ONENESS of mind in the upper room of consciousness, effected through scientific demonstration, is the marvel of this age. Many minds, many opinions, and diverse ways, is the rule of human belief, based upon personal sense-testimony. That many people, however, can come together, of one accord, one mind, one opinion, and give united expression to this opinion, has been proven possible many times in the history of the Christian Science movement; and to those who understand the process of reasoning which brings this result, it is no miracle, but the simple working out of the operation of divine Principle, acting through divine law and proven by absolute rule.
There is every reason why this phenomenon should be apparent in all the work of the Christian Science movement, individual, collective, universal. It is grounded in the fact that there is but one Mind, one intelligence, and that one infinite. We have already attained to this recognition; it is a present fact. All men should have one Mind, the eternal one; not two, not many, but one. Why, then, in this our day of Pentecost, should there seem to be diverse opinions, minority and majority reports? Where is our rule of right reasoning, fixed and sure as the rule of multiplication? Our Leader has said that "for right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence." "If you wish to know the spiritual fact, you can discover it by reversing the material fable, be the fable pro or con,—be it in accord with your preconceptions or utterly contrary to them" (Science and Health, pp. 492, 129). Here we have two rules, so simple that he who runs may read, and they are ready for us to apply in every time of need.
Given the same problem to work out, and a stated basic law and rule of mathematics, we would each obtain the same answer. We would use our individual method, do our own thinking, make our figures differently, one perhaps take a shorter cut than another, one perhaps plod, the other run, but we would all reach the same conclusion, get the correct answer to the problem. In mathematics we are not free agents. Because we desire to be original, or because we think it a better method, we cannot put tens in the hundreds column, add when we should subtract, or multiply when we should divide. In architecture, too, there are fixed relations which must be honored, as in music there are rules of harmony which must be observed or discord results.
