A PROVERB states: "If you would know where you are going, you must know where you came from." How true this proverb is when examined in the light of Christian Science. Christ Jesus said (John 16:28), "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." The Master, who was referring here to his spiritual selfhood, the Christ, the divine idea of sonship, pointed out the way of salvation for all of us.
Christian Science reveals Father and son in their true significance and enables us to realize our spiritual heritage as sons of God. As the offspring of Spirit, the one Father, the individuality of man is spiritual and good. This spiritual status of man has never become materialized; it exists eternally with God, the Father Mind.
Despite the testimony of the corporeal senses concerning a material universe, in which birth, growth, maturity, and decay claim to be legitimate, the eternal, spiritual reality cannot be touched. The illusion of a finite life, dependent upon matter, is no more than a false concept. Through the understanding of Truth this false concept of life can be corrected, and because it is an unreal claim it can be wiped out, thus making room for reality. In the realm of Spirit there are no material suppositions to hinder man's development. The individuality of man, which is spiritual and never material, reflects the qualities of the Father Mind, and man's relationship to his origin, God, is uninterrupted.
