"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." This opening sentence of the Bible should furnish the foundation for Christian thinking. When building a house, the primal necessity is a solid foundation. It is equally imperative when doing correct mental work to start with God, with divine Principle, whom James describes as having "no variableness, neither shadow of turning." A simple, clear statement of Truth paves the way for a more abundant understanding of the presence and power of Spirit, and of man as its reflection.
That even "in the beginning" God already was, that He is the creator, and that He has a creation—the spiritual creation—are facts which plainly indicate that He is infinite and eternal. The realization of these truths causes limiting beliefs about God and man to disappear. It constitutes our God-given dominion, for we demonstrate the qualities of divine Mind through our spiritual understanding. Only the right thinker is free; and the more such a thinker thinks, the more clearly does Spirit appear to him. Scientific right thinking causes mortal mind's agnosticism and skepticism to vanish before the sublime grandeur of the eternal and infinite.
During the more than half a century that has elapsed since Mary Baker Eddy gave to the world "the scientific statement of being," to be found in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), righteous thinkers have been crossing the Euphrates, which she defines in part as "metaphysics taking the place of physics" (ibid.,p. 585). This mental migration has resulted from the ever increasing recognition that God's power is superior to all mortal means and methods, that divine inspiration makes possible achievements which put to shame the petty accomplishments of mere worldly wisdom. The materialistic theories of the nineteenth century are breaking; and now, at the beginning of the second quarter of the twentieth century, the material counterfeits of eternity and infinity are seen to totter.
