Editorial April 5, 1941 Issue

The Oneness of Infinity

Evelyn F. Heywood

On pages 35 and 36 of "No and Yes," Mary Baker Eddy writes. "Jesus taught and demonstrated the infinite as one, and not as two." Not only did Jesus teach men that he and the Father were one, but in every action, throughout his career, he demonstrated this fact. He spoke of Truth and what it could do for them, but he also demonstrated Truth in eliminating the discords which were the negation of health; he spoke of Love, of the fatherhood of God, but he also expressed it in friendship, in tenderness and forgiveness, where with others there had been condemnation and hatred: he spoke of eternal Life and its great message to humanity, but he also broke the mesmerism of death, for others and for himself. In the midst of evil and of mortality he proved that Truth and Life and Love are infinite. This oneness with the Father he had made his own, in continuous thought and action, from the moment that he appeared as the Messiah among the people: and he brought it in continuous loving exhortation and proof to all who listened to him.

John 17 we read. "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one." In his vision of the oneness of infinity he saw that it belonged not merely to the few chosen and taught of him; it was for all. In the tenth chapter of John's Gospel we read: "And there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

In his words and his works, more radical, more based on divine authority than any hitherto heard and seen among men; in the evidence of his intimate individual sense of divine sonship, Jesus never ceased to set forth this oneness of God and man. In the Old Testament we can find indications of occasional glimpses wherein the spiritual seer perceived with the coming of the kingdom, with the destruction of evil and the stilling of strife, a blessed period of unity among men. But this longed-for consummation, this Utopian state, was regarded as remote, intangible, and ever dependent upon some event of vast magnitude, individual participation in which none could confidently predict. Jesus came preaching its presence among them; he came demonstrating it by signs which none could refute. He came proving to men that in the consciousness of God's allness, evil in every phase is overcome; that he who enters into this infinity of good has recognized the illusive nature of that which would oppose infinity. Only in understanding that man expresses this divine completeness, this oneness of infinity as the idea of Mind, not in anticipation but in present realization, will the thought of duality be wholly eliminated, will the belief in incompleteness cease to tempt and to weaken.

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