In "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy writes, in speaking of God (p. 3): "He is all the Life and Mind there is or can be. Within Himself is every embodiment of Life and Mind." This statement is dynamic, as it releases to receptive thought the profound significance of the allness and oneness of God and indicates the nothingness of every suggestion of a separate material embodiment of life or mind.
A young woman was healed of an illness of several weeks' duration when she glimpsed the spiritual fact that as God's reflection, spiritual and perfect, she actually possessed no separate material life, which could claim to be out of order. She began to see that substance is reflection, individual reflection of all that God imparts. She saw a new shade of meaning in Jesus' words (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing." She reasoned, The false concept of me as a mortal, material being is powerless, inert, inactive, sensationless, because this false concept was never created and exists only in an illusive consciousness, which is dispelled by the Christ-consciousness, or true sense of God as Spirit and of man as made in His image and likeness.
In Christian Science we learn that God is all-inclusive Mind. Therefore there is no material entity or power that can rightfully claim to be man or to take him out of God's loving care. God is divine Principle; therefore there is no dream of error that can intrude upon the unchanging unity of Principle and its idea, man. God is almighty Spirit, omnipresent, omnipotent; therefore no supposition of life, substance, or intelligence as existent in matter, Spirit's opposite, can distort, disguise, or destroy man's indigenous spirituality as Spirit's image and likeness.
