One of the profound lessons taught by our Master was that of impersonalizing good. He took no credit to himself for his righteousness, but gave God the glory. When an inquirer addressed him as "Good Master," Christ Jesus said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." He knew that all good is included in the one divine Mind; that the real, spiritual man, his true selfhood, is the reflection of God, good.
Christian Science is restating this great lesson of Christianity. It is revealing the spiritually liberating fact that every right thought originates in God, and not in the individual who entertains it. God expresses Himself through man, His spiritual idea. The real man thus expresses the nature of his creator.
In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 291), "Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession of 'the mind of the Lord,' as the Scripture says." Men aspire to attain to the kingdom of heaven; but few realize how they thwart their own purpose by believing that good originates with person, rather than with God, Principle.
