Today, when space venturing has made men feel closer to the stars than ever before, a great number of thinkers are finding vast, practical enlightenment in the divine metaphysics that is impelling this intensified probing of the physical universe.
Through the action of His law in Christian Science, God, who is infinite Spirit, or Mind, has revealed the purely spiritual nature of the universe and of man as His own infinite image and likeness, or reflection. This nature is alluded to in the first chapter of Genesis and was fully demonstrated by Christ Jesus, the most scientific thinker the world has ever known. The broader, deeper search for a fundamental knowledge of the origin and real nature of the universe is one of the responses to this revelation.
Unaware of the fact, stated by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, that "the physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals"Science and Health, p. 484; men believe that they are searching and penetrating a vast realm of time and space outside themselves, whereas they are but looking into and probing the subjective state of material consciousness. Like the physical body, the material earth and its atmosphere and physical space itself, including the entire stellar universe, are only phenomena of mortal mind.
