Perhaps never before has human opinion been so aware of the belief of age. Constantly we are confronted with discussions as to which age group can best be used for certain undertakings, which age is best fitted for strenuous physical duties, and at what age physical and mental alertness begin to lessen.
Mary Baker Eddy has written in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246), "The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age." This, then, is the point of departure between the so-called human sense of existence, which is always limitation, and the divine state of being, which is ageless, complete perfection.
As the alert student of Christian Science acknowledges existence to be spiritual, he realizes more and more clearly that there are no stages of existence from infancy to old age. Since "God created man in his own image," and since we know that God is Spirit, the man of God's creating is spiritual. That which is spiritual does not have to become more spiritual, for the word denotes completeness.
