The allness of God is a fundamental doctrine of Christian Science. This Science reveals the great spiritual reality that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient; that man is the perpetual expression of His presence, power, and wisdom. All that belongs to God is reflected by man. Therefore it is our opportunity each moment and every hour to be conscious of the harmony of our true selfhood as God's reflection, unfettered and untouched by the evidence before the material senses. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 151), "All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal."

That God is omnipresent, many intelligent thinkers agree. The Psalmist sang (73:25), "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." The Christian Science student rejoices that God is all-presence, and he strives to hold to this truth amid all the exigencies of a mortal sense of existence. He learns through study and demonstration that the material senses, which argue incessantly for the reality of inharmony and suffering, cannot enter or appear in the infinite presence of Spirit.

Someone may ask, "How can you say that there is no evil when the world is holding it constantly before you?" The answer is that through Christian Science treatment evil's unreality is constantly being proved. This assures the ultimate annihilation of all evil. We also learn in Christian Science that evil's seeming presence is but a false belief of a false mind, the carnal or mortal mind, an illusion or dream from which mortals need to awaken. To heal in Christian Science, then, we must know the all-presence and all-power of God, good, so clearly that evil's pretense to reality fails to convince us, impress us, or cause us to waver. In the realization of the ever-presence of infinite Love, error disappears.

It is written in the Scriptures (Rom. 13:1): "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." Since God is all-power, it follows that His power is infinite, unchangeable, all-inclusive good, absolute and final. His power is never expressed through erring human will, since He is divine Principle, Love, and is never conscious of anything unlike Himself. Man as the idea of God, Mind, is subject alone to the status and power that derive from the allness of God. Therefore there can be no effect, not one, except of God's making. It is therefore impossible for disease and discord to gain control over man.

Speaking of human power, Mrs. Eddy has this to say: "Erring power is a material belief, blind miscalled force, the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mortal mind and not of the immortal" (Science and Health, p. 192). Consequently, the evidence of a power other than God, from the blight of frost to a falling star, is an illusion of the material senses and is unknown to omnipotent Spirit. The so-called pleasures of matter are equally illusive because they are based on the same false premise as its suffering—the belief in something besides all-inclusive good and a perpetually satisfied man. Man as the idea of Spirit has only the sensibility derived from the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting Mind.

God being omniscient, His knowledge includes all that exists. Man, as the individual expression of God, is eternally conscious of the oneness and allness of His wisdom and of the joy, opportunity, and harmony which are therein. Man, as the individual reflection of divine Mind, knows and sees the effect of God. Divine wisdom forever causes man to be conscious of his God-determined place and activity in the order of spiritual progress.

Everything which seems to exist outside this allness of God, or Spirit, is in the realm of supposition. This belief in a power called evil claims to have ascendancy at times over good. It is both a scientific and a spiritual impossibility for good to be overcome of evil. To admit that evil can triumph over good is to admit the utterly illogical and inexact premise of two first causes, one good and one evil, eternally at war with one another.

The so-called human mind would present to the world mental pictures of goodness overcome of evil, honesty defeated by deception, abundance reduced to lack, a seemingly just and loving person afflicted by illness; and the question is sometimes asked, "Why should this person suffer when he has been so honest and good?" The answer is that the human mind believes in the reality of evil and so suffers from this belief.

One's ability to correct an erroneous condition is weakened when honesty of purpose is allowed to become mixed with fear or with a belief in the reality and power of dishonesty. One thus becomes the victim, not of dishonesty, but of his own idolatrous belief in its reality and the fear of its ability to harm. Admitting no power other than God, good, and no man other than the man of God's creating, one will not become the victim of fraud but will prove his dominion over it.

By knowing that one's true self is inseparable from God's presence, one is able to deny the mesmeric suggestions that fraud, disease, and lack have intelligence and presence, and so neutralize their results. It is at the door of one's own thought that every evil suggestion must be detected and rejected. What the world thinks is of small consequence; but what one accepts of the world's erroneous thinking as reality constitutes the problem. Evil suggestion is destroyed by the recognition of the omnipresence of God. In the measure that we realize this divine presence we are enabled to correct and eliminate the false beliefs regarding disease and sin. The allness of Spirit is not something which can be weighed with the human or material. Mrs. Eddy makes this quite clear in Science and Health, where she says (p. 445), "You render the divine law of healing obscure and void, when you weigh the human in the scale with the divine, or limit in anydirection of thought the omnipresence and omnipotence of God."

When mortal mind argues an insufficiency of supply to meet our needs, are we accepting less than the allness of All? Are we looking to the suppositional substance of matter to meet a need that is wholly spiritual? Are we satisfied with just a little of good? Then let us look away from the finite sense of things to infinite Love, which freely supplies our every need. Let us never be satisfied with a measurement of good that is less than all. God is the source of all benefits received by man, and there is no partiality in His bestowals. Then should we ever be content to believe we have but a partial supply or a partial healing? No, we should claim the completeness of harmony, now and always.

Man's identity and condition are not determined by persons and things, but by the infinite Mind, which governs and maintains him in eternal perfection and completeness. When this scientific fact is understood, we shall cease struggling to demonstrate material things and find our completeness in God, who includes all.