"The allness of Deity is His oneness" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 267), is one of the most profound statements in the Christian Science textbook. The fuller meanings with which its author, Mary Baker Eddy, invests the words "allness" and "oneness" may seem difficult for the beginner to grasp, since even to the more advanced student these important words, as applied to the nature of Deity, continue to unfold as he progresses.

The smallest understanding of this fundamental statement will work great changes in our thinking. As we ponder it, we begin to grasp that the all-inclusiveness of Mind, God, precludes any separation of idea from its source; that in this oneness of Deity individual man is included as reflection, the very image of his creator, the Father-Mother, Life and Love. How gratefully we learn that in the Science of creation there is no aloneness for man, but he is one with God's allness as Mind's idea, for as compound idea he reflects infinity. Thus we see that supply, home, each right idea necessary to our well-being, is always present in the allness of Mind and through spiritual understanding ever available.

The omnipotence of divine Principle, Love, is ever present throughout spiritual creation, and man witnesses to this power through his inherent obedience to Principle. To human sense this divine order becomes apparent in every right activity—church work, profession or business, and recreation; but, in reality, true witnessing is the being of Love's expression, the unlabored showing forth of the substance of Spirit.

The meaning of oneness and allness unfolding in our consciousness awakens us to the illusive nature of materiality and its counterfeit creation. Thus we see that this so-called creation is the subversion of allness and oneness. Separated from God, its so-called man—a mortal with a mind of his own, surrounded by millions of other mortals with their own separate minds—is limited and finite, his so-called life a short span of years between birth and death. But Christian Science teaches that this plurality of minds cannot express the oneness of infinite Mind. When we perceive this, our eyes are opened to the deceptiveness of all evil and we realize how we may begin to destroy its seeming power.

Putting off this false sense of plurality through an increased understanding of God's allness and oneness and of man's individual being in that allness, we begin to lose fear—fear of disease, of loss, of failure, of other mortals, and above all fear of death, which has as its base the fear of the unknown. Proportionately as this freedom from fear is gained, better health and more success in our undertakings are apparent, with an accompanying lessening of fatigue. Christ Jesus, who best knew man's oneness with the Father as His reflection, was fearless and counseled his followers to "fear not." His authority for this was his understanding of man's oneness with God, expressed in the words, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). This was at once his glory and his humility, his triumph and his submission.

In reviewing past years to ascertain her progress, one student of this Science perceived that her progress had consisted in the growing understanding of and proportionate gratitude for man's unity or oneness with his divine Principle, Love. In her experience there have been many healings and overcoming; there have been also stumbles and delays; but in proportion as she has declared understandingly and consistently the allness of God and man's inseparable unity with Him, materiality has lessened its hold on her thought, the light of Truth has brightened her path, and a measure of success in her career has been manifested.

The understanding of Love's allness and inclusiveness is the light that will eventually dispel all the darkness of materiality. Expectantly we may watch for its increased appearing as it radiates in consciousness, gently and surely blessing all. Let us rejoice that our awakening to this light is now, not in some distant future; that now, this very instant, we may claim and prove man's relation with his divine Principle, all-inclusive, infinite Love.