Editorial May 8, 1976 Issue

The Dynamics of Being

Geoffrey J. Barratt

So much of our life is related to movement. Everything moves. Even the things we see about us and that seem still are rotating along with this planet. Our bodies and our machines move. When they do so concordantly, all is well. When not, we have troubles.

All that is real—which, according to the definition of Christian Science, is all that is purely spiritual—is moved by God, and to good ends. It is moved by the dynamism of being, the energies of Life. That which is apparently material is moved by material consciousness and is a concept of this supposed consciousness. It's liable to discord, accident, breakdown, death.

"God's interpretation of Himself," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "furnishes man with the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine definition of Deity differs essentially from the human. It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning, when 'all things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made.' " ^{Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 258-259;} Our health and our experience in general go better as we understand through Science the divine Life, God, which moves, plans, and cares for all things.