"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." This quotation from Isaiah (45:22) emphasizes the allness of God and promises salvation from the false beliefs of any other power, presence, or activity. God is the only true existence or being. He includes within Himself all that is real and eternal. Because He fills all space there is nothing besides Him and nothing going on but His expression of Himself. He embraces all reality; He includes all substance; and He is the cause of every effect. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 151), "All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal."
Again she says (ibid., p. 340): "Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His love." Should we not pay particular attention to these two references which arouse us to the understanding of "all that really exists"? Love is the substance of reality, and man, manifesting this love, is in and of God and bears witness to all that really exists. Where man is, there is the love of God. Since there is no other power and no other presence but God, a wise establishment of this fact in human consciousness fortresses mankind to meet the everyday experiences with God-given dominion and wipes out the illusion of any existence apart from God. The infinity of divine Love is immeasurable and impenetrable, and the manifestation of divine Love is inseparable from its Principle and is inevitably expressed.
Contrary to this spiritual evidence of reality, the materialist believes that all that really exists is seen with the human eye or cognized by the five physical senses. He is skeptical of the powers and forces which cannot be seen or felt by these senses. He does not accept the evidence of spiritual reality because he cannot touch it. However, learned physicists of the age agree that the greatest forces and influences are those which are invisible to the human eye. Physical scientists are now looking for cause in the realm of the unseen and the invisible. Mortal mind and materialism cannot cognize that which really exists because they are looking for cause and effect in matter instead of in Spirit—in mortal existence rather than in the realm of Mind.
