Success in life cannot be accomplished through desultory mental ramblings. Christian Science inspires the right thinking and acting that cause a clear, progressive path to unfold before us.
In the textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 261), "Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight." Through fixing one's gaze "on the realities supernal," one grows gradually out of false concepts into spiritual understanding.
It is always well to reiterate and reemphasize within our thinking the meaning of the word "supernal." A dictionary informs us that one meaning is "of heavenly or spiritual character; ethereal." Realities are to be sought and found, not in material thoughts and conditions but in the contemplation of the exalting ideas of Spirit. The bird bursting from its confinement and preparing to set forth upon its first flight exemplifies what is felt by human beings in their earliest contemplation of "the realities supernal."
