Editorial August 15, 1953 Issue

OMNIACTIVE GOOD

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science declares that good is omniactive, and it does this regardless of the evil and irresponsible activities that seem present in the world. The omniaction of good is always provable, because God, the creative Principle of the universe, is infinite good and His presence and might are invariably demonstrable. For this reason we can never find ourselves in a situation where there is not sufficient good to solve our problems. If our problems are not solved, it is because we have not utilized as law the good that man eternally expresses; have not proved through our own natures that man is not a mortal grasping for a wisp of God's goodness, but the Father's son, His image, whose reflection of good is limitless and invariable.

The conscious identities which God creates individualize right action; in fact, their activity is their very substance, the expression of God's will. And because their Principle is omniactive good they can never become inactive or evilly and destructively active. Their office in being is to express the purity, health, wisdom, integrity, and unfolding good that comprise Love's omniaction. Their expression of the purposes and elements of the Principle they represent bears witness to the harmonious activity of the Principle.

It is good to know this when disease seems difficult to destroy, for the understanding of our true identity as the expression of divine Mind's omniaction stops the seeming deteriorative and disordered mental action that we consciously and unconsciously express on our bodies. Christ Jesus illustrated the action of God's will, which stills the spurious mental action that would rob men of their health and freedom. Mary Baker Eddy speaks of this in "Rudimental Divine Science," where she says (p. 3): "Jesus' healing was spiritual in its nature, method, and design. He wrought the cure of disease through the divine Mind, which gives all true volition, impulse, and action; and destroys the mental error made manifest physically, and establishes the opposite manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmony and health."

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