, but in itself did not bring the final answer.
