How often do we think and say that there is nothing external to consciousness? But have we really begun to plumb the depth of meaning, the practical import, of this fact to our own lives and to the well-being of the world?
Really to know that God, divine Mind, is the only true consciousness and that Mind includes all knowledge, all presence, all substance, and law would render comparatively simple our solving of the problems that challenge our understanding and faith in good. For, says Mary Baker Eddy of human experience (Unity of Good, p. 8): "Everything is as real as you make it, and no more so. What you see, hear, feel, is a mode of consciousness, and can have no other reality than the sense you entertain of it."
Consciousness is evidence of life and existence. It is also evidence of individuality or spiritual identity. The evidence is true or false, depending on whether it is based on matter or upon the divine Mind. Hence the necessity of having the Mind, consciousness, in us which was also in Christ Jesus.
