The question which concerns us most is, What is reality? And this involves the further questions, What is existence, and whence my own identity? Empirical knowledge—knowledge built upon the testimony of the physical senses—does not hold the answer, but the Science of Christianity, as lived and taught by the Master, Christ Jesus, does. In this Science God reveals Himself. Not as frail mortals peering into vast realms of spiritual truth infinitely beyond our grasp can we understand existence, but only from the standpoint of Mind as the Ego which, comprehending its own grandeur, rehearses the universal symphony of Soul.
Jesus asked (Mark 8:18), "Having eyes, see ye not?" It is as though he were saying, "Do you not see that all creation points to Mind?" The universe is not external to Mind; it is the revelation or pure self-expression of Mind. Thus Paul wrote to the Romans (1:20), "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead."
There are not two, matter and mind, but one alone, Mind. What is called matter is but a misstatement of that which in reality is Mind. Human learning calls some things matter, for example, chairs, tables, flowers, trees, stars; but the intelligence which evolved the idea and which designed the chairs, the tables, the garden, it calls mind. As to the power which created the trees, the flowers, the stars, it is ignorant.
