Article July 22, 1967 Issue

There Is Nothing Outside of God

[Original in German]

HANS LIESEGANG

We can go out of a house and look at it from the outside, but no one can go outside of God. No one can look at Him from the outside. Nor is it possible to look out from God as one looks out of the window of a house to see what is going on outside. God, Spirit, has no outside. There is nothing outside of Him, for He is All. Nothing else exists, nothing else has reality, for God is the only creator.

God did not create aught that could be ill and die, for God is Life. Life excludes death, and there is no place where Life is not. Everything that exists is in Life and can never be lost out of it. A mortal, material body does not represent our true being. God does not beget matter, for He is Spirit. Paul said, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28;} Christian Science teaches us that to live in Spirit, we must be spiritual. We cannot be material, since there is only God, Spirit, and His idea, the real or spiritual man. This is the divine message of the Christ that Jesus brought to the human family.

The words from II Corinthians, "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord,"^{II Cor. 5:6;} do not contradict the foregoing. The material body, with all the notions about it, is a belief of mortal mind to which we seem to be subject. He who believes that he is in a material body, or that a material body is his ego, should endeavor to understand the oneness, or unity, of God and man. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence."^{Science and Health, p. 588;} The understanding of God's allness destroys the belief of a mortal mind and of a mortal man living in a material body. What God does not have, man does not have. As the father in Jesus' parable said to his elder son, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine."^{Luke 15:31;}