Editorial October 1, 1955 Issue

INFINITE ONENESS

Helen Wood Bauman

Regardless of the tensions prevalent in the world, one can see that mankind are drawing together. An integration is taking place, and a new order is appearing. Freedom from limitation and equality of opportunity are the demands of the age. This new order is in accord with the revelation of Christian Science that there is a law of God which binds the universe of Spirit in one harmonious whole. This law is the fact of God's infinite oneness. God is One because He is All. Being All, He includes all reality. And being Mind, His creation is made up of ideas, or identities, which combine in countless relationships to manifest the nature and perpetual activity of their one source.

Christian Science unfolds the facts of spiritual oneness, and it works these facts out in practical ways. In "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy presents a colloquy in which good and evil discourse. At one point good declares to evil (p. 24), "Your assumptions insist that there is more than the one Mind, more than the one God; but verily I say unto you, God is All-in-all; and you can never be outside of His oneness." Every least expression of genuine good is inseparable from God; it cannot originate apart from Him. But evil, because it is no part of God's nature, is forever outside of real existence, forever unreal. And this fact is what Science proves as it heals the sinful and suffering.

The individual who recognizes the oneness of good, seeing all moral and spiritual purity as evidence of Mind's action, is quick to acknowledge his neighbor's unity with God. In this appreciation one finds his own relation with universal good. This heartfelt appreciation excludes the possibility of envy and of unkind comparisons. If mountains could think, one might imagine a peak which was still in darkness rejoicing that the peak whose crest was high above the others had caught the illumination of a fresh dawn. The spiritual enlightenment of one individual who has lifted his thought above the sordid materialism of the world hails the full light of God's presence, which is destined to be known to all men. We cannot escape oneness. Man's oneness with God as His expression and his oneness with all that God makes is man's immortal heritage.

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