In the teachings of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy has revealed to the world the true nature of creation as the unfolding of spiritual ideas. On pages 502 and 503of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says: "There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected." And on page 507 of the same book she says, "Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source." The creative law of spiritual unfoldment is, then, ceaselessly operating to constitute the true consciousness of each individual. No one can, therefore, escape the eventual understanding of his true being. This was revealed to the prophet Jeremiah when he heard the voice of God, divine Love, saying, "Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
Asleep in the Adam-dream, unaware of true being, mankind seek life, intelligence, health, and happiness in their own substanceless dream, where it is not and cannot be found. But however bright may seem the joys of that dream, or however dark its pains and sorrows, the ceaseless law of spiritual unfoldment is ever drawing all unto its reality of blissful living. Nothing can stop one's spiritual growth heavenward; nothing can prevent the dissolving of the Adam-dream. Nothing can prevent each one of us from realizing his divine inheritance.
The one seeming to be overburdened with personal responsibilities may find in his God-maintained spiritual being surcease from anxiety and learn to trust Principle to sustain him and care for his responsibilities. The one seeming to be mesmerized by the dream of disease or incapacity may find in his imperatively maintained spiritual being the health or wholeness derived of Spirit, his faculties unimpaired, his strength abounding, his activity purposeful and fruitful. Still another may be accepting the dream of pleasure in the senses, seeking to find satisfaction in their indulgence and contentment in their fleeting joys. For him, too, is the ceaseless law of spiritual unfoldment operating, causing him to turn from the temporal joys of the senses to the eternal happiness of Soul. Man cannot be satisfied with less than perfection.
