Whatever is revealed of God is God expressed. The mode of God's expression constitutes spiritual law; and spiritual law governs God's idea or expression, man. What God said, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, is His declaration of Himself and His creation, expressed in His spiritual universe of infinite ideas. But since the Adam-dream seemingly recorded itself in human consciousness, revelations of God have appeared to men as divine law unfolding the way of deliverance from the dream.
What are some of the divine unfoldments of law; and how have they become established among men? The earliest permanent mandate given to humanity was the Ten Commandments. These definite Thou-shalt-nots determined at once a mental boundary over which the Israelites were not to pass, and which cut them off religiously from all the other peoples of the time. The first four of these statutes, the fiat of the great I am, define our relationship to our Maker. The six following commands define our relationship to our fellowmen; and though commonly known as the moral law, the Christian Scientist understands that all moral mandates have a common root in spiritual law.
In the degree that the Jews were obedient to this moral code it became the means whereby God was their guide and protector. In it they found health, moral and physical cleanliness, individual and national prosperity. Contrariwise, every step in disobedience thereto brought the exact reverse. Thus they proved for themselves, through repeated experience, that the only way of safety and happiness lay in obedience to divine law. Chronologically first in God's plan for mankind's redemption, the Ten Commandments are and must ever remain first in each individual's redemptive process as the basic foundational law, without which the spiritual superstructure is impossible. They are the first stones in all spiritual building and healing, and are never to be lost sight of.
