Editorial September 25, 1948 Issue

ETERNAL ONENESS

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science unveils the oneness and allness of God. In such simplicity of truth, good is revealed as one Mind, and Mind as All. In the divine order of being, man is subject to his Maker, and their relationship is that of Mind and its idea, forever inseparable as cause and effect. This great verity destroys the human delusion that man is a self-existent entity depending on frail flesh for health and life and struggling to improve a personal intelligence residing in a brain. It proves the spiritual fact that man's perfection as an incorporeal idea of the one infinite Mind, God, is a present reality.

In this eternal unity of God and man, Mind and its idea, there is no confusion of function. The office of each—cause and effect—is distinct and never interchangeable with the other. Mind can never become idea, nor can idea become Mind. Christ Jesus explained this relationship precisely when the Jews, who objected to his assertion that God was his Father, accused him of "making himself equal with God." He answered them in these words (John 5:19): "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

It was upon such Scriptural authority that Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, based her teaching regarding the distinctiveness of God and His idea, man. In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" she says (p. 46), "Man is not equal with his Maker; that which is formed is not cause, but effect, and has no power underived from its creator." Humility and meekness yield to this truth, but egotistical human will resists it.

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