In a recent letter the question was raised, in what sense God is declared, in Science and Health, to be a Principle. The dictionaries give several definitions, among them these: a rule of action, a general truth. One friend asks: In which of these senses is the word used, when God is called a Principle?
This query must be amended in one point. In Science and Health, God is never called a principle, as if He were one of many; but the Divine Principle, or simply Principle. We should not say, Deity is a Principle, but Deity is Principle; just as we say God is Truth, God is Good, God is Light, God is Substance, God is Spirit, God is Soul, Intelligence, Mind, Life, Love; not God is a truth, a soul, an intelligence, and so on.
Webster gives deeper definitions of principle than those cited above:—
