Article February 9, 1981 Issue

The forces we tread on

ALFRED F. SCHNEIDER

The harmony-producing forces of divine Spirit, God, are evidenced in such impelling qualities of thought as wisdom and intelligence, purity and perfection, holiness and joy, which constitute man in God's image. Spiritual forces are unerring in their operation. They are laws of God that express His almighty will for good. They are active not just somewhere but everywhere, controlling all and protecting everything that is God-derived in human experience. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things. We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to divine Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification." Science and Health, p. 124.

There has never been a moment when anything but Spirit was real, never a moment when there existed a creation that could lapse into imperfection, or a man who could die. Man, the immortal expression of Life without beginning or end, could never fall from perfection or be separated from good. He has no consciousness but that which is good, no Mind or Life but God.

Spirit is the only real Life of man, the only real substance of his being, the divine Principle that assures his eternal continuity. Man is the complete representation of inexhaustible Spirit. Concepts that are limiting, conditions resulting from the belief of life in matter or material forces at work, do not apply to man. Irritations, diseases, restrictions, and insufficiencies apply to the mortal, and through Science we put aside progressively the mortal view of being. We identify ourselves more consistently as the man of God rather than as a finite mortal. The result is regeneration, healing.

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