Article July 3, 1954 Issue

DIVINE EXPRESSION VERSUS MATERIAL GETTING

CONSTANCE PINWILL

Christian Science teaches and proves that there is only one Mind—divine Principle, Love —and that this Mind, or divine Principle, is God. The Bible records God's message (Isa. 45:5). "I am the Lord, and there is none else." Throughout the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy this fact is continually emphasized. This Mind is entirely good and incapable of creating or permitting evil in any form. We read in Genesis (1:31), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy tells us (p. 295): "God creates and governs the universe, including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them." The real universe being already filled with God's ideas, which are infinite, eternal, and entirely good, it is clear that there can be no space for anything else. Where, then, do the seeming many minds, often apparently manifesting great evil, come from? They cannot come from God, for evil, having no Principle, no intelligence —though it often poses as being both clever and powerful—has no origin in God, who is divine Principle. Therefore these so-called minds, which claim to create and act materially, must be false beliefs —illusions, not facts.

Why, then, since God is the only power, the only Principle, does it seem so much more difficult at times to perceive and use God's ideas than it does to come under the domination of these false beliefs or mortal mind? To answer this question, let us examine somewhat the opposite natures of mortal mind and divine Mind. This may help us to understand how to destroy false beliefs through understanding divine ideas and their basis, and so find freedom from the bondage of evil.

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