Editorial November 14, 1931 Issue

The Perfection of Creation

Duncan Sinclair

The real creation is not the material universe, so called, which mortals seem to apprehend through the physical senses. The real creation is altogether spiritual. Consider how the question is viewed in Christian Science. In this Science it is understood that God is infinite Mind or Spirit, and that He is perfect. From this the deduction is drawn that God's creation—the real creation, which is the manifestation or expression of Mind—must consist entirely of spiritual ideas, and that these ideas are of necessity perfect, since the creator of them is perfect. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 518 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "The divine Principle, or Spirit, comprehends and expresses all, and all must therefore be as perfect as the divine Principle is perfect."

With the clear perception that the spiritual creation of ideas alone is real, the Christian Scientist can deny reality to the so-called material creation, or, in other words, to the material sense of creation, something which would have been regarded as extremely foolish by most people not so many decades ago; but to-day many thinkers who are not Christian Scientists are being forced to the same conclusion through their study of physical phenomena. The tendency among these thinkers is towards Mind as the source of all, as the power upon which the orderliness and continuity of creation, sometimes markedly typified in the so-called material universe, are dependent. This is one of the most gratifying features of modern thought; and the Christian Scientist is certain as to where it is leading, even to the conclusions which Christian Science has formulated.

The real creation, then, consists of perfect spiritual ideas. "These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity" (Science and Health, p. 503); and they are all under the government of perfect Mind. What must follow from the fact that the entire spiritual creation of ideas is under the constant government of perfect Mind? That not a single spiritual idea can ever be injured or destroyed. Moreover, as we apprehend the truth that the real creation is perpetually governed and protected by the law of perfect Mind, we discern the fact of eternal life.

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