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THE FULLNESS OF TIME

From the November 1952 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The question of time and timing attracts a great deal of attention in human experience; and properly so, since human things need to be done in reasonable order and sequence. Considered scientifically, however, this subject opens up much more than is at first apparent, because Science brings forth the underlying fact that God, divine Spirit, creates and governs man, including the universe, according to His own Mind, which is sinless, harmonious, perfect, and eternal. God's creation is complete, but it is not ended. It continues to exist and express divine Mind in infinitely various forms and ideas. God, being eternal Life, cannot possibly come to an end, nor can that which expresses Him cease to increase in divine reflection.

The scientific understanding of these truths causes the belief of time and timing to become subservient to the government of God and nullifies any belief of being out of season or of the wrong time. Now is always the time to understand God and to apply His law to the discords and maladjustments of material sense to their utter destruction. It is never out of season to learn that man reflects his creator in all respects.

The Bible attaches the element of time to its story of creation, indicating that it took place on seven subsequent days (Gen. 1); but this is only metaphor, as Mary Baker Eddy shows in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says (p. 504), "The successive appearing of God's ideas is represented as taking place on so many evenings and mornings,— words which indicate, in the absence of solar time, spiritually clearer views of Him, views which are not implied by material darkness and dawn." From this it may be seen that creation is a continuous process, which becomes apparent to every individual as he gains spiritually clearer views of Deity. The Bible could not possibly be referring to the creation of matter or a material universe, but must refer to the appearance to human consciousness of the light of spiritual truth, which will ultimately annihilate all belief in time.

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