Article November 26, 1966 Issue

"Awake thou that sleepest"

ARTHUR J. LEESE

"Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." ^{ Eph. 5:14;} This injunction of the Apostle Paul is as applicable today as when first made centuries ago. It will be recognized that he was not referring to the unconscious condition of the human body that we know as sleep, but to a state of mind dead to, or unaware of, reality—spiritual truth.

This somnolent condition has been designated by Mrs. Eddy as "the waking dream," a state of thought concerned only with matter and the physical universe and convinced of their reality. The reference of Mrs. Eddy to "the waking dream" appears in Science and Health, when after making the statement, "Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no real entity, but saith 'It is I,' " she goes on to put the question, "Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream?"^{ Science and Health, p. 250;}

Mrs. Eddy also likens mortal existence to a dream in these words: "Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind." ^{ p. 188 ;}

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