Mary Baker Eddy says in her article "Science and the Senses" (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 102, 103): "Science defines omnipresence as universality, that which precludes the presence of evil. This verity annuls the testimony of the senses, which say that sin is an evil power, and substance is perishable. Intelligent Spirit, Soul, is substance, far more impregnable and solid than matter; for one is temporal, while the other is eternal, the ultimate and predicate of being."
Omnipresence fills all space. This presence is real substance, Spirit; and where divine presence is, the opposite belief of matter—fear, sin, lack, disease—is not. Omnipresence was first, and omnipresence is last, the Alpha and Omega of existence. Omnipresence never began to be omnipresence, for there is no beginning to that which is the eternal now of perfection and oneness. To suffering human sense this knowledge comes as the salvation which is as eternal as God.
Universal Love, universal Life, universal peace, have always been. To the real man, God's image, they do not need to be developed, longed for, or sought after. However, human consciousness must desire, seek after, and attain the realization of these truths through the development and cultivation of spiritual sense. When we comprehend the allness of good, the nothingness of evil becomes apparent. Spiritual development in human thought never changes or adds to man's real being, but unfolds to mankind that complete unity with God which belongs to one's only selfhood.
