If we all knew that our health, our happiness, and our accomplishments are the products of our thoughts, rather than the result of heredity, environment, or opportunity, the mode and method of our thinking would be our chief concern. Yet, there is no divergence between such an assumption and the admission that thought is necessarily the forerunner or basis of all action. It was Shakespeare who said, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
No thinking person denies the existence of some sort of governing intelligence, although this may be given many different names. But men differ widely on whether it is good, or bad, or both. Belief in an uncertain duality, confusing and contradictory, is the parting point of the various religious philosophies; whereas the oneness and allness of God is the starting point of Christian Science.
Christian Science accepts unreservedly the Biblical explanation of this governing intelligence as being the universal Father, the only cause or creator, too good to have any consciousness of or participation in evil or iniquity; the God who is wise, just, and impartial, being "no respecter of persons," caste, race, or creed. God is incorporeal Spirit, the supreme, all-inclusive Being, or eternal Life, the primal consciousness of all that is true, enduring, real. God is ever-present Love, whose tender, infinite care is so far-reaching that, as Jesus said, not a sparrow falls on the ground without our Father, and the hairs of our head are all numbered.
