In the realm of absolute Truth there is no human need, no lack of perfection, no insufficient supply, no absence of life. This realm is the kingdom of heaven, the city of God, the New Jerusalem, "and there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life" (Rev. 21:27). Real being is one with the Supreme Being and partakes of all that constitutes this Being. This is the absolute truth. God's being is Life, Spirit, Soul. It is Principle, Mind, Truth. God's being is Love. In the realm of absolute Truth, man, who is God's image, expresses His qualities. He manifests unchanging intelligence and embodies spiritual ideas. His senses are the senses of Soul, not matter. His governing Principle is Love; his life is indestructible, unchangeable.
Christian Science teaches these divine truths as the facts of being, regardless of the testimony of the physical senses, just as one would teach the facts concerning the science of numbers, regardless of the errors an individual might make in his application of them. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 471), "The facts of divine Science should be admitted,—although the evidence as to these facts is not supported by evil, by matter, or by material sense,—because the evidence that God and man coexist is fully sustained by spiritual sense."
Such being the case, it immediately becomes apparent that mortal existence is an illusion, a dream sense of the so-called mortal mind. The aim of Christian Science is to awaken mortals from the dream and save them from the erroneous experiences accruing from belief in the dream. What then should be our demeanor toward the problems that accrue through belief in the reality of this dream, which often seems so real that it is with difficulty we awake?
