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OMNIACTIVE GOOD
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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August 15, 1953 issue
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AWAKENING FROM THE ADAM-DREAM
HERBERT E. BONHAM
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HERE AND NOW
JEANNE PAUL CHRISTENSEN
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ON TALKING TO ONESELF
JAMES K. WESTOVER
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UNLIMITED SIGHT
DORA S. FETZER
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A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
Una Lias
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INEVITABLE PEACE
EMILE ORMANN
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HAPPY HOME BUILDING
JOYCE CHANDLER PARKS
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RUTH AND THE LITTLE FOXES
ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN
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HARVEST TIME
Louise S. Darcy
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GOD'S NATURE REVEALED IN MAN
Richard J. Davis
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OMNIACTIVE GOOD
Helen Wood Bauman
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Beatrice E. Taylor, Richard N. Oliver, William Nowell Mansell, Ralph K. Skinner, Herman C. Skarie
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"PILGRIM ON EARTH"
Audrey A. Mersereau
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When I was about twenty years...
Florence S. Smith
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Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy...
Edith N. Evans
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The most wonderful healing I...
Walter E. Westerberg
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My heart is so full of gratitude...
Mary F. Podstolski
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I should like to express my gratitude...
Verona B. Fielder
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In Isaiah we read (55:1, 3)...
Louis Rose
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I am come that they might have...
Helen Audrey Walker
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I have a great deal to be thankful...
Christiana Stoeckle
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I wish to give my testimony in...
Olga K. Jeppson
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When I married I moved next...
Alice Spohn Newton
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Charles A. Wells, A. E. Boultby, Ralph H. Pino