Article October 8, 1949 Issue

MAN'S HISTORY

DENNIS W. LEIGH

"The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history." Consecrated study of this passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (pp. 470, 471), brings the realization that because of God's unchanging and unalterable allness everything real, including man as God's idea, is perfect and complete now and always has been.

In God's kingdom, the realm of the real, where God is eternally omnipotent, no untoward situation has ever occurred, for there has never been a moment when self-existent Mind, God, has not been All and in possession of its own idea, man. The understanding and acceptance of this fact leads naturally to the acceptance of Mrs. Eddy's statement (ibid., p. 287), "Error is false, mortal belief; it is illusion, without spiritual identity or foundation, and it has no real existence." Error's seeming existence and infraction of the divine order is known, or is occurring, only in mortal mind's baseless, substanceless dream picture.

When "the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name," the master Metaphysician emphasized the permanence and eternal availability of unbroken harmony. He counseled them (Luke 10:20), "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." In other words, we rejoice not because human testimony says a healing has occurred, but because harmonious being is the established, indestructible fact; because we have again demonstrated that the man of God's creating not only is unassailable and aloof from mortal discord, but is inseparable from his forever active Principle and glorifies God continuously.

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