Man, as the reflection of omniactive Spirit, eternally expresses fruitful activity. We read in the first chapter of Genesis, in the true record of creation, that God made man in His own image and likeness and that "God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." In explaining this divine command to be fruitful and multiply, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 517), "Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,—to manifest His power."
The earnest student of Christian Science, ever striving for purer, more spiritual concepts of existence, will not allow himself to accept false theological interpretations and applications of the Bible teachings. Any theory based on matter as real, or as God-created is false. God, Spirit, could not create His opposite, matter; and since Spirit created all, there is, in reality, no material creation. To believe in the formation of matter and strive to perpetuate this false sense is not obedience to the law of Spirit. Mrs. Eddy tells us (ibid., p. 263), "The multiplication of a human and mortal sense of persons and things is not creation."
Then what is man's true fertility, his scientific multiplication? Is it not the understanding within individual consciousness of the Word, which is God? Is it not the reflection and expression by each one of us of all the lovely Godlike qualities that constitute his being, the cherishing, nourishing, and radiating of spiritual selfhood? Is it not "to manifest His power"?
