Editorial August 24, 1946 Issue

The Joy of Knowing One Mind

John Randall Dunn

What student of Christian Science does not welcome, twice each year, the appearance in the Christian Science Quarterly of the Lesson-Sermon on the subject of Mind! And how grateful should we be that God was revealed to the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science as Mind, infinite divine Principle, the source and cause of all that is real!

When Mary Baker Eddy in her inspired book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," answered the question (p. 465), "What is God?" she was led to seven of the greatest terms in the English tongue to define Deity. In Revelation (3:1) the Apostle John speaks of "the seven Spirits of God." Did not his exalted thought foresee the coming of that wonderful day when those "seven Spirits" would be elucidated practically for mankind? Hear Mrs. Eddy's sevenfold definition of God: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." Then answering the question, "Are these terms synonymous?" she writes: "They are. They refer to one absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of Deity."

If these lines are being read by a newcomer to Christian Science, let one fact be made very clear at the outset. When God is called Mind, note that the word is capitalized, and therefore denotes the polar opposite of that which is commonly known as the human or mortal mind, or brain, Mind means God, the creative intelligence, the great First Cause, who appeared to Moses as "I AM THAT I AM" (Ex. 3:14). Is it not possible that Moses was so awed by the overwhelming sense of God's majesty and infinitude that he felt language pitifully inadequate to describe what he heard and saw? In the original Hebrew the words "I AM THAT I AM" convey the sense of being, or existence. To the Lawgiver, therefore, God was revealed as the infinite presence, the almighty self-existence, the source and sustainer of all real being. How could such omnipotence and omnipresence be less than measureless Mind?

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