In his epistle to the Colossians Paul makes this statement (2:10): "Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power." This is the statement of a scientific fact, a truth to be demonstrated in individual experience. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, unfolds and amplifies this truth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she states (p. 519), "Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love."
In the spiritual record of creation portrayed in the first chapter of Genesis we read that God created man in His own image and that He created him male and female. Man is idea, complete within the infinitude of Mind's self-completeness. In this entireness of being, each individual idea embodies and expresses the fatherhood and motherhood of God in a perfect union of the masculine and feminine qualities.
A dictionary definition of the word complete is "free from deficiency, entire, absolute." God is All-in-all, the one great First Cause. Man lives as effect of that one cause, and therefore he is as complete, in a degree, as is his cause or perfect Principle. Being perfect, man has, by reflection, within his own consciousness all that is necessary for his well-being. In the knowledge of this fact we discover man "perfect and entire, wanting nothing" (James 1:4), poised in the unbroken relationship of perfect Principle and perfect idea.
