"Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." Eph. 5:14; In the Bible awaking from sleep appears as a metaphor for human turning away from the darkness of mortality and materiality to the spiritual light of divine goodness and power. In Christian Science the same metaphor is used. The mortal and material experience is spoken of as a sleep, a dream, from which human beings need to be awakened. This metaphor helps us to see the unreal and delusive nature of the whole mortal and material picture.
But here there's a very important point to grasp. Man, spiritual man made by God, has never been in a mortal material dream nor been any part of it. God's man is not a dreamer, an ex-dreamer, or an awakened dreamer. He has never dreamed, has never believed himself to be a fleshly mortal subject to the troubles, suffering, and temptations of the flesh. From eternity to eternity this man, the real self of every one of us, has been and is the wholly spiritual idea of God, of the ever-awake divine Mind.
The understanding of this is what finally dissolves the illusion of sickness and sin and sorrow. It reveals instead the light and glory of man's eternal and Christly being in the likeness of God, his Maker.
