When reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, one may be startled to find statements that declare matter and mortality to be unreal. How is it possible that things one sees about him, that he can touch and feel, are not actually substantial? How can a view so radically different from the generally accepted conviction of the ages be satisfactorily explained?
On page 188 of Science and Health is this statement: "Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind."
Here is the answer! Mortal existence and matter a dream—a fictitious suggestion, without actuality, from which one needs to awaken as certainly as he awakens from a sleeping dream which no one believes to be real or substantial. As one begins to understand that Spirit, God, divine Love, alone is real and that God's creation is spiritual, good, substantial, and indestructible, he begins to awaken from the dream of mortality, with its lies and limitations.
