CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS

Our journey in Christian Science begins as we recognize the need for a change in consciousness "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dewelleth righteousness. (II Peter 3:13)"

We are all on a spiritual journey, rising in spiritual understanding. As we rise in consciousness to contemplate heaven as an idea of Spirit, we are at the same time removing the mist that went up to obscure the earth and realizing it too is an idea of Spirit. "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that were therein shall be burned up. (II Peter 3:10)"

If we love matter or this material sense of persons, places, and things, we are being misled. Mrs. Eddy has given us a better and more practical foundation on which to base a spiritual life. "Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind as the cause of every effect.(S&H268:6-9)" We must face the fact that all matter and its conditions are illusions. Mind is the only cause and condition maker. We are only deceiving ourselves when we let any thought that is opposed to 'Mind is All' enter our consciousness.