The term "peaceful coexistence" is being used today in connection with international affairs. To the Christian Scientist, the demonstration in human experience of man's coexistence with God is the means of experiencing peace.
The apparent conflict between the spiritual forces of God, good, and the so-called forces of personal sense needs to be resolved in individual consciousness. The victory won by individuals will permeate the entire social structure. False premises would mislead the unwary into the belief that there is coexistence between good and evil, life and death, sickness and health, holiness and unholiness. The argument would then come that we must learn to live with evil because God has made it, knows it, and imposes its limitations upon us. It is that belief which is the basis of many human enmities, whether between individuals, groups, or nations.
Science reveals the truth that coexistence between God and man is a spiritual fact; whereas coexistence between opposites, such as good and evil, is a scientific impossibility. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 47): "Science reverses the evidence of material sense with the spiritual sense that God, Spirit, is the only substance; and that man, His image and likeness, is spiritual, not material. This great Truth does not destroy but substantiates man's identity,—together with his immortality and preexistence, or his spiritual coexistence with his Maker."
