IN the first chapter of the fourth Gospel, the beloved disciple John says: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." As this all-important statement is understood, one clearly and readily realizes the great fact that there is but one creator and one creation. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in perfect concord with the teaching of Holy Writ, presents God, the only cause and creator, as infinite intelligence, eternal Life, unlimited Love, almighty power.
We learn in the study and application of Christian Science that this great creative divine Principle, or source, from which comes all that really exists, is both Father and Mother, is the one and only substance, the all-knowing divine Mind. Inasmuch as like begets like, the creation of divine Mind, the only creation there is or can be, must be the spiritual manifestation or reflection of Mind, consisting of pure and perfect ideas, wholly mental and spiritual. God, divine Mind, is the one eternal, self-existent Being, forever expressed through His ideas; and, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 503 of Science and Health, "These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God." Christian Science has rendered mankind an invaluable service in teaching and proving the truth that man is never for an instant separated from God, or from what God bestows. Therefore, students of Christian Science are enabled to rejoice with the Apostle Paul in the right sense of sufficiency, when he declares, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God."
One of the mistakes of mortals is to believe that the seat of intelligence is the brain. Frequently we hear it said of a man that he has a good head and knows how to use it, implying that right thinking and acting are dependent upon a brain, nonintelligent matter, which if analyzed chemically would be found to be composed largely of water; and all will readily admit that matter cannot think. Here Christian Science comes to the rescue by showing clearly that because God is Mind, and God's idea, man, is the full, complete, perfect, eternal reflection or manifestation of Mind, man's intelligence depends solely upon God, divine Mind, and the harmonious spiritual functioning of that Mind.
