Many years ago, while living in a far-off country, I had what now seems to me an uplifting vision. One night I had barely put my head on the pillow when I suddenly visualized myself standing on a mound. As I stood there, it seemed that everything within view was moving swiftly away —huge buildings, small houses, everything—and as I continued to look, I felt that my own body was moving away with all the other things, yet I still stood on the mound.
Being a keen Bible student and having read that everything physical would eventually pass away, I gave the vision no more thought, although it stayed with me. This experience occurred at a time when I was fervently searching for the truth of being. Some years later I was introduced to Christian Science. My first impulse was to brush it aside, but an inner voice was insistent that this Science is the truth.
Christian Science, discovered and founded by Mrs. Eddy, teaches that the body and all matter are mental concepts in mortal mind. The real man, created in the image of Spirit, God, is forever reflecting God's omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction. The unreal or counterfeit passes away as a fleeting shadow, and this passing away takes place in individual human consciousness when thought is spiritualized daily through communing with God. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth." Science and Health, p. 14;
