Christian Science teaches that true abundance characterizes the universal, indivisible ever-presence of God, good. Such abundance is spiritual. It knows no geographical bounds, and it knows nothing of what the world calls the "haves" and the "have-nots." Because of its inexhaustible nature it can be neither partitioned nor consumed. This scientific concept of abundance is of practical value today, for supply and its satisfactory distribution are challenges which face mankind. The necessity for the free flow of good to be universally expressed is the pressing demand upon the economic systems of the world. The demand of Principle is for matter restrictions to give way to the unbarriered presence of spiritual abundance.
Christian Science, because it declares that God, Spirit, is true substance, forever present without restriction or limit, offers solution for the world's needs. In this Science we learn that God's glorious, unrestricted self-expression constitutes man. God does not express Himself in fragments. His expression is, like Himself, entire, complete, wanting nothing. Hence so-called economics does not condition man. Spirit conditions man; and man, including God's universe of ideas, exists at the standpoint of abundance.
Through this Science we are learning to identify ourselves as this man. Mary Baker Eddy defines man in part thus: "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475). In the light of this revelation we see that man is not a mortal who seems to outlive his supply, but the individual divine idea which includes it. Thus as we accept this spiritual fact we do not try frantically to accumulate supply before old age overtakes us. As the reflection of divine Life, man includes infinite abundance and exhaustless supply, and, understanding this, we experience its ordered, certain, and undiminishing presence in our lives.
