How many times has anyone reading this article heard someone say, "Well, I'll believe it when I see it." When the nobleman came to Christ Jesus to ask him to heal his child, the Master said (John 4:48), "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe."
In Christian Science we learn that true seeing is never experienced through matter, through the material eye. It will be clearly understood that this is so when it is remembered that God, Spirit, made all and made man in His image and likeness. Having created all, God saw that it was good. Certainly Spirit does not see with material eyes, and man, made in God's likeness, cannot by means of matter see what God made. As a natural sequence of this fact, neither can there be any matter to see. According to Christian Science, material man or any other object of material creation is nothing more than supposition. True seeing is a spiritual experience in regard both to the discerning and to the thing discerned.
Coming to this conclusion, one may ask, "But what of the beauties of nature, the animals, the hills, the shining waters, and the heavens in all their glory?" Mary Baker Eddy answers this question in "Miscellaneous Writings." She says on page 87: "In our immature sense of spiritual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous universe: 'I love your promise; and shall know, some time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light, and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and knowing this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail conception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the immortal Mind.'"
