Spirit is All, the only "something." Even a glimmer of this fact is enough to lift the level of our life, to relieve us of anxiety, to heal.
Regardless of how many millions, down how many thousands of years, have not realized the significance of Spirit's allness, nevertheless it is scientific fact, provable in healing. That matter is a fiction, a nothing (and this is an important element in improving the human sense of things), can only be realized from the perspective of the all-presence of Spirit. It is this realization that spiritualizes our thinking and acting.
To Christian Scientists these are familiar points. But there is no more ideal time than Christmas to reconsider — and to reaffirm — what these truths really imply. In a Christmas message, as timely now as when Mary Baker Eddy penned it, she wrote: "Christmas respects the Christ too much to submerge itself in merely temporary means and ends. It represents the eternal informing Soul recognized only in harmony, in the beauty and bounty of Life everlasting, — in the truth that is Life, the Life that heals and saves mankind. An eternal Christmas would make matter an alien save as phenomenon, and matter would reverentially withdraw itself before Mind. The despotism of material sense or the flesh would flee before such reality, to make room for substance, and the shadow of frivolity and the inaccuracy of material sense would disappear." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 259-260;
