Mary Baker Eddy tells us in The People's Idea of God: "We are all sculptors, working out our own ideals, and leaving the impress of mind on the body as well as on history and marble, chiselling to higher excellence, or leaving to rot and ruin the mind's ideals. Recognizing this as we ought, we shall turn often from marble to model, from matter to Mind, to beautify and exalt our lives."
Peo., p. 7.
Looking to Mind, we look to our creator and to the perfection of His creation. But what is the nature of that creation, of the man God made? Is God's ideal offspring a happy, prosperous, disease-free, good-looking mortal, as materialistic thinking would have us believe? Man is not a mortal, nor will he ever become one. The likeness of God, Spirit, is spiritual and immortal. And this likeness reflects every quality inherent in the divine nature.
Regardless of what the five senses presented, Jesus knew man as spiritual, the flawless idea of Mind. He proved through his healing works that man's structure is spiritual and therefore forever whole and perfect, not defined or deformed in any way by matter; that man's strength and action are eternal, neither enabled nor disabled by matter; that his mental capacity and perception are unlimited, not originating or deteriorating in matter.
