TO many individuals certain seasons of the year give them a happier feeling than do others. A season, perhaps fall or winter, may remind them of the passing of time, of darkness or decline. But why should not one season be as joyfully welcomed as another? Mortal mind seems subtly and persistently to be placing before us a belief of years, coming and going, and a consequent unconscious belief of aging. Facing up to these fears, it is inevitable, logical, and necessary that we come to certain fundamental conclusions.
The passing of time is a mortal belief which lies wholly outside the province of God, divine Mind. Christian Science teaches that the real man does not grow old. Because God is eternal and knows no time, His idea, man, cannot be conscious of what is called the passage of time. One who understands this fact can experience no evil from the false belief of time.
One definition of "age" given in the dictionary is "that part of a being's or thing's existence extending from the beginning to any given time." If, then, we believe that we begin at material birth, we must accept the resultant beliefs that we extend to specified times; that we shall age in matter and die in matter. But is not God the real and ever-present Life of man, without beginning or end?
