Through Christian Science we learn that our true and only being is in divine Mind, from which we spring, and from which we can never be separated. We also learn that the divine Mind can never be at odds with itself, hence can never be imperfect and inharmonious; that, consequently, everything which belongs to this Mind—the spiritual universe including man—partakes of this divine perfection. Christian Science is proving to us that the nature of real and eternal being refers only to what exists within the unity and perfection of God and His creation, and that everything which contradicts this true testimony is unreal, transitory, and illusive. From this it follows that no enmity of any sort belongs to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of reality; that enmity has no power over the real man, and no divine cause.
But how does it happen that so-called enmity plays such a part in the relations of men? Is not the divine and eternal fact of harmonious being, which encompasses man's true nature, powerful enough to prevent the uprising and working of enmity? Is there anything in man's true nature which contradicts the one divine Principle of eternal, harmonious being, and is at the mercy of another supposed power that can interfere with the omnipotence of good?
This conflict cannot exist in Truth, because the real and eternal is self-existent, indestructible, hence unassailable, and as Isaiah states, "I am the Lord: . . . and my glory will I not give to another." In the infinite universe of Spirit there is no room for the opposition or resistance of an evil power. Eternal Spirit says, "I AM THAT I AM," and the same absoluteness holds good for His creation, from which He is never separated. At no time and in no place in infinite Spirit is there room for the belief that the world was made by a pact between the eternal Principle and its supposed opposite. This belief exists only in mortal mind, as do all other false beliefs. Here alone is the belief in enmity found.
