"God's law is in three words, 'I am All;' and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law." This incisive statement is found on page 30 of "No and Yes" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and it reveals the simple, scientific method of eradicating all that is unlike good. If we really establish in thought a clear sense of God's allness, nothing unlike the infinite idea can remain in our experience. This vivid sense of reality may be only momentary, but in this moment the law of God's allness has been obeyed, and it must inevitably rebuke "any claim of another law."

There is no material law to contest the divine government. Mortal mind and its subjective state called matter are really nonexistent. They have therefore no conscious starting point from which to formulate the so-called laws which claim to enslave mankind. Divine Mind alone is conscious, and no other intelligence exists. Mind's law is as all-pervasive as is Mind's knowing. No suggestion of another law can therefore possibly exist, because there is no other mind to know it.

No law-enforcement problem exists under the divine government. Mrs. Eddy shows us why this is so on page 258 of "Miscellaneous Writings." She says: "In the spiritual Genesis of creation, all law was vested in the Lawgiver, who was a law to Himself. In divine Science, God is One and All; and, governing Himself, He governs the universe." Divine law and its enforcement then are one. This law is omnipresent and omnipotent, and its enforcement is instantaneous and irresistible. God's law is wholly good; and when understood and obeyed, this law brings abundant good into every department of our lives.

The term Principle when applied to Deity gives us a sense of the invariable rightness, the perfect order, the unchanging beneficence of the divine Lawgiver. Because divine Principle, Mind, includes man and the universe within itself, then the rightness, order, and beneficence of the divine nature are inevitably the condition and experience of God's creation.

Students of Christian Science demonstrate their knowledge of divine Principle in cheerful obedience to the laws of the land, in strict honesty and fair dealing with others, in accurate and well-organized work, and in the maintenance of a tasteful, ordered, uncluttered environment. A disciplined, well-ordered life expresses that quiet, poised, unhurried state of mind which most clearly sees the divine verities.

How true it is that the law of God's allness can only be understood by those who have, in some degree, silenced the unruly forcefulness or self-will of human personality. To be aware of God as All, we must put on the garments of meekness and humility and mentally bow before the great I AM which fills heaven and earth.

Basically, all the ills and inharmonies of mankind result from a lack of understanding of the law of God's allness. Mortal man thinks he possesses a personal mind of his own, resident in a physical body, and that this impossible mixture can say, "I am." This misuse of the personal pronoun "I" separates man, in belief, from his divine source; it disobeys the primal law of being, for God alone can say, "I AM," and His "law is in three words, 'I am All.'"

On page 216 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says: "The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense. This understanding makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters." And further on she writes, "Give up your material belief of mind in matter, and have but one Mind, even God; for this Mind forms its own likeness."

The foregoing quotation indicates with crystal clarity the law underlying all health or wholeness. God, Mind, must be understood, not as part but as the whole of being. This Mind includes all within its infinite oneness, and man is the distinct identity which Mind creates. Since God is All, then man must be made of the divine substance; he must know only what God has created; and he must reflect God in all his activities. Since God is good, and God is All, then man must be eternally aware of radiant health, ageless being, and inexhaustible supply.

Christ Jesus' works and words indicate that he was supremely aware of God's law. His understanding of Mind's oneness and allness was so vivid, so consistently absolute, that all phases of error simply disappeared in the radiance of his pure consciousness. The Gospel narratives indicate that Jesus maintained the clarity and continuity of his spiritual realization by regular periods of prayer and communion with his heavenly Father.

Jesus took the time to feed himself with the bread of Life, the consciousness of his oneness, or unity, with the All-God. This spiritual food gave him such joy, serenity, and dominion that he prayed concerning those who believed on him (John 17:21), "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."

The completeness which comes through oneness with God can be ours also if we take the time and make the effort, as Jesus did, to cultivate the true sense of being. The divine Mind is ceaselessly maintaining its edict, "I am All." But to bring this great fact into our lives and to make it practical in the minutiae of daily living, we must realize and accept the fact that right where we are our real life is in God. Yes, we must begin from this absolute standpoint, however attenuated our present understanding or demonstration may seem to be.

Within God's all-inclusive love we find the completeness, the deep satisfaction, the buoyancy, which heals and saves. The harmony of divine Love is what the Psalmist called "the secret place of the most High."

Let us humbly thank the great Giver of all good that He has revealed Himself in His fullness through the pure transparency of our Leader's thought. May we so live in obedience to God's law that through our example others will be drawn to the beauty of this law and will yield to its beneficent sway. As Jesus admonished (Matt. 5:16), "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."