MAN is not a physical personality placed or displaced in a material world. He is the spiritual idea of the infinite Mind, God, forever embraced in that Mind. He can never stray outside the focal distance of illimitable Love, for God is All-in-all, and there is nought besides infinity. Man, made in God's image and likeness, can no more be displaced, lost, homeless, in want or distress, than can God.
"But," one may ask, "are not multitudes of persons in many parts of the world displaced from their homes and native lands, separated from kin and comforts by the ravages of war? Are not massive transfers of populations going on, and are not thousands waiting for repatriation?" According to the testimony of the so-called physical senses, such is the tragic situation. But Christian Science teaches that the material senses do not reveal the reality of God's creation and man's being. While teaching in the temple, Jesus once said (John 7: 24), "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
On page 114 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says: "In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts." God being All, He can know only His own allness, for there can be nothing outside infinity. God's allness, illimitable Life, Truth, and Love, is evidenced by the one compound, infinite idea, or universe. This infinite idea is forever included in the one Mind, coexistent and coeternal with God. God's ideas forever expressing Him are eternally held, controlled, sustained, protected, and governed by unerring Mind's law of harmony, perfection, and completeness. The relationship of the idea to its divine Principle and to all ideas included in the full expression of Deity is maintained by Principle, and this relationship is changeless and inviolable.
