"IN him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Paul's unequivocal, spiritually undebatable declaration sets forth man's habitation, environment, and individuality for all to contemplate and understand. The material senses, with their mortal view of sickness, sin, and death, did not reveal this eternal truth to Paul, for the statement is a complete denial of all that those senses present. This direct affirmation was inspired by the spiritual recognition of life in God, of man's spiritual individuality or identity. God being Spirit, infinite and eternal, and man being coexistent with God, man's life and individuality are spiritual and eternal, and man possesses by reflection unlimited capabilities in the activity of good. In no way, then, can materiality, with its dream of sin, disease, and death, touch spiritual man.
This same truth is again brought to the attention of mankind by Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." On pages 203 and 204 of this textbook she writes, "God is at once the centre and circumference of being." Here Mrs. Eddy, whose vision and thinking had risen above material beliefs to the spiritual sense of being, declares that the life, activity, and being of man center in and are circumscribed by God.
But let not the student think or even consider that these spiritual bounds are limited. It will be noted that while Mrs. Eddy states that "God is ... the centre and circumference of being," she makes no attempt to define all that exists between "centre and circumference," for human language is inadequate to describe the infinitude or majesty of God's reflection. In infinite Life, Truth, and Love, discernible only to spiritual consciousness, God's ideas move in perfect harmony. God, "infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love" (Science and Health, p. 465), surrounds, strengthens, supports, and protects all His ideas.
