To him who understands something of the nature of God, it is clear that God never made a conspiracy. The divine Mind plans no evil for man or the universe. Man, the likeness of God, has no conspiring element in his consciousness, for he is the expression of perfect Mind. In the realm of true being, all intent and purpose is for the production of universal good. All of God's children, dwelling in divine Love, express only good will one to another.
And yet the world seems full of conspiracies. Why is this? Because the world, as we commonly use that term, is made up of the general belief of life in matter. From this general belief come the many complex and inconsistent claims of evil minds and motives, counterfeiting the divine Mind and its infinite expression. So we have come to recognize that conspiracy is simply the combination of so-called evil minds, usually secretive, for evil or unlawful ends. One of the deceptive elements of this belief is the notion that a few mortals can conspire to cheat others in order to profit themselves. This is sometimes seen in the business world, where sharp dealing may profit one as a producer only to rob him as a consumer.
Mary Baker Eddy indicates the answer to this problem in a statement found in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 4): "Competition in commerce, deceit in councils, dishonor in nations, dishonesty in trusts, begin with 'Who shall be greatest?'" Human selfishness and greed, aided and abetted by fear and ignorance of God, universal good, underlie all conspiracy. Under divine law conspiracy is neither justifiable nor possible. One's proper relationship to his brother is simply and reasonably expressed in the Golden Rule, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (Matt. 7:12). This significant statement of Christ Jesus' is the practical correlative of that spiritual law of divine Love which decrees eternal spiritual unity between God's ideas.
