Because the world has believed that good consists largely of material possessions and resources owned, to a great extent, by certain favored persons, groups, and nations, and has believed this supply of good to be limited, some peoples and nations have sought to seize from others, by force of arms, what they want of the world's goods, thus precipitating a titanic struggle for control and possession of the earth and its resources. When the true nature of good is discerned, and seen to consist of the infinite and exhaustless heritage of spiritual ideas universally available to all, there will no longer exist any cause or basis for lack, covetousness, or strife, and the real foundation for enduring peace and abundance will have been permanently laid. Mary Baker Eddy elucidates this great fact on page 13 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where she says: "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'"
Since God, Mind, is the only creator, and creates nothing unlike Himself, creation must consist wholly of spiritual ideas. Creation is not an array of material creatures and things. Creation is the infinite expression of Mind. Man, the generic term for God's infinite image, bears witness to the allness of God continuously in every respect, and at every point; else God is not the infinite One. As Mrs. Eddy expresses it so clearly in "Unity of Good" (p. 32), "Spirit is the only creator, and man, including the universe, is His spiritual concept." Since man is God's spiritual concept, he potentially reflects all right ideas in their lawful unfoldment. He includes all good as idea, and can never for a moment be separated from it; hence the availability of good for the one understanding these divine ideas. Take, for instance, the mathematical truth that two and two equals four. There is just one idea of two and two equals four, but this fact is ever present and universally available for humanity to use. We can always use it, but we cannot use it up. This illustrates the nature of all divine ideas. They are always at hand, ready to be applied to every situation. The more we use them, the more we have them. Since they are infinite in every respect, their availability is without limitation to meet every need.
Moses was learning something of this spiritual fact when he turned to see why the burning bush was not consumed. Probably he saw something of creation as spiritual and not material, as consisting of divine ideas rather than of material objects. A right idea can never be consumed, for its origin and substance are in Mind. As we entertain the idea, it not only enlightens us, but enforces itself, for it carries within itself all that is necessary for the accomplishment of its purpose and its complete fulfillment. The "seed is in itself." Our part is to realize the divine fact about which the human situation is the finite concept, and let the realization of Soul be the law of obliteration to the erroneous evidence of the material senses. Whatever the human need appears to be, it is always, in reality, the need to yield to the spiritual idea; and when the divine fact, or true concept, is clearly realized, the human sense lessens and thought externalizes itself in the complete filling of the human need.
