The word age derives from Indo European roots indicating eternal life and vital force.  This hints at the Fact in Science that human age, whether young, old, or middle age is a mimicry of what is, a masquerade of our actual divine being now.

So called human life is made up of good/bad combinations.  Thus, young and beautiful but lacking in wisdom and experience; or old and unattractive but blessed with experience and wisdom.  Well, we've all seen exceptions to these stereotypes:   young people often have fresh insights, while the accumulation of experience in an older person can chill out any wisdom.

In Science, we can perhaps view the "sometimes beautiful, always erroneous" (Science and Health, p. 277: 31) machinations of age beliefs as a kind of Genesis II take on life — a series of myths desperately needing spiritual interpretation.  At face value they're a crock — just as a literal reading of scripture, or anything, is.

Let us stake our claims of life and selfhood in Heaven, not in the fleeting fantasies of human belief.

Beauty, freshness, enthusiasm, probity, wisdom, grace, etc., all derive from God and God alone.  Even human experience can be swallowed up in the Experience of God being Himself as the one Ego or I that is us.

Sometimes in the Bible and in the world, age beliefs are used to evoke certain mind qualities — such as a wise elderly Moses or Jesus' recommendation to "become as little children" (Matt. 18: 3).  Science sees through such conventions to the Truth of God-man-universe as eternal, perfect Being now.  Jesus' whole practice of Science went against the grain of entrenched beliefs about developmental genetics through matter.  Homosexuality may hint the same thing.

Two healings based on the work of children were described — one where the child and his mother were both healed of deep cuts when they refused to apply the material means of bandages; the other by a little girl seeing the unreality of error.

One attendee described a year of work with a Christian Science teacher to heal him of his disturbed view of homosexuality. He was healed of this sense, and was able to relax, and come out as gay in his life and on the job.