Man's awareness of his total inclusion in God is private and sacred. It is referred to by the word "secret" both in the Bible and in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science and thus brought to mankind the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. In the ninety-first Psalm, for instance, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty;" and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 15), "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God."
As the latter quotation implies, this secrecy is wholly with reference to material or worldly sense; in other words, such so-called sense is debarred from the secret. But secrecy is in no way maintained against spiritual understanding, for such understanding knows all reality.
This is a valuable fact. It bespeaks the complete safety of every spiritual idea and consequently of every individualized consciousness which identifies itself as the spiritual idea. The spiritual idea is the idea of divine Spirit, or Mind; in a word, it is perfect man. It is the conception formed by infinite Mind in the image and likeness of Mind. It dwells forever in the Mind which forms it. Hence its safety, its assurance of perfect protection.
