The man God knows—His infinite idea—is free from mortal limitations and partakes of God's abundance—all the resources of the divine economy. Neither God nor man, the manifestation of God's allness, is subject to a law of finity or delay.

One of the great lies about man is that he is mortal, and is locked into a system of living determined by material conditions— by lack, high prices, or waning confidence.

Releasing our reliance on deceptive matter, whose nature contradicts Spirit, God, we can discern our spiritual wealth. In the measure that we trust only God's inexhaustible provision of ideas, which is true substance, we are freed from the illusion that matter is the source and substance of our own and the world's supply. Supply is the outcome of seeing the unceasing good that God provides.

Men are freed from lack as they recognize the spiritual nature of true being and cut loose from illusion. Christian Science shows that material views are illusions, decoys that distract our attention from the real and spiritual, from all that God, Mind, gives—His spiritual ideas. In her Miscellaneous Writings Mrs. Eddy explains, "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies." ^{Mis., p.307;}

When Christ Jesus supplied the need of the multitude in the wilderness, he turned first to his Father, God, divine Mind, in prayer. In perfect trust he shared what he had at hand with others, who thereby glimpsed a richer view of life and also gained the outward, temporal proof of God's affluent giving.

Only the truth of God's, Spirit's, impartial love and provision really delivers, and it does so by helping us let go our grip on the belief in the reality of matter. When we read in the Bible that Jesus declared "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," ^{John 8:32;} do we ask, Free from what, for what? Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear,—this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true." ^{Science and Health, p.428;}

This shedding, purifying process operates as we realize that the Christ, Truth, is ever with us. What makes us clutch at wasting, capricious matter as our source of supply? Perhaps it is fear or ignorance, the blind belief that nothing better is available. Maybe we do not know how to reach out for the spiritual real. But we can always find that reality through prayer.

As our thought becomes immersed in purifying prayer, the Adam sense of man begins to yield to the Christ, to the perfect, spiritual man and his relation to God. Then man is seen not as a greedy absorber competing for and consuming limited good, but as the reflection of divine affluence, unceasingly supplied with indestructible ideas.

In scientific Christian prayer one beholds only the real man in God's image, not the Adam man who seems to inhabit a material earth, deplete its riches, frustrate intelligent distribution, and be always in want. We see the true man as the idea of Mind, God. This is the way God Himself knows him. No divine idea can be dispossessed, victimized, or even threatened by another power, because God is all-power. Nor can God's goodness or substance be withheld, devalued, inflated, or depressed as a result of fear, greed, or any adversity.

God's spiritual ideas, infinite in number and instantly available, preclude beliefs of unevenly spread wealth and limited fixed incomes. Our work is to unclasp our hold on false, material trusts, and prayerfully keep uncluttered our ability to grasp the abundant resources of Soul.

Man receives what Mind imparts. Matter is not involved in the supply of good either as a cause or a vehicle for such provision. Spiritual substance is the basis of all the good evidenced in what we call inherited qualities, in global aid agreements, and in trading partnerships. The supply of real substance is governed by the reliable law of divine Principle, Love. This government holds effective dominion over individuals and nations.

Love never fails. Man cannot range outside Love's government. Turning our thought to divine Love, Spirit, we spring the lock that claims to chain us to the limits of matter. Our thought is then released through the true sense of divine abundance, and we find the freedom of our unity with God. We prove a measure of Mind's affluent supply for ourselves and for our world.

Mrs. Eddy says, "When it is learned that the spiritual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions of Mind to man, then being will be understood and found to be harmonious." ^{ibid., p.214.}