Editorial August 31, 1974 Issue

Ever-present Being versus Coming and Going

Geoffrey J. Barratt

In the degree that we're willing to adopt the Science of being, even though it may seem demanding and radical, we can enjoy a more satisfying sense of life and impart it to others. This happens as we see that good—all that is real—does not come and go.

In loneliness we may look for love, presupposing Love's, God's, absence. We may yearn for love to come. But through Science we can prove that the presence of love is a consequence of the presence of Love. No one who has a scientific conviction of God's actuality at this place and at this time will feel lonely, even though the human situation may be our living in an unfamiliar country, or disregard from a neglectful family. The seeming coming and going of love belongs to a personal sense of self; but spiritual sense recognizes that love—the love of Love—is eternally universal, incapable of flowing, then ebbing.

To absolute spiritual sense, all actual life and love, all substance and truth—all real being—is divine and ever present. Material comings and goings that seem to take place, including our apparent arriving into matter at conception and birth and our leaving it at death, are illusory. "If God is ever present," Mrs. Eddy reasons, "He is neither absent from Himself nor from the universe." ^{Unity of Good, p. 60;} Further along, "Coming and going belong to mortal consciousness. God is 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.' "^{ibid., p. 61;}

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