On page 587 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is found the following definition: "Good. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action." Since God, infinite good, is omniactive, it follows that nothing else is active as consciousness. Good being the only real consciousness, or Mind, the suppositional opposite of good, called evil, is without consciousness, action, or power.
Omniactive good, God, is the one creative Principle, the only cause, the sole source of all that actually exists as effect or creation. Creation, then, partaking of the nature of its cause or inducement, may be rightly regarded as the infinite manifestation or activity of Mind, Soul, Spirit. Therefore, nothing inert or inactive expresses the nature of God, infinite good.
Matter, in and of itself, expresses no activity. Considered apart from so-called mortal mind, it cannot even simulate activity. Its apparent ability to act is due entirely to supposed laws of this false, mortal mentality —the belief of intelligence apart from or outside of the one infinite intelligence, or Mind, called God. Since Mind, God, is the only real intelligence, and since He is not expressed or manifested in or through matter, matter is without actual cause, power, law, or action.
