On page 465 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines God as Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. Directly following this definition Mrs. Eddy asks, "Are these terms synonymous?" And she answers: "They are. They refer to one absolute God."
As he pondered this statement, the attention of one Christian Scientist was arrested by our Leader's use of the word absolute as applied to Deity. In his endeavor to associate this term more intelligently with God he turned to a dictionary, and his concept was broadened by the following meanings: "Perfect; whole; complete. . . . Positive; certain. . . . Not dependent on anything else; not determined by or affected by anything outside itself. . . . Independent of arbitrary standards of measurement; not dependent or relative." Did not God allude to His absoluteness when He declared in the words of Isaiah (46:5, 9): "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? . . . I am God, and there is none like me"?
The writer's previous study of Einstein's theory of relativity, the principal postulate of which is that all motion is relative, had prepared his thought for the subsequent acceptance of the proposition maintained by Christian Science, namely, that God, Spirit, and His spiritual creation comprise the only absolute existence. That only is absolute which is divine, and whose spiritual status, being infallibly governed by divine Principle, is forever independent of change or caprice. All that is not spiritual, Christian Science consigns to the relative realm of supposition, wherein its illusory conditions are determined solely by comparison.
