Editorial March 14, 1925 Issue

Scientific Unity

Albert F. Gilmore

THE well-known rule of military tactics, "Divide and destroy," which it seems has also come to be commonly known in the affairs of business, has an important metaphysical significance. The converse of this axiom, "In union there is strength," more nearly expresses a fundamental truth; but in both instances one needs to reason from divine Principle in order to comprehend these sayings. Christian Science furnishes the key to both, unfolding larger meanings than are usually given them.

Union, that is, fundamental union, is the union of God and His spiritual creation, man, a union which cannot be dissolved. The unity of God and His spiritual universe is permanent, unchanging, eternal. It is this indissoluble unity to which Christ Jesus referred when he declared, "I and my Father are one," a statement which not only established his oneness with God, but also projected the brotherhood of man, the unity of all in one fatherhood. It is this same unity which Mrs. Eddy describes in a familiar passage in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 340): "One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' ... equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed." Man, then, as God's reflection, derives existence from the infinite Father, apart from whom there can be no real being, because He is infinite Being. Manifestly, such unity can never be dissolved. God can no more be separated from His perfect expression, man, than the sun can be deprived of its rays.

In view of this reasoning, what becomes of the first axiom, "Divide and destroy"? This contemplates the belief that something real is possible of destruction, because of the possibility of dividing it into its component parts, its primary units. This supposition is erroneous, for nothing real can be destroyed, else God's kingdom would not be permanent. When it is learned that God is the creator of the spiritual universe, the only universe, we understand that the statement under consideration relates not to Truth, but to a situation which is wholly hypothetical. It belongs only to the realm of material belief, the realm of conjecture,—that is, to the false universe, which claims reality.

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