Mankind, as a whole, are easily impressed. Consciously or unconsciously they generally accept as real the claims of the physical senses—sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing—and are impressed accordingly. These five senses falsely testify that man is an impressionable, formative mortal, and that he is controlled by material laws. They argue that birth, heredity, environment, climate, contagion, food, age, disease, failure, and the like continually govern and endanger health, happiness, and activity.
But there is a law of God, infinite good, outside the mortal senses. This law reveals man's full and final dominion as the image and likeness of God. Christian Science teaches us to understand and utilize this law. As we learn that man is fashioned from the pure, sinless ideas of infinite Soul, God, and that his real nature is divine, eternal, and forever unimpressed by evil of any nature, we are able to deny the reality of an existence in matter and gain dominion over untrue impressions.
Through knowledge of the allness of God, divine Mind, Spirit, and of man's inseparable at-one-ment with Him, we begin to take in the pure impressions that come from Deity. Every individual who understands the union of perfect God and perfect man may prove that his own spiritual individuality is intact. Thus material sense impressions, in a degree, lose their power to alarm him.
