DO we sometimes say, "I don't like the look of things"? The world presents us with many pictures which tempt us to believe that the things we are looking at are discordant and need changing, and to change them seems an impossible task. But if we put it a little differently and say, "I don't like the way I see things," we shall find the remedy within our grasp, for we have indicated that it is the way of seeing, and not the object seen, that needs changing.
The foundation on which Christian Science rests is the allness of God, Spirit, and the consequent nothingness of evil and matter. Since Spirit is All, there can be no material substance or law, and any sense of matter's actuality is only a mistaken sense of omnipresent Spirit. The vision which looks out from this basis is spiritual, seeing the infinitude of God, good. As we see only this realm of Spirit, our belief in matter and in a world of persons and things subject to time and space, and therefore to depletion and death, begins to yield to the actualities of spiritual being.
On page 428 of Science and Health, under the marginal heading "Vision opening," Mrs. Eddy writes, "A demonstration of the facts of Soul in Jesus' way resolves the dark visions of material sense into harmony and immortality." Today Christian Science is demonstrating the facts of Soul, the infinite, eternal source of spiritual being, independent of material sense and its limited, physical world. As thinking detaches itself from the fetters of time and place, an entirely different view of the universe opens up, an unfamiliar vision, inexplicable to thinking based on traditional beliefs and conventions.
