Editorial March 4, 1972 Issue

The Unity of God and Man

Alan A. Aylwin

The unity of God and man is not the coming together of separate entities. It is the primal and unchanging order of being. The oneness and allness of God, Spirit, and His creation has existed forever, and the understanding of it was the basis of Christ Jesus' incomparable healing practice. He said, "I and my Father are one." John 10:30; And he prayed that all those who followed him would "be made perfect in one." 17:23;

The deep spirituality of Jesus' teaching and practice runs counter to material sense testimony, which bears witness to a universe of separate—often diseased and dissonant—material persons and things, with God nowhere in sight. But the opacity of discordant matter can be penetrated as study and prayer awaken spiritual sense—that overriding, God-endowed faculty which reveals God and His universe as they actually exist.

Little by little we gain glimpses of God as all-encompassing being—the substance, life, intelligence, and action of all that He creates. We learn that He is infinite Mind and His creation is His subjective state, His thoughts or ideas. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts." Science and Health, p. 114; And the Apostle Paul remarks, "In him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Acts 17:28;

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