In the Preface to her "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy makes this thought provoking statement: "Truly may it be said: There is an old age of the heart, and a youth that never grows old; a Love that is a boy, and a Psyche who is ever a girl. The fleeting freshness of youth, however, is not the evergreen of Soul; the coloring glory of perpetual bloom; the spiritual glow and grandeur of a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and sincere in trial or in triumph."Mis., pp. ix, x;
Christian Science teaches that Soul is one of the seven names for God which describe His nature and thus the nature of man as His image and likeness. Soul expresses in man purity, holiness, righteousness, beauty, harmony, freedom. The senses of Soul are the only real senses. These senses are spiritual and perfect, therefore ageless. They are forever at the standpoint of spiritual perfection; hence, they are ever fresh and new, for they express "the evergreen of Soul." They do not fade, become dried or dead with the world's beliefs of time, accident, disease, and old age.
The Bible says, "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them."Prov. 20:12; In Christian Science to hear means to understand spiritually what infinite Mind is saying to its reflection, man. Divine Mind, God, speaks through spiritual ideas, and these ideas come to the receptive human consciousness with such clarity that they sometimes seem to be the sound of God's voice. The joyous, living ideas of Truth, received in human consciousness, reveal man's eternal unity with the Father Mother God.
