"In divine Science, we have not as much authority for considering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity." These words, which appear on page 517 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," indicate the importance which their author, Mary Baker Eddy, attaches to the motherhood of God.
When contemplating the nature of the Supreme Being, those uninstructed in Christian Science are perhaps inclined to give preponderance to what are considered masculine qualities, such as strength, courage, wisdom, and the like, rather than to what are regarded as feminine qualities, such as constancy, tenderness, inspiration, and so on. It is helpful, however, to realize that because God, the only creative Mind, or Principle, is both our Father and our Mother, the masculine and feminine attributes are actually indivisible in our heavenly Parent and are infinitely and uninterruptedly expressed by His children. Hence there is no strength without gentleness, no courage without tenderness, no wisdom without love.
Feminine and masculine qualities are conjoined in the divine Mind and in that Mind's idea, man, whose completeness, or wholeness; is evidenced in the expression of both the Father and the Mother qualities. Man, as God's perfect representative, can therefore never be conscious of or manifest any sense of incompleteness or lack. Man is never bereft of motherhood because it is included in God's being, and man is ever the child of his Father-Mother God.
