Jesus once asked (Matt. 12:48). "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he answered his own question in these words: "Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." He knew that the mere fact of human relationship does not bring one closer to God or to the understanding of man's divine sonship. The human sense of parentage must be changed for the consciousness of the fatherhood and motherhood of God. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 151), "God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and the great Physician: He is man's only real relative on earth and in heaven." The knowledge of God as man's only parent brings forth the concept of man as spiritual. Thus a spiritual sonship speaks of a spiritual brotherhood.
In God's creation there is no class distinction from which to breed the beliefs of inferiority or superiority. The belief of class distinction is built on a material sense of heredity; it claims that some are born of high estate, that others come from lowly walks in life, and that those from the lower walks have to push out of their way those of high estate in order that they themselves may advance. Our Leader says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 178), "In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or animal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being." Our need is to stay close to God and know that "now are we the sons of God" (I John 3:2).
It is amazing in how many ways mortal mind would try to claim that man, God's idea, is separated from Him. Man's separation from God is the claim in every argument of sickness, lack, family trouble, bad environment, sin of all kinds, and of death. All these arguments are lies, for God, Mind, knows that His ideas are one with Him, and there can be no separation. Since man is one with his Father-Mother God, man is one with his brother.
