Editorial November 11, 1972 Issue

Indivisibility—The Law of Harmony

Alan A. Aylwin

Christian Science unfolds the primal oneness of all being. It teaches that God is One and All, the infinite, indivisible Life, Soul, or Mind, who creates and includes within Himself His perfect universe of spiritual thoughts, or ideas.

Mary Baker Eddy made the remarkable discovery that the understanding of this unity of good acts as a law that is the very basis of health and harmony. Conversely, she saw that all difficult problems—physical, moral, social, political, economic—spring from the false belief that creation is divided into a multiplicity of separately functioning parts, all living and operating on their own, all separated from God, their creative source. This belief urges the false view that there are as many minds as there are material personalities, and as many lives as there are physical bodies.

In her book Retrospection and Introspection Mrs. Eddy writes, "Whatever diverges from the one divine Mind, or God,—or divides Mind into minds, Spirit into spirits, Soul into souls, and Being into beings,—is a misstatement of the unerring divine Principle of Science, which interrupts the meaning of the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of Spirit, and is of human instead of divine origin."^{ Ret., p. 56;}