Article September 9, 1950 Issue

LET US AWAKE TO REALITY

ALEXANDER A. LE. M. SIMPSON

IF you were to ask those unacquainted with Christian Science what is real and what is unreal, they might be startled by the question. They would probably say that what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, and smelled was real, and that what they could not comprehend through the material senses was unreal. Yet natural scientists today are proclaiming with growing unanimity that matter, of whose existence the so-called material senses are perpetually testifying, has no substance, validity, or reality apart from the consciousness perceiving it.

It is of vital importance to everyone to know what constitutes the real, for without this knowledge men and women are unconscious of man's origin, nature, and destiny and believe themselves at the mercy of forces they do not understand and cannot control. Reality, however, cannot be understood from a basis of sense testimony, for the five physical senses can neither present nor interpret reality. They are wholly illusive, as is evident when the sun appears to drop into the sea, railway lines to meet on the horizon, and houses to lose their stability if observed through a heat haze.

Reality is revealed in all its splendor in the opening chapter of the Bible. What God, good, the creator, makes and preserves, comprises reality; and that which He creates, being the manifestation of Spirit, must be "very good," that is, harmonious, spiritual, and complete. Spiritual good, therefore, is the reality of being. Man, the image or reflection of God, is the full and perfect expression of good. He is the immortal and well-loved child, or idea, of the infinite Father-Mother God. He lacks nothing, but receives all good from his divine source.

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