In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 307, 308): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'"
With what penetrating directness Mrs. Eddy places beside this passage the marginal heading "The great question"! "The great question" before mankind is therefore, "Consciousness, where art thou?"
In all probability, unless one has studied Christian Science, the word "consciousness" is limited to the consideration of whether one is in a state of consciousness or of unconsciousness. Until I became a student of Christian Science, I believed that an individual was either conscious of where he was, or unconscious, not knowing where he was or what was going on. Christian Science reveals an infinite view of the wonderful word "consciousness," and one who studies this Science becomes keenly aware of the importance of this word.
