Eternal verities are God's thoughts, as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals, and are the unreal, being the opposite of the spiritual and eternal.
XXVIII. Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule, in Christian Science, of health and holiness, and Truth demonstrated. you ascertain that this Science is demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and sinful as no other system can. Christian Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal harmony, and brings to light the only living and true God, and man as made in His likeness; whereas the opposite belief — that man originates in matter, and has beginning and end, that he is both soul and body, both spiritual and material, — terminates in discord and mortality, in the error that must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality of material man proves that error has been ingrafted into the premises and conclusions of material and mortal humanity.
XXIX. The word Adam is from the Hebrew adamah, signifying the red color of the ground, dust, Original sin. nothingness. Divide the name Adam into two syllables, and it reads, a dam, or obstruction. This suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind in solution, of the darkness which seemed to appear when “darkness was upon the face of the deep,” and matter stood as opposed to Spirit, as that which is accursed. Jehovah declared the ground — matter, or earth — accursed; and from this earth, or matter, sprang Adam, although God had blessed the earth “for man's sake.” From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was revealed in due time, and known as Christ Jesus.
