Harmony is the omnipresent idea of Mind. It is inseparable from the Principle which governs it. The real man is the image and likeness of God, Mind, and is in consequence established in that harmony which means at-one-ment with God, from whom he is inseparable. Were there a separation, there would cease to be an image and likeness, for the image and likeness, the reflection, is dependent upon its oneness with that which it reflects in order to exist. Fundamentally, only that which is real exists, so that it quite obviously follows that the harmony in which man lives as the idea of Mind, being real, is permanent and indestructible, never subject to discord or inharmony, which are clearly outside of infinite, all-inclusive living governed by Principle.
All Mind is indeed God; therefore all the knowing there is dwells in and emanates from this Mind, which is the only consciousness there can be. All that really knows is conscious, is real, self-existent, self-creative, and harmonious. Since man's business is one with him in consciousness, it partakes of the nature that he is expressing, so that as he recognizes harmony as his inalienable right as the idea of Mind governed by Principle, he claims for his business, his undertaking, his home, his family, in fact his all that same harmony in proportion to his understanding of his at-one-ment with Principle.
This man who is one with Mind is, of course, very far removed from the false human concept, the Adam-man, who admits as natural the endless category of ills which mortal belief claims human flesh to be heir to. This mortal man accepts the taking of disease as a part of life, hatred as legitimate, revenge as human. Now what is particularly interesting in all this is that this mortal man recognizes that conditions and emotions thus aroused are far from harmonious or conducive to happiness, that disease often leads to death, that hatred, anger, envy, revenge cause misery and unhappiness, and frequently sickness. Nevertheless, mankind is willing to accept all this as according to nature, and make God responsible by calling Him the creator of discord as well as of harmony. That conditions of inharmony are undesirable scarcely needs to be proved, as it has been the fear of such predicaments that has been at the root of all the affliction of humanity since time began. No remedy had been found that could be relied upon to correct these inharmonies until Mary Baker Eddy rediscovered, through her study of the Bible, the healing practiced by Jesus the Christ. By the application of Principle which she found underlay all the so-called miracles, she learned and taught that as false thinking is replaced by right thinking, inharmony is found to be superseded by harmony, and nothing needs to be altered but the false mental concept. This correction is both Christian and scientific, therefore it is subject to proof and is unfailing.
