The belief that man lives as a mortal now and that not until sometime in what is called the hereafter will he be immortal is so untrue that individuals should be alert to challenge and correct this falsity in every aspect of their lives.
Dictionaries define the word mortal as "subject to death." In her writings on Christian Science Mrs. Eddy asks, "Who wants to be mortal, or would not gain the true ideal of Life and recover his own individuality?" Miscellaneous Writings, p. 104. A good question— "Who wants to be mortal . . .?" It should not be difficult for the enlightened Christian to understand that "God created man in his own image," as Genesis 1:27 declares, and therefore man has nothing to do with death, with mortality.
The truth of being, or Christian Science, which Mrs. Eddy discovered and has brought to light in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, has come to show all mankind how to prove in their own daily experience that man is not mortal but immortal—now and always.
