Article November 5, 1938 Issue

Absolute Good

KATE W. BUCK

God is all good, knowing nothing of negation because knowing nothing to deny. God is always positive, unchanging, certain. Then those who truly desire to obey the will of God must needs establish in their consciousness the divine standard of absolute good. What God knows, exists; and what He does not know, does not exist. The dictionary defines "absolute" as "free from imperfection"; "complete in its own character." Thus one may use the term "absolute" when speaking of God, good.

The first sentence in the first chapter of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy reads, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Then absolute faith in absolute good, God, is essential if one would follow him who said, with customary quiet conviction, "Have faith in God." Absolute good is always Truth manifested, and in it there are no halfway measures, for Truth is ever at the standpoint of perfection and exactness. Good alone is true and real, and that which is true is immutable and admits of neither compromise nor dilution.

To gain the consciousness of positive good, through persistent effort to see good and nothing but good, is the way of happiness and peace, because thought is thereby illumined with the light of spiritual truth. This is likewise a healing consciousness, because it is a presentation and establishment of all-inclusive good as the only reality. Before the realization of absolute good, error or evil, having no foundation, must disappear. One law, the spiritual law of absolute and all-powerful good, operates constantly, and is never really interfered with. This divine law knows no problems, since it reflects and expresses the one intelligence wherein there are no complications. Jesus was obedient to spiritual law, admitting no other; and we are told to let that Mind be in us "which was also in Christ Jesus," if we would render the same service of loving self-sacrifice and inspiration which he brought to a needy world. Impartial love, coupled with true humility, is needful for all who would enter the Christ-ministry, for in "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader tells us that "self-knowledge, humility, and love are divine strength" (p. 358). This divine strength is the blessed heritage of spiritual man, God's likeness.

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