The rhythm of the universe, coming to the human consciousness as divine law, is dependable and demonstrable in the attainment of salvation. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 510), "To discern the rhythm of Spirit and to be holy, thought must be purely spiritual." Everything in Spirit's universe reflects the rhythmic activity of intelligence, Mind's ceaseless, eternal flow of harmony. The spiritual universe unfolds to mankind in successive stages of progress, ever developing as the unity of God and His idea, man, and illumined by the clarifying light of Truth.
God pronounced everything that He had made as being not only good, but very good, meaning divine, pure, symmetrical, and in its rightful place, functioning in the concord of perfection. Nothing can be added to or taken from this all-inclusive conception of completeness. God and His expressed universe is in the design of a fulfillment, an established reality, for the rhythm of divinity is governed wholly by goodness and is therefore absolute.
To feel this spiritual sense of Life, thought must indeed be pure, undefiled. Carnal concepts, worldly impressions, held in consciousness as being real, become the antithesis of rhythm. They are as friction and make for discordant conditions. Our Master was endowed with a delicate intuitiveness, based on a sense of divine allness. This spiritual grace was reflected in that merciful susceptibility which halted him, even midst the surging throng, to question, "Who touched me?" This was an unaffected demonstration of his oneness, or unity, with the pulse of divinity—sensing a need, a human cry for help—unheard by the Master's less attuned disciples. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5)—this Mind, our one adorable source of salvation. We experience this response at times when our consciousness is attuned to the divine. The results are always satisfying, for then it is that the sense of Spirit is with us. Mind has inspired, led the way, and the sequence is the fruition of demonstrated Truth. The conscious agreement with Spirit acts as a persuasive animus, a dynamic propulsion, an irresistible power, evidencing the supremacy of good.
