"Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love," constitutes the "diapason of heaven" constantly accentuated by the real Christian Scientist. In this way, Mary Baker Eddy poetically expresses herself in "Miscellaneous Writings" (see page 206: 19-23). This statement shows forth the fundamental nature of the divine cause and its purpose. It simultaneously reveals the loving genius of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and man's infinite possibilities to love and be loved. It liberates love from the limitation, contradiction, perversion, and poverty of personal sense. It defines Love in its original grandeur, infinity, indivisibility, immutability, divinity, and enduring nature. It not only includes love as the effect of God in the way St. John saw it when discerning that "God is love," but it also stresses Love to be the very Principle of all real existence, the only Being, Mind, Life, Truth, Soul, intelligence.
As a result of this, it becomes possible to discern man's real or divine status as not being affected by the restrictions of material sense. On the contrary, it is evident, as the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, reveals, that man is "the compound idea of God, including all right ideas" (p. 475). Hereby, one understands his real selfhood, experience, consciousness, continuity, as existing in Love—as Love manifested.
The education needed in order to experience one's divine status—and with a lessening of process—has been fully set forth in the Science of Christianity. Basically, this education is found in a scientific interpretation of the sayings, works, and life of Christ Jesus. This means perceiving the Master, not as a personal Christ or Saviour, exceptionally endowed by a personally conceived God, a praising and punishing Jehovah; it means understanding the sayings, the works, the life of Christ Jesus, as being actuated by and the very expression of impersonal, impartial, ever-operative, infinite divine Principle, Love—Love which is infallibly and inevitably manifesting itself in full accordance with its own infinite, eternal, perfect nature.
