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Can you accelerate your pace to heaven?

From the November 2025 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Addressing the question of how long it may take for sin to be destroyed, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote, “This may take millions of cycles, but of the time no man knoweth” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160).

But does anyone really want to endure “millions of cycles” bound by the flesh? 

Revealing the “fast lane” to heaven, a topic which occupied Christ Jesus’ life ministry, he said, “Whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matthew 16:25). Heaven, as described in the Christian Science textbook, is: “Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 587).

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