Immortality is reality.
Mortality is unreality.
What you have with immortality lasts forever.
What you think you have in mortality is temporal and soon lost.
To set yourself up for long-term health and happiness, be sure to build on the Rock of immortality, and not on the shifting sands of mortality.
Seek the immortal.
Thank you Evan!
Such a beautiful image as well, illustrating the wonderful goal of aspiration to mountain top experiences.
Driving home from the island off the west coast of Scotland many years ago. I was taking my mum back to Edinburgh on the east coast of first. My journey then continuing back to my home nearer the west coast.
As we had been visiting my brother on the Outer Hebrides, the journey back involved a ferry trip and driving on single track roads.
Mum eventually fell asleep, as did her lovely dog on the back seat, soon I was struggling with feelings or tiredness and sleepiness myself. I still had 7hrs driving ahead of me.
I had been listening to Dr Laurance Doyle’s article, “More Understanding, Less Matter ” when his scientific explanation of light caught my attention.
He went on to quote Mrs Eddy, “Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity” S&H p468
In the next paragraph he said, “The idea of time is another imposed limitation. Similarly, one might say that distance is no part of infinity”
At this point of listening, we were high up in the mountains, way below, in the glen, a sparkle of light caught my eye, yet it was very overcast, with no obvious sunshine. I glanced in the rear view mirror and caught a glimpse of sun light breaking through the cloud, reflecting on the water, possibly 2000ft below.
In that moment realisation of the evr presence of Love, light, dawned on me. I felt a sudden rush of beautiful loving energy radiating within me, the overwhelming sleepy feeling and tiredness evaporated instantly, and I completed the hours of driving, “buzzing” with Spirit!
I hope the link below works!
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/vsyttqpm7e?s=copylink
What a wonderful experience Shelagh! Thank you for sharing with us and also for the Lawrence Doyle article link…reading for a little later today . B.x
Dear Shelagh, I love the description of your experience –
it is beautiful There is such a lot of beauty in Scotland,
.
Thank you for the article by Doyle – I will look forward very much to reading it – he is always a big inspiration.
I have just read it, Shelagh, and it is so good – his
comparison of physics with metaphysics are very
interesting and affirmative to C.S. I can share this with some people I think will benefit. So thank you very much for sharing this.
Thank you for your message today Evan….just the basis for true directional thought. The picture just puts man in the right perspective regarding our completeness eternally.
‘’. Eternal Truth is changing the universe’’ S&H pg 255
And a little further on…’ ‘’let there be light’, is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love..changing chaos into order and discord into the music of the spheres.’’
Blessings to alll❣️
Thank Barbara for the phrase you quoted, “….changing chaos into order.”
I am in the process of ‘decluttering’ my home and hoping to see everything unnecessary drop away, leaving only the qualities of God remaining to be reflected – such as beauty, orderliness, harmony, clarity, cleanliness, comfort, ease. I must remember the Truth that, God is my home.
I Meant, “Thanks Barbara!”
“Claiming our immortality” by John Tyler. From the November 17, 2025 issue of The Christian Science Monitor:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/A-Christian-Science-Perspective/2025/1117/Claiming-our-immortality/?src=shared
Excellent article. Thank you, J.
Thank you dear Evan for this comforting and healing spiritual view of our real spiritual life as immortal.
“Rock of ages, Life divine ….ever mine.”
These words just sang in me, but I couldn’t remember at this moment (it’s night here) the words where I put the dots. Does anyone know which hymn I mean? It’s so suitable to today’s SV.
Dear J, I thsnk you for that wonderful article about our immortality by John Tyler. It is very helpful metaphysics.
Dear Uta,
Rock of Ages is on page 293 of the Christian Science Hymnal. That setting, by Thomas Hastings, is the most familiar tune.
Hymns are alphabetical
by first lines.
I always enjoy reading your comments!
Thanks dear Carol, me too , love reading yours a lot! ♡
And I also love that hymn with the nice old melody ♡
Very grateful to Evan as always. Thank you J for John Tyler’s article. So helpful!
Thank you Evan and also to contributors for the CS links. I will be sharing with my friends.
Thank you so much Evan and Spiritual thinkers for these wonderful
Truths. I am reminded of how, with this time of year – the Christmas
season being upon us, how mortal decorations, presents, anticipation,
etc. are fleeting and hyped up so much these days, with commercialization
and material things and the True meaning, the Christ is sometimes lost
in it all. The Christ Spirit lasts forever and can never become old or
disappear, because it is eternal and always with us. mortal/material fades
and is temporal and lost, but what Really is meaningful in our lives –
the qualities expressed from God, are constantly with us.
Oh Evan, this has been such a healing SpiritView. When I first opened it up and looked at the photograph & read what you had written, it just didn’t resonate for a while.
Then I read Shelagh’s wonderful account of her realization about time, light, distance, energy. I’ve always appreciated Laurence Doyle’s insights.…
When I sat down this morning, I thought that my dog had run away and was missing (he had been out all night and it’s very cold.). As I continued to ponder the ideas of perpetual Light, the infinitude of Good, our permanent connection/reflection of infinite Mind, I looked up and there was our doggie at the door.
I realized that I want let go of fear, worry, caring, any burden, and stay in that mountaintop thinking forever!
Thank you, dear Evan, and especially dear Shelagh, today.
Love to all
Thank you so much! Just took a walk in the rain and saw the love of God all around. I was trying to find a bird that was talking and thought I did. All of a sudden a beautiful hawk came and sat on a lamp post and talked and then went back to where he was. Then I could see where he was. It was beautiful. “The loveliness of Love is all around.” Hymn 64.
Some years ago I was rushing to make a very necessary bank deposit. I had to pick-up my husband’s check but it wasn’t ready until the last minute. It was the weekend and the bank closed at 1 p.m. Looking at the car’s clock, knowing the distance I had to go, it was clearly impossible to make the deadline. My first thought was to disobey the speed limit but no, that was wrong. I panicked. But then I decided that this was a necessity, it was the right thing to be able to pay our bills and not suffer a penalty. I mentally knew I’d be in that drive-thru in time to make that deposit. I refused to look at the clock. Instead, I decided that the ‘event’ had nothing to do with time–it was in Mind, not in matter. The result? Just before the Teller closed her window, the deposit was made. Just in ‘time’.