Editorial December 22, 1973 Issue

Christ Jesus and the Kingdom Within

Geoffrey J. Barratt

To Christ Jesus the kingdom of God, the realm of all good, was always vividly at hand and included by man, God's emanation. This was a natural consequence of his conviction of God's categorical allness. And his conclusions were mightily practical.

Mrs. Eddy comments on this aspect of his teaching: "Jesus came announcing Truth, and saying not only 'the kingdom of God is at hand,' but 'the kingdom of God is within you.' Hence there is no sin, for God's kingdom is everywhere and supreme, and it follows that the human kingdom is nowhere, and must be unreal. Jesus taught and demonstrated the infinite as one, and not as two. He did not teach that there are two deities,—one infinite and the other finite; for that would be impossible."^{No and Yes, pp. 35, 36;}

To realize—and to live the realization—that the infinite is one, and is spiritual and good, is to enjoy today the kingdom of God to which Christ Jesus referred. To think that the infinite is somehow accompanied by a finite experience and creation is to suffer, in some measure, the illusive opposite of the kingdom of God.

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