MARY BAKER EDDY in her principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states definitely (p. 275), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle." The Bible shows that man is made in God's image and likeness, and Christian Science teaches that the image and likeness of Mind, God, is divine idea. Divine Mind and its idea, man, are inseparable in their relationship as cause and effect.
This is what Jesus meant when he said (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one," for Mind is certainly the Father of its idea. The one Mind, God, is known only through the idea which expresses it. Idea denotes the reflected activity of Mind. When Mrs. Eddy discovered God to be Mind and man to be idea, she broke the bonds of the former limited concept of consciousness as a personal possession, finite and fallible. Mind was revealed to be infinite, incorporeal, indivisible, and universal, and man, the divine idea, to be Mind's own self-expression.
Before one begins the study of Christian Science, he assumes that his identity is a personality with a private mind. After taking up the study of Christian Science, one can no longer think of himself in this manner, for the "starting-point of divine Science," as Mrs. Eddy states, is that God is the only Mind. So what has been thought of as a private mortal mind is seen to be no mind at all. Because Mind is infinite, All, it leaves no presence, power, intelligence, for another mind.
