thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity;”[1] “Life is eternal;”[2] “Life is, like Christ, ‘the same yesterday, and today and forever’. Organization and time have nothing to do with Life;”[3] “One moment of divine consciousness or the spiritual understanding of Life and Love is a foretaste of eternity. This exalted view obtained and retained when the Science of being is understood, would bridge over with life discerned spiritually the interval of death, and man would be in full consciousness of his immortality and eternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are unknown. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which is the solar year. Eternity is God's measurement of Soul-filled years.”[4]
In the above sentences note that life is identified or confused with eternity, with God, with divine principle, with mind and spirit. And notice that “divine consciousness” is the same as the “spiritual understanding of Life” the exercise of which is a “foretaste of eternity." And notice again that time is regarded as “no part of eternity.” “Time is a mortal thought”, that is, it is unreal; and Mrs. Eddy holds that “all the real is eternal”.[5] If then life is something real it is eternal. Without going into these intricacies of thought it is impossible to understand Mrs. Eddy. But consider that the more winding in dark places
- ↑ S. and H. p. 468. cf. p. 200.
- ↑ S. and H. p. 246.
- ↑ S. and H. p. 249.
- ↑ S. and H. p. 598f.
- ↑ S. and H. p. 353.
