THE facts of life are considered to be a necessary part of human education. But what are the real facts of Life? Are they material or spiritual? Do they have to do with the circumstances surrounding the temporal beliefs of a material existence, or do they pertain to the eternal verities of spiritual existence?
We may find an answer to these questions in Science and Health, where Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 492): "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence. In reality there is no other existence, since Life cannot be united to its unlikeness, mortality."
As revealed in Christian Science, Life is God, or Spirit, and has nothing to do with matter, which is temporal and destructible. The true concept of existence may be gained from the first chapter of Genesis. Here Life's manifestation, or God's creation, is presented in its eternal state of spiritual perfection and completeness—incorporeal, sinless, diseaseless, and deathless—and "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31).
