IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read (pp. 331, 332): "Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite. They also indicate the divine Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God to man and the universe."
This passage sums up in its three aspects the relationship of God and His idea, man, which when accepted as truth is demonstrated practically in all human relationships and affairs. First of all, it annihilates the fable of the Adam-dream, which claims that existence is mortal and that man is the product of material parents, inheriting material traits of character, tendencies to disease, and many other things, sometimes pleasant, often painful, always unreliable. It is only a supposition, this Adam-dream calling itself by the name of mind, but nevertheless, when believed in and fostered, it assumes power and would enforce its suggestions in the name of law.
Through Christian Science, however, which illumines the works and words of Christ Jesus and the prophets, one learns that mortal mind is not true; that it has no foundation in fact, no law behind it; that it is a lie. Jesus summed evil up when he described it as" "a murderer from the beginning," adding (John 8:44), "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." Christian Scientists are awakening to the truths of being, which penetrate the dream of mortal existence. All can, and must, recognize and claim man's birthright and inheritance now. Nothing can be taken from it and nothing can be added to it. It is ours in all its completeness, individually and collectively, waiting for its recognition and demonstration.
