IN Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 264), "Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things."
One of the meanings of the word "beyond" is "to the farther side of." Most of us desire to attain something besides "fading, finite forms," and yet we limit ourselves by our false sense of existence and by our acceptance of what life claims to be. We even measure life by a span of years. Still the Bible makes it plain that Life is God. Paul pointed out that it is in God that "we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). Does it not follow, then, that to find the real sense of Life we "must look beyond fading, finite forms" and find the Life that is God? By finding God, we find our spiritual and only real selfhood, the undying, indestructible expression of eternal Life.
We must look beyond our bodies in order to find our true identity and individuality. The Bible states in the first chapter of Genesis, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him."
