The statement, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," is the acceptance of perfection not for a part but for the whole. Here is set forth one standard, one workmanship. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," Jesus admonished his listeners.
The fact that mankind has fallen far short of perfection is because it has sought to obtain it in its own way, in a form which human ideal, appetite, and imagination have envisaged. This is not the "very good" seen of God; this is not the perfection Jesus had in mind.
On page 242 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy has given to mortals the imperative, indispensable step in understanding and making perfection practical. She writes, "Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration." Our Master recognized no conflicting, no unfinished, no processional plan in God's creation. The Mind conceiving, presenting, sustaining creation being perfect and being the only Mind, whatever contradicts it must, even according to human logic, be without Principle, law, or place.
