The Bible teaches the importance of clothing ourselves with our innate Christliness. To the clarified consciousness of Moses, searching for the ultimate wholeness and beauty of being, came the revelation of the I AM, and this illuminated him in a reflection of heavenly light. Did not Moses strive to teach the beauty of holiness, commanding that in their approach to God the priests should wear garments typifying the joy and glory of dedicated thought? Yet the revelation of Christian Science shows man to be the son of God; priestly because holy; kingly because in full dominion; glorified in the light of his Father's recognition and approval.
But many today, uninstructed in God's law, or Christian Science—wanderers still in the wilderness—continue in the comfortless, self-afflictive sackcloth of materiality, accepting a mortal selfhood and origin unsupported, unsanctioned, by God. As Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 260), "If we array thought in mortal vestures, it must lose its immortal nature."
The revelation of Christian Science has parted for all mankind the heavy curtain of materiality by showing them how to spiritualize thought. Instead of attempting to recognize reality through the texture of opaque mortal thinking, which can only distort, darken, and bewilder, we can through the transparency of spiritualized thinking begin to discern man in the vesture of his infinite spiritual qualities, his immortal nature.
