Article March 5, 1949 Issue

Better view of man's coexistence with God heals ills based on belief of separation

THE UNITY OF GOD AND MAN

WOODRUFF SMITH

An understanding of the oneness of God and of man's oneness with God as His reflection is the world's great need today. Only this understanding can break the mortal dream of separation from the presence and power of infinite good. This dream is best defined as the Adam-dream, for, as Christian Science reveals, it is the Adam-man— mankind, or a kind of man—who has accepted the belief that man is separated from God.

Science also unfolds the truth of God's perfect spiritual idea, man, made in His image and likeness, as forever expressing the Father, infinite good. God and man do not have to be brought together. Man dwells in the Mind of which he is the image, or reflection. If man could be torn from Mind, this would indicate another entity, outside of infinite Mind, with the cunning and power to penetrate Mind and allure Mind's ideas by charm or deceit. This is a self-evident impossibility. Mind is infinite, One, All. There is nothing beyond infinity.

Man can no more be cut off from health, happiness, holiness, harmony, than can God. Since man is God's image, would not God have to be separated from perfection before perfection could be separated from man? If man is to experience either good or evil, God must first know it and then reflect it through His image, man. But the Bible states (Hab. 1:13), "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." It is only the fictitious human sense of man, or mankind, which seems to itself to experience evil. This sense is destroyed by an understanding of the truth of man's being as indissolubly one with God.

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