One Manifestation

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 361) Mrs. Eddy makes the statement, "God is the only Mind, and His manifestation is the spiritual universe, including man and all eternal individuality." It is spiritually impossible to stray beyond the infinite manifestation of Mind. Acknowledging this truth without any deviation, the Christian Scientist draws on the infinite resources of Mind and never draws in vain. In the one infinite manifestation of God everything is perfect, complete, and spiritual fruitage is measureless. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith." These fruits are unfailing and invariable as Spirit itself.

There are no sufferers or sorrowers in Mind's manifestation; everything is spiritual and perfect. There is no precarious health, intelligence, or joy; no fallible righteousness or peace; no faint-heartedness, for Mind's impartations are invariably beneficent and harmonious. This incites the Christian Scientist to prove that there is no halfway demonstration of good. With divinely sustained courage and vision he presses on to the fullness of spiritual comprehension and demonstration.

Mind's manifestation of itself being infinite, nothing is left incomplete or unmanifested. In this recognition lies the way out of the claim of a frustrated life into one of achievement, the way out of personal dissatisfaction into spiritual satisfaction. No instructed person believes that a crescent moon is an incomplete moon. It is only incompletely seen; and who would think of attempting to complete an already spherical moon? And so the mortal mind claim of a limited spiritual vision which presents man as incomplete or as depleted, is rebuked in Christian Science. Spiritual man is always aware of his own reflected infinite individuality, his own individual health, holiness, and joy.

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