The word "distance" is a human term that has many useful aspects. Like time, it is spiritually unreal but humanly measurable, and measuring it carefully is part of our expression of Principle's orderliness. For example, we need watches and we need speedometers.
But distance is not a divine quality or a facet of God's infinite being. The human sense of distance implies a certain degree of separation, limitation, finiteness. It denotes a human sense of measurement, a spatial concept of material thinking, not the instant knowing of divine being. The human sense of distance accepts the mistaken belief of separation between God and man. But God, being All, the only presence, cannot know separation from Himself or within Himself.
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Delusion, sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down."Science and Health, p. 301;
