Article April 2, 1949 Issue

Periods of retirement and solitude are needed to better perceive the unity of God and man

COMMUNION WITH GOD

ALAN A. AYLWIN

Man's constant communion with God is the divine order of being, and Christian Science is unfolding this great fact by teaching the exact nature of God and His creation.

Seekers after Truth have always felt a need for a closer and more continuous communion with the divine Mind. During moments of spiritual exaltation they have had a fleeting sense of God's nearness, but through ignorance of His true nature they have often seemed to lose Him and have, perhaps, cried out in the words of Job (Job 23:3), "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!"

By revealing His true nature as infinite Spirit, or Mind, filling all space, Christian Science shows that God is everywhere present and can never be absent from any part of His universe for even an instant. In "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy makes this clear when she states (p. 61): "Coming and going belong to mortal consciousness. God is 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.'" This does away with any illusion that the divine nature includes a phase of whimsicality whereby God permits Himself to be known at one time but not at another, or in one place but not in another. The Apostle James speaks of "the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17).

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