Editorial September 23, 1950 Issue

BEING AND ITS UNFOLDMENT

Richard J. Davis

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers many times in her writings to the Science of being. Therefore, in its study every student seeks to know what "being" really means and how the knowledge of being may be related to himself. On page 26 of her book "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy writes, "All real being represents God, and is in Him." And on the same page she says: "Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be His image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in molecule, corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. God holds man in the eternal bonds of Science,—in immutable harmony of divine law."

Everyone knows or is mentally aware that he exists. He is conscious of being, and because of this he is led through reason to see that existence is mental. He perceives that without mind or thought one would have no indication or awareness of being. Mrs. Eddy defines God as the Supreme Being, the divine and infinite self-existent Mind. She also declares that this Being must have expression or evidence and that this expression is manifested as man in an infinitude of unfolding ideas.

On page 336 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has written, "Mind is the I am, or infinity." The fact that infinity is, that this is the truth of being, means that unfoldment is one, infinite, and inevitable. It cannot mean that unfoldment goes on here but not there, or there and not here. For every idea of God it is Mind appearing or unfolding in individual consciousness. Therefore, because this unfoldment is wholly good, this understanding, demonstrated, enables us to see that even in our human experience there is nothing to fear, nothing to dread or apprehend, nothing to expect or enjoy, but the fullness and harmony of the appearing evidence of God's being.

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