There is one power. This is the mighty truth of being to be scientifically understood and demonstrated. As there is but one God there can be but one power, and that good. The notion of one power, and that one evil, is utterly fantastic and untenable, since the power of evil can be only destructive. The notion of two antagonistic powers, one good and one evil, proceeding from one common First Cause is equally untenable. No intelligent power would create or tolerate within itself that which would destroy its own creation. One cannot think intelligently or live harmoniously on the basis of two opposing powers. The one and only cause being good, evil, perforce, has no cause or creator, and therefore no existence. This doctrine of one God, one power, is the basis of the teachings of Christ Jesus. Perceiving this one power or Principle in its pure Science, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 228 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" declares: "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."
What haunting fear and weary weight of responsibility are lifted from the hearts and lives of men as they turn from the idolatry of many powers, many minds, to the one power, which Christian Science reveals as Spirit or Mind. The so-called human mind is made up of idolatries, and becomes the battleground of its own conflicting beliefs and elements. Pure monotheism, one God, one power, is the only answer to its problems—the only basis for logical and scientific reasoning.
How subtly and for the most part unconsciously does the belief in two powers govern the thoughts and acts of mankind! How seldom is one fully, vitally, and persistently acknowledging and rejoicing in the one power, never questioning or doubting its ever-presence and omniaction! The devout Christian would no doubt be immeasurably shocked were he called an idolater because he believed in the power of sin, disease, and death; of poverty, old age, and disability. Can these beliefs be reconciled to the one God, who is good, and the one and only cause and creator? Is it not inconceivable, nay, is it not blasphemous, to believe that God could or would express Himself in sin, sickness, old age, poverty, disintegration, and death? Yet is not this the teaching of false theology, when it declares that man is the image and likeness of God, then finds within man all evil tendencies and passions? Is it not equally inconceivable to believe God would tempt man with evil and then punish him for yielding to that temptation?
