AFTER referring to John's vision of "a new heaven and a new earth," Mary Baker Eddy, on page 91 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," points the way to right thinking about government in the question, "Have you ever pictured this heaven and earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme wisdom?"
Peter, in his second epistle, after foretelling the dissolution of the material sense of heaven and earth, declares that, according to God's promise, it is our privilege to "look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." In discerning this new, true idea of creation, we find that all God's children are happily employed under the government of divine Mind, working together for good. No conflicting human opinions or selfish human wills hide the present reality of spiritual law; no apparent fermentation of evil denies the activity and supremacy of good. The children of God rejoice in the order and beauty of His kingdom, and each individual idea reflects the universal harmony.
With this true picture of spiritual government before us, we feel no dismay at the dissolving of human misconceptions of government. Mortal mind has built its social systems on the belief that man-made laws are real; that human will and intellect have power to govern man. Being, however, a lawbreaker rather than a lawmaker, mortal mind repudiates its own so-called law and denies the existence of spiritual law and a divine Lawgiver, thus uncovering its owyn essential lawlessness and the unreality of its counterfeit concepts of law and government. When mortals are fully convinced of the illusiveness of these concepts, they will seek refuge in the law of Mind. What does our Leader say of this? We read (Science and Health, p. 106): "God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love."
