To the great questions (Jer. 23:23, 24), "Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?...Do not I fill heaven and earth?" Christian Science replies that God, infinite good, is everywhere present, therefore instantly available. Good constitutes the reality of existence and is experienced subjectively. "The kingdom of God is within you," said the Master, Christ Jesus (Luke 17:21). And in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, speaking of the real man, says (p. 475), "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas."
Those who unreservedly accept this definition of man as descriptive of their true and only selfhood find that they need not go anywhere to experience the good which is ever present. Good comes into one's experience through spiritual understanding, not through going somewhere or knowing the right people. As one understands himself as idea, all that constitutes his experience will be harmonious, including his home, place, and friends.
Nothing that is, is remote to I AM, divine Principle. There is no "Lo, here" or "Lo, there" to I AM, to divine Principle, which includes all in its infinite selfhood. What is it, then, that claims remoteness? It is the supposition which Mrs. Eddy terms mortal mind, whose objective state is described as matter. To its personal or material sense, good can only seem remote, because mortal mind is incapable of understanding infinite divine Mind.
