The revelation of divine Science, which means everything to us as Christian Scientists, is that God, Spirit, is All—and that nothing exists other than Spirit and its creation. We agree this isn't something we can ever, for any reason, afford to set aside as "too metaphysical." It is the spiritual and scientific basis for consistent Christian healing.
But what is this "other" feeling that seems so very much with us—the day-to-day sense of living in a physical body, in complex relation to myriad mortal personalities, in a world of imperfection? Christian Science boldly says these impressions are a dream. Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind."Science and Health, p. 188.
Does what Christian Science teaches about the dream of material life mean there is no solid ground under our feet, nothing to be trusted, nothing to be enjoyed in human life? No, it definitely doesn't. It shows us clearly for the first time where the solid ground truly is. We learn that spiritual reality isn't something nebulous and far-off which we are trying to apply to make a tangible human experience better. The spiritual reality is the only actual fact here or anywhere; and this reality is the reason that the good we value has substantiality.
