Editorial November 25, 1939 Issue

Divine Satisfaction

Duncan Sinclair

On page 519 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Deity was satisfied with His work. How could He be otherwise, since the spiritual creation was the outgrowth, the emanation, of His infinite self-containment and immortal wisdom?" God is perfect Mind, and His creation consists of spiritual ideas. These ideas, infinite in number, reflect the qualities of His perfect being. In other words, they perpetually express His wisdom, goodness, harmony, and peace.

What a wonderful thought is this! By it we perceive that God is perfectly satisfied with His creation, the spiritual creation which is the reflection of Himself. Not only so, but we understand that His creation, being the image of Himself, must necessarily be in the enjoyment of the satisfaction which characterizes perfect Mind. To put it somewhat differently, since God and His creation are perfect, the creator must be perfectly satisfied with His creation, and creation must be perfectly satisfied with its creator.

Again, man is the image and likeness of God, the compound idea of God; and as the compound idea of God, he includes all right ideas. That is to say, the real man is conscious of all the ideas or qualities of God. And since these include purity, wisdom, love, goodness, harmony, and peace, man is always in the enjoyment of true satisfaction. Thus Christian Science reveals what to material sense is unknown, namely, the fact that in real being naught but absolute harmony and absolute satisfaction reign. And knowing this, Christian Scientists joyfully echo the Psalmist's words (Psalms 16:11), "In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

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