One of the first statements of Christian Science which its students generally learn is, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468). Soon they see something of its meaning, and are proportionally blessed. But the true and full import of the statement becomes apparent to even the most earnest student only gradually. Sometimes after a good many years of study, its significance will suddenly so unfold that one will feel he has hardly seen anything of its meaning before.
Consider for a moment the great fact which the statement presents. The absolute allness of Mind, which of course forever coexists and is one with its manifestation, obviously means that there is no mortal standpoint, and no mortality. The suggestion, therefore, that we are thinking or working or living in or as a limited mind or body is false. There is no such mind or body. Our dwelling place is necessarily in God, and the actual standpoint of our consciousness and being is that of the divine Mind itself, as Mrs. Eddy specifically shows when she refers to God as "the Mind of man" (ibid., p. 470). We—all men—have in reality the unlimited vision of this Mind, its assurance of the perfection and beauty of all things, its complete freedom from anxiety, distress, and all evil. That is the obvious meaning of the allness of infinite Mind—our Mind.
We see in the light of this sublime fact that we are not in reality engaged in any process of improvement, but instead are demonstrating the perfection that already is. We could not think of any more good, any more health, any more freedom or dominion than that with which we are actually at one. We see that we are not distant from good in any way, trying to approach it: we are already in the presence of all good —good which is infinite and yet forever joyfully unfolding. We see that we are not in the position of having to gain any sort of entree—anywhere —but are already "in the secret place of the most High," inseparably one with that secret place.
