The thing that we are all most interested in is being. From the verb "to be" or I am, being is conscious experience, and what concerns us more than this? Throughout eternity all that can ever exist or be, so far as we are concerned, is our own conscious experience, for that which is not included in consciousness is not included in experience.
Under the thought-provoking marginal heading "Seeming and being" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 123), "The verity of Mind shows conclusively how it is that matter seems to be, but is not." And she continues, "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas." In these three steps our Leader shows us the way of escape from materiality.
Christian Science elevates being to Mind. It presents as demonstrable Science the revelation that God is Mind, hence that all is Mind and its manifestation. Because there is but one God, there is but one Mind, one immortal consciousness. This Mind is the eternal Ego. It alone declares I AM, and all creation sends back the joyous strain. Man is not a separate, finite entity. His individuality, his being, his identity, are embraced in Mind, in the conscious harmony of Soul.
