Q: It says in Science and Health: “The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God” (pp. 502–503).
Do you think that all of the “highest ideas” have a human experience?
—A reader in Western Australia
A: This question inadvertently accepts mortal mind’s false premise that there are two separate universes, the one made up of matter, in which it is supposed we currently live, but must die out of, in order to reach the other one—which is Spirit. This erroneous concept is refuted in the statement you cited: “There is but one creator and one creation.” All of God’s ideas, including each one of us, have always lived, are now living, and will always live in the only place there is for us to live, in the perfect realm of Mind. What appears as a material world, where intelligence and substance are encased in limited shells of matter bodies, and where we seem governed by chance, limitation, and disease—such a world has no genuine existence. It is not what it appears to be; it is an entirely mental concept, a waking dream.
