Spiritual Co-operation Is of God

ISABEL M. CUTELLI

A Vacation spent in pine-clad mountains overlooking the stillness of a deep blue lake proved to be most inspiring to five friends, to whom the opportunity for rest, relaxation, and spontaneous activity was a welcome and happy one. What stood out about the experience, however, was the spirit of loving oneness which pervaded the atmosphere and animated the group.

The writer had looked forward to the vacation time with eagerness. Joyously she had opened her consciousness to the angel messages that would prepare her thought to enjoy the experience to the fullest extent, and to bless her companions. She wished to be obedient to the wise admonition of Mary Baker Eddy given in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210): "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full, there is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited."

The writer in her mental preparation for the forthcoming vacation asked herself, "What is the one thing most needful for maintaining unity?" "Co-operation!" was the angel response. A quiet sense of inner confirmation gave assurance that here was her subject for specific study. A working definition of the subject next unfolded. "Co-operation means working together." From that point on, the inspiration was full-flowing and free.

A right premise is essential to a correct result. The premise that one infinite divine Mind is causing or controlling all that really is, is the basis of co-operation. It is plain, then, that mortals do not fully co-operate while working from the basis of many minds trying to get together. Their highest sense of unity is often compromise. True co-operation is found in the oneness of spontaneous thought and action that characterizes the all-acting Mind and its expression, man. A realization that one supreme God, infinite good, is at the helm of all true thought unfolds the glorious truth expressed in Romans 8:28, "All things work together for good to them that love God."

Through her knowledge of man's oneness with divine Principle. Love, our beloved Leader was enabled to overcome human resistance and bring forth for the world's enlightenment the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Here is set forth the complete revelation of Mind-healing. During the course of her study of Christian Science the true meaning of unity and co-operation unfolded to her, and she taught it to her students. She says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 138), "I once thought that in unity was human strength; but have grown to know that human strength is weakness.—that unity is divine might, giving to human power, peace."

There is today definite evidence of a keener desire for co-operation in all human relationships—individual, national, and international. Christian Science is leavening and permeating thought with its enlightened teaching that in demonstrating Godlikeness—adherence to the one Principle, Mind—is found co-operation. Each idea of Mind must be beneficial to and benefited by every other idea, all manifesting a spontaneous oneness of thought and deed.

Our inspired Leader has this to say of purely human efforts toward unification (ibid., p. 138): "For students to work together is not always to cooperate, but sometimes to coelbow! Each student should seek alone the guidance of our common Father—even the divine Principle which he claims to demonstrate,—and especially should he prove his faith by works, ethically, physically, and spiritually."

Man is eternally at one with his Maker, divine Mind, is forever established in coexistence with divine Love, and hears and responds to the voice of divine leadership alone, Thus man's innate Godlikeness is the guarantee of our ability and necessity to cooperate with all those who know and love God.

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