THE discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy has brought to light the fact that the creative function of Deity, divine Mind, is a ceaseless, knowing activity and that creation is the formation of that knowing—an infinity of divine ideas. Mrs. Eddy declares in her book "No and Yes" (p. 16), "For God to know, is to be; that is, what He knows must truly and eternally exist." And on the same page she adds: "He who is All, understands all. He can have no knowledge or inference but His own consciousness, and can take in no more than all."
This great truth brings to mankind a new and fresh understanding of creation. It explains man as the effect of God's knowing, forever inseparable from the consciousness which gives him being. It reveals him as wholly dependent upon Mind's knowing for existence, for individuality, for unfolding experience, and for continuity of good. It is this divine knowing that perpetuates man's usefulness, determines his health, secures his perfection, and seals his immortality as the expression of eternal Life. If divine Mind should forget its idea, or object, that idea would cease to exist, would disappear. But God, being flawless Mind, never forgets. What He knows, he knows forever. Hence his support of man is changeless and eternal.
Christian Science reveals that it is the mighty impulsion of Mind's knowing enunciating its allness and the presence of its perfect ideas that rouses humanity from the mortal dream of life in matter and causes mankind to cognize the spiritual creation of God. Divine Mind's powers of intelligence penetrate the ignorance of mortals' believing, forcing them to acknowledge the falsity of any concept unknown to God.
The Christian Scientist understands that all genuine good, from an infant's instinctive affection to the movements of nations in the cause of peace, has its origin in God's knowing and derives its purity and strength from the Almighty. He has faith that the righteousness he expresses harvests rich fruitage in the expansion of good, for he knows that omnipotence upholds his righteous intent. He has courage to deny the existence of all error—sin, deformity, inebriety, disease, death—realizing as he does that they have no place in God's knowing. And his loyal adherence to spiritual facts removes from mortal concepts the support of human belief, thus causing them to fade from thought.
The student of Christian Science wields a powerful weapon in his effort to destroy sin and sickness when he comprehends clearly that God knows no error and gives the support of divine consciousness to no evil thing. The fact that Deity is not aware of human problems, being "of purer eyes than to behold evil," bases the Scientist's contention that errors have no reality and no legitimate claim to existence. Mrs. Eddy relates in "Unity of Good" (p. 7), "When I have most clearly seen and most sensibly felt that the infinite recognizes no disease, this has not separated me from God, but has so bound me to Him as to enable me instantaneously to heal a cancer which had eaten its way to the jugular vein."
Would we, from the limited standpoint of human believing, support what God, infinite Mind, does not know? Would we give credence to the sins and sicknesses of mortals, reality to the pictures of sense, and validity to merciless material laws when Deity is innocent of their pretense to existence? If we would express spiritual power, we should align our thoughts with spiritual facts and admit as real only that which is included in the one divine consciousness as perfect idea.
Man's knowing is the reflection of the all-knowing Mind, and obedience to Christ Jesus' injunction, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," brings to light the true selfhood, God's likeness, which exercises the dominion of intelligent perception. More than perfunctory acknowledgment, to know the truth implies the ability to distinguish ideas, to perceive clearly the tangible spiritual formations which inhabit the kingdom of heaven.
A Christian Science treatment involves the ability to penetrate the mental mist of material thinking and discover the substance of things invisible to corporeal sense. Knowing the truth is utilizing spiritual sense to discern the God-derived qualities which characterize Spirit's ideas. The Christian Scientist realizes that his Christianly metaphysical work is not finished in any instance until he has tangibly felt the mental stillness, the depth of peace and satisfaction, which evidences the touch of the divinely real. Then, that which is known through spiritual sense dispels some measure of materialism, and a better sense appears. Knowing the truth has accomplished its mission.
Truth is universal, and the least glimpse of spiritual reality aids in enlightening the race and in destroying the mesmeric mortal sense of life in matter. The spiritual knowing of each individual touches the issues of universal salvation, for the vision of reality is unconfined in the scope of its healing influence. The scientific knowing of every Christian Scientist expresses power whose silent touch stirs men to a greater measure of unselfed love, to more determined efforts for peace, to deeper desire for justice and freedom from sin.
God's knowing constitutes the perfection of creation, the brotherhood of man, the peace of real being. Christian Science demonstrates this knowing which is destined to destroy all evil and reveal God upholding all that is genuine, and perfect, and real.
