To the ordinary observer, the congregation at a Christian Science church service may not appear to be revolutionaries, yet they are representatives or adherents of the most revolutionary thinking going on in our era.

Christian Science overturns all material thinking. There is no area of human thought that is not touched by this revolutionary revelation.

What does the revelation consist of? It reveals the nothingness of matter and the allness of God, Spirit. The more the understanding of the allness of immortal Spirit unfolds in us, the more we also see the illusoriness of matter. This is the inevitable revolution—deeper than any political or social revolution—that we must sooner or later come to terms with.

For example, we may ascertain that in many cases the functioning of a certain economic system fosters the exploitation of the economically weak. Is the remedy necessarily to do away with the system and its known faults and set up a different one with faults still unknown? Might we not be dealing with effects rather than with the cause of the evil? Does not the cause lie deeper—in materialistic thinking?

Selfishness is immanent in material thinking, which divides Spirit into spirits, good into various benefits, immortal Mind into many minds of differing opinions. This is the limited, material thinking Christian Science calls mortal mind. Mortal mind, impelled by its innate selfishness, is the real cause of the evils burdening men, including exploitation. No matter under what economic or political system evil operates, it is mortal mind that must be deposed.

This does not mean that one should never change systems; but what must be changed in any case is thinking, which must be lifted from a material to a spiritual basis. Then the system that affords freedom of opinion and religion will function better. Systems themselves are of secondary importance. As humanity increases in spiritual understanding, the systems will not be able to resist change for the better, reflecting more and more truly the kingdom of heaven, government by the law of God—the law of infinite Love.

Political activity is necessary in our human society. As spiritual thinkers, however, we face higher duties, which should revolutionize the whole of human thinking.

In the struggle for progress, limited material thinking always sees happiness around the next corner, in the future, in a change of the present, in the fulfillment of human will and desire.

But if we catch a glimpse of the existing divine perfection of creation, we see the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It has appeared in the only place where it can appear—in the consciousness of the individual.

It would, however, mean drawing a wrong conclusion if out of the understanding of the nothingness of matter and the allness of Spirit we were to despise and neglect the things of our environment by arguing that they are only material. Things are the expression of thoughts. Only to the corporeal senses do they appear to be material. And as long as we see them materially, they may appear to be limited, distorted, and inharmonious.

Transcending the materially appearing things, there is always a spiritual idea. Beauty manifests itself to us in form, light, and color. We perceive friendliness in a gesture or a helping hand; we hear music in tones.

When one perceives a divine idea, it is manifested to him in the language he knows; that is, he translates it into human language. Just as we carry a thought over into a language, representing it with sounds and words, so we carry the divine idea we have perceived over into our present, human world of conceptions.

The will of infinite, divine Mind is always perfection, which manifests itself to us on the level of our human experience in improved perception of all things. The measure of our present perception of the divine always depends on the degree of our receptivity. Seen from the spiritual standpoint, there are no limits to good.

Let us see through the deceptive appearance of things. Let us take care of and respect the good things of our environment, such as the beauties of nature. Let us be thankful for their beauty and utility; let us keep them pure.

There are not two worlds, a material and a spiritual one. There is only the spiritual universe. What appears to the corporeal senses as a material universe is a view that ranges from a partial to a distorted view of the spiritual universe. The reality of immortal being, rightly understood, shows us that God does not exist outside our world but where we are—and that we are in Him.

We are all standing at the beginning of the overcoming of material conceptions and the proving of their nothingness and the allness of Mind. It is in human consciousness that the inevitable revolution occurs, a nonviolent revolution, which does not call forth counterrevolutions in an endless cycle.

Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health: "Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must renounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power. Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow, must be their queen of life." ^{Science and Health, p. 451;}

We can change our thought. The more we adapt it to the divine model of revelation in Christian Science, the more we will experience the truth of this revelation in our daily experience and come to terms with the inevitable revolution from matter to Mind.

We can start from where we are, the time we live in, the system we live under, and progress by "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." ^{II Cor. 10:5.}