Article September 15, 1951 Issue

MIND'S DIVINE MANIFESTATION

RUTH ROYAL MONTAGUE

Through the ages mankind has asked, "What is man and what is his relationship to God?" Jesus made clear man's relationship to God when he said (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one." He must have seen that all that is included within the one infinite Mind, God, is spiritual, and that divine Mind expresses the only being, activity, or manifestation there is. It was Jesus' awareness of the allness and oneness of infinite Mind which healed the sick, fed the multitude, and raised the dead.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "the scientific statement of being" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation for God is All-in-all." Quite naturally the manifestation, or that which is evidenced, would have to be that which Mind has conceived. The universe, including man, would then by its very nature have to manifest, or give evidence of, its cause or source. Man, then, is Mind's manifestation.

Years ago a student of Christian Science was left a sum of money in a will. During the year it took to settle the estate, letters and reports were received from others mentioned in the will stating that the lawyer who had been appointed for the estate was dishonest, unethical, and had been disbarred in another locality because of the mishandling of an estate. The student saw that since God is infinite Mind, there could not be a lawyer mind, honest or dishonest, good or bad; that God being All, He must be manifested in qualities such as integrity, justice, and so on. As the letters condemning the lawyer became more frequent, and it finally appeared as though the other beneficiaries would bring a suit against him, the student steadfastly maintained the oneness of Mind. All that was going on then, she reasoned, was the uninterrupted activity of that one divine Mind; hence there could be no condemner and no condemned.

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