In a college monthly magazine the writer recently read an interesting article entitled, "Relativity for the Layman," confirming the deceptive nature of material existence. From it the following is quoted: "We must first realize that our senses are inadequate; that they betray us. . . . For example, most of us agree that the earth revolves about the sun, even though our senses would have us believe the opposite is true. Similarly, many of us are able to believe that a sheet of paper isn't smooth and white and rectangular after all. Instead we can accept, as science tells us, that it consists mostly of empty space, that it has myriads of atoms, and that it really has no color." If the individual can accept the physical scientists' findings, even though contrary to the evidence of his senses, how much more important it is to accept the glorious spiritual fact of being: that all is, in reality, God and His spiritual manifestation, which exclude material sense testimony and mortal error.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 207): "The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things. The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious and is the ideal of Truth." She continues: "Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite discord, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, is not real. The only evidence of this inversion is obtained from suppositional error, which affords no proof of God, Spirit, or of the spiritual creation."
What is mortal sense testimony but the very opposite of spiritual fact? It is illusory. Its description of man as purely physical is as mistaken as the Ptolemaic blunder regarding the solar system. Again, mortal mind's portrayal of man as both material and spiritual is also mistaken. This sort of partnership is impossible, since the Bible teaches that a house which is divided against itself cannot stand.
