AS students of Christian Science, we need to be as alert to shut the door of our consciousness on the world's pictures of disturbed economic conditions as we are to shut it on the suggestions of disease, danger, or discord. We cannot believe that the so-called laws of economics—inflation and depression, strikes, and business cycles— affect man's true wealth, if we accept the fact of God's allness. We need to see the dream nature of business sickness just as clearly as that of physical disease. We need to know that both radiant health and abundant wealth are manifested as we realize that the law of infinite Love is operating everywhere. This law of the divine economy can never be reversed, obstructed, or annulled.
It may seem surprising to find the word "economics" used in connection with Love, but harmony and equity can be demonstrated in the business world only in proportion to our understanding and practice of the economics of Love. As the truth of man's inseparable relationship to God is revealed, business conditions are brought under the control of Love, man's divine Principle. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 423), "Both Science and consciousness are now at work in the economy of being according to the law of Mind, which ultimately asserts its absolute supremacy."
The law of God, divine Love, governs the economy of man's being. Consequently, not human economics but Love, Mind, Life, Truth, and Principle have jurisdiction over man and the universe. Thus we see that Love's control of the universal economy is manifested in brotherly kindness; Mind's control in intelligent co-operation; Life's control in uninterrupted, harmonious, right activity; Truth's control in honesty and integrity; Spirit's control in enduring substance; and Principle's control in justice for all. What we need to do, to see the economics of Love operating in our experience, is to recognize that divine Love is the only basis for all the phenomena of existence, and to demonstrate this Love in our everyday experience.
